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Back in Time with eLai
As you may remember, back in February I introduced you to the debut collection of London lingerie brand eLai. If you enjoyed that, you will be as excited as I am to see a preview
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Fashion
How to follow trends and be ethical
At first glance, fast fashion and slow fashion don’t appear to be friends. Fast fashion is about keeping up with the latest trends and ensuring you fit in. Whereas slow fashion seems to be more about standing out. When it comes to fashion, most people reckon you’re either someone who chooses a look designers, editors
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Back in Time with eLai
As you may remember, back in February I introduced you to the debut collection of London lingerie brand eLai. If you enjoyed that, you will be as excited as I am to see a preview
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The A-to-Z of Accessories: Dents
I didn’t expect to encounter trouble so soon in my a-to-z, but I really couldn’t think of a type of accessory that begins with the letter D… so I’ve gone for a brand name instead. I hope you don’t think it’s cheating because there will be a few of these dotted throughout the alphabet! Hopefully
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Three great brands for vintage style shapewear
I know that many women swear by their Spanx, but I’m really not keen on undergarments that make me look like I’ve been squeezed into a sausage skin. I like my lingerie to look good before and after I put my clothes on, as well as while I’m fully clothed. Shapewear got so dull once
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Review: Curvy Kate
Ever since I learned how bras should actually fit (see Fuller Figure Fuller Bust’s Facebook page for a helpful video), I have been on the look out for pretty bras in larger sizes. More specifically, pretty bras with some sort of moulding or light padding in order to ‘balance me out’ – helping me look
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Sex / Relationships
The Five Stages of Relationships How do we all survive rough patches in relationships? Sometimes it can be really tricky to carry on after a massive argument. What happens when it feels as if the magic has gone? How on earth does anyone keep going once the first rush of love fades? Well, perhaps the tough times are simply a
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Review: Boink Box You’ve probably heard of many different types of subscription boxes – like Graze for snacking and Glossybox for samples of high-end beauty products – but have you heard of one for your sex life? Boink Box describes itself as “a box of high quality adult products for you and your significant other, delivered to your
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Feminism
Intersectionali… what? Today, The Guardian reposted an article from Louise Mensch’s blog, entitled how about some reality-based feminism? In it, Mensch makes some very good points about the current propensity for feminists on Twitter to lose their
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Feminism Friday: Nineties Woman This week’s Feminism Friday post is about an award winning comedian’s new show – the intriguingly titled “Nineties Woman: from activism to relative apathy”. Rosie Wilby has been busily tracking down the collective of women she produced a feminist newspaper with at York University in the 1990s, and she has created a show all about
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Life
My week as an ‘Agony Aunt’ The lovely Karen and Pete have been running a “glorious festival of style” on their blog Uborka over the last week, and they very kindly asked me to be one of their advice givers. My specialist subjects were sex, relationships and fashion, and I waited with interest to see what questions people would ask me.
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A day at the seaside Things have been pretty hectic for me recently and so I decided I needed a day at the seaside to help me relax. The only sensible choice was Brighton as it’s not far from London and there’s just so much to do there. You can spend the day sunbathing, riding roller coasters and eating ice
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Reviews
Review: Curvy Kate Ever since I learned how bras should actually fit (see Fuller Figure Fuller Bust’s Facebook page for a helpful video), I have been on the look out for pretty bras in larger sizes. More specifically, pretty bras with some sort of moulding or light padding in order to ‘balance me out’ – helping me look
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Review: Boink Box You’ve probably heard of many different types of subscription boxes – like Graze for snacking and Glossybox for samples of high-end beauty products – but have you heard of one for your sex life? Boink Box describes itself as “a box of high quality adult products for you and your significant other, delivered to your
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