tried and tested

Taking one for the teens. I know when I was a teenager, all I wanted was pink hair. Unfortunately, my school’s dress code didn’t allow for unnatural hair colours, so if I wanted pink streaks in my hair they had to be temporary. That usually meant using awful spray in colours that would dry out […]

5 years ago

Does it really work? TikTok is well known for its viral dance challenges but one other thing it has become popular for is hack videos. Whether it’s a cooking hack or something like the towel folding hack, there’s literally a hack for everything on TikTok, so it’s not surprising that there’s lots of beauty hacks […]

5 years ago

This is a skincare must have! Being in my early 30s the thing I look for most in a good serum is how hydrated it makes my skin look and feel. If it makes my skin more firm and blurs the fine lines too, that is also a plus. I’ve tried a lot of different […]

5 years ago

I’ve suffered with back problems for years. The muscles in my back and around my shoulders have never really been my friend. I remember a relative that couldn’t eat ice cream once saying that they liked ice cream but ice cream didn’t like them – and that’s how I feel about my back. Over the […]

6 years ago

My two-year-old is no fan of bedtime. You might think it’s because she takes naps during the day and just isn’t tired, but no she doesn’t take those either. The girl just fights sleep and even when it seems like you’ve gotten her down for the night she springs back up like a Jack in […]

6 years ago

Currently on the verge of potty training my own toddler, I am a glutton for any information that can reassure me that this will be smooth sailing all the way. With my little girl, it totally was. She just came home from creche one day when she was pretty much exactly two, and declared loudly […]

6 years ago