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Lip smackingly good lipstick!
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
by Hilda
My late mother-in-law would not come downstairs without first applying her lipstick. She always said she did not feel dressed without it. I am far lazier, but I see the difference that the right shade of lipstick makes to my face. And the older I get, the more I seem to need it and the
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Anti-Ageing Tips
Tuesday, 09 August 2016
by Hilda
Here I am at five o clock in the morning writing my next post. Usually I sleep well and long. In fact most nights I get eight or nine hours sleep. Maybe it was the heat last night, but having tossed and turned since three, I eventually decided to get up. It is ironic
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acupuncture, anti-ageing, collagen, creams, hydration, no7, skin, supplements, wrinkles
Putting my best FOOT forward
Tuesday, 02 August 2016
by Hilda
Those of you who are regular readers know that my feet are not my best asset and shoe shopping can be a nightmare. I squeezed my not so dainty feet into shoes that were too tight and too high for more years than I care to remember. And now I pay the price with feet
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Yes we can wear stripes!
Tuesday, 26 July 2016
by Hilda
I have a penchant for stripes; maybe I was a zebra in a different life. I particularly like dresses with stripes and am not averse to wearing them horizontally either. The dress below is not new, but I still wear it a few times every summer because it is so comfortable. The material is
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Ageless Beauty…Make-Up class
Tuesday, 19 July 2016
by Hilda
I am the first to admit that I am not good with make-up. Usually it takes me three or four minutes to slap on a bit of foundation, eye-liner, and lipstick. Obviously, I spend more time if I am going out to dinner or going somewhere important, if you follow my drift. Then I add
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Summer style dilemmas
Friday, 03 June 2016
by Hilda
I find it very difficult to buy clothes for Irish summers. Do any of you feel the same way? First of all, we never know what kind of summer we are going to get and, secondly, I am past the age when I want to bare too much flesh. I prefer any of the other
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Foot in Mouth?
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
by Hilda
It is just as well that GG (aka Gorgeous Graham) doesn’t have a foot fetish, because my feet are sadly lacking in the beauty stakes. Do any of you remember the photos published in papers way back in 1992 of Sarah Ferguson having her toes sucked by her lover? It caused a bit of a
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Guest writer Geraldine gives food for thought
Saturday, 07 May 2016
by Hilda
[fusion_text] I always feel good when I have been to see Geraldine, for two reasons. First of all, my hair always looks a hundred times better when I am leaving (yes, she is my hairdresser) and secondly, we have a laugh. We share common interests in alternative therapies, health and fitness and writing. As well
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Boutique shopping in Malahide.
Thursday, 21 April 2016
by Hilda
‘Paula’s’, formerly known as Elle B2, is more than a boutique. It is a meeting place, a coffee shop without the coffee, a confessional. While I was there, regulars were dropping in for a chat. Others were browsing; one regular was asking Paula to help choose a dress to go with a jacket from last
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Shoulder of mutton not dressed as lamb!
Monday, 28 March 2016
by Hilda
I like my shoulders. As shoulders go they are pretty good. There are two of them, they are smooth and so far unlike other parts of my body (my knees obviously) they haven’t started to sag! So I was delighted to see that shoulders had become a bit of a thing in the fashion world
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Orange crush
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
by Hilda
While the colour red is more often associated with emotions of anger and passion, orange has no such negative connotations. Combining the energy of red and the vibrancy of yellow, it is a positive and uplifting colour associated with energy and happiness. When I look in my wardrobe, it pops out at me and I
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Shopping in Malahide
Monday, 08 February 2016
by Hilda
Many people are returning to boutique shopping for a variety of reasons, not least the personal service, and Malahide, my home town north of Dublin (Ireland), has a plethora of wonderful boutiques! Catering for diversity of tastes and different pockets, the discerning woman will not be disappointed. My “Shopping in Malahide” series begins with the
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Down at heel? Never!
Monday, 21 December 2015
by Hilda
What do you do when you can no longer wear high heels? I have always loved high heels. I feel better; I know that I look better. I am an average 5 foot 4 ½ inches. That half inch is very important. For years I swore that I was 5 foot five, but I seem
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The Yellow Brick Road
Wednesday, 02 December 2015
by Hilda
Following the Yellow Brick Road brings you to The Emerald City, but this bead and crystal shop stocks far more than emeralds; it’s an Aladdin’s cave, a veritable treasure trove on Bachelor’s Walk in Dublin. It’s very easy to spend an hour there looking at the beads, semi-precious stones, crystals. If like me you have
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Charlotte Tilbury and me
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
by Hilda
I have always been very lazy about my make-up. When I was younger, I wore very little and even then probably only when I was going out at night. I remember my mother-in- law’s horrified face one day when I arrived around to her home with none on and she exclaimed, “I wouldn’t come downstairs
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CACI……Does it work?
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
by Hilda
What do Jennifer Lopez, Barbara Windsor, Cliff Richard and little old me have in common? They are big fans of CACI facial treatments and now I am too. As you know, I am keen to explore ways to keep the wrinkles from taking over my face completely, eager to stop the jaw line from sagging
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Suede Coat
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
by Hilda
I never really got the opportunity to wear 70s fashion way back in the 1970s. Firstly I was in school and following that a poor college student. A pair of pink flares and a paisley patterned, crimplene, maxi dress, complete with lime green hood are the sum total of my seventies fashion. So when I
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Playing dress-up in Arnotts
Thursday, 24 September 2015
by Hilda
Predictability is my middle name when it comes to shopping and dresses. According to my family, most of my dresses are variations on a theme ….fitted and knee length in winter and fitted and maxi in summer. I argue the exceptions, but to no avail. So elder daughter (not the stylist) and I visited Arnotts
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Does my bum look big in this?
Monday, 07 September 2015
by Hilda
Finding the perfect pair of denim jeans is never easy, no matter what age you are, but it is far more difficult when you are ‘of a certain age’. You know what I mean. The thickening of the waist, the dropping of the derriere etc. all add to the dilemma. My own bum is probably
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Fashion and the Mature Woman
Sunday, 02 August 2015
by Hilda
What to wear? That is the question! I love fashion and wish I was twenty (or even thirty) years younger so I could try out all today’s wonderful trends. But one thing I’ve discovered as I get older is the difficulty in finding reasonably priced fashionable clothes for the more mature woman. This is compounded
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Wrinkles, wrinkles everywhere and not a cure in sight!
Thursday, 16 July 2015
by Hilda
I am always shocked (well, disappointed maybe!) when I look in the mirror and see my face – it’s not bad, as faces go, it’s just that I seem to think I should still look like the photos hanging on the wall that were taken nearly 20 years ago. The sagging jawline is always traumatic
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