We’re all excited about the Bride of the Year being unveiled on Thursday by our sister publication Confetti so we’re going to blog about weddings on a budget for the week. This is helped by the fact that my sister got married about 10 days ago in Tipperary and we were very impressed with the high quality of service and prudent prices available down the

By intern Oonagh O’Mahony When I saw the sign on the shop front of my regular hairdresser I almost crashed my car. Bring a friend for free! Ha! I thought there’s bound to be a mountain of terms and conditions to this one. But I was wrong. For the month of July the Worx Hair and Beauty Spot in Drimnagh is offering clients the chance to beautify

Here I am just before going into watch Russell Brand’s new movie Get him to the Greek. I’m wearing a blazer from Reiss that I bought in the sale two years ago, okay it cost me €200 but it was an investment buy. The dress is from Zara (€40), Topshop ballet pumps (€38) and scarf (€18). My bag is from M&S and was a birthday

Does a fringe take ten years off at Style Club? We decided to take our own advice and went off to Style Club on South William Street recently where a lovely stylist called John chopped my locks and gave me this funky fringe. (Thanks to a good pal I had a voucher for this cool salon for €100 so will be back for tidy-up again soon!) So

If you want to shed ten years from your face instantly then get a fringe, even dermatologists recommend it instead of Botox – because it’s less invasive and super-duper prudent. Deep wrinkles don’t respond too well to Botox. If you have a furrow in your brow, then a fringe will instantly solve the problem. I’m even thinking of getting one myself although my forehead isn’t that

Sounds fruity but it’s true, free blow drys are going abegging at a Dublin salon near you! Well near us anyway in the city centre. One of our new and already intrepid (in the prudent department) interns, Deirdre spotted a salon with a sign advertising for models to get your hair cut or blow dried, so off I went on Tuesday at lunchtime for a quick

Even though we’ve had to slash our spending and cut wardrobe allowances during the recession, there are some essential grooming needs that have to be maintained. A case in point? Our hair. But these are challenging times and we all have to practise being prudent so we’ve searched the country looking for good-quality hair salons who’ve cut their prices in response to the current downturn