November 28, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Fashion & Beauty

How to Dye Roots at Home

I’ve been dying my own hair at home for a very long time. I don’t have the spare cash or the organisation to make regular salon visits so almost every colour I’ve ever had has been out of a box from Boots. That’s not to say there haven’t been the disasters. That time at university

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Fashion & Beauty

Friday Frock Love: In Praise of the Prom Dress

I really love a good prom dress! Get the proportions right and it’s a style that suits most figures, nipping in the waist and providing plenty of wiggle room for those of us (me) with hips, and adding the illusion of curves to the more snake hipped. It’s a style that’s rarely out of the

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Body Positivity and Learning to Love Yourself

Last night, while browsing Facebook, I came across a post about Tess Munster. In case you don’t know she is a plus sized model who has recently been signed to a major London agency and started the #effyourbeautystandards hashtag. The post itself asked “Would you be happy if she was your childs role model?”, but

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Fashion & Beauty

Dressing Down – Nautical Chic

I consider todays post an important public service announcement! Some of you may already have seen this important information on my Instagram or Facebook, but for those of you that haven’t: BABYCHAM MAKE SHOES Long term readers will know I am a fan of Babycham. Having started collecting bits about 6 years ago I now

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Retro Chick Competitions

The Valentines Winner….

Happy Valentines Day (tomorrow!) I actually have today off, Mr Chick and I are heading to the deeply romantic surroundings of a beer festival to indulge in my other love outside of clothes, cocktails and exercise, and that’s beer. So todays post is probably most interesting to the winner of the Born Bad Betty competition

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

My Netflix Picks

It wasn’t long ago I was Netflix sceptic. We set up an account one day and ever after when I forgot about it and the money would go out of my Paypal account I would swear I was going to cancel it because there was nothing decent on there. “Lets look on Netflix!” Mr Chick

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Food & Drink

My Week with Bodychef

Back at the end of January I was given the opportunity to try out a meal delivery plan from Body Chef, and I jumped at the chance. I’ve been intrigued by these no stress easy diet plans for a while, it’s the sort of thing you see celebrities doing to keep slim and you think

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Fashion & Beauty

The Valentines Edition

Yes, it’s that time of year when everything turns pink and heart shaped. I’m a big fan of Valentines day on the simple basis that I like any excuse to celebrate, and whether I’ve been single or coupled up I love the opportunity to eat heart shaped chocolates, watch soppy movies and buy Champagne on

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Fashion & Beauty

Sponsor Spotlight: UUnique

Today I am heading out to pamper myself a little as I’ve been feeling a bit blue. I figure if there’s one advantage to being self employed it’s that you can say “hey, I’m feeling grumpy, I’m going to take Friday afternoon off and go shopping and get a hair cut”. So that is what

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