Category: Fashion & Beauty
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What Are You Wearing? Feeling Fifties.
Still struggling with January, but sometimes making the effort to get dressed properly really helps with those January blues. Working from home the temptation when it’s cold and miserable is to spend the whole day in your most comfy clothes, or worse, pyjamas. It’s fun at first, but after a while it’s a sure fire…
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Friday Frock Love: January Blues
I confess I’m finding this January even harder than usual. Probably being ill over Christmas and New Year has stolen the normal bounce from my step and I feel a little like there’s nothing to look forward to. I’m poorly motivated and drained of ideas and I feel a little adrift. I should be organising…
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Retro Chick Reviews: A Girls Guide to Vintage
Remember Christmas? It was about a year ago? Well, when I ran my Christmas Giveaway it included a copy of A Girl’s Guide to Vintage by Lynne McCrossan and I promised to review to for you, so here it is! I got another vintage shopping book for Christmas, which I will also review in due…
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Lingerie Love – Deco Styles from Rigby & Peller
Rigby and Peller have produced retro inspired lingerie before for their 70th Anniversary. But for their Spring Summer 2011 collection they’ve gone and produced some lingerie with lovely arty deco detailing, and some beautiful 20s inspired photography to go with it. It’s nice that the photography is so gorgeous, as I think we all know…
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What Are You Wearing? New Hair and New Trousers
I’ve been trying to perfect faux bangs for some time. I gave them a go back in May last year for a Bladerunner inspired hair do, but while they looked good in the pictures I found that by the end of the evening my fine hair meant that the rat underneath started to show through.…
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Retro Chick Style Icon: Nigella Lawson
I LOVE Nigella Lawson. And frankly she’s long overdue for adding to the ranks of the Retro Chick style icons. She’s on my mind at the moment as I just used some Amazon vouchers to buy her new book, though I’m not sure how happily that will sit with yesterdays avowed resolution to lose weight.…
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Retro Chick Reviews: Besame Red Lipstick (+ Giveaways!)
In my eternal hunt for the perfect red lipstick I have decided to help you out by reviewing some. I start with my new favourite Besame Classic Colour Lipstick courtesy of the wonderful What Katie Did. If you read to the end I also have an exciting giveaway of not one but TEN brand new…
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What Are You Wearing? Aloha!
Ok, so everyone’s back to work and New Years Eve seems like a million years away. I thought I’d allow myself a few more days to try and shake off this hideous sinus killing cold thing before I came back to work proper. It’s still hanging around, but I thought I better somehow find the…
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What Are You Wearing? The Festive Edition.
I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas? The Retro Chick household has unfortunately been hit by the dreaded lurgy which we’re now trying to shake off in time for New Years Eve. On Christmas Day we still felt rather spoilt in the present department and had a lovely lunch at Cafe Rouge (no washing…