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Holistic health and alternative beauty tips: Get the best alternative make-up, hair and beauty tips and makeup tutorials - plus holistic health from depression to natural home cures
How to apply false nails
Beauty tips: Do you have something or someone you want to get your claws into? The most effective way to do it is with a pair of fabulous false nails. They have evolved over the last century as styles change, so whatever era you are into, there will be a way for you to carry off a set of talons.
Read: How to apply false nails
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?
Touched with fire
Mental health: Lots of people are afraid of what they don't understand. Manic depression is one of those things. Emma has what doctors term a bipolar disorder. This is how one manic depressive has learned to live with being touched with fire.
Read: Touched with fire
False eyelashes tutorial
Beauty: Nothing epitomises fun and flirtatiousness more than the fluttering of huge sooty sixties-style eyelashes, curled like provocative question marks. Get your false eyelashes right - and they will become your secret weapon for day AND night!
Read: False eyelashes tutorial
Home-made tattoos
Body modification: If you don't already know about home-made tattoos, the chances are you're not involved enough with the art of tattoos and the process of getting inked to do your tattoo safely at home. Nevertheless - it's good to know of the existence of home-made tattoos.
Read: Home-made tattoos
Goth hair tips - The art of back combing for unruly hair
Hair tutorials: You're dressed like Mrs Lovett from Sweeney Todd. Your dark make up is precise, right down to the eyelash. You're due to join your friends for a midnight tea party on the hill. But your hair looks like you tumbled out of bed. Good! Welcome to the art of wild and disobedient gothic hairstyling.
Read: Goth hair tips - The art of back combing for unruly hair
Gothic lolita makeup tutorial
Makeup tutorials: So, want to learn to how do cute Gothic Lolita make-up? You can use this gothic lolita look for day and night, vamping it up a little more for night time and even changing the pink lipgloss for maybe, a little red lipstick. Change it a little and make it yours.
How to love your gorgeous, goddessy belly (and other body parts)
Body image:Feeling a lack of body confidence about your belly? Feeling fat and ungoddessy? It's time to take control, from body magic rituals to creative photography and retraining your well-meaning friends. These are some body image tips you really won't have seen before...
Read: How to love your gorgeous, goddessy belly (and other body parts)
A girl's guide to cheap exercise and working out
Body: Useful exercise tips for working out. How to beef up on a budget - with DIY tips and online resources to help you exercise for cheap.
Natural beauty makeup tips
Makeup tips:With summer around the corner, natural beauty wants to come out and play. These beauty tips for natural makeup will tell you how to apply (less) makeup for a natural look. Not every girl needs to be Barbie GaGa - and not everyday. Sometimes, natural (or even no) makeup lights the way.
The good girl's guide to porn for women
Body Secrets:If you'd like to explore porn but haven't got a clue where to start without infecting your innocent eyes or poor little computer with Bad, we've concocted a Good girl's guide to porn - yes, computer-safe porn for women that isn't rubbish! Pack your rabbit, click the (mouse) button and enjoy...
Haydria perfume - Scent of a bygone era
Perfumed world: The Haydria Perfumery is a glittering, jewel-encrusted, pin-up perfumery run by a very lovely lady named, funnily enough, Haydria. She loves the pin-up lifestyle and aims to use scent to take girls back to the fifties and sixties; to the age of happy-go-lucky pastel shades and rhinestones a-go-go...
Mooky guide to (cheaply) weaning your baby
Alternative pregnancy: Weaning is something mommas-to-be often get excited about. Teaching your baby to eat foody not booby is something you can photograph and Facebook all your friends with. The reality is messier.
What exactly IS natural and organic beauty?
Alternative beauty: Manufacturers often market so-called 'organic' beauty products with synthetic formulations because what we think of as 'natural' and 'organic' isn't what appears in the dictionary...
Toxic beauty: How hidden chemicals in cosmetics can harm you
Alternative Beauty:Ever wanted to dye your hair pink? Hair salonista Anya Goy says THE most popular alternative hair colour request is for pink hair, so you're not alone. Pink hair is like the blonde hair of the alternative world. Why? Because they's both gots binga-banga-bing-bong sex appeal! We look at the whys and wherefores of pink hair and what pink hair dye says about you...
Toxic beauty: How hidden chemicals in cosmetics can harm you
Pink hair: A love affair
Alternative Beauty:Women of the developed world are obsessed with cosmetics. The average woman spends 450 days applying her make-up in a lifetime, nearly 90 percent of British women use fragrances and over 80 percent wear lipstick. Bare-faced beauty is patently not de rigueur in the 21st century. Unfortunately, with toxic chemicals in many cosmetics, our make-up obsession may be damaging our health...
Read: Pink hair: A love affair
Electro style - get the Lady Gaga look
Makeup tips: Electro diva Lady GaGa is the current queen of disco kitsch. With her human hair couture, glitter-love and pvc knickers, Lady GaGa is inspiring make-up lovers everywhere to get colour confident and take on the staple electro make-up trend – the lightning bolt.
Pregnancy symptoms - the embarrassing bits
Health: There are some good things about pregnancy - the end result, nice people letting you have their seat on buses, and partners so worried that you might explode in a gush of hormones that they do your bidding willingly. However there are some pregnancy symptoms you might not be so keen on. Read on - even if you're not up the duff, pregnancy symptoms are interesting stuff!
Mooky guide to choosing the best alternative hair colours for you
Beauty: As a professional hair stylist, Anya Goy was recently asked by a customer if Audrey Kitching's current hair colour (pink with white streaks) would suite her darker bronze skin tone. Which got her thinking... The rules for which NATURAL hair colours suite different skin tones are well established. For example, if you have fair skin and light blonde eyebrows, then black hair colour will make you look washed-out, like death warmed up (which might be the look some of you are going for). However, the rules for UN-NATURAL, alternative hair colours are unwritten. So what's a girl to do?
Mooky guide to choosing the best alternative hair colours for you
Hair tips for alternative black girls
Beauty: Let's face it. White chocolate flavours (white people) can have troubles finding the right look - we all do - but it's easier for girls with white skins to strike lucky with their alternative style. Dark chocolate flavours (black people) who are alternative have to work their subcultural style that bit harder due to their darker skin tones. We're going to look at hair - how to achieve an alternative look and still keep your beautiful hair healthy if you're a black girl.
How to wash your hair
Body: Yes, you deliciously dirty urchin. We mean you! Unless you're not washing your hair as a statement, or because you're backpacking, you have no excuse - and you'd be surprised how many people don't properly care for their hair on the utmost basic level. So here are a few of the most basicest and usefulest hair care tips of all to get you on the right track...
Morning sickness - natural remedies and cures
Holistic health: Morning sickness is one of the first signs of pregnancy and most mothers-to-be will get some form of it. Mookychick strides forth proudly to present mooky mommas with some natural remedies and cures for this blighted and unwelcome visitor.
Pregnancy symptoms - the embarrassing bits
Health: There are some good things about pregnancy - the end result, nice people letting you have their seat on buses, and partners so worried that you might explode in a gush of hormones that they do your bidding willingly. However there are some pregnancy symptoms you might not be so keen on. Read on - even if you're not up the duff, pregnancy symptoms are interesting stuff!
How to be a fun, gluten-free goddess and get away with it
Holistic Health: If you're gluten-free it means that food containing wheat, barley, and other glutinous things is out to get you like a bad horror film. If the queen of nectars no longer gently covers the food-digesting intestines of your stomach, we have the perfect guide to living on a gluten-free diet and still feeling like a fun-filled godess of foodiciousness.
How to deal with a really bad hair day
Beauty: Bad dye jobs, failed chemical straightening, split ends, damaged or fried hair... some bad hair days are worse than the everyday tragedy of 'Crap, I have to disguise my greasy locks with a ponytail/hat'. Our hair advice will see you through the truly bad times.
18th century makeup tutorial - for budding aristocrats
Make-up Tips: This Marie Antionette makeup tutorial is designed to make you look like a great big slutty princess for cheap - all pale skin, big eyes, plumped lips and flushed cheeks. With a dash of powder and paint, my child, you will be irresistable - fey, abandoned, yet with a hint of control. The future beckons... and my, it looks just like the past!
Winter lip care tips
Body and Beauty: With the harsh winter weather outdoors and high central heating indoors, even the softest of lips can soon dry out. There are plenty of cheap and free ways to take care of your lips inside and out. Just don't chew your chapped, flaky lips - it makes a skin baby will grow inside you and burst out when you least expect it. Science fact!
How to cure winter colds and flu
Body and Beauty: Could you pass Kerz a tissue? She's got flu. The good news is she ended up sat in bed looking over some old fashioned wives' tales on how to cure it and some initially dull - until you get what they're on about - scientific papers. Now she's on the mend, here are her tips and wives' tales on how to avoid cold and flu in winter...
Wake me up... How to deal with a monday morning
Body and Beauty: There are good ways and bad ways to wake up. The bad way makes the thought of leaving the nice, warm safety of your bed worse than fighting off an army of clawed chav-bears. Theses 8 tips will make sure you wake up in a good mood and stay that way.
How to apply Indian dance makeup
Alternative beauty: he makeup required for classical indian dance (temple dance) is powerful look, better suited to night than day (unless you're a brave soul and a facepaint pioneer). It's equally suitable for dark and light skins. Your new face will make princes gasp as you dance by moonlight.
Make a heart-shaped massage bar to show your love
Beauty: Well 'tis the season to be jolly, if one has gone over the overdraft in this consumer-fest formally known as Christmas, and is also the season of giving. So why not give something you've lovingly handcrafted yourself? It'll save both bank balance and planet if we grab our whisks and create a decadent potion which will make the grateful recipient feel a zillion dollars (but only costing a few of your finest English sterling).
Moisturize spots away with baby bottom butter
Beauty: There are acne-flavoured product brands out there that promise visibly clearer skin in 3 days, and the prevention of spots. They don't always work. People are often told they need to moisturise to help acne go away, but creams often make skin greasy and actually seem to develop spots. Until...
How to make your own lavender moisturizer
Beauty: Poison potion alert! Ever read the ingredients on an average bottle of shampoo or face cream? Would your skin really benefit from being plastered in petrochemical slime and preservatives? And what about the environmental consequences of those toxic products going down your plughole? Your 'nice' herbal product could actually be a mini chemical weapon - so make your own version instead!
Satellite 3 - Unearthly cosmetics for Nu Skool spacegirls
Beauty: In a brave new age where cosmetics are serious business, Satellite 3 make-up is a high quality but still playful make-up brand that's stocked in places like Cyberdog. Lippies disguised as recyclable rocket ships? Mookychick finds out more.
The ancient art of mehndi (henna tattoos)
Beauty: Sumptuous and exotic, mehndi, more commonly known as henna, is the use of crushed henna plants to draw designs onto the body in intricate patterns that last two to three weeks but have been applied for centuries and promise the eternal. Henna is a great way to look outside western boundaries and add exotic flavour to your style.
Gothic eye makeup - for all
Beauty: When most people think of goth eye make-up they usually imagine thick, black lines around the eye, and panda-like dark eyeshadow. (Er, guilty...) Whilst this is a tried-and-true goth look, if you look around at your friendly neighbourhood goths you'll see swirls, glitter, and even - gasp! - colour. Many goth girls and guys like to get creative with makeup, and 'dramatic' is the word to remember. PS. - with this makeup this gorgeous, non-goths are also allowed!
Epilator deathmatch round 2 - the triple disc challenge
Beauty: Remember our initial epilator deathmatch? Well, we've got a new kid on the block - the Panasonic wet/dry epilator. Witness its triple spin discs of death, danger and desire (that's death to hair, danger to any hair thinking of growing out of your hairy body, and desire for less body hair). Hurrah!
Simple eyes for contemporary styles
Beauty: A girl's best friend may well be a large bin full of rainbow eye shadows, eyeliners, lipsticks, mascara and fake eyelashes. However, do we need to look like an electroclash princess every time we go out? Here's a simple contemporary look that speaks volumes and is perfect from morning to night.
Beauty Top Gear Challenge: Test-driving mineral cosmetics
Beauty: Dispel all thoughts of Jeremy Clarkson in drag. Our intrepid Mookychick beauty contributor was sent a host of Care Free Beauty samples with the provisor she test-drive them to hell and back. Char got behind the beauty wheel and gave them a thorough seeing-to - from the nice lippy and eyeshadow to the bronzer which stole her heart and eloped with her to sunny Mexico...
How to make your own lavender moisturizer
Beauty: Poison potion alert! Ever read the ingredients on an average bottle of shampoo or face cream? Do those long chemical names sound healthy? Would your skin really benefit from being plastered in petrochemical slime and preservatives? And what about the environmental consequences of those toxic products going down your plughole? Once you've recovered from the shock that your 'nice' herbal product is actually a mini chemical weapon, learn how to make your own natural version instead. It's as easy and fun as making a cake - and empowering, too!
How to eat fruit. The sexy way.
Body: Eating fruit for your 5 a day is a soulless way to go about filling your body with beauty. It's much nicer to eat fruit as a meditation on how wonderful, sticky and enriching life can be. Use sight, smell, touch and taste to turn eating fruit into something rather extraordinarily beautiful. Today, yes, fruit. Tomorrow... the world.
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?
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...
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.
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