Crepeys, not Creepys

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Get back on here you lot!

Yay, Rosenspants!

Airborne, lovely, lovely post.

Yes - I love JA but reading accounts of her life - oh my......

Joyous post , Airborne. So pleased.
Herbs, I've been considering the Superdrug snake oil too esp at half price but think should also be doing face exercises but can't quite be bothered
Mrs s mention guerlain reminded me - anyone use or used to use the guerlain little multicoloured balls of face powder? Can't remember what it was called

Talking of oils I am working my way through a stash of face oils I appear to have blagged and I am liking them. Though might not claim dewy youthfulness, quite...

Well, DH will go to DS2s concert instead so I have added myself to the list. I hope it will all be ok...I'm being pulled in many different directions not least by DS2 who knows that DH doesn't really care for classical concerts.. and keeps saying he shouldn't bother...

I feel hopeless, as I put almost nothing on my face. Tinted moisturiser/ BB cream, which acts like a very sheer foundation daily, (Garnier, cheap as chips) and that's about it. Nivea Blue pot if the skin gets dry patches in the winter. Perhaps I should have invested more...I have a loathing of anything even vaguely greasy on my face and do have facials but always have to rub my face down with a flannel after.

Lovely to hear your course is going so well, Cloud

I wouldn’t worry, Rose. I slap on a bit of sunscreen and dabble in OTC retinoids but that is it. No evidence for anything else so go for anything cheap that’ll stop it feeling too dry.

DS2 can go instead if he’s so concerned.

I don't put anything on my face except sun cream in summer (know I should probably wear it more), occasionally some sort of moisturiser and very occasionally try to deal with the odd whisker. I seemed to miss the memo on make up, lotion all of it, and never started.

Crepes, I need tops/shirts. Not too floppy/clingy, plain, nice neckline. Not ruffles, frills, dips, anything asymmetric. I tried some OK ones on in Gap today but they were tight on the arms and billowing around my chest and middle. Not a good look.

If all else fails I’ll pick you up some kurtas but you’ll have to wait till Jan.

You’d look fab.

I do have large arms and shoulders though (always have, they are getting a bit smaller with weights based exercise oddly but will always be hefty!)

Addle - the Guerlain multi coloured balls are called meteorites - there was talk about them on another thread where the OP wanted a healthy glow. I looked at these but they are full of glittery bits (and apparently smell of violets). Also v pricy. Another product mentioned was Hourglass Ambient palette which is not available in France but also has a hefty price tag but apparently is really the business.

Mrs M - Uniqlo?

Uniqlo jeans are great for me. Tops not so much - shoulders and arms again (apart from their thermals which I wear for half the year). I have had had success with Great Plains, Esprit, Gap, before but they all seem to have a lot of ruffles, pelmets and other haberdashery type things at the moment.

I agree - what's with the ruffles at the moment - it's the sort of fashion trend people will look back at in 10 years time and say "how could I have worn that?" - a bit like certain offending articles from the eighties.

I know - and being on the short and round side I look like a teapot in a tea cosy in them. Am not upbeating, am ok with how I look in normally cut clothes - but that seems to be jeans and jumpers at the moment only

Mrs M - I'm not exactly sure whom those ruffles are aimed at nearly everybody looks daft in them.

Perhaps to hide the fact so much is polyester?

Not S & B at all, but a couple of years ago I forked out £££ for a lovely Egyptian cotton silly thread count sheet. It feels wonderful and so much better than any others, but I have just noticed that it has gone into huge holes where it has worn through, and will have to be thrown out. In contrast, we have some 100% cotton BHS sheets that we got as a wedding present 24 years ago that are still going strong, and some 1970s "St Michael" sheets from M & S bequeathed to us by an elderly neighbour when she went into a home, that still look like new. My question is, what should I replace this sheet with?

Dull, I know...

Well you could buy Egyptian cotton for the loveliness accepting it might not go the distance.....I'd be having a mooch around John Lewis maybe...

MsM I quite like the look of a knit like this over a longer length fitted long sleeved tee, like this

I have a couple of those Mint velvet knits and find them very flattering, although pill quite badly, infortunately.

Oh yes, I’ve been working a cut-price version of that look...

In S&B own news have finally bought v nice studs for ears from funky tattoo/piercing place and am contemplating another little one as there is space on the lobe (I have Indian ears) and it stops me contemplating a tattoo.

So a long-sleeved thing under a short-sleeved thing? Aha. (I have always been baffled by short sleeved jumpers and what temp you are supposed to wear them in). I like the Boden tops and assume cos modal they will have a bit of drape/shape? - thanks, may try one of them to get me started.

MI, where have you looked for cut-price versions?

Long sleeved thing under a short sleeved thing like Sheldon Cooper.

I was wearing my Fatface sale linen T shirt over a Uniqlo thermal.

Aha. Fatface I have done well with and their stuff tends to fit me well but their online service is shocking and the shops are few and badly stocked - was in one the other day - only the smallest and largest sizes.