Tag: natural
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Sparkles and Cobwebs
So I’ve been very, very busy editing my next two books, which are coming out in quick succession this month by the publisher. Titles and links and such shall be divulged once such things exist. In the meantime, some photos: Can you believe it’s June today??? It’s going to be my wedding anniversary in 3 […]
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9 Lip Plumpers Reviewed: Get Bigger Lips
This is my ultimate guide to lip plumping: I’ve reviewed 9 lip plumpers to show you how to get bigger lips quickly, safely, and on the cheap! If you’re anything like me, you wish you were born with plumper lips, like Kylie Jenner lips, or Angelina Jolie lips – those voluptuous levels of plump. I hear […]
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4 Exercises for the Eyes to Avoid Wrinkles
This is a set of 4 exercises to help avoid eye wrinkles. I found these exercises in a book from 1972 called “Secrets of Natural Beauty” by Virginia Castleton Thomas. I think it’s a classic amongst my parents’ generation (my parents would have been 11 when this was published, so maybe a classic amongst people […]
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Hair Trends for 2016: My Favourites
So there’s been enough fashion shows by now to be able to work out what’s trending and what’s over for 2016. Here are my 5 favourite hair trends for 2016 (I don’t own any of the images in this article): 1. The very slightly off-centre parting: Of the 10 best trends chosen by Vogue, 5 […]
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Time
This is my first weekly photo challenge from here, the theme was time. I am still a bit new to all this photography stuff so feedback would be appreciated!
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No-One Wants To Know The Real Truth About Parabens
Parabens. It’s seen as a dirty word amongst the “natural beauty” movement and the “mainstream” cosmetics industry is trying its best to ignore it, right? Because of parabens, many people are spending more money than ever on cosmetics and personal care products to avoid those scary-sounding paraben ingredients. Today I want to step (mostly) aside […]
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Can a whitening toothpaste really whiten your teeth?
After being ill for so long, my teeth were in serious need of some whitening. Lack of nutrients coupled with vomiting millions of times a day means I look and feel like a train wreck at the moment (actually I’ve visually improved a lot over the last fortnight but I’m still not my usual self), […]
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It’s flooded.
So some of you might remember a little while ago I said I was worried about being unprepared for floods, since there were some not very far from where I live, which had been going on for a while. Yeah so over the Christmas weekend the whole city flooded. Today, there’s been rescue helicopters going […]
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Beautiful Saturday: Primer Review
So I got Smashbox’s Photo Finish Primer recently. I have been using Avon’s Anew Primer before, because it was the best primer I’d ever found, and before that I was using Clarins’s primer, which I received as a gift for Christmas 2013 and mistakenly thought it was an eye cream until I read the packaging […]
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Beautiful Saturday: To straighten or not to straighten?
I got my first pair of straighteners (called flatirons in the US) back in 2003. I was 16, and they’d been out for about a year. I had the Babyliss 4×4 straighteners, that came with 4 different interchangable metal plates – ceramic coating was a couple of years away – and the options were: standard […]
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