Fashion and beauty cons we fall for....

[Dogsby]

conditioner in a pot rather than a tube is a LOT better

Bachs Rescue Remedy. I was downing this stuff by the litre and I was the total opposite of calm.

Could be, my stresses were just way to big for a little yellow bottle with a dropper!

Anything that uses "the power of genes".

If it really did anything to your genes wouldn't you be a bit worried?

La, la, not listening, it must be the best ..... it must

"You need to use our products in synergie"....words spouted by some (Clinique being one of them) of the larger skin care lines. And before you know it, you've spent £200 on face stuff!! Or should that read guff?

That was when I could afford it as a twenty something. I now use Oil of Olay, Waitrose own brand stuff and I look fine. Just fine.

Rescue Remedy is nothing but Brandy in a tiny bottle wendihouse. Far, far better to go for a decent sized nip of the stuff.

Pore Minimisers. I have yet to come across one that works.

Serums

SHAMPOO in general is a total waste of time and money

Clear mascara DOES have a use. It is for those of us whose eyebrows are too long. Not underplucked, but too long. I could have one single eyebrow hair and it would still droop, making me look like that man out of Rumpole of the Bailey. It sticks my eyebrows back where they should be.

Hairspray comes in two kinds only - sticky or crispy, make your choice. Don't spend a fortune on it and definitely don't be a gibbon and buy a pump spray as I did once. You can't pump that fast. No one can pump that fast.

Frizz Ease
Moroccan Oil

didn't work for me (long, ringlety, frizzy bonce)

Provinicial- PLUCK IT

And also trim your brows...I thought everyone did this?

I DO pluck. And get them waxed every month. I have tried trimming before but look like one of those misguided teenagers. Is there a trimming technique I should know about? Though honestly, with clear mascara I look just beautiful and it stays in place all day.

Well, I like to brush all hairs upwards...the trim along top of natural brow line

then repeat brushing downwards and trim along bottom brow line

I just think it makes them look really neat

deodorant that 'won't leave white marks on your clothes'. Pshaw. Right.

TheProvincialLady get thee to a threading person - far kinder to the skin than waxing.

The second the sun comes out we should be dressing in a 'nautical style'

Every frigging year without fail.

I did have them threaded once but there is no one near me that does it. She did say it is kinder than waxing but it does take ages doesn't it?

I don't see how threading is any different to waxing or plucking - you are still pulling the hairs out.

Agree re any face cream that says it makes any difference - if it did it would be a medicine and sold as such.

think waxing can take a bit of skin with it too, can't it? But agree that don't see how threading is different from plucking (unless you routinely stab yourself in eye with tweezers)

Yes waxing definitely takes off a tiny bit of skin layer. I was pink and tender for only a couple of hours after threading whereas with waxing it is a day. That might be the heat of the wax on delicate skin though.

I have had an exploratory trim and I think it looks ok, but the hairs nearest the middle are still long and droopy, don't know how. And they look thicker so I am dangerously close to having sperm shaped eyebrows. What should I do to remedy, please?

Showing my age - but all that shading that was the rage to give oneself a narrower nose and cheekbones - sort of Joan Collins at the height of Dynasty look.

Oh and wtf are penti-peptides??

Only things that get rid of wrinkles are botox and fillers.

Am a threading advocate though mostly because I think the people who do it (I go to blink in Harvey Nichols) have a much better eye for what shape eyebrows work for you rather than just doing a generic tidy up.

That tea and coffee do not count towards towards your total consumption of water in a day

Maxi dresses as daywear

All cod-science claims for cosmetics