Let’s say you’ve got a dress-up occasion coming up in the next couple of weeks, especially now that wedding season is in full swing. Maybe it is a wedding. Or perhaps a good friend is being honored at a black-tie fundraiser. Whatever the occasion, of course you want to look dazzling.

However, when you look in the mirror, you think, “Boring.” You see the same shoulder-length brown hair in the same push-the-hair-out-of-your-eyes style you’ve worn since high school.

I have attended so many different schools with such varied uniform policies; I am probably one of a select few with personal experience of both sides of the argument. I attended, in total, eighteen schools during the course of my education, due to my parents’ habit of moving every few months.

Someone once asked me if my parents were criminals on the run from the law, to have moved so often, but in fact my father was one who always took the opportunities offered him and as a result my brother and I led a somewhat gypsy like existence for the better part of our early childhood.

How often have you asked yourself what the style secrets are behind the effortless chic of French women? From elegant fragrances, amazing clothes, classic chic styles, lean silhouettes (even with the cheese, wine and chocolate), perceived natural beauty, you can’t help but ask yourself how they do it! Believe it or not - it’s easy when you know how. And, yes, I daresay we all have an “Inner French Woman” who is dying to spring to the surface, like a flower’s blossom gently unfolds.