The Insiders – Fashion Workplace Guide
August 28, 2008
Getting a job is how you avoid living the rest of your life surviving on Pot Noodles and rainwater. It’s also a life-affirming, fun time, when you enter the right job for you. The Insiders is your passport to what some of the most popular careers are really like. Read more
Fashion First Aid Tapeits
August 27, 2008
What they say…
Fashion First Aid Tapeits. Double-sided clothing tape – Invisible, Reliable, Comfortable. Just peel and stick for instant confidence and fix-its. Great for strapless dresses, revealing necklines, securing bra straps, adhering scarves and other accessories, perfect for wrap dresses and banishing gaping shirts. Keeps sling-back shoes, necklines & hemlines just where you want them. Gives women the confidence to wear the clothes of their choice. The great little tube means you can take it everywhere you go and it comes in strips so you don’t need scissors when you are out and about. A fashion essential for every woman!
Our product is the same tape used by doctors.It is very sticky yet so gentle that it will not damage your skin of even the most delicate silk.
What Girlie Gossip Thought….
One of our trusty review staff Sandy recently tried out this product, read below to see what she thought!
Fashion First Aid Product Tapeits is a product that you never realised you actually needed. Now I think we all remember the Judy Finnigan moment on tv and have had such fashion accidents ourselves (hopefully not on tv though!), so this fashion saver is really needed.
Keeping sling back shoes in place
Necklines and hemlines stay where you want them
Keeping bra straps in place
Tapeits come in a small tube, which can be left in the handbag for emergencies, just peel and stick.
Although a bit fiddly to use I soon got used to this product, I found tapeits to work better on woollen tops than summer flimsy/shiny clothing, the pull is strong and although the product is advertised as gentle on clothing it did pull out a couple of tiny threads from my bra. I would recommend you wear the simpliest style of bra when using this product and you’ll get on great!
Visit BeautyCounterDirect for the full range of Fashion First Aid products
Beat The Credit Crunch With The Body Shop at Home!
August 27, 2008
Obsessed with having the latest must-have beauty products before your friends but fighting to pay the bills let alone afford the luxury extras? In a survey commissioned by The Body Shop , 70% of those questioned said that they felt affected by the credit crunch. Read more
Lovely Powder Pact
August 26, 2008
Priced at just £7 Lovely Powder Pact Matt is light like air and gives a transparent natural skin look. The moisturising vitamin E keeps skin hydrated whilst the long lasting powder covers flaws and blemishes. The matt formula is ideal for oily skin. Light Beige.
It comes beautifully packaged (Yes. We’re fickle but packaging means a lot nowadays!) with the super cute rocking horse symbol actually impressed into the powder.
The powder itself glides on to your skin with ease, and creates a natural look for the appearance of flawless skin without too much effort. The ideal size to keep tucked away in your handbag and re apply as and when you need it, this pretty compact was a sure fire hit with us here at Girlie Gossip!
Silver Guardian Angel Locket is The Perfect Gift Idea!
August 26, 2008
We recently stumbled across this amazingly cute ‘silver guardian angel locket’ from TalesFromTheEarth.Com and were instantly drawn to the whimsical charm it offers!
Priced at a very reasonable £48 you can now Keep your guardian angel with you secretly in this silver heart locket and show it only to those you trust. The chain is 60 cm and the product itself is of great quality and timelessly classic design. At a glance it appears to be a modern heart necklace but when opened it reveals the tiny angel hidden away inside.
Here’s a bit more information about the website and the inspiration behind the magical gifts inside:
Seventeen years ago, two young designers, Jo Culf and John DeCosta, met in Edinburgh. We were both travelling around the world at the time and, as a result of that serendipitous encounter, Tales From The Earth was born – as much by chance as through planning.
Travel still has an enormous influence on what we do. If we could no longer travel, there would not be a Tales From The Earth. Inspiration, old stories, new ideas – these are the products of our trips to far-flung places around the world each year. They manifest themselves in our twice-yearly collections, centred on the natural world, the wellbeing of the individual and, often, simply beautiful objects.
Tales from The Earth have a wide variety of quality products that are interesting, unique and beautifully made.
Take a look for yourself here: http://www.talesfromtheearth.com
Berkeley Square Cosmetics Company – 1920′s Range
August 26, 2008
A collection of toiletries inspired by the elegant 1920s. A time of dazzling high society and lazy summers at country house retreats all set to the swing of the Charleston, the dulcet tones of Cole Porter and for true lovers a nightingale singing in Berkeley Square.
Comprises a range of luxurious body lotion, finest quality English triple milled shea butter soap, truly indulgent bath and shower cream, deeply moisturising shea butter hand cream, fine fragrance perfume sprays and exquisite gift sets.
The packaging is a unique partnership between The Berkeley Square Cosmetics Company and the Illustrated London News. Each of the four fragrances is represented by original illustrations from four popular artists of the 1920s, known at the time for their vibrant, chic depictions of the fashions and lifestyles of the day. The originalsappeared in such publications as The Sketch, The Bystander and The Tatler.
Berkeley Square 1920′s range is available from www.bsquare.co.uk and at selected Boots stores nationwide.
Ideal Summer Wines!
August 26, 2008
Summer seems to be coming to and end here in the UK, so make the most of what little sun we have left (or perhaps this ‘Indian Summer’ we keep getting promised) by checking out our article for a look at some great wines for summer.
Caves Saint Pierre
Grown on the southern Rhone Valley, just below Avignon, these wines offer you refined structure and intense ripeness, a result of immaculate vineyard terrain throughout the medieval villages of the Rhone Valley. This is home to the intense Mourvedre and Cinsault red grapes used to make these magnificent wines, as well as the fruity Grenache white grape…. Read more
Grant’s Whisky Cocktails
August 24, 2008
Soon Summer will be gone, and Autumn will be here. Early autumn evenings are the perfect time to relax outdoors and reflect on the summer’s fun and just because the days are getting shorter and the nights cooler is no reason to stop enjoying your garden. The weather at this time of year can often be drier and more pleasant than Read more
