Summer is here, and with exams behind you, it’s time to embrace new adventures and activities! As you plan your summer wardrobe, why not make sustainable fashion and beauty choices that are kind to the planet AND stylish? Sustainable fashion and beauty are all about making eco-friendly choices that help reduce waste and support ethical
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Summer is here, and with exams behind you, it’s time to embrace new adventures and activities! As you plan your summer wardrobe, why not make sustainable fashion and beauty choices that are kind to the planet AND stylish? Sustainable fashion and beauty are all about making eco-friendly choices that help reduce waste and support ethical
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Here at Shona, we love when we get to meet someone who is stepping outside of what the world considers “the norm”. It’s so interesting to have the opportunity to chat with women who are doing cool, unusual, and interesting jobs. So, we were only delighted when our friends at UCD School of Mathematics and
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Our very own sustainable fashion queen, Abigail McDonnell – better known as @alittlegail – has been good enough to share a little about her own sustainable fashion journey with us but get this! She is also going to tell us about this amazing Irish business Thriftify. This business is making sustainable fashion a whole lot
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Whether we like it or not, our wardrobes can have a massive environmental impact- it’s estimated that if current trends continue, the fashion industry may be responsible for a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Something has to give. Luckily for us, there are loads of different options in terms of sustainable fashion-
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Here at The Shona Project, we have a list as long as your arm of all the amazing women around the world that we consider our heroes. We’ve decided to dedicate Fridays to some of these women. We’ll tell you all about them but most importantly, we’ll tell you why we love them! Next up,
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This week, we got to meet the lovely Fionnuala Moran. Fionnuala is an entertainment reporter at EVOKE.ie and also an RTE Pulse Radio DJ. Not only that, she is a sustainable fashion queen who has just started a Masters in Climate Change: Policy, Media & Society. When she’s not spilling the tea on all the
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Have we got news for you! 😉 You’re going to have to sit down for this one. Are you ready? Thanks to our podcast extraordinaire Samantha Tabaldo, we are ready to drop our first ever series of our new Shona Project podcast “Tell Me About It”. Our first series focuses on women that
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Its all looking a bit grim at the moment. The rain forests are burning, the weather has gone crazy, and its all very worrying. As if us young people don’t have enough to worry about, now we can add eco-anxiety to the list. Sometimes it all feels a little too much. What can we do?
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It was around Christmas time, my siblings and I were sitting at my kitchen table having your average Irish fry-up provided by Mum, who was 3 feet away in the kitchen cleaning up. My 11 or 12 year old little sister had naively asked if dad would be joining us on our summer holidays the next
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This Christmas, let’s shop small, shop local, and support the powerhouse women behind some incredible Irish businesses. From cozy candles to feminist fashion, there’s something for everyone on your list. Here are our top picks for thoughtful gifts with a personal touch. 1. Hug in a Jar Candle by Hue Complete Me Our Education Manager,
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The debs is a rite of passage for Irish teens. It’s the night that you spend years of secondary school thinking about and planning with your friends. And then it suddenly comes around and it can all feel a little bit overwhelming. After experiencing my own debs and running Debs Week on Missy.ie for a
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There has never been a more critical time to talk about our environment. With so much conversation around the topic, it can be very difficult to know how you can help by doing your part and where to start with it all. It can be extremely overwhelming, so the first thing to remember is
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Our SHINE Festival in March 2021 was a roaring success, smashing all of our targets with 40,000 girls attending. Over 80 incredible, authentic and badass women joined us to celebrate being a girl for 3 whole days! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be catching up with some of the speakers to share why we
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There has always been a massive interest in everything vintage. From cars to books to – more recently – fashion. So, when Waterford’s newest vintage shop opened up and we found out it was owned and run by 22-year-old Ava Whelton, we thought it would be rude not to have a chat with her. Mainly
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For so long the fast fashion industry has made people feel like they’re not enough, have to look a certain way and they have to dress a certain way. The fast fashion industry has made us feel like we have to keep up with the latest “trends” that they change every two weeks, they make
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