Esther N McCarthy looks at the best picks to help you sizzle this season, from travel-friendly fragrances to summer salads and must-have make-up palettes.

Here's your evening update.

Holiday humour makes its seasonal cameo, says Annmarie O'Connor

An Irish student's hilarious ID card is going viral.

An Irish student’s hilarious ID card is going viral.

Urban Decay’s palette has grown up with the women who love its daring, so Vickie Maye asked make-up artist Danielle Roberts to create sophisticated looks for the season ahead.

This season, floral prints are in full bloom, says Annmarie O'Connor.

The €9.5 million sale of Irish Life investment properties in Cork and Limerick includes two Patrick Street Cork units set for increased profile from next year, when the Capitol Cinema retail site is completed, bringing a strong anchor (Zara? H&M?) to this end of Patrick Street.

The thought of summer sales might make you shudder in horror or squeal with excitement depending on your attitude to spending but approach them with cool headedness and a little shopping savvy and you can save yourself major buck.

The rural setting didn’t stop people putting on the gladrags at the Ploughing Championships. Caroline Allen checked out the chic on show at the popular event

The Kate Moss-inspired festival uniform rocks alongside fashion eccentricity, says Paula Burns

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A Limerick woman travelled to Cork with a pliers and de-tagger and went on to steal hundreds of euro worth of clothes from retail outlet River Island, as well as two vibrators from a lingerie store.

Melissa doesn't like Rihanna’s clothes they’re selling in River Island and Miwa thinks it's hard to make leggings work.

Name: Heather Mulcahy

Love it or hate it, the all-in-one is the trend that has everyone talking, says Annmarie O'Connor

Street Trend meets Belfast’s Tara Marzuki and Florence Gabriel from Cork.

Take a break from the party circuit for a fashionablesnuggle fest says Annmarie O’Connor

Some of Cork city’s large department stores will open early on St Stephen’s Day for the sales.

This week we meet Laura Mackey and Sarah Gibson, both from Dublin.

This week Street Trend meets Lauren Twomey and Sally O’Leary, both from Cork.

This week street trend meets Tabitha Smith and Rebecca Cassidy, both from Cork.

It’s an unwritten rule — if you want to see Festival Fashion at its finest, you’ve got to go to the Electric Picnic. Journalist Paula Burns teamed up with photographer Barry Cronin to capture the coolest EP fans last weekend

DIAMONDS really are a girl’s best friend, as a fashionable woman from Kildare can testify.

RENTS on Ireland’s top shopping streets have increased by 35% in the first six months of the year.