Of course she has a live-in nanny along with a personal assistant. "Me" time is easier to have if somebody else is watching the baby while you're having it.

Pale girls look fantastic with a bold lip. I never believed it until I tried it myself.

The basics are ridiculously easy. Let me say up front that you probably look more than presentable as you are - good make-up enhances your best features, but that's about all it does! - but if you want to step it up a little all you need is a bit of tinted moisturizer or CC cream (skip the BB, the CC is better), a…

Dolly Parton once said she does that, but I expect her living quarters are so big that she and her husband manage to never see each other before mid-morning.
That's a bit sad, though. I consider it an act of supreme intimacy to let people I know see me without make-up, which is why my longtime partner, who has been…

I'm not sure it's sold over here, but I'll have a look at the Sephora catalogue. If any store has it, Sephora'll be it.

Twelve years old is not the same as seventeen. Both underage, but not the same.

Twilight — a film about a young man

This is most likely it.

This is my dad with me in 1976. The picture was supposedly taken days after a disastrous earthquake hit our region, but we look ok. I was still an only child and the first granddaughter and niece on my mum's side and everybody was all over me all the time.
I grew up to look a little like him and a lot like my paternal…

Most of what I learned you can see done beautifully by Lisa Eldridge, she's amazing: http://www.lisaeldridge.com/
Basically it boils down to three main points: moisturize day and night, make sure your base is flawless, and work out your contours and the colours that suit you.
I love red lipstick (something I only found…

I have mostly dry skin, so CC and BB creams work fine for me because they're really easy to apply after moisturizer. My skin is relatively clear, a little uneven (I'm pale with a lot of freckles) but mostly good for my age. CC creams are a good base for me because all I need is a bit of concealer on top, then powder…

I did it ALL wrong for years, then I got a job as a TV presenter for a while and I had to have my make-up done professionally every day. That's when I learned how to do it properly, and I still stick to those basic principles. Although now I use CC cream in lieu of foundation because foundation dries my skin.

We share a goal, then :)

It's frozen pasta. Even if it's good, it's still going to be awful.

They knew everyone would be talking about the ad, since it aired around the time of the Pride Parade. Italian LGBTQ people have no civil rights to speak of, no domestic partnerships, nothing, and this is a very current issue. Findus just had to tweak its usual formula (no faces, just hands and the product) a bit, and…

Students, single guys or girls who can't cook, anyone who's not planning to have people over for dinner might buy that product (it's been around for years, so obviously somebody likes it). Feeding your mum frozen pasta before coming out to her? Not very likely.

Barilla has just joined Parks, a European non-profit organization that promotes diversity in the workplace. http://www.parksdiversity.eu/featured/baril…

The Dream Thieves is fantastic (and sorry, I'm still a Po girl, the heart wants what it wants). Have you read Bitterblue? I haven't and I was wondering. Fire was good but a little too on the nose about beauty as a curse and how hard it is to be female. And Bitterblue as a character in Graceling just wasn't very…

I'm already projecting myself towards the third Raven Cycle book! The first two were so good. (Amen on Sean Kendrick being the ultimate YA crush, although I have to say he has a strong contender in Po from Graceling.)

But she makes him NEEDLEPOINT DRAWINGS! They're the craft equivalent of burning a CD with meaningful songs that have hidden messages in them.