Your hair style needs a revamp every couple of years, even if it’s just a tweak rather than a total change, or you’re at risk of getting into a rut.

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Not sure about how to apply makeup? Or stuck in a rut? Practice is the key to perfection.

Until recently it hadn’t occurred to me to practise applying makeup. It seemed a tad self-indulgent at my age, if not plain silly. After all, I’d been wearing makeup for 30-odd years, hadn’t I? I knew what suited me, didn’t I?

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Exercises for your face - and yes, they really do work.

I said yesterday that I’d write about facial exercises, so here goes.

I’ve only really tried one method, which is Facercise by Carole Maggio. I chose this because it got very good write-ups on Amazon, which was more than could be said for some of the other methods that are out there, such as Eva Fraser’s system.

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We all want to have healthy-looking skin. Here are 10 easy ways to go about it.

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Culling your useless clothes can be a satisfying experience - here’s how to do it.

In Part 1 of this article I looked at how to work out which clothes you’re actually wearing. Your clothes have now had a month to prove their usefulness and it should be pretty apparent which ones you’re NOT wearing, so we’ll now look at these.

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Find out the clothes that are really working for you - and discard the rest.

Which clothes in your wardrobe are you actually wearing? According to professional wardrobe organisers, the answer is surprisingly few - about 20 per cent. The remaining 80 per cent of our clothes hang there untouched.

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Once you hit your 40s and above, you’ll really benefit if you learn how to use concealer. (more…)

Haven’t written for about 10 days as we were on holiday in Brittany last week.

It was amazingly beautiful, but not really SecondCherry territory, in that there were very few opportunities to play dress-up. (more…)

Women are classified as petite if they’re 5ft 4in or less. Well, that must make me a midget since I top out at just about 5ft one-and-a-half (don’t forget that crucial half).

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To be serious for a moment…

My mother died in April. (more…)