I originally wrote this rant about leggings for Huffington Post. They never published it. Thanks for nothing, HuffPo! So here it is on WIWT. A bit different to my usual outfit posts, but worthy of publishing. Leggings are lots of things, but trousers they are not. I can’t pinpoint exactly when it happened, but within [...]

Way back in May I started a course of IPL home treatments using both the Boots Smooth Skin by iPulse and the Philips Lumea. In one sense I am really just reviewing IPL as a hair removal method (and I can now authoritatively say IPL is *amazing*) and most of the questions I’ve been asked [...]

I’ve got this real thing about hair that doesn’t feel nice. Whilst I appreciate that it’s the way hair looks that tends to come first, it’s not very nice for a boy to touch your hair and describe it with a word like ‘crispy’. I don’t want my hair to feel like a packet of [...]

Thanks to Mr Jonny Allen, I have just discovered the gorgeous .gif work by visual artist Kevin Burg and photographer Jamie Beck. I am very late to the party. I usually think .gifs are a bit tacky, tumblr fodder for emo artsy types who can’t come up with anything creative of their own. But throw [...]

The ‘Next Top Model’ franchise never fails to pull me in. Whether it’s Tyra, Jay, Sarah or Elle leading the way, I will obsess over it. So I was thrilled to be invited to the press launch for the new series of Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model. It was a few weeks ago now [...]