Lipstick gave way to lipgloss a few years ago as it was deemed to make one look older. I never really got on with the gloss, especially as it has the habit of finding its way into the creases of my lips, which wasn’t exactly attractive.

So I’m delighted that make up director, Peter Phillips, has edited the original recipe for Chanel lipsticks and Chanel Rouge Coco is the wonderful result. It delivers hydration, pigment and silkiness and is as far removed from a conventional lipstick as you can get. It melts on the mouth.

There are 37 shades, so something for everyone. Go try. Price £21.

A date for your diary!

Wednesday 14^th April 2010

7-9pm

Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire

Colleen Oakley, a lovely colleague of mine, will be hosting the launch of  Silpada Designs UK. Beautiful sterling silver based  jewellery – at prices to suit all pockets , seasons, body shapes, personality types. You could be among the first people to be introduced to this new UK business.

If you cannot attend but would like a party, to discuss the business opportunity, or to order some of this gorgeous jewellery, please call Colleen Oakley 07930 324034

Click and have a look at the website!

Click and have a look at the website!

http://www.silpada.co.uk/index.html

I recently purchased one of the new Ted Baker bright neon pink totes (pictured is the orange version). It’s lovely, bright, cheers me up and gets noticed. It is heavy though, even when empty. I don’t carry that much around with me as I have suffered with neck and shoulder pains in the past, so this design flaw is a bit of a nuisance.

Imagine my surprise though, when I plonked it on the passenger seat of my car and the seat belt warning lights flashed at me! Come on Ted Baker, you can do better.

My lovely  friend and yoga teacher is offering the most amazing one day yoga retreats at her fabulous home (complete with brand new custom built yoga studio) at Pentney Lakes in Norfolk.

Tanya is the most generous of women and her package offers 3 hours of yoga plus lunch. The afternoon is your free time to utilise in whichever way you feel is right for you – walking, jet skiing, relaxing in the beautiful surroundings.

The price – just £25 per person! The groups will never be larger than 8 so you know you’ll also get individual attention.

She is running them every other Monday starting in May.

For more info, contact her in 01760 444294 or tkp1@live.co.uk

Another fascinating lecture at the Mind, Body, Soul weekend was given by Frances Harris, an ex marketer of 25 years standing who had, like Beverly Drumm, completely changed her life – is there a theme here I wonder?

The talk was centred on colour, but not in the way I am qualified to deliver, but in way that related to what the colour meant for you, now, at this moment.

Frances has a pole on which were tied the nine colours representing the chakra system. We had to pick the one that jumped out as us – your hello colour- and then the one you least favoured – your goodbye. She then went around the room telling us what our choices represented for us. I was pretty astounded as mine was so spot on, even my friends gasped at the accuracy.

Want to learn more, go to http://www.soothingminds.co.uk/articles.aspx?artid=213 and take the test for yourself.

Frances is also a colour healer and, as you know from my previous blogs, I have been increasingly attracted to orange, a colour I don’t like and it doesn’t like me either. I have also had trouble with my lower intestine. You guessed it. Orange is the colour of healing for that part of the body!  Intuition is a powerful thing.

Just a quick blog to say that our petite dressing expert, Karen Gillam, is in today’s Express. Good for her and for all you petites out there.