Category: Fashion & Beauty
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Fashion Targets Breast Cancer #fashionfriday
Fashion Targets Breast Cancer have declared today #fashionfriday Back at the beginning of March I got an email asking me to be part of the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign by popping into their studios to film a piece to camera about what fashion means to me, or filming my own. Now, living in Norwich…
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What Are You Wearing? Perfect for Spring
Getting Dressed in Spring can be astonishingly complicated. It might *look* sunny out of that window, but for all you know it’s actually freezing cold, and just because it’s warm at lunch time doesn’t mean that 5pm won’t greet you with torrential downpours. Well, this is more or less my archetypal spring outfit. A lightweight…
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Retro Chick Reviews – Rockalily Lipstick Roulette Red
I know, another lipstick review so soon after the last. I don’t want you to get sick of them, but I’ve been waiting to review this particular lipstick for some time, and now I’ve got my mitts on a tube I couldn’t wait! Today I shall be reviewing Rockalily Lipstick in Roulette Red, priced at…
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Style Snapshot – Penny Dreadful Vintage
I’d had Penny Dreadful on my blog list for some time before I met her in person. It was last October at The Hendricks Gin Horseless Carriage of curiosities. When I noticed we were wearing the same shoes I knew I’d obviously met a girl after my own heart. The Penny Dreadful blog is now…
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Sunshine & Frilly Frocks
Did you see it?! There was definite sunshine over the weekend! In fact last week temperatures in Norwich were around the 20 degrees mark, so I pulled out my new summer frock. It’s a 1940s pinafore with frilly sleeve trims and rick rack on the bodice and pockets. I’ve wanted a dress this style for…
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Retro Chick Reviews- Natural Collection Cherry Red Lipstick
Another red lipstick review for you…. Lets start with the wonderful chart. I’ve been trying to alternate between the pricier and cheaper ends of the scale. This time round I have a lipstick that was recommended to me by a few people on Twitter. It’s down at the cheapy end. Natural Collection Moisture Shine lipstick…
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Lounging – Vintage Style
I’m not feeling particularly inspired or glamorous right now. This isn’t my place for wallowing or whining (well, not always) but with everything that’s going on in my life at the moment I’m finding it difficult to keep up with replying to my emails, let alone feeling inspired to write about lovely glamorous things every…
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*Swoon* Miss L Fire Lucite Bags
Lucite is a tough plastic, developed in the 1930s, that became popular for handbags in the 1950s. The hard plastic could be made into a variety of exciting shapes and colours and in the optimistic 50s they were a popular choice and far more affordable than leather and fabric bags for middle class women. Perfect…
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Retro Chick Goes SHOPPING!
Oooh, look at me posting at 4pm in the afternoon. I haven’t done that for years. Well, that’s because this is a frivolous post. This morning I gave myself a morning off to go shopping. I trawled the Charity Shops of Banbury, and pretty much came up a blank, half of them were almost completely…