Being the clumsy girl I am, I’m always cutting my fingers, burning my hands, stubbing my toes and so forth. So plasters are always a bit of a necessity in my flat. Well, I just came across a range of designer plasters which would certainly jazz up those wounds! From bacon and egg shaped plasters [...]

One of the commonest forms of hair loss in men and women is a condition called telogen effluvium, in which there is a widely spread out shedding of hairs around the scalp and elsewhere on the body. This is an allover thinning of the hair, rather than patches of baldness. Telogen effluvium is usually a [...]

A rise in the popularity of hair straighteners is partly to blame for the soaring number of children being admitted to hospital with burns, a charity has revealed. The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) said that the number of children hospitalised for burns has risen by more than 50 per cent in the past decade, [...]

We’ve already covered the definition for semi-permanent hair dye, but what about temporary colour? And no, they aren’t the same thing! While semi-permanent colors wash out after several shampoos, temporary hair colours provide just that — a short term, temporary effect. This no-commitment type of color comes in the form of shampoos, gels, rinses, sprays, [...]

Uh oh! It seems the dreaded bowl-cut is having a come-back. The bowl cut was on the catwalk in 2008 at YSL, but the buzz around the hair style started at 2009′s New York Fashion Week when the models at the 3.1 Philip Lim show sported the blunt style on the catwalk. Since the how [...]

This weekend I’m craving after Abradermol. This is a microdermabrasion cream for both the face and body. It provides super strength exfoliation – which makes it ideal for creating summer skin with a luminous glow. The cream contains high amounts of aluminium oxide crystals, Niacinamide from Vitamin B3 and Shea Butter which hydrates and softens [...]

This week’s friday fun post is admittedly more fashion than beauty related, but it’s good fun and practical to boot, so I thought I would share it with you. The website knickerpicker.com allows you to choose a model which most resembles your shape and bra size, then view different types of lingerie on her to [...]

Summer is the time when most of us start wearing sandals and more open shoes, but if you have cracked heels and fissures running across your soles it can feel better to cover them up. Cracked feet are not only painful and unsightly, they can deepen and reach tissue causing bleeding and even infection. Here’s [...]

I thought that, when it comes to exercise, I had all the bases covered. I know what I need to work on more, and which areas of my body I can spend less time on. Well, it would seem that I had forgotten something according to this little gadget – the Profoot Flex-Tastic. Yes, apparently [...]

OK, we know what’s what when it comes to water: if you want to look good on the outside, drink plenty of it! However the clever people at London’s Hydro Healing Day Spa have devised a series of treatments all centred around water -  inside and out. With choices from colonic irrigation to hydroblitz body [...]