Accessories, Fashion Tips, Features, Footwear, Opinion, Opinion peice, shoes, Trend Alert
When even Victoria Beckham hangs up her heels, it might be time to come back down to earth… There’s a thing in fashion, and actually in lots of other things such as water features and Mr Whippy cones, known as the ‘trickle down effect’. Most people will tell you this is the process by which [...]...More
Beauty, Features, Health, Innerwear, News, Opinion, Reviews, Uncategorized
I confess that I would be much, much more comfortable if we all just used foundation. It’s all got so fiddly. There’s special primer for your eyes, now. We have to clean our faces with giant electric toothbrushes. We’re romping down the alphabet, giddly inventing more problems, more solutions, more stuff. Our bags, bathrooms and [...More
Beauty, High End Department Stores, Opinion, Reviews, Runway to Reality, Uncategorized
I LOVE spendy skincare like I love drinking wine and watching The Simpsons in bed. Throwing money at stuff for my face is a hobby. A pricey one, but no more so than smoking, gambling or attending the live tours of prime time reality shows. And as a splurging hobbyist, I bring you good news [...]...More
Beauty, Nostalgia, Opinion, Opinion peice, Top Five, Uncategorized, vintage
Some days, you just want everyone to want to want you. To see you storm the street with a bounce in your step and your head held high, and not to think “I bet she’s going to an important business meeting!”, but to have a sudden flash of you with your mouth open and eyes [...]...More
Beauty, Beauty of our youth, Fashion Tips, Features, Nostalgia, Opinion
The year is 2002, the product is Bonne Bell and the scent is pure, sugary joy. Were Lip Smackers the start of a serious cake habit? Ever since the first cave lady crushed up a beetle and rubbed it on her face before a trip to the nearest water hole, we’ve used cosmetics to try [...]...More
Fashion Tips, Features, Festivals, Get the look, How to Wear, Opinion, outerwear, Sleeves of the week, Trend Alert, Uncategorized
Ahh, the cover-up. A far less exciting term when it’s applied to clothes than to TV murder cases, cover ups are the maiden aunt of summer fashion – cumbersome and not much fun, but if you don’t invite them to the party you know it’ll end in the cold shoulder. When the vast majority of [...]...More
Affordable Fashions, dresses, Fashion Tips, Features, Gallery, Get the look, How to Wear, Trend Alert
Still waiting for your prints charming? From tribal to tropical and even a touch of tie-dye, we’ve rounded up the loudest, proudest patterns around Long gone are the days when ‘print’ meant a polite little floral or a prim polka dot. This summer we’re pretty much being commanded to bedeck ourselves out like our Nan’s [...]...More
Beauty, charity, Ethical Fashions, Fashion Tips, Features, Nails, Opinion, Opinion peice, Reviews, ShinyStyle Investigates
Long-lasting, premium nail polish that helps support women in Haiti? Dielle gets the Shiny thumbs up Oh nail polish, wherefore art thou? Not on my nails anymore, that’s for sure. Probably on the pavement. The carpet. The floor of the bus. Dancing away on the wind, like glittery silver blossom. Nothing, not even the priciest [...]...More
Fashion Tips, Fashion's biggest myths, Features, How to Wear, Opinion, Opinion peice, ShinyStyle Investigates, Yay or Nay
You’re most likely to hear this rule from your granny – but doesn’t she know it’s going against nature? Lauren Bravo explains why blue and green should definitely be seen So obviously false is this little platitude that we really shouldn’t have to waste screen inches debunking it – but just in case there are [...]...More
Affordable Fashions, denim, Department Stores, dresses, Festivals, guess where this is from, Sleeves of the week
As we see it, the ultimate, tricksy, brow furrowing, chin stroking, difficult to solve 21st century dilemma is this: What’s a lady supposed to wear for weekend brunch? Obviously there are proper dilemmas about wars and poverty and the disintegrating moral fabric of society, but we don’t have a hope in hell of solving those. [...]...More
dresses, Fashion Crush, Fashion Tips, Features, Gallery, Get the look, Movie fashion, shoes, So you want to look like, Style Icon, Style spotlight, Trend Alert, vintage
Pour yourself a mint julep and swing those pearls – thanks to Baz Luhrmann’s new release, the 1920s are roaring straight back into our wardrobes Are you a flapper? Do you flap? Not the type you do when you’ve got hot food in your mouth, but the fashion type, currently dancing its way across the [...]...More
Christmas outfits, dresses, Features, vintage, Wardrobe stories
To fully explain my feelings about fashion, first I must tell you about my mother. For Mum, the seventies weren’t sexy, the eighties weren’t excessive and the nineties were about shielding one end of the family from their own raging, surging oestrogen levels and the other from their own baby sick. She grew up in [...]...More
Accessories, Affordable Fashions, Celebrity Style, Fashion Tips, Features, Get the look, Trend Alert
Writer Rachael Krishna explores some leather options. But not in a rude way… Last October I bought myself a little leather mini skirt from H&M. I was kind of in love with the concept of this skirt: so versatile, so form fitting, I could team it with heels and power dress or with a pair [...]...More
Beauty, Features, High End Department Stores, Opinion, Opinion peice, Reviews
Ever had an epiphany at the make up counter? Writer Amy Jones tells us how Benefit’s Posie Tint lip and cheek stain became the best thing in her life A few weeks ago, I was in Boots and paused in the Posh Make-Up bit. After roughly 2.3 nanoseconds a small, terrifying woman appeared and asked [...]...More
Beauty, Features, How to Wear, Nails, ShinyStyle Investigates, Trend Alert, Uncategorized
The latest trend in nail art has come out of the salon and back to the schoolroom. Wannabe sandwich board artist Lauren Bravo has chalkboard nails nailed. Sort of. Just when we thought nails might have got as avant garde as nails are ever going to get (leather! Velvet! Hang little tassles off them! Make [...]...More
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