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Posted in Beauty, Fashion, Humour, News, Personal, Women on Oct 25th, 2011
Like many women, on an average day – in other words, pretty much every day – I don’t bother wearing make-up. I turn up for work with my blemishes unconcealed, my cheekbones uncontoured and my eyelashes unlengthened. I do the school runs and the supermarket slogs with unglossy lips and without any light reflecting off [...]
Posted in Beauty, Body image, Fashion, Politics on Jul 11th, 2011
You know what I love most about uniforms? The way they instantly bolster a person’s moral and ethical capacities. The way they make professionals out of pigs. The way they elevate us above the dribbling masses. Think about all of the fabulous uniformed brigades of awesome paragons we’ve had down through the years. Fascists, for [...]
Posted in Beauty, Fashion, Feminism, Personal on Jun 14th, 2011
I got my eyes lasered about 5 years ago and never looked back…well that’s the story the advertising feeds you, I was full of now forgotten promises to myself that I would start to jog, begin watching the timer in the pool, awake full of the joys and 20/20 vision of spring. The results however [...]
Posted in Advertising, Beauty, Body image, Fashion, Humour, Personal, Women on Jun 9th, 2011
(I just don’t have Geoffrey Rush to make me feel good about it.) As a spring chicken in a world of processed poultry and battery farming, by now I’m rather used to feeling woefully inadequate. I’m not thin enough, my hair isn’t luxuriant enough, my car isn’t flashy enough, my bacteria aren’t friendly enough. I [...]
Back in the late 1980′s, Madonna – the singer – wore crucifixes as fashion accessories. Within five minutes, teenage girls all over the world were aping her. Shane Lynch, of Boyzone, has been snapped wearing Rosary beads as have Christina Aguilera, Shakira, Rihanna and Kelly Osbourne. Catholics have registered their discomfort with symbols of their faith [...]
Posted in Beauty, Family, Fashion, Humour, Parenting, Personal, Religion, Women on Jun 3rd, 2011
My daughter and her all-female class made their First Communions recently. The massed ranks in the church were quite a sight to see. Immaculately coiffed hairdos, amazingly stylish frocks, even a few fake tans. Yes, the mothers looked stunning. Of course all the little Communicants were beautiful, and they could never be overshadowed by their [...]
Posted in Fashion, Feminism, International, Sport, Women on May 25th, 2011
As a sport, and as an abstract concept, badminton has always seemed pretty inoffensive. Professional badminton players do not take out super-injunctions. Badminton fans are never accused of starting riots that tarnish their country’s image abroad. For many years, badminton was the non-sporty person’s sport of choice. It was the type of Tuesday evening activity [...]
Posted in Beauty, Blast From the Past, Body image, Fashion, History, Travel, Uncategorized, Women on May 5th, 2011
Get your body beach ready! Get your bikini body now! What? Why? My body IS beach ready thank-you, lumps, pale skin, wobbly bits and all. I just want to swim, not to enter Ms South Beach. I’m not going out there to titillate the surfers. I simply want to build an enormous moat with the [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Art, Beauty, Celebrity, Fashion, History, International, Politics, Uncategorized, Women on Apr 7th, 2011
Who needs or wants to know about the inner workings of other people’s relationships? About the minor detail of their lives? We may not need to know but we certainly want to know about some couples. Often the stormier the pairing, the more drawn we are to the drama. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, for [...]
After months of neutrals and too much black, strong colour blocking is all over collections for the spring and summer. Although some folks turn sniffy over the trend of pairing a combination of elementary hues, I’ll maintain the old standby that if it’s on my body, it matches. Those standard LBDs paint you right into the background or [...]
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