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Crepeys, not Creepys

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Cremolafoam · 14/08/2017 17:23

Get back on here you lot!

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motherinferior · 24/11/2017 14:42

MrsS, go and ask at a Bobbi Brown counter? I wear the BB Red Carpet which is admittedly scarlet. Or try Lipstick Queen Medieval to start with?

MrsWobble3 · 25/11/2017 11:58

Please may I canvass suggestions for stocking fillers for the dds (age 18 - 23). Nothing too expensive - stockings are filled with pocket money items in our house - and from fairly shallow pockets at that. And given that one has to be posted small and light is also a consideration.

Any suggestions?

motherinferior · 25/11/2017 17:44

Pants and socks going in here (but mine have Primark pant-tastes). Poundland chocolate orange. Post-its in unusual shapes. For those in the uk I would be tempted to put in a ready-mixed G&T or mini bottle of cava to fill space. Face/hair/foot masks. Break up a set of mini bath/shower things...?

motherinferior · 25/11/2017 17:45

Lip salve, hand cream and sellotape also going in here. And blu-tack. I also got them each a Minions battery toothbrush...

MsMartini · 25/11/2017 19:28

Similar here. Little torches, keyrings, sweets. Hema stuff. A pen. ds is harder than dd.....

MrsWobble3 · 26/11/2017 09:38

Thanks both - some overlap with current thinking but some new ideas as well. MI - where did you get a Minions toothbrush - that would be perfect for dd1.

motherinferior · 26/11/2017 10:08

Superdrug. Kids' dept. There are also Star Wars light sabre ones but I was advised by mates to go for the minions.

motherinferior · 26/11/2017 15:57

Magi, I am running out of purple shampoo and considering the stuff you get...

addle · 26/11/2017 16:14

Stockings - mobile phone charger? one of those handy swatch things with a USB shape at one end and iphone/ipad etc bits at the end

NU I love that French thread and it's sent me towards Justine Le Conte on youtube who I also think is great.

magimedi · 26/11/2017 22:24

Don't hesitate, MI. It's wonderful.

MsMartini · 26/11/2017 23:34

Can you remind me about the hair thing? I was trying to remember the other day.

Playing cards.

MrsWobble3 · 27/11/2017 07:37

Playing cards suggestion has prompted a Top Trumps thought so thanks for the continuing ideas - more always welcome.

motherinferior · 27/11/2017 07:47

Poundland/Primark/tiger fairy lights. Next is doing a mini scented candle for £3. Oh, and Aldi is bringing out scented votives 3 for a tenner in a week or so - buy both sets and split them up?

motherinferior · 27/11/2017 07:53

And New Look has some fab vvv cheap Christmas earrings!

MrsWobble3 · 27/11/2017 08:04

Fantastic thanks. I don't suppose you can do the rest of my Christmas shopping too can you?

motherinferior · 27/11/2017 08:06

I haven't actually done it. Or anything much about Christmas, really Blush

magimedi · 27/11/2017 09:49

MsMartini

There is Redken No Blow Dry NBD cream which you pop on you hair when it's wet & just leave your hair to dry naturally. It's amazing & even held up after a 20 minute sea swim (& I went right under). Expensive but fantastic for holidays.

I have used that every time I washed my hair until a few days ago. Too cold now to hang round with wet hair. I love it, it comes in 3 strengths & I use the medium one.

The purple shampoo is L'Oreal, Expert, silver purple. For white hair it is amazing as makes it all shiny & gets rid of any yellow.

MsMartini · 27/11/2017 10:57

Thanks Magi - think it was the RedKen thing I was interested in.

motherinferior · 27/11/2017 12:00

So what does it do to the hair?

motherinferior · 27/11/2017 12:01

The redken, I mean?

magimedi · 27/11/2017 13:22

Copied & pasted from my first post:

"In Style & Beauty news I have tried the new Redken No Blow Dry NBD cream which you pop on you hair when it's wet & just leave your hair to dry naturally. It's amazing & even held up after a 20 minute sea swim (& I went right under). Expensive but fantastic for holidays.

My hairdresser used it when he cut my hair a couple of days ago & I was so impressed I went back & bought a tube of it today.

I've got short (ish) white hair & normally have to use mousse & blow dry or it looks all flat & witch like!"

Basically I comb a small blob through my wet (not dripping) hair & style it with fingers/brush & leave to dry. Looks just as if I have had a hairdresser blow dry.

motherinferior · 27/11/2017 15:03

Sounds fantastic. V tempted for up and coming travels...

MrsSchadenfreude · 27/11/2017 17:28

I have the Redken no blow dry cream and it is indeed les bolleaux du chien. It makes me look groomed, gives my curls definition and avoids the "pulled through a hedge backwards look." It makes me look much more groomed. If those of you who are coming on Saturday bring a little pot, and I remember (MI can you text me to remind me?) I will bring my tube and squirt an obliging blob into each.

This is definitely possibly quite horrible of me, and makes me live up to my name, but I heard this week some news about someone who made my life hell for about ten years - she told people I had had an affair with her husband, accused me of shagging someone else's husband (because I am clearly such a siren), and managed to get that person's wife to believe it too, accused me of spreading rumours about her and other people and generally made life very difficult for me, personally and professionally. Anyhoo, having had an affair and divorced the person I hadn't had an affair with, she jacked in her job and moved in with a v v rich man - lived the life of luxury, huge house, pool, horses, didn't work etc etc. She went away for a week with a friend of hers, and when she came home, found that her DP had cleared the house, sold the horses, emptied the joint bank account and disappeared (and he hadn't paid the last several mortgage payments either). There was literally nothing left in the house apart from the fixtures and fittings. He's now gone AWOL and she is having to try and track him down and put the house on the market. I know this is awful for her, and I am usually quite a nice and sympathetic person, but I did think "karma" when I was told.

motherinferior · 27/11/2017 20:52

OMG!!!!

magimedi · 27/11/2017 22:10

Great Karma.

You are not being awful.

And 100% agree about blow dry cream being "les bolleaux du chien".

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