When you don’t know many people and suffer from social anxiety? It can feel like hell on earth.
Massive lines for the one loo, leaving you nowhere to hide? Brill. Huge groups of people huddled together who look like they’ve been friends since birth? Great. Throngs of… Read the full story
Don’t stress though, you sweet little fool. The experts are here to fix your bubbly mess.
As Ed Betts, Asda’s chief wine buyer, told prima.co.uk, it’s all down to the tilt.
If you’re holding your glass straight up when you pour your Prosecco, you’re doing it wrong. Instead, you need to tilt the glass to a 45 degree… Read the full story
Before 1993, none of these words were really a thing, along with ‘mouse potato’ (which I’ve never heard of, but am now going to use constantly), ‘e-commerce’, ‘microdermabrasion’, and ‘back button’.
Clearly, 1993 was a big year in both technology and the beauty industry.
Mostly because we can’t quite be bothered to eat healthily, get enough rest, and look after ourselves, and desperately want to believe that exfoliating with oats or smothering ourselves in honey will magically erase all evidence of our terrible habits.
I’m not saying the late, great Cilla Black was p***** on Pinot when she decided to Sing A Rainbow – although with lyrics including ‘Listen with your eyes, listen with your eyes – and sing everything you see’, who can definitively say?
But Ms Black (nee White) certainly missed a psychological trick.
Instead of the shocking, ‘The sun is yellow, the grass is green, look how the sky is blue’ revelations, she should have told us instead about the power of colours – and how your favourite colour tells us all about you.
Pregnancy cravings are strange and wonderful things.
Having a baby in your womb can make you eat jars of pickles in one sitting, or, as it did to one of my mum’s friends, leave you digging around in the sandbox to get those scratchy grains on your tongue.
It’s not worth questioning the cravings too much.
If someone’s making a baby, they should be given whatever damn food they want.
Your pregnant partner wants pizza drizzled with chocolate? Get it.
If you’re into the health and fitness scene, you’ll probably recognise Anna Victoria – either for her fitness wisdom or her Instagram posts reminding us not to be so bloody hard on ourselves.
The London borough has never been high on the list of cultural hot spots, must visit places, or places to be seen.
With a tarnished names at time, as the famous Sue Perkins once said, it’s often regarded more as ‘a punchline than a postcode’.
However, for those that want to venture through, and for those of us living in the area and seeing the daily changes, there are quite a few surprises lurking round these streets.
The summer holidays may have dragged on for parents (especially with this unpredictable weather) but blink a few times and suddenly it will be the first day of term.
Leave the back to school shopping until the last-minute and the shelves will be empty, sizes sold out and you could be faced with tired, disappointed kids – trust me, I know.
We interrupt whatever you’re doing right now (scrolling through Twitter in bed, with your chin pressed against your neck, right?) to bring you some very important booze-related news.
Next weekend, Lidl is bringing us all the gift of cheap plonk.
For 26 August and 27 August only, Lidl will be selling six packs of Allini Prosecco for £20.
To explain why that’s so exciting, that means that you’re getting each bottle for £3.33. That’s an entire bottle of bubbly for around the price of a… Read the full story
We’ll admit, when we first came across LED eyelashes (little strips of LED lights you stick just above your lashline), we thought they were pretty cool.
Eyeliner that flashes in a bunch of different colours? Want.
But it turns out those trendy LED strips could come with a serious risk of damage.
The close and constant exposure to UV rays from the lights pressed right up next to your eye could lead to the development of cataracts and macular denegeration down the road.
First you notice that while they’ve met your mum, brother, and been on a night out with your best mates from uni, you’ve yet to meet a single person in their life.
You’ve never been introduced to their parents. You’ve never been to any kind of gathering with anyone from their social circle.
There is no ‘normal’ really, but it can be helpful to get a sense of the average – if only so you can explain to your partner that there’s really nothing out of the ordinary of not… Read the full story
BBC Scotland reports that last year four times as many children under the age of 13 were prescribed antidepressants as seven years ago.
Last year 252 children in Scotland below the age of 13 were given antidepressants, versus just 57 in 2009/10.
Now, this could indicate not that more children are struggling, but that more are actually seeking professional help. But it’s still alarming to think that a significant portion… Read the full story
The statistics speak for themselves – and it’s only becoming harder to ignore the headlines’ shouty predictions that almost half of us will develop cancer during our lifetimes.
But despite this and the range of coverage and discussion dedicated to this umbrella of diseases, it’s not something you ever imagine happening to you – or a friend. So how are you meant to react when it does?
It’s an unwritten rule that Brits may only have sex in a hotel if they are a) enjoying an eye-wateringly expensive mini-break or b) having an illicit affair.
Things are a little different for our friends in Brazil.