My followers on Twitter are a smart self confident, sassy, sometimes sarky bunch of well informed with-it hipsters who know what they want and aren’t short of an opinion or two. Its a bit of shame really. I was hoping for a bunch of adoring fans who doted on my every word. I suppose my […]
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There is a roaring trade in hot dogs from street sellers in Oxford Street. Who doesn’t love a hot sausage and onions? The cheery vendors rarely have a good grasp of English, but there is nothing wrong with their grasp of economics. The London police often have to cope with violence between rival hot dog
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Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but a good lip gloss isn’t bad either. In fact, lip glosses and diamonds have something in common. They both reflect the light in that uniquely female pleasing way for the same reason. Both possess a high refractive index. Diamond in fact has one of the highest known refractive
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The tropical uplands of Somalia and the Yemen are a hard and unforgiving environment. To survive there the Frankincense tree has had to develop some nifty abilities. One of these is a thick resin that exudes from damaged parts of its trunk and branches. The sticky substance rapidly provides a defence against the teeth of
I was procrastinating like a particularly easily distracted loris with ADD fitting in a nifty bit of networking between urgent tasks today, when out of the blue I was asked a question on Twitter about whether cosmetics contained gluten.
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A reader has been advised by her doctor to use products for sensitive skin following an episode of folliculitis under the arm. What should she look out for, she asks.
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All great ideas are about solving a problem. And great as perfumes are, they have a bit of a problem. When you apply them to your skin they gradually wear off. But don’t worry, intrepid inventor Christine Martz has an answer. In a 1998 patent she divulged her solution. She has designed nifty heart
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Some things just don’t sound right any way you dress them up. One idea that pops up every couple of years and usually fades away pretty quickly is the idea of using snail slime as an active ingredient in skin care. It is certainly one that sticks in the mind. There is a reasonable case
The short answer is no. You knew that already didn’t you. But thanks to a lawsuit between Estee Lauder and Swedish model Caroline Louise Forsling we now have proof.
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Summer is here and my favourite scare mongers are at it again. They are putting out dire warnings of the risks of using sunscreens if you don’t first check with them and then buy the ones they recommend. I am sure readers of Colin’s Beauty Pages are savvy enough to see through anything so transparently
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