How to tips:
How to move in with a partner for the 1st time
Co-habiting tips: If you're moving in with your boyfriend/girlfriend for the first time, sharing a bed, decorating tastes and other housemates can be daunting. These bijou co-habiting tips may help.
How to celebrate St Patrick's Day mook-style
St Patrick's Day: Never mind binge drinking & silly hats on March 17. Here are 10 mooky ways to celebrate the Day o' the Irish, from baking green goodies to having a potato party.
How to get work at festivals
Summer jobs: There's nothing like planning ahead. If you're a festival junky who needs their fix but can't afford the tix, our guide to volunteering at festivals will get you into your favourite festivals for free.
Peter's guide to British garden birds
How-to guides: Truth is not facts. Truth is BEAUTY! The editor-at-large of Nuts magazine for boys gives us beautiful truths about British garden birds while feeding a seagull tenderly.
How to help an injured animal
Animal care: Would you help an injured animal? Would you stop and lend a paw? Would you know what to do, and where to go to for help? Our tips on how to help an injured animal (road accident, you name it) could save a pet's life.
How to build self-confidence
How to build self-confidence: Our confidence building tips include becoming more confident through assertiveness and observation - and learning how to overcome shyness and handle difficult people or situations.
Cupcake tea party ideas
Tea party ideas: Cupcakes are as cool as they are cuplike, so why not enjoy them with your friends at a little cupcake tea party? Yes, this really is as cute as it sounds!
10 Money saving tips for students
Money saving tips: When living on a student loan alone, even those of us who are normally good with money can struggle to cope with the financial demands of being a student. These 10 money saving tips are written for students by a student...
Victorian Christmas parlour games
Victorian Christmas games: The Victorians made Christmas a festival for the family and children, and any gathering was a good excuse to play parlour games. Our guide to Victorian Christmas parlour games should keep your clan educated and entertained.
Victorian Christmas traditions
Victorian Christmas: Christmas as we celebrate it today (tree, carols, cards, presents, pudding) has its roots in Victorian Britain - even Charles Dickens got involved in shaping our celebration of Christmas. Doesn't he just get everywhere?
How to be a drummer grrl
How to guides: It's hard to understand why females are such a minority in the drum world. Bevin from The Valentinos tells you how to pick up the sticks and learn the fine art of drumming.
How to be happier in yourself
Empowerment: Feel tired? Dull? Bored? Generally "meh"? Here are 5 simple ways to improve your lifestyle in a way that will make you and your body happier and more productive.
How to have a 'Winter' clean
How to guides: Don your maid outfit and clear out your bedroom clutter BEFORE Spring with our Winter Clean guide.
How to celebrate your unbirthday
How to guides: How to have yourself a Very Merry Unbirthday Party! Lewis Carroll coined the idea of an unbirthday in 'Through the Looking Glass', but if your birthday falls on a 'taken' day like Christmas then an unbirthday party might be the very thing...
Letter writing and penpals
Penpals: Letter writing is an art form that one should encourage to stay alive. From making gothic lolita penpals to creating your own scented ink and sealing wax, we show how how to explore letter writing as both an ancient medium... And arts and crafts.
How to survive an earthquake
How to tips: If there's anything a girl worth her salt should know it's how to survive an earthquake. As if we need to tell you that. Our earthquake survival tips will help you survive anything from Gojira encounters to shifting tectonic plates!
How to have a burlesque party
How to tips: An exhibitionist with a fetish for feathers? Have a burlesque party on the cheap. Glamorously decadent burlesque costumes and lifestyle needn't cost a string of pearls...
How to start your own country
How to tips: It's actually rather easy to start on your own country - and in such a way that the Government won't raid your house just because you used your arts and crafts skills to make your friends a few passports. Here's zigackly how to start your own country - just for funsies!
The Mookychick back to school guide
How to tips: As you stoically stare at the enormous pile of brand new books and stationery on your desk, ask yourself: "How am I going to survive this academic year?" Our school guide advises you on how to survive this school or university term without a single scratch or trauma.
Guide to resistin' radical cheerleading
How to tips: Girl or boy, shouty or dancey, Eco-activist or couch revolutionary, let your political pom-poms FLY... With Radical cheerleading. It's a fun, fun way to get your voice heard.
Vegan and Vegetarian sandwiches - a feast between 2 crusts
How to tips: Having worked in a speciality sandwich shop for three years, Emmanuelle Friday knows an exciting sandwich when she sees or eats one. Now toss that boring ham-and-Swiss in the trash and give that PB&J to your kid brother, because some new ingredients just rode into town!
10 Tips for surviving a boozy camp-out
How to tips: Got something to celebrate? A good camp out is the way to go. Well, it can be. If you don't get eaten by horses. Chased by farmers. Chased by police. Chased by the sleeping bag buddy you just puked on. Face it, there are many things that could so easily go wrong, even in your backyard. Especially in your back yard...
How to make a bivouac
How to tips: Normally if you camp out in the woods you're doing it on purpose and you've got a tent. On a rare occasion you may have got horribly lost in a wood and are camping out entirely by accident - in which case it'll be nice for you to know how to make a bivouac, or makeshift shelter.
Make every day pancake day with 4 new mooky pancake recipes
How to tips: Pancakes are delicious and that's that. Here are 4 new recipes: Bunny pancake, asian pancake, savoury pancake and autumn pancake. Now go make your own.
How to have a picnic
How to tips: We show you how to have a picnic in a park, in the rain, in your mate's house and in a pub. Oh, we show you how to have a picnic, all right! The best picnic there EVER was!
How to survive a robot uprising
How to tips: When the uprising comes, the first wave of hostile robots may be those closest to us. Be careful - your rosy-cheeked young servant robot may have become a sullen, distrustful killing machine.
8 Tips for surviving your first Anime convention
How to tips: Whether it's marvelling at Alucard the vampire politely ordering a sandwich, sewing a Magic Knight Rayearth outfit in two days or making friends in the longest queues known to man, your first anime convention holds unspeakable joys...
How to survive a power cut
How to tips: There's nothing like a good old power cut to remind you just how dependent on technology you really are. How do you survive after the exciting first hour ("Look! If I put a torch under my face, hilarious faces ensue!")? Let Mookychick 'illuminate' you...
5 Ways to brighten your day
How to tips: Everyone has those days that go from good to average; average to crappy; and crappy to downright miserable. Here are 5 ways to make those days better.
Comic opera!
Culture: And now for the third and final act of the opera series... Comic opera. And who better to tease, titillate and spread hedonistic mirth than wildboy composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
How to use (and buy) funky festival tents
How to tips: There is nothing better than camping at a festival, even if you claim you don't like mud and stink. Most festivals have clever eco-showers anyway, and mud makes you grow roots, lady! Here are some of our favourite funky festival tents for 2009 - and tips on how to get the best festival spots for your tent.
Read this article: How to use (and buy) funky festival tents
How to do a striptease
How to tips: A really nice mooky striptease, that is. From mood-setting and learning classic striptease moves to choosing the ideal music and outfit, we show you how to do a striptease of truly mooky quality. We also show you how not to do one. Surprise your lover, cat, tolerant best friend or yourself right now.
Read this article: How to do a striptease
How to drink Real Ale like a Real Boy
How to tips: The Campaign for Real Ale - it's not just about old men and boys with beards. It's about having much less of a hangover in the morning. It's about national heritage, consumer rights... oh, and a 4,000 year old Sumerian glamour goddess who invented beer, called Ninkasi...
Read this article: How to drink Real Ale like a Real Boy
How to appreciate Polish vodka
How to tips: We could just give you a couple of vodka recipes - but that would be deathly dull. Instead we'll make vodka interesting with tales of medieval drinking laws and communist Poland. Better Red than Dead! Hurrah! Na zdrovie!
Read this article: How to appreciate Polish vodka
Beginner's guide to tragic opera
How to tips: Tragic opera is a feast of morbid blood-letting passion in which half the cast will be dead by intermission. Pick up the high points of Tosca and Salome... two grandly tragic operas that make Brothers Grimm appear no more fantastical than Burger King.
How to enjoy opera
How to tips: Ask the man (or woman) on the street what they think of opera. Go on, do it. What did he (or she) say? Something about fat, screeching ladies in horned helmets, right? Well, that's partially true - Wagner's Ring Cycle did feature horned valkyries. But there's far more to opera - think murder, True Love, magic, mistaken identity, abduction, rebellion, vendettas and sex. Think passion.
How to pass yourself off as a Parisienne
How to tips: It may be a fallacy that Parisians drink and smoke all the time, wear timeless classics, hang around in cafes and graveyards and always look existentially bored. Weirdly, adopting these stereotypical traits will actually make them talk to you in French...
Read this article: How to pass yourself off as a Parisienne
How to appreciate Polish vodka
How to tips: We could just give you a couple of vodka recipes - but that would be deathly dull. Instead we'll make vodka interesting with tales of medieval drinking laws and communist Poland. Better Red than Dead! Hurrah! Na zdrovie!
Read this article: How to appreciate Polish vodka
How to become a face painter
How to tips: Parma Violent walked in off the street and got a job as a face painter. From brushes to skin conditions to creativity and face painting community links, she shows you how to become a face painter too.
Read this article: How to become a face painter
How to host your own music festival
How to tips: Summer is rapidly approaching and while there are many great music festivals that you could go to, why not be a little more adventurous and try running a music festival of your own?
Read this article: How to host your own music festival
Student drinking games: How to play Ring of Fire
How to tips: Student drinking games are more fun than a chav on Question Time. If you are student who's looking for a way to consume even more alcohol, Rhi has tried and tested a splendidly ominous card-based drinking game: 'Ring of Fire'.
Read this article: Student drinking games: How to play Ring of Fire
How to celebrate spring with a hanami party
How to tips: As spring approaches, winter snows are being replaced by sakura (cherry tree) showers of faint pink to magenta. The arrival of warmer weather coinciding with the blossoming of cherry trees has always been a lovely excuse to have an official flower viewing, otherwise known as a hanami party! So, fellow mooks, let us go forth and have hanami!
Read this article: How to celebrate spring with a hanami party
Victorian slang - a guide to sexual terms
How to tips: Victorian slang is littered with weird and wonderful references to hanky-panky, and our charmingly filthy how-to guide for sexual victorian slang is guaranteed to make your boyfriend/girlfriend blush. Are your twiddle-diddles boiling over at the thought? Then it's time to dust off your Victorian lingo and visit the Abbess for directions to Cock Lane...
Unusual baby names - A Mookychick Guide
How to tips: Researching unusual baby names? We'll help you choose a unique, or at least unusual, or at least attractive baby name. Vampire baby names, elvish baby names, Wiccan baby names, Goth baby names... you name it. Be warned though. Like pets, naming a baby isn't just for Christmas - it's for life.
How to get Victorian Style
How to tips: Plague rats and mad girls trapped in Victorian asylums... Such is the world of victoriandustrial fashion. Become a wayward mistress of industrial Victorian style and rise to the ranks of Emilie Autumn, Hannah Fury, and other wayward Victorian girls...
10 More ways to survive art college
How to tips: Never in your life will you meet a larger collection of people with similar tastes, interests and perspectives to your fine self. Not only that, but these people will bring certain other tastes, interests and perspectives with them. So keep an open mind, a smile on your face and let the learning begin.
How to live like an 18th Century aristocrat
How-to Guides: The 21st Century getting you down? Would life be better in an age where big hair was de rigeur and you could wear fake beauty spots and get away with it? Our fast-and-loose guidelines to living like an 18th Century aristocrat will be of more use to you than a trained and lightly scented macaw.
How to choose your perfect pet (and name them)
How to tips: Vanessa Gray has thought long and hard about buying a puppy. She'll buy it when her money tin fills up with enough spare change. That should be just about enough time to think of a name, then...
Get DIY: Start your own indie business!
How to tips: Anyone with talent and a desire to live independently should strive to be their own boss when it comes to setting up their own indie business. However, not everyone is cut out to be a self-starter, and there are a few questions one must ask before determining if this is the right move for you.
How to go fossil hunting
How to tips: Hunting for fossils has a slightly greater chance of success than hunting the Snark, and as for putting in hours in the wet mud and coming back with nothing? Any fan of the Red Sox knows it's the thrill of participation not victory that counts.
Get DIY: Start your own indie business!
How to tips: Anyone with talent and a desire to live independently should strive to be their own boss when it comes to setting up their own indie business. However, not everyone is cut out to be a self-starter, and there are a few questions one must ask before determining if this is the right move for you.
10 Ways to survive art school
How to tips: If you're brave/crazy enough to be a professional freak, art school may be for you. Artists and designers essentially rule the world. Every object in your environment was invented or redesigned by someone. However, a key to being taken seriously in art and design is being able to endure art school boot camp. Quite different from your standard college or university, art school requires a whole new set of coping mechanisms...
How to come of age
How to tips: Growing up is hard to do. A tidal wave of angst, embarrassment and unrequited love often leave you locked in your room wailing to Sinead O'Connor. But if you've ever seen a coming-of-age classic like The Breakfast Club you'll know that life doesn't have to be like that. And with our 5 easy steps, you too can experience a coming of age that is passionate, eventful and Oscar-nominated..."
Top ways to stand out in the crowd
How to tips: A message from Ruby Mae James: "Oops! Sorry, I didn't see you there. Feel like you are invisible? No one ever notices you? Might as well not exist? Well, if there is one thing I know how to do, it's how to make a prat of myself in public. Get ready for attention with this quick guide on how to get noticed. Just ignore the pointing and laughing; it's all part of the joy."
Nearly 10 things that aren't really that cool
How to tips: Sometimes, things just aren't what they seem. Great ideas don't always have the fantastic results you were thinking of. Life's a bitch, and Morgane Dale suggests a few things you might want to miss out on...
How to be a sex goddess
How to tips: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me". Vamp screen icon Tallulah Bankhead was a sex goddess with bite, and she even managed to keep her clothes on. Most of the time. With some nips and tucks to your attitude, rather your body, you too can be a bona fide sex goddess.
How to be a ninja
Pirates vs ninjas: Ninjas were the dark side of the samurai. A ninja's unearthly skills and mercenary code allowed them to perform feats that went directly against a samurai's bushido code of honour - but would conveniently win a battle or a war. Trained from youth to withstand pain and dislocate their own joints, create gunpowder from secret recipes, and oh, a host of other things - learn of the real ninjas of medieval Japan.
How to be a pirate
Pirates vs ninjas: Leaving aside their bitter rivals the zombies, robots and monkeys (for the moment), Mookychick will attempt to answer the age-old question - pirates or ninjas? This week, Deborah Taylor (scourge of the seven seas and owner of a genuine hip flask filled with rum) will discuss the magnificent nature of one of the finest creatures known to man - the less-than-humble pirate.
How to be a punk
How to tips: Punk is as relevant today as it was when it first rose up and people like Iggy and Siouxsie had no idea what they were doing, only that it felt right. It's pro-intelligence and anti-apathy, and that's why we like it. Here is the Mookychick guide to how to be a punk. Hey. Ho. Let's go. Oi oi!
How to make a pirate ship cake
How to tips: When Mookychick discovered the lovely Ericka knew how to make a pirate ship cake (both dairy and vegan versions) we just about went mental. Nothing else mattered. Let's drop everything, stop wasting our lives and make pirate ship cakes IMMEDIATELY.
DIY Burlesque queen - how to make your own burlesque nipple tassles!
How to tips: Nipple tassels (aka "pasties") are the ace up a burlesque dancer's proverbial sleeve as she turns her back to the audience to remove her bra and reveal she's topless... but not quite.Nipple tassles are the perfect way to end a sexy burlesque tease or to complete an outfit. Even better, you can make them yourself!
How to look good on the dancefloor
How to tips: It's Saturday night, the party's on, you've got your best high heels and you're pumped full of confidence for the night ahead. Except... uh-oh. The dance floor. Whether you're a smooth shaker or a diva of disaster, these simple rules will ensure you lose your dancing inhibitions, not your dignity.
A Roller Derby Widow's Guide to the Grief Process
How to tips: So, fellas, and some lucky ladies, your partner has joined the rollergirl derby? And now you sit in a house full of sexy hosiery, alone, wondering when you will see your partner again...
How to start a crazy project and take over the world
How to tips: Crazy Projects have become almost the norm lately. What with any number of small-time, local projects - where people don't use electricity, or sign a pledge not to buy anything unnecessary for a year - it's almost as if everyone but you has a crazy project going on. Here's how to start your own!
How to throw a tea party!
How to tips: Every girl, whether a natural-born tomboy or not, has at one point wished deep in their heart and soul that they could participate in a classic tea party! With all the charming good manners, frills, fluff and glitter that they've heard of on television or in books! So here's how to have one!
How to decorate your room for a black light party
Throwing a themed party? Or want to turn your room/toilet into an unearthly glowing dream? The Mookychicks give you the lowdown on decorating your room so it glows under a UV black light. It will be... different. Replace cosy comfort with the Mariana trench - turn your room into a black light wonderland!
10 Top tips for surviving Summernats car festival
Summernats car festival in Australia is extreme twice over: it's a man's world of cars, cars cars... and it's a festival, with all the craziness a festival has to offer. Larissa has been to one and survived. Now you can, too.
10 Top Tips for surviving Rollergirl obssession
Skating, bonding, bruising and super-slut fashion are all part of what it means to be a rollergirl, and it's an obssession you pay for... in sweat. Read Hope 'n' Gory's 10 top tips for surviving a crash-course in becoming a rollergirl.
How to help the homeless at Christmas
Christmas consumerism can be lovely when kept in its place, but if you're yearning to do something different this year, one option might be to help the homeless as well as your family, friends and self. Giving homeless people a nice Christmas might be easier than you think...
How to decorate for Christmas on the cheap
No-one keeps their house festively decorated all year round, not even you, but sometimes you's gots to impress a special guest with minutes to spare and no cash to hand. These quick tips will help you make your place look, smell and sound Christmassy on the cheap.
How to catch and keep a fairy lover
Popular culture has only recently admitted that male fairies are not only fickle and dangerous but also outrageously good-looking. Read our 10 top tips on catching and keeping a fairy lover...
The Mooky guide to jazz-age slang
Language changes all the time, but the late 1920s and 1930s were a period of music, poverty, alcohol and sexual freedom - creative, dangerous times. And oh boy, did the slang move around a little! Grab some moxy, add a little jazz age colour to your life, and everything'll be just peachy keen...
10 Ways to get really great at scare-acting
Scare-acting is one of the more unusual jobs out there - you'll find scare actors in theme parks, 'haunted house' visitor attractions - anywhere where there might be a need for a vampire or werewolf to jump out at a punter and scare them sideways. The lovely and non-scary Wendy Withers gives you 10 tips on how to be really effective at scare-acting. Eek.
How to make a vegan christmas dinner
How to tips: Despite popular belief, vegans eat more than tree bark and lentils at Christmas. As a girl who'll never use veganism as an excuse to get healthy, it's my duty to let the rest of you in on my delicious, pastry-ish/sugary/creamy/boozy/chocolatey vegan yuletide fayre, adapted from the Vegan Family and Rose Eliot cookery books.
10 Ways to survive emo heckling
If you've got a lip-piercing and a curtain of hair some crazy people will automatically think you cut yourself. Or sing songs about how numb/full of feeling you are. That is, they will call you an emo kid. Jazz Croft tells you how to deal with this if/when it happens to you...
Get organised, woman! (or man)
How to tips: Does your house or bedroom look and feel like it's been hit by a bomb? can't find your favourite pair of stockings amongst your books and CDs? Do you wonder why the wash pile is moving, only to discover it's the cat you haven't seen for days? It's time to sort it out. Hey! Ho! Let's go!
10 Tips for going to your first Convention
Whether it's a tattoo, fetish, comics or classic sci-fi convention, the rules are always the same: save money on food/hotels so you can spend it on the things that really matter, dress up if you dare and aim to get as much out of the Con as possible. Wendy Withers narrows it down...
How to make the world a better place
From planting flowers and buying food for strangers to giving a boyf a surprise bj, there are 101 gajillion ways to be a happy emo and make this world a better place. Amanda Prouten (the big tease) is going to give you 12 of them.
How to hunt in vintage stores and charity shops
Charity shops, or vintage stores, can be a strange-smelling world of ugly support girdles or an Ali Baba cave of brooches and die-for one-offs. Anna Blackaby tells you how to turn the mysterious forces that govern charity shops into your ally, not your enemy.
How to hunt in vintage stores and charity shops... and make a successful kill
How to survive Valentine's Day
Debbie Read points out that Valentine's Day (a) is a satan-spawned commercial moneyhole, (b) is a way for cheapskate loved ones to get out of pampering you every day of your life, the way you so richly deserve, rather than just once a year. But it's still rather cute. Even if you're single.
10 Ways to survive being an alternative student
Alternative students may feel stranded and freakish if college feels alien to them. If you're a corset-wearing goth rather than a guitar/bong indie kid, you can flourish in college and still remain true to your own bitchin' alternative self.
How to choose your perfect pet (and name them)
How to tips: Vanessa Gray has thought long and hard about buying a puppy. She'll buy it when her money tin fills up with enough spare change. That should be just about enough time to think of a name, then...
10 Ways to deal with a nasty break-up
Things seem to be going well in your relationship then all of a sudden you're told that 'it's just not working'. You're left with nothing but a head full of now unwanted memories. Holly-Rae Smith says it's time to take matters into your own hands...
10 Ways to survive your twenties
Keep a blog, knit, write a book, question your sexuality, start a band and don't think about being thirty ... Kaite Welsh gives you some top tips for surviving your twenties with style.
Halloween - a goth survival guide
How to tips: Halloween - the best night of the year for ninety-nine point nine per cent of the goth population. But, like anything else, it has its pitfalls. Here are the pros and cons of Halloween - and how to make the most of your fave event.
Learn how to go dumpster diving!
The DIY ethic is an anti-consumerist stance that says you don't have to buy to get what you need. Dumpster diving is a legal, easy and much-fun way to start rejecting consumer sensibilities.
10 Top Tips to Survive College
University and college will rarely prepare you for a job, but will teach you how to enjoy yourself and form opinions of your own. They are rewarding if you play by your rules, not the university's...
10 Ways to cheat at pool
Let's be straight - you couldn't use these tactics if you were hustling, say, Paul Newman, but in a friendly hook-up in a poolhall or bar all these techniques are 100% valid. Especially if you have half an eye on your opponent.
10 Ways to survive a festival
Mookygirls love a good, loud, screamy festival occasionally. This festival survival guide will make sure you come out the other side with fond memories, rather than head injuries and STDs.
10 Ways to survive australian men
Aussie men are pretty much from the same pot as other XY specimens, except they have a bit more sand down their pants. Amber McGown-Rules explains how to survive the malleable boythings that are aussie menfolk, and get azactly what you want from them...
20 Ways to survive the London Underground
Whether the problem is bombs, crazy bastards or boredom, our guide to 20 ways to survive an underground journey will remove your underground train phobias for ever.
20 Ways to survive a hangover
For everyone who has woken up in the bath half-dressed and clutching someone else's shoe, here's the real and definitive way to survive a hangover.
10 Ways to survive the UK hooded top ban
You've all heard about the bad press that hoodies have got in the UK, with the government wanting to ban hoodies because they hide the faces of naughty criminal types on CCTV cameras. Let's beat the ban!
Have yourself a mooky little Christmas...
How to tips: From not drinking reindeer wee to not eating pretty little salt dough decorations, here are nearly a million and one ways to have a funky, punky, mooky little christmas. Mwah!
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