November 23, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
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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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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Fashion & Beauty

My Top 5 Beauty Must Haves

Every body (and I mean “every body”, not everybody) has it’s own specific little eccentricities and foibles that it’s owner will spend years, maybe the rest of their lives trying to solve. You will develop your own list of favourite products and activities that help solve, minimise or rectify these minor “imperfections”. Sometimes a random

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Fashion & Beauty

Happy St Patricks Day

Happy St Patricks Day! Today is the day that has MOST successfully been completely hi-jacked by a single multi national corporation to promote it’s own products. Hurrah! Coca Cola had a go with Christmas, Strongbow has been after Halloween for a few years and Bombadier is still struggling on with St Georges Day, but as

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Fashion & Beauty

What Are You Wearing? Fancy Dress, Apparently.

Back to work tomorrow. Boo. Well, I don’t mind really, but another outfit post for you today before I head off to watch Alice in Wonderland for the second time. I really liked it that much! This outfit amuses me now because I thought it looked pretty good, but not weird or odd in any

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