What's the best bit of style and beauty advice you've ever been given?

[FullFatGrump]

Use hand cream, your hands will age a long time before your face

What's yours?

Nothing looks as good as a smile and self confidence.

The thing I dislike about that phrase (nothing tastes as good as skinny feels) is that it makes me think eating nice food will make me fat, which really isn't true IME.

So true, the only way to stay thin if you are on steroids is to train like an Olympic athlete - but if you could do that you would not be on steroids.

Och yes I've heard that re steroids sash. Do you have to take them?

It's just a clumsily worded phrase I think... I get the meaning, but the notion that the taste of something will somehow prevent you from staying slim is all kinds of wrong to me! Maybe it should be "no amount of food will ever comfort you as much as feeling good about what you see in the mirror does"... That sounds wrong too though doesn't it? And definitely not as punchy haha! Damn, I'll never be the next Kate Moss at this rate, I can't even make up phrases like her !

Yep, my waistline reassures me that lots of things taste way better then skinny feels....sigh....

A bit of a minefield here, but definitely second getting the best bra you can afford, properly fitted.

Also think get the best hair cut (and colour if wanted) you can afford.
Your hair and your bra are there all the time.

It was Kate Moss who said nothing tastes as good as skinny, wasn't it? I loved my thinner body, which in fact was also the right sized body for me, but I acquired it through a car crash lifestyle, lots of fags and not much food.

I still don't eat brilliantly, too many treats, but no booze or fags and no car crash lifestyle which has to be something!

i was saying it at Weight watchers in about 1996 - i think it was me

I've always said it; Kate Moss is such a jackanddiane wannabe!

I don't know if KM said it originally, but she was famous for saying it. She got into a whole load of shit over it in the media I think about pro-anorexia, being a poor role model etc.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/6602430/Kate-Moss-Nothing-tastes-as-good-as-skinny-feels.html

I thought poor old Kate Moss got an unfairly hard time, it was already a well used phrase. I prefer Kate Moss being upfront that staying slim takes some effort as you get older, rather than twiggy models pretending they gorge on pizza.

Anyway, I don't expect my children to be grateful I am a size 8. I don't really expect them to be grateful for anything. But I am glad for my sake I am a size 8. Skipping happily around in summer is far preferable to carrying a load of unnecessary flab and looks better too. So I stand by my style advice. Like all advice, people are free to ignore it.

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I skip round happily in summer too, despite being several sizes bigger than you .

I don't think the media should have given Kate Moss (who I'm sure is neither poor nor old ) so much shit over it either. At least it was honest as you say and if nothing else made people aware the whole 'I'm naturally thin, I eat loads' thing that a lot of very slim models and celebs often say, probably isn't true of all of them.

I certainly don't like the phrase though personally, (for the reasons I mentioned in previous posts). I probably wouldn't repeat it to my young daughter or nieces either personally.

You sound really happy as you are and if that means you are a bit stricter around food, then I think that's great! Do what makes you happy.

High five Steviebuns.

I feel like I should say "woo!" since we're high fiving and all, so yeah... WOO!

Ahem... sorry

I should clarify, there is nothing wrong with being slim, or putting effort into maintaining a HEALTHY weight (where healthy can actually be a much larger range in both directions than people credit).

It is obsessing over food, restricting yourself, feeling miserable about eating or not eating, hating your body...all THAT shit that is damaging to show your children.

The phrase 'nothing tastes as good as thin feels' really puts the ball in the wrong part of the court IMO.

What about 'nothing looks as good as fit and active feels'?

After all 'thinness' doesn't depend on the amount eaten (or its tastiness) just the resulting calorie in minus calorie out balance.

Never try to shape your eyebrows with hair removing cream (seemed like a good idea but actually took a couple of layers of skin off and I had a red rash over each brow)

Avoid Sun In like the plague, (spent most of secondary school sporting orange streaks)

Soak all your whites in industrial strength Vanish, they come out like new!