Hey girls! Listen up! Before you look at my perfect Insta-worthy body and scroll on by with a sigh, wait a sec… Ha! Thought that’d get your attention. Whaddya mean, I don’t have a perfect body?! Well, maybe not quiiite yet. But I live in […]
Grease; Pretty Woman; Dirty Dancing; Stand By Me; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – just some of the films I wore out on VHS tape as a girl with my constant watching and re-watching. I’d sit gazing at the tv screen intently, barely blinking, mentally trying […]
…as Arnold Schwarzenegger would say. I’ll Be Back: Arnie as The Terminator photo credit And I will, Aromatherapy Associates. You betchya sweet-scented ass I’ll be back. For these luxurious oils are to stress and tension what Arnie is to the big screen: The Terminator. One […]
Lads, before you start skimming this article hoping for flashes of flesh or requests for dick pics, let me be clear: it’s about nude makeup. Not actual nudes. I just used that title because it’s catchy. Soz and all that.Due to the surge in popularity […]
Sparkles Lips: add some glitz to your lips They say you should never wear glitter over the age of 40…or is it 30? Whatever! I say to hell with them and their rules – whoever ‘they’ are anyway! ‘They’ are probably the hoity toity, buttoned-up […]
Double duty beauty: Double Wear Stay-In-Place Makeup SPF10 Let’s keep this short and sweet girls. When it comes to foundation, Estée Lauder’s Double Wear is the daddy. End of. That’s all you need to know. Some women play their beauty cards close to their chest, for fear of revealing their other […]
When I was first invited to test CrocodOil my initial reaction was “Is this a crock…?”…closely followed by: “Surely people don’t rub oil from a crocodile into their skin? Their prehistoric-looking hide doesn’t look too supple to me; if it’s so full of goodness why […]
I’ve always liked the idea of being an ‘IT Girl.’ That’s IT as in rhymes with fit, not IT as in Information Technology. As a teenager flicking through the glossy pages of Vogue (in the newsagents, before putting it back and buying More magazine), […]
Now if there’s something guaranteed to make me leap out of bed and into the shower in a desperate frenzy to get ready in the morning it has to be: a) Tom Hardy brandishing a loofah b) a holiday or c) gorgeous new make up […]
Come on girls, who doesn’t love perfectly winged eyeliner? That super-crisp, sleek Nike tick that flicks across your eyelid, creating the perfect feline expression: the cat that got the cream.Now we all know this look can be a bitch to perfect – one eye glides […]
…let’s make lots of money. Remember that old Pet Shop Boys song? Okay, so I may have replaced “brawn” with Braun, but this is a post about the merits of electrical goods, not catchy old Eighties tunes, so hear me out. If you don’t remember […]
photo credit Working on the beauty circuit in the late Nineties was a bit like a Scalextric race track, in terms of both pace and circular routine: find a juicy role with a luxury brand, immerse yourself into it, onto the next….work by day, party […]
In the impressionable early years of my life my biggest role model, as is the case for most young girls, was my mother. During those few short years when she was actually taller than me (only until I was about 6 you understand – she’s […]
