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How To Put Your Life Back Together: Use Make-Up (yes, really)
I know we should all be for the whole Inner Beauty thing and while that’s all fair and good, I’m a strong believer that we can’t also just run about in public looking like a sack of old potatoes....
View ArticleThat Thing About Being Fat
I have written about this in every of my blogs, and will probably continue writing about it until the day I die from over-eating. But you know, this is an issue that will never stop being talked about...
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Rainbow coloured magic
Now I’m not usually one to do a hard-sell on a product. I am very scared of insurance and direct-sales agents. But I just HAVE to talk about this because it is magic and amazing and if it didn’t look...
View ArticleHair
I had heard that one of my friends was feeling very stressed at work, so I sent her a text to ask how she’s doing. She replied: “I went straight to the salon to cut my hair. Getting my hair done always...
View ArticleThe “How You Feel” Diet
I’m one of those people who will forever think that she’s too fat and will forever be on a diet, even if I’m already at my most ideal dress size and weight. I always and constantly think I could be a...
View ArticleWhy Cheap-and-Cheerful is the next Beautiful-and-Sexy
I’m at this stage in my life where I just want to be comfortable and realising that if I was given the choice, I’d walk around all day, for days, without a bra, in my pyjamas and with nothing more...
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Hair cut
It baffles me how obsessed people can get about their hair – myself included. When you think about it, it’s really just stuff that grows out of your head – and yet we will spend thousands in our...
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Fat Shaming: The Things People Have Said to Me
Say what you will, I’m having me another beer! It’s not easy growing up as the fat kid in school. Kids can be nasty and a bully’s favourite, easiest targets are fat kids. I say kids, when really this...
View ArticleChubby, skinny, chubby, skinny…. and chubby again
Today, I’m picking up a comment that a dear old friend recently left on a previous post about health/dieting (Hello T, so lovely to hear from you and hope you’re well, big bises xxx) Here’s the bit of...
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Confession: I think about my weight all the time
Yes, please do tell me how to put on weight. If you’ve been following this blog or have known me for anything more than 3 months, you’ll know how contrary I can be about my weight. I think I may even...
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What Does ‘Fat’ Mean to You? And Why is it So Important?
Right after I wrote this, about how weight forms a complete obsession in my head, I found this fantastic article on HuffPost: Why ‘Love Your Body’ Campaigns Aren’t Working, by Isabel Foxen Duke. I...
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Never wish for someone else’s body
I’ve suddenly become very anxious about my hair falling out. I check the shower floor obsessively for how much hair there is each time I wash it. If it didn’t sound so crazy, I might even start...
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Love Your Body
I’ve been reading loads of really cool things online recently. Huff Post’s women’s section seems to be a treasure chest of awesome, empowering articles recently, full of self-love, confidence, body...
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How Bird’s Nest is Miraculously Closing My Pores
Let’s admit it. Although just about every Chinese person this side of the world will have had birds’ nest double-boiled and fed to them at some point of their growing-up year, the whole premise of this...
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In Defence of Selfies
Before I started writing this post, I took this photo of myself and sent it to a friend. No caption, just a grainy, badly-lit photo of me in my pyjamas, no make-up and manky hair. Three minutes later...
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Hey, You’ve Put on Weight Huh?
This is a maddening thing. And while I purport to be all brave and strong and not give a shit about it, it still irritates the shit out of me when it happens. It’s this: The other day, I bumped into a...
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You Are Not Stunning
I wouldn’t call myself a beautiful girl. Nor would I ever have considered myself the sort of beautiful child that grown-ups would coo at, click their tongues and make sweeping comments about me being...
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Let’s Play Dress-Up
One of my best friends is never without lipstick. It was something she was taught from a very young age, by her mother, to always have on a little bit of makeup. The suffragette, bra-burning women...
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The Fat Days: Where I Hate Myself with a Passion
And so it happens, even for girls like me who write so much about body-confidence, self-love and redefined notions of beauty: days like today when I stand in front of the mirror and hate the way I...
View ArticleChubby, skinny, chubby, skinny…. and chubby again
Today, I’m picking up a comment that a dear old friend recently left on a previous post about health/dieting (Hello T, so lovely to hear from you and hope you’re well, big bises xxx) Here’s the bit of...
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