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Posted in Beauty, Fashion, Humour, News, Personal, Women on Oct 25th, 2011
Like many women, on an average day – in other words, pretty much every day – I don’t bother wearing make-up. I turn up for work with my blemishes unconcealed, my cheekbones uncontoured and my eyelashes unlengthened. I do the school runs and the supermarket slogs with unglossy lips and without any light reflecting off [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Beauty, Celebrity, Personal on Jul 21st, 2011
A friend of mine was recently looking through some old photos and commented, “I noticed you never smile with your teeth showing!” To be honest, I barely know how to smile with my teeth showing because it’s something as a teenager I decided I would never do. While I have a perfectly straight set of [...]
Posted in Beauty, Body image, Celebrity, Feminism, Film, Humour, Women on Jul 13th, 2011
Perhaps you took notice of The Daily Mail’s report on a poll conducted among 2,000 women over 40, which found that ladies felt invisible once they turned 46. Their opinions no longer mattered once men stopped paying attention. Nevermind the idea that visibility and holding opinions remain hinged upon such a fickle conditional as one’s [...]
Posted in Beauty, Body image, Fashion, Politics on Jul 11th, 2011
You know what I love most about uniforms? The way they instantly bolster a person’s moral and ethical capacities. The way they make professionals out of pigs. The way they elevate us above the dribbling masses. Think about all of the fabulous uniformed brigades of awesome paragons we’ve had down through the years. Fascists, for [...]
Posted in Beauty, Fashion, Feminism, Personal on Jun 14th, 2011
I got my eyes lasered about 5 years ago and never looked back…well that’s the story the advertising feeds you, I was full of now forgotten promises to myself that I would start to jog, begin watching the timer in the pool, awake full of the joys and 20/20 vision of spring. The results however [...]
Posted in Beauty, Religion, Television, Women on Jun 10th, 2011
T’was with great amusement I read the schedule for the ‘roses’ involved in the upcoming Rose of Tralee. You can take a look for yourself here if you wish. But for those of you who can’t be bothered clicking the link it was the following that caught my eye. Sunday 5th June 2011 All Roses [...]
Posted in Advertising, Beauty, Body image, Fashion, Humour, Personal, Women on Jun 9th, 2011
(I just don’t have Geoffrey Rush to make me feel good about it.) As a spring chicken in a world of processed poultry and battery farming, by now I’m rather used to feeling woefully inadequate. I’m not thin enough, my hair isn’t luxuriant enough, my car isn’t flashy enough, my bacteria aren’t friendly enough. I [...]
Posted in Beauty, Family, Fashion, Humour, Parenting, Personal, Religion, Women on Jun 3rd, 2011
My daughter and her all-female class made their First Communions recently. The massed ranks in the church were quite a sight to see. Immaculately coiffed hairdos, amazingly stylish frocks, even a few fake tans. Yes, the mothers looked stunning. Of course all the little Communicants were beautiful, and they could never be overshadowed by their [...]
Posted in Beauty, Blast From the Past, Body image, Fashion, History, Travel, Uncategorized, Women on May 5th, 2011
Get your body beach ready! Get your bikini body now! What? Why? My body IS beach ready thank-you, lumps, pale skin, wobbly bits and all. I just want to swim, not to enter Ms South Beach. I’m not going out there to titillate the surfers. I simply want to build an enormous moat with the [...]
Posted in Beauty, Body image, Family, Food, Health, Parenting on Apr 11th, 2011
It came out of the blue. At a family Sunday lunch in a local trattoria, my eight year old daughter made an announcement; “I want to be a thin girl”. Her dad and I exchanged significant glances. Where was this coming from? Food, weight and dieting have never been an issue in our house. We [...]
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