The great and powerful Pantone has spoken, the colour matching specialist has announced the dusky wine shade marsala as its top colour trend for 2015. All well and good, but why did they choose it and how could it affect our fashion and beauty decisions? Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Colour Institute®, had this to say of…
Launching a blog with a whole category devoted to beauty got me thinking, and when those good old cogs start turning in this brain of mine two things are bound to happen: 1) I get very quiet – which, until I put him out of his misery, worries Mr Chic enough to guarantee the making of much tea and…
Well I went and did it; I bought myself a NutriBullet! So what are my thoughts on this blending / extracting phenomena of the 21st century? Does it work? And, retailing at £99.99 on the official site at time of post publication, is it worth the money? I think, before I plough headlong into the advantages and disadvantages of…
Recently, when a wardrobe shelf collapsed, I was forced to sort through my heaving wardrobe. My wardrobe consisting mainly of pre ‘I-can’t-be-arsed-to-eat-healthily-and-work-out’ clothes, six months ago this little exercise would have had me pouring a large glass of red, eating a consoling mound of chocolate and bemoaning the fact that I had a wardrobe stuffed full of fabness and…
Picture the scene: It’s 10ish in the evening, the wind is howling outside, Andrew and I are snuggled under a blanket watching pap TV and doing a bit of surfing (not the how-long-I-can-stand-on-this-foam-board-before-I-fall-into-the-ocean-to-my-almost-certain-death kind. But the I-wonder-why-cats-have-nine-lives Google kind). Suddenly our idea of a mid-week blissful evening came to an abrupt end with an almighty CRASH!!! “What the Hell…
