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How to be a healthy vegetarian
Body: Vegetarian? Thinking about it? When vegetarians choose to deny themselves part of what's considered a normal balanced diet, can they make up for the change? Forget ethics and look after yourself with this handy guide to a healthy vegetarian diet. We'll leave looking after your conscience to you.
Eating disorders and the gothic community
Body: The media is obsessed with our shape and dieting extremes are splashed all over the tabloids. The spotlight is on weight, whether it's the emaciated or the morbidly obese. Subcultures focus on breaking free of mainstream boundaries in favour of personal freedom. But, when it comes to weight, are subcultures subject to their own internal pressures? Has alternative culture escaped the madness?
How to be a healthy vegetarian
Body: Vegetarian? Thinking about it? When people like vegetarians choose to deny themselves part of what's considered a normal balanced diet, can they make up for the change? Forget ethics and look after yourself with this handy guide to having a healthy vegetarian diet. We'll leave looking after your conscience to you.
Flawless canvas: Skin care routines made easy
Beauty: In today's society everybody is worried about how they look, but skin care is more important than makeup and doesn't have to take much time or effort. The golden rule is to keep your skin a flawless canvas on which you can unleash your style. Once you've performed these skin care routines a few times they'll become a ten minute ritual that will leave you looking and feeling brisk and special.
Sexual health checkups: The positives
Body: An STI checkup at a sexual health clinic need not be a grim experience. As women are apparently supposed to get a cervical exam once a year, Holly-Rae Smith has written about her own positive experience to put some minds at ease.
How to get pale skin
Beauty tips: Her dark hair shimmered in the moonlight - and it struck her admirer that her skin reflected the colour of that pale orb so perfectly as to seem almost bloodless.
Not pale yet, but want the illusion of pallor? Well, all beauty's an illusion. So here's to cheating...
Epilator deathmatch!
Health and beauty: Our intrepid journalists try out two of the latest epilators - one girl a seasoned veteran, the other an epilator virgin. So... who's going to win?
Skin purgatory: Psoriasis
Body: Want a strange kind of body confidence? Get psoriasis, says Kate Morrison. This sexy little skin disease will ensure that you will never again angst over your love handles, your weird feet or chunky calves. Because you'll be far too worried about covering up.
Embrace life with Neutrogena skin care life experiences
Whether you dream of being a figure-skater or a master-chef, Neutrogena is offering anyone who buys a selected skin care product the opportunity to learn a new skill or try a fantastic activity. From windsurfing to Pilates, ballroom dancing to gardening, try your hand at something brand new and make the most out of 2008. For those with dreams further afield, Neutrogena is also offering five people the chance to embark on a journey of a lifetime...
Recharge tips for mooky mommas
If you're a mooky momma building up a tribe from scratch, it could be that you don't always got your sparkle on. These 10-minute tips will go a long way to getting back on the case once you've put the babies to bed.
How to dye black hair blonde...
Sometimes the urban myths are true - yes, dyeing your hair from black to blonde is a nightmare. Mookychick suggests ways to go about it, and comes up with damage limitation tips for when it all goes wrong. Breathe easy. We've all been there...
Health tips: Surviving the party season
'Autumn months are packed with parties', says E_Diva. 'By the time New Year is over, you'll be screaming for a Friday night in. All that high living can take a toll, but there are lots of tricks that can help you out so that you are always looking and feeling your best.'
Bondage for beginners: Scarf-play!
Wendy Withers goes to FetishCon and learns a little about scarf bondage - a sweet, sexy and non-threatening form of bondage for beginners.
Celebrity skin
Now that the sun is (sort of) shining again, it's time to step up your summer skincare routine. The weather is only going to get hotter, meaning trouble in the form of aging UV rays. These quick tips will ensure you look your best all season long!
Hypnotherapy: The Big Smoke
With Britain signed up for a smoking ban in all public enclosed spaces, people are either in the process of building a Depression-era 'smokeasy' in their basement or figuring out how to quit the habit. Veteran smoker E_Diva checks out hypnotherapy to see if it really can make you stop smoking...
Mineral cosmetics - pure makeup for pure people
What's natural, protects your skin from the harsh rays of the sun, great for all skin types, plus gives your complexion a healthy, glowing finish? It's not magic, but mineral makeup; the hottest thirty year old trend to be hailed as the 'new' beauty solution.
Party pills - health guide
A new generation of drugs have appeared on the dance scene over the last two years. They are available from shops and hyped as a safe, legal alternative to ecstasy. But are they as safe as the hype makes out?
Legal party drugs vs. illegal recreational drugs - who wins?
How to survive being a vegan in London
Aneequa Bhatti has been a vegan londoner for six years and has discovered there a hundred and one places to grab vegan eats on a budget, from succulent thai to vegan american fast food...
Villainess soaps
Do you long for the latest but loathe the hassle? Bring those must-have brands straight to your door without the bother of in-store rack wrestling or standing in crowded lines, via the power of the Internet! There are loads of respected etailers who can make your beauty dreams come true, with a little bit of point and click. Check out what's hot this week - soaps from the glorious 'Villainess'!
The art of bathing
We take hard steamy showers to open pores and get clean, but take long soaks in the tub to revive the spirit... E_Diva suggests curiously exotic products and reveals tricks of the trade to help you explore the art of bathing to its fullest extent.
Be mine, Valentine... Valentine's gifts with love from you to you xxx
Why, oh why, do we care about Valentine's Day? It's simple, really. We're women, and we adore gifts. So why wait for your beau to figure it out? Why not gift YOURSELF this year? No matter how indie, or trendy, you may be... we are all enamoured with lovely things. We like to look good, feel good, and smell great. So whether you're single or loved up this Valentine's Day, pamper yourself a bit and make the holiday special with these ‘self love' gift ideas, created by women, for women.
From holistic skincare to scents from heaven, check out these valentiney things of beauty...
High street skincare and cosmetics for eczema and problem skin
Sometimes you can suffer from 3 problems at once: you have delicate problem skin, you're on a tight budget, and there's no health store near you (or you can't be arsed to go to one). If this sums you up, Georgie Hanmer recommends the products that she finds have personally saved both her skin and her social life.
Read about high street skincare and cosmetics for delicate flowers on a budget
Hair tips: Removing henna from hair
Henna is a natural, ethical and often beautiful option - but it's a permanent colour so once you've taken the step of putting henna in your hair it's hard to go back. Here are our tips for what to do if you have a henna-based hair disaster.
DIY Beauty: Home-made hair-care products
In an age of hi-tek complicated beauty regimes, why spend a million bucks on your hair when you only end up looking like a pooky old ten? You had better raid your kitchen for natural home-made hair-care products which actually WORK, dammit!
LIP FACERCISE
Here are some facercises you can do at home to make your lips firm and plump... Like Molly Ringwald, but better
NATURAL CURES FOR DEPRESSION
We all have times - especially in winter - when we are frayed at the edges and feel as pooky as a chicken in a basket. Mookychick explores a host of natural remedies for a host of common problems.
HOW TO HAVE A DIY ACID SKIN PEEL
Spending loads of dosh to get an acid skin peel may not be dangerous but it is silly. Amanda Prouten tells you how to get the same effect in your kitchen. It involves pineapples and rum... how could it possibly go wrong?
Hangover Tips and hangover Cures
There's
a fine line between making merry and feeling beautiful
and wild and free, and beautifully and freely projectile-chucking
onto a bedroom rug.
Check our hangover tips for
before, during and after boozing to
minimise the possible damage to your body and pride.
HOW TO GET BIG POUTY LIPS
Apparently men go wild for big, kissy, pink, puffy pouty lips as it looks like you're sexually up for it and they'll fantasise like mad about you getting your gums around their plums and such-like. Here's how you get big pouty lips without spending dosh or going under the knife!
Get healthy skin
Whether you want natural beauty or theatrical drama, you'll need skin so translucent friends can see the blue fizzy pop you're drinking go right down your neck.
rsi exercises
You've probably heard of RSI. Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is caused by repetitive hand movements, like when you use a computer. Here are some nice tips to chase it off - because it's rubbish, it really is.
