Under Our Skin – Inner Beauty
For me beauty has always meant beyond the superficial. Of course, we can see it as a commercialised industry – and it is. In 2012 in the UK, we spent nearly £8,438 million on fragran...
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Editorial - Beauty
Give Yourself A Make-Up Holiday
I have a friend – she’d better remain nameless – whose husband has never seen her without make-up. I kid you not. To preserve the ‘illusion’, she goes to bed in her...
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How to Be Naturally Confident
One of the nicest parts of what we do is talking to real women like you – at events and book signings (or on the bus, come to that). But what we’ve come to realise is that many, many women – for no re...
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Spring Legs
Ah, spring days. How blissful to feel the air on your legs. How carefree. Carefree, that is, unless you have ‘leg issues’. From late September through till mid-spring, of course, anyo...
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Cleansing
How has cleansing evolved over the past few years? Cleansing products have become so much more sophisticated, there are no longer just lotions or gels, there are a variety of different cleansers...
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February Winter Beauty
T.S. Eliot claimed that ‘April is the cruellest month’, but my vote goes to February. With central heating that’s been on for months, stripping moisture from our skin and hair,...
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