November 24, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Dear Diary

Happy Easter!

Well, it’s Good Friday. I’m away on a little mini break, and I hereby give you permission to spend the whole weekend eating Hot Cross Buns and chocolate. It’s also the Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race tomorrow, which is always an enjoyable way to spend an afternoon. I suggest you watch it and randomly pick

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Fashion & Beauty

Retro Chick Presents : How to Apply Mineral Foundation

Back in February when I published my first make up tutorials on my You Tube channel I said I’d do a more detailed video on applying foundation at a later date. Well, as promised, here it is. I use a mineral foundation and it seems a lot of people are unsure of how to apply

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Dear Diary

Lovely Awards from Lovely Bloggers

I’ve been given three awards recently by other bloggers, so I thought it would be nice to throw my own little awards ceremony. Behold my superior photo shop skills. (You’d never know it wasn’t real, right?) Firstly The Maddy Chronicles has passed on this award. Secondly both Rhona from Rose Tinted Uncertainty and Karen from

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Dear Diary

Stocking the Bookshelves (and the cocktail cabinet)

I spend as much of my spare time as possibly ransacking Boot Fairs and Charity Shops. Normally I merely scan the Bric-a-Brac and books, just in case, before moving on to a good rummage through the clothes racks. I occasionally pick up a new novel, but not much in the way of exciting new additions

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Fashion & Beauty

Magic Shoes….

Remember this? Following on from last weeks post about being a Princess I was suddenly reminded of this advert for Clarks shoes that massively influenced my childhood desires to be a Princess. It also, I suspect has something to do with my unshakable belief that new shoes are the answer to all life’s problems. I

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The Lazy Girls Guide

The Lazy Girls Guide: How To Be A Little Princess

I’ll tell you a secret. when I was little I really wanted to be a Princess. Of course, what I had in mind wasn’t opening fetes and visiting the sick. It was more Giselle from Enchanted and less Princess Di. A bit like this. Then I grew up, and I gave up on being a

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Fashion & Beauty

Kiss & Make Up with Lulu Guinness AW 2010

Today I stopped by the Lulu Guinness Autumn Winter 2010 Press Day. I like Lulu Guinness Press Days as they give me the opportunity to stand in the middle of a beautiful room, squint slightly and pretend it’s my house and I’m picking a handbag from my huge selection of beautiful bags to go with

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Vanity Sizing

How Vanity Sizing is Killing You….

What size clothes do you wear? Are you sure? Last week I went shopping. Not ground breaking news, but I wandered into TK Maxx and took 4 dresses in a size 12 into the changing rooms. Two were too big, one made me look like I was wearing a kids party dress because of the

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Fashion & Beauty

Beauty Essentials From Retro Chick Readers

Yesterday I shared 5 of my beauty essentials. Retro Chick readers in turn shared their beauty essentials in the comments, and I thought I’d republish them here as they’re just so useful. Maybe you’ll find a product you’d never thought of trying, or something that might solve a particular beauty gripe of your own! There’s

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