Coffee
Is there a more seductive smell in the world than fresh coffee? It beckons us with its fresh-roasted warmth. It offers the promise of instant energy, in a steaming mug of deliciousness. (Even if we se...
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Editorial - Beauty
Age Spots / Sun Spots
Fact: nobody loves lines and wrinkles. But here’s another fact: recent research has revealed that what bothers women even more than those crow’s feet and laugh lines is uneven pigmentation on face and...
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Nuts About Coconuts
Coconuts are so fashionable, they’re right up there with Cara Delevingne, gold gladiator sandals and Chanel sunnies. You’d have to have spent the last few months on a desert island not to notice that...
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Arms Heading South
Most of the women I know who look at news footage of the US president are transfixed by Barack Obama. But not me. I generally spend the whole time examining Michelle Obama’s upper arms, which are very...
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Cosmetic Tweaks
We were completely horrified recently to be present at a show where Botox – and tooth-bleaching – were being carried out in an unsterile conditions. Patients were signing up, on the spot, without aski...
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Beauty and the Beach
Working on the basis that if we don’t get an English summer then many of you will still be headed somewhere warm, I thought I’d address the challenges of looking gorgeous in hot weather. The problem...
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