Category: Fashion & Beauty

In the 20s and 30s it was considered a little “extreme” to paint your entire fingernail. The “moon” manicure or reverse French Manicure was far more common. Often with the tip of the nail also left unpainted. For the past…

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Busy, busy, busy. Like a bee, bee like, actually. That’s me right now. See. (Not too busy to spend time cutting out my head and sticking it on Clip Art of bees, though, oh no) Over the last few weeks…

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No vintage look is complete without a proper hair do. For years I’d admired elaborate rolled hair dos, curls and fingerwaves, but remained totally convinced (with good reason after years of half hearted experimentation) that the most I could expect…

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After being boiling hot for weeks this sudden cool comes as a bit of a shock. It is, of course, actually still quite warm out there, classic British Summer weather in fact, but after the heat and humidity of the…

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This weekend, as you may have heard me mention, was the weekend of the Chap Olympiad. On Saturday 17th July the ranks of the fabulously dressed descended on Bedford Square Gardens in Bloomsbury with well stocked picnic baskets to view…

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