Health and Beauty Tips:
Vaseline beauty tips
For skin care routine, Vaseline is one of the best ever additions to your makeup bag. It does everything, but you will never see it in the glossy magazines...
Dyspraxia, Flo, Dan and Me
Dyspraxia is a learning disability that affects Florence Welch and Daniel Radcliffe among countless others. Including me, Melanie. But I plan to research dyspraxia until solutions can be found...
Martian Artichoke Salad Recipe
This vegetarian or vegan Martian artichoke salad recipe is a perfect appetiser for a Steampunk dinner party. Of course artichokes are from Mars. Just look at them.
How to Dye Your Hair Tips | Dye or Kool Aid
How to dye the tips of your hair any colour using standard hairdyes, beetroot, kool aid, chalk and oil pastels.
Tequila Lime Jelly Shots Recipe
WITH REAL LIMES. We show you how to scoop out limes and fill them with lime jelly, either with or without tequila. Veggie jelly recipe.
Body Role Models... Looking in the Wrong Places
Celebrities with first names only are rarely famous for their body, so why are we deluged with articles begging us to look like Cheryl or Kate?
Vegan Moroccan Chickpea Soup Recipe
This cheap vegan soup recipe is easy one pot cooking for students and will feed 6 people or 1 mook for 6 days. Even Caliphs love their harira soup.
Waiting for Medical Test Results
If something big has happened and waiting for test results to come back from the doctors is taking ages, you need to find a few ways to take care of yourself.
Make Up Tips for a Shaved Eyebrow Line
Shaved eyebrows do grow back and provide a fresh blank canvas for creative urges, from tattoo designs to classic pencilled eyebrows. Create lovely shaved eyebrow lines, either from eyebrow stencils or freehand.
Set Me Free... Battling An Eating Disorder
Coping with an eating disorder is akin to being a caged bird. An isolating experience, where you feel like your disorder's willpower is keeping you under lock and key. How to escape? A huge question which hopefully can be at least partially answered.
Hikikomori: A Western perspective on Asia's Missing Millions
They don't go out. They don't speak or interact with others. They are similar but not identical to agoraphobics. They are hikikomori.
Top 10 Short Indie Hairstyles That Are Easy Or At Least Achievable
We've scouted around for short indie hairstyles that look lovely but feasible. We wanted to give you a moodboard of potentials rather than Gagaesque hair art.
C-Section procedure - a mooky momma's tale
Lyndsie Zombie gave birth to Emma-Lee Athena Zombie by C-section. It's a scary term for someone who has no idea what it entails, but you never know... Come the time, you may have a c-section procedure and it's good to know how it might go.
Healthy hair how-to guide: Is your hair dying from dying?
Your hair is the first thing the world sees, and it's your best chance at communicating who you are. A hairstyle says volumes about you, from your music tastes to when you like to wake up and who your friends are. Are there things you could do to keep your lovely hair more healthy?
Neutral makeup look
Makeup tutorial - how to get a neutral daytime look. This step by step makeup how-to guide uses Urban Decay's Naked Palette (but you can use what you like)
Halloween Zombie Makeup Tutorial for Infected Girls and Boys
Guess what? You're infected. Learn how to apply full unisex zombie makeup SFX (pale skin, veins, rotting flesh and blood effects) to look your best while hunting for brainsss (or, if you're veggie, grainsss) with our zombie makeup tutorial this Halloween.
Sleep disorder symptoms
Sleep deprivation has its upsides - Ambrose Bierce defined dawn as 'the time when men of reason go to bed'. At its worst it can make you clumsy and depressed, like a 2yr old elephant withdrawing from crack. How does one conquer the symptoms of sleep disorder?
Makeup tips - How to wear red lipstick
Wearing red lipstick is an art and a ritual to savour. These makeup tips may help you wear red lipstick to its fullest effect, whether you're into vintage or the gothic aesthetic. With video tutorial.
S.A.D. - winter depression tips
Winter depression: You probably know someone with S.A.D. or Seasonal Defective Disorder, more commonly known as winter depression. We look at a few ways of easing up those winter blues.
Coping With Chronic Illness - Things To Do When You're Proper Poorly
There's nothing like being diagnosed with something to make you shake up your life a bit. It's not a piffling niggle or something that will go away, it's something chronic that will persist and probably get worse. Like, you know, MS. You're Proper Poorly (PP).
Top 10 Tips: How to be more confident and boost your self esteem in social situations
Hello! Do you sometimes feel a bit wrong? That's okay. We sometimes feel like that too. These 10 behaviour tips can help to quickly boost your self-esteem levels in social situations, from recognising your fight-or-flight fear patterns to doing something about them.
Undercut hair - how to
Undercut and undershaved hair gives your hairstyle a pleasingly fierce and warrior-like beauty. Choose which undercut suits you, learn how to do your own undercut and even learn how to grow out an undercut when its time is done.
Victorian Makeup Tutorial
This Victorian makeup look (skin, lips, eyes, rouged cheeks) is a natural day time alternative for Steampunks and Romantic Goths. Also works well with other retro looks...
Smoky Glitter Eye Makeup Tutorial
If you adore the dark, sultry look of smoky eye makeup but harbour a deep love of all things glitter, this eye makeup look has a strong hint of Brechtian cabaret.
'Pop Culture' - rainbow eye makeup how to
When I use makeup I don't believe in neutral. I always believed that if you're going to do it, why not go all out? So I created this rainbow eye makeup look that I think captures pop culture's essence. Here's a step by step guide for how to get this 'Pop Culture' makeup look...
11 Homemade Face Masks
11 homemade face mask recipes to unleash the DIY goddess within and create natural and cheap beauty recipes - all in the comfort of your own little kitchen.
Nail art designs step by step - Minnie Mouse
In this step by step tutorial, talented Miss Emily shows us how to simply create a striking Minnie Mouse nail art design. Pick up her clever tips then branch out & design your own...
How to dye hair white blonde
There's nothing more dramatic than white hair - but it's one of the hardest looks to create and mantain. Here's how to do it, from bleaching to purple toner and upkeep afterwards.
How to wear wigs
A seasoned manga lover tells you how to choose the right wig for your face shape (from Tank Girl to Rapunzel), which wig colours suit you, social stigma, and how much you'd pay - from cheap cosplay costume wigs to Kanekalon fiber. Plus: How to make a wig cap!
Henna For Hair
Do you want to dye your hair without recourse to chemicals? Yes, there's always semi permanent vegetable dye, but if you want a natural permanent hair dye with a Bronze Age heritage, go for henna.
Sweetheart Rolls
Hairstyles tutorials: Also known as the Victory Roll, the Sweetheart Roll probably looks best when you sport a pretty frock, a huge Popeye anchor tattoo and you're kissing a soldier of either gender persuasion. It will look lovely regardless of your style or sensibilities...
Retro make up tutorial
Whether you're wearing rockabilly clothing or 1940s fashion, this classic makeup look will work with any retro style.
How to get Halloween hairstyles
OSiS Ambassador Adrian Allen gives you tips on how to experiment with exaggerated and unruly hair for louche Halloween hairstyles - Gothic hair and Zombie hair.
Circus/Theatre make up tutorial
With the aid of eyeliner, glitter and other assortments you can create a makeup look perfect for the streets, the wild circus or the hushed, hallowed grounds of the theatre. Makeup tutorial for going out on the town.
How to make curls last longer and stay all day
If you've got straight hair and want to curl it, or if you've got curly hair and want it to look 'curly on purpose', preparation is key. How to use the OSiS hair range to make curls last longer - in fact, stay all day.
1920s makeup how to
Get the 1920s makeup look. Our makeup video tutorial and article show you how to do 1920s makeup for eyes, lips and cheeks. Don your pearls and frivolities. Embrace the flapper within!
How to make eyelashes longer
Eyelashes aren't just a home for dead-skin-nibbling mites. Eyelashes also make your eyes look bigger and brighter and more come-hither. Here's how to make eyelashes longer and bigger and curlier and stuff!
Jrock hairstyles
How to style your hair like a jrocker. If you love visual kei clothing, you've probably had a go at jrock hairstyles already...
Summer heat tips
If you are lucky/misfortunate enough to be in the midst of a hot, hot summer, here are some summer heat tips on how to cool down. Remember: Horses sweat, men perspire but women gently glow :)
Paradox omega oil for mermaids
At last! A fish oil that doesn't taste of fish. Omega oil is good for weight loss, memory, luscious hair, strong nails and all sorts. Apart from flax & hemp oils it's mainly found in fish - so here's one that tastes of lemon.
Nourkrin super hair putter backer
If there are any Mookychicks out there who regularly use hair extensions & weaves, you may have noticed... bald patches. You're not alone. Time to ditch the hair extensions and take up a decent hair loss supplement...
Onigiri Recipe
Vegan recipes: This onigiri recipe is easy japanese cooking for beginners, quick to make and oh-so-pretty. You can play with your food AND make whiskers out of seaweed. Kawaii!
How to grow out short hair styles
Short hair styles: How to cope if you don't like your new Louise Brooks bob, A-line, Asymmetrical, Pixie haircut, Mullet or V-fringe and want to grow your short hair long again.
What is M.E.?
What is M.E.? A look at symptoms, treatment, and methods to stay positive if you are an M.E. sufferer or know someone who is.
Marilyn Monroe hairstyles - Basic curls
Step by step hairstyles: I wanna be loved by you... Achieve a vintage pinup look with the first of our two Marilyn Monroe hair styles - Basic curls made easy!
Marilyn Monroe hair styles - Soft curls
Step by step hairstyles: You heartbreaker, you! Achieve a vintage pinup look with the second of our two Marilyn Monroe hair styles - Soft curls made easy!
Summer pale skin
DIY skin bleach: How to get pale skin and maintain it in the summer months. We offer you a DIY pale skin recipe for a lemon oats and milk bath... and a simple, quick and easy pale skin cream recipe to make in your kitchen!
Summer beauty tips
Beauty tips: Get your skin and body ready for summer with our beauty tips to make you toned and summer-ready both inside and out.
Epilator deathmatch!
Health and beauty: Our intrepid journalists try out two of the latest epilators - one girl a seasoned veteran, the other an epilator virgin. So... who's going to win?
Grunge make up tips - Heroin chic
Grunge make up: Though we know many 90s grunge girls didn't wear make up, we show you 3 ways to apply heroin chic make up. Heroin chic? It's a smudgy, sexy look inspired by grunge with a hint of consumption.
Visual Kei makeup tips
Visual Kei makeup: Visual Kei is a punk/goth hybrid style based on J Rock bands like Devil Kitty and Luna Sea. We take a gander at applying make-up the VK way for a j-rocker look.
Pollen allergy season relief
Hay fever: It's allergy season: Birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and some ten percent of folks just can't stop sneezing. Hay fever = boo! Deal with the deadly outdoors and cure those pollen allergy symptoms.
Alice in Wonderland make up tutorials
Alice in Wonderland make up: The 'Alice in Wonderland' Book of Shadows makeup box by Urban Decay is sold out - but we bring you Youtube makeup tutorials inspired by your favourite characters in Tim Burton's Alice.
Vegan easter eggs recipes
Vegan recipes: Check out our vegan easter survival guide! Read our vegan chocolate easter egg recipes or learn where to buy them if you're lazy. Then throw a party with an easter egg hunt...
How to get out of the dumps
Depression tips: We all get a little down in the dumps. And it gets old. Fast. But here are some tips to make things a little better for yourself, whether you're just going through a rough patch or depression is blinking at you with sleepy eyes.
Body dysmorphic Disorder - BDD advice
BDD advice: Body Dysmorphic Disorder isn't about feeling spotty and fat - it's about not leaving the house for months in case people laugh. We look at BDD causes, symptoms, treatments and tips.
How to apply false eyelashes
Eye make-up tips: Professional make-up artists show you how to apply false eyelashes. Get the effect you want & save money by re-using your lovely false eyelashes again and again!
All-nighter tiredness tips
Tiredness tips: How to successfully pull an all-nighter and make it through the next day with this rather helpful advice to combat tiredness.
Dreadlocks hairstyles
Dreadlocks hairstyles: Let's look at the myths and facts of dreadlocks - from how to make and care for them to how to take them out!
NYE Mocktail recipes
Mocktail recipes: Lush non alocholic cocktail recipes for mooky mothers-to-be, straightedge, Mormons, small children, hostesses with the mostest and anyone who wants to drink all night and go to work/school/the beach next day.
Philips wake-up light for winter SAD
Winter SAD tips: If you wake up grumpy in winter, it could be partly because of your cruel alarm. The Philips wake-up light wakes you gently with high lux-rating light and the music of your choice to beat those winter blues...
Veggie breakfast of champions
Vegetarian recipes: Breakfast - is it rushed and munched on the hoof? Suffer no more - vegans, veggies and carnivores alike will find recipes and ideas here to restore breakfast to its romantic, rightful, whimsical status!
How to get new feet
Foot treatment: Our feet carry us through the world. Literally. This gorgeous intensive foot treatment will make you feel like you just brought a new pair of feet to match the shoes.
Halloween hairstyles
Halloween hairstyles: Halloween is a great time to dye your hair and have some fun with it, whether it's Halloween wigs, spray colour, clip-ins extensions, hair falls or hair dyes...
Dark Funfair - makeup tutorial
Makeup tutorials: As the nights grow darker and the pumpkins and bonfires come out to play, wear bright makeup and dance gaily amid the neon lights. You might even get a dance with Mister Jack O'Lantern. Or Noel Fielding.
Aqua fay - makeup video tutorial
Makeup video tutorial: Aqua fairy makeup tips from Hayley Jane. Use metallic eyeshadows to create a dramatic fairy makeup look.
Pregnancy symptoms they don't tell you about
Pregnancy symptoms: Morning sickness isn't the half of it. Pregnancy symptoms include anything from vaginal discharge to piles, heartburn and pooing in labour. Let's deal with some of those pregnancy nasties.
Makeup for dark skin tones
Makeup for dark skin: Dark skin absorbs light. It's beautiful au naturelle, but good makeup for black girls that does justice to dark skin tones can be hard to source. These makeup tips for dark skin will hopefully give you some little ideas for makeup madness...
Gothic hairstyles for girls
Hairstyles: Goths of both sexes love their gothic hairstyles, and so do we - whether we're talking the Gothic Lolita, the Deathhawk, backcombed hair or sleek gothic hair with a Spock fringe. Here are a few stereotypical (uh-oh) goth hairstyles to give you ideas for what to do with your own mop.
Curly hair styles - The Twist
Hairstyles: Looking for easy curly hair styles? Curly hair looks great with the Twist, a hair style with loose ringlets that gets rid of frizzy hair. Curly hair with no frizz? Hark - 'tis a hirsute miracle.
Aromatherapy... the science of scent
Alternative health: Aromatherapy, or the use of plant-based essential oils to cure disease and improve mood, has been around since the 10th century. We consider how to make essential oils, how to use them and what to look for when buying them.
Lily Lolo mineral makeup tutorial for tired skin
Beauty tips: In your 30s? You may wake up with a yelp to discover tired, mature pale skin with tiny wrinkles AND spots. On your face, sadly, not a boyfriend's lower nose. So unfair! Emma explains how to apply Lily Lolo mineral makeup to improve tired skin for genuinely healthy radiance.
How to apply false nails
Beauty tips: Do you have something or someone you want to get your claws into? The most effective way to do it is with a pair of fabulous false nails. They have evolved over the last century as styles change, so whatever era you are into, there will be a way for you to carry off a set of talons.
Touched with fire
Mental health: Lots of people are afraid of what they don't understand. Manic depression is one of those things. Emma has what doctors term a bipolar disorder. This is how one manic depressive has learned to live with being touched with fire.
False eyelashes tutorial
Beauty: Nothing epitomises fun and flirtatiousness more than the fluttering of huge sooty sixties-style eyelashes, curled like provocative question marks. Get your false eyelashes right - and they will become your secret weapon for day AND night!
Goth hair tips - The art of back combing for unruly hair
Hair tutorials: You're dressed like Mrs Lovett from Sweeney Todd. Your dark make up is precise, right down to the eyelash. You're due to join your friends for a midnight tea party on the hill. But your hair looks like you tumbled out of bed. Good! Welcome to the art of wild and disobedient gothic hairstyling.
Gothic lolita makeup tutorial
Makeup tutorials: So, want to learn to how do cute Gothic Lolita make-up? You can use this gothic lolita look for day and night, vamping it up a little more for night time and even changing the pink lipgloss for maybe, a little red lipstick. Change it a little and make it yours.
How to love your gorgeous, goddessy belly (and other body parts)
Body confidence: Feeling a lack of body confidence about your belly? Feeling fat and ungoddessy? It's time to take control, from body magic rituals to creative photography and retraining your well-meaning friends. These are some body image tips you really won't have seen before...
A girl's guide to cheap exercise and working out
Body: Useful exercise tips for working out. How to beef up on a budget - with DIY tips and online resources to help you exercise for cheap.
Natural beauty makeup tips
Makeup tips:With summer around the corner, natural beauty wants to come out and play. These beauty tips for natural makeup will tell you how to apply (less) makeup for a natural look. Not every girl needs to be Barbie GaGa - and not everyday. Sometimes, natural (or even no) makeup lights the way.
The good girl's guide to pr0n for women
Body Secrets:If you'd like to explore pr0n but haven't got a clue where to start without infecting your innocent eyes or poor little computer with Bad, we've concocted a Good girl's guide to pr0n - yes, computer-safe pr0n for women that isn't rubbish! Pack your rabbit, click the (mouse) button and enjoy...
Haydria perfume - Scent of a bygone era
Perfumed world: The Haydria Perfumery is a glittering, jewel-encrusted, pin-up perfumery run by a very lovely lady named, funnily enough, Haydria. She loves the pin-up lifestyle and aims to use scent to take girls back to the fifties and sixties; to the age of happy-go-lucky pastel shades and rhinestones a-go-go...
Mooky guide to (cheaply) weaning your baby
Alternative pregnancy: Weaning is something mommas-to-be often get excited about. Teaching your baby to eat foody not booby is something you can photograph and Facebook all your friends with. The reality is messier.
What exactly IS natural and organic beauty?
Alternative beauty: Manufacturers often market so-called 'organic' beauty products with synthetic formulations because what we think of as 'natural' and 'organic' isn't what appears in the dictionary...
Toxic beauty: How hidden chemicals in cosmetics can harm you
Anti-fashion Beauty Activist: Find out more about the hidden toxic chemicals in cosmetics.
Pink hair: A love affair
Ever wanted to dye your hair pink? Hair salonista Anya Goy says THE most popular alternative hair colour request is for pink hair, so you're not alone. Pink hair is like the blonde hair of the alternative world. Why? Because they's both gots binga-banga-bing-bong sex appeal! We look at the whys and wherefores of pink hair and what pink hair dye says about you.
Electro style - get the Lady Gaga look
Makeup tips: Electro diva Lady GaGa is the current queen of kitsch. With her human hair and pvc knickers, Lady GaGa is inspiring make-up lovers everywhere to take on the staple electro make-up trend - the Lady Gaga lightning bolt.
Pregnancy symptoms - the embarrassing bits
There are some good things about pregnancy - the end result, people letting you have their seat on buses, and worried partners who do your bidding willingly. Read on - even if you're not up the duff, pregnancy symptoms are interesting stuff!
Mooky guide to choosing the best alternative hair colours for you
Professional hair stylist Anya Goy was asked if Audrey Kitching's current hair colour (pink with white streaks) would suit a customer's her darker bronze skin tone. Which got her thinking... The hairdye rules for alternative hair colours are unwritten. Find out which hair colour suits you!
Hair tips for alternative black girls
White chocolate flavours (white people) have troubles finding the right look, but it's easier for girls with white skins to strike lucky. Dark chocolate flavours (black people) have to work a gothic style that bit harder due to dark skin tones. Let's look at how to have beautiful, healthy alternative hairstyles if you're a black girl.
How to wash your hair
Yes, you deliciously dirty urchin. We mean you! Unless you're not washing your hair as a statement, or because you're backpacking, you have no excuse. Wash your hair! So here are a few of the most basicest and usefulest hair care tips of all.
Morning sickness - natural remedies and cures
Holistic health: Morning sickness is one of the first signs of pregnancy and most mothers-to-be will get some form of it. Mookychick strides forth proudly to present mooky mommas with some natural remedies and cures for this blighted and unwelcome visitor.
How to be a fun, gluten-free goddess and get away with it
If you're gluten-free it means that food containing wheat, barley, and other glutinous things is out to get you like a bad horror film. If the queen of nectars no longer covers the food-digesting intestines of your stomach, read our guide to living on a gluten-free diet.
How to deal with a really bad hair day
Bad dye jobs, failed chemical straightening, split ends, damaged or fried hair... some bad hair days are worse than the everyday tragedy of 'Crap, I must disguise my greasy locks with a ponytail/hat'. End the bad hair day with our advice.
18th century makeup tutorial - for budding aristocrats
Make-up Tips: This Marie Antionette makeup tutorial is designed to make you look like a great big slutty princess for cheap - all pale skin, big eyes, plumped lips and flushed cheeks. With a dash of powder and paint, my child, you will be fey, abandoned, yet with a hint of control. The future beckons... and it looks just like the past!
>Winter lip care tips
With harsh winter weather and high central heating indoors, even the softest of lips can soon dry out. There are plenty of cheap and free ways to take care of your lips inside and out. Just don't chew your chapped, flaky lips - it makes a skin baby will grow inside you. Science fact!
How to cure winter colds and flu
Body and Beauty: Could you pass Kerz a tissue? She's got flu. The good news is she ended up sat in bed looking over some old fashioned wives' tales on how to cure it. Now she's on the mend, here are her tips and wives' tales on how to avoid cold and flu in winter...
Wake me up... How to deal with a monday morning
Body and Beauty: There are good ways and bad ways to wake up. The bad way makes the thought of leaving the nice, warm safety of your bed worse than fighting off an army of clawed chav-bears. Theses 8 tips will make sure you wake up in a good mood and stay that way.
How to apply Indian dance makeup
Alternative beauty: he makeup required for classical indian dance (temple dance) is powerful look, better suited to night than day (unless you're a brave soul and a facepaint pioneer). It's equally suitable for dark and light skins. Your new face will make princes gasp as you dance by moonlight.
Moisturize spots away with baby bottom butter
Beauty: There are acne-flavoured product brands out there that promise visibly clearer skin in 3 days, and the prevention of spots. They don't always work. People are often told they need to moisturise to help acne go away, but creams often make skin greasy and actually seem to develop spots. Until...
Satellite 3 - Unearthly cosmetics for Nu Skool spacegirls
Beauty: In a brave new age where cosmetics are serious business, Satellite 3 make-up is a high quality but still playful make-up brand that's stocked in places like Cyberdog. Lippies disguised as recyclable rocket ships? Mookychick finds out more.
Gothic eye makeup - for all
Beauty: When most people think of goth eye make-up they usually imagine thick, black lines around the eye, and panda-like dark eyeshadow. (Er, guilty...) Whilst this is a tried-and-true goth look, if you look around at your friendly neighbourhood goths you'll see swirls, glitter, and even - gasp! - colour. Many goth girls and guys like to get creative with makeup, and 'dramatic' is the word to remember. PS. - with this makeup this gorgeous, non-goths are also allowed!
Epilator deathmatch round 2 - the triple disc challenge
Beauty: Remember our initial epilator deathmatch? Well, we've got a new kid on the block - the Panasonic wet/dry epilator. Witness its triple spin discs of death, danger and desire (that's death to hair, danger to any hair thinking of growing out of your hairy body, and desire for less body hair). Hurrah!
Simple eyes for contemporary styles
Beauty: A girl's best friend may well be a large bin full of rainbow eye shadows, eyeliners, lipsticks, mascara and fake eyelashes. However, do we need to look like an electroclash princess every time we go out? Here's a simple contemporary look that speaks volumes and is perfect from morning to night.
Beauty Top Gear Challenge: Test-driving mineral cosmetics
Beauty: Dispel all thoughts of Jeremy Clarkson in drag. Our intrepid Mookychick beauty contributor was sent a host of Care Free Beauty samples with the provisor she test-drive them to hell and back. Char got behind the beauty wheel and gave them a thorough seeing-to - from the nice lippy and eyeshadow to the bronzer which stole her heart and eloped with her to sunny Mexico...
How to eat fruit. The sexy way.
Body: Eating fruit for your 5 a day is a soulless way to go about filling your body with beauty. It's much nicer to eat fruit as a meditation on how wonderful, sticky and enriching life can be. Use sight, smell, touch and taste to turn eating fruit into something rather extraordinarily beautiful. Today, yes, fruit. Tomorrow... the world.
How to be a healthy vegetarian
Body: Vegetarian? Thinking about it? When vegetarians choose to deny themselves part of what's considered a normal balanced diet, can they make up for the change? Forget ethics and look after yourself with this handy guide to a healthy vegetarian diet. We'll leave looking after your conscience to you.
Eating disorders and the gothic community
Body: The media is obsessed with our shape and dieting extremes are splashed all over the tabloids. The spotlight is on weight, whether it's the emaciated or the morbidly obese. Subcultures focus on breaking free of mainstream boundaries in favour of personal freedom. But, when it comes to weight, are subcultures subject to their own internal pressures? Has alternative culture escaped the madness?
Flawless canvas: Skin care routines made easy
Beauty: In today's society everybody is worried about how they look, but skin care is more important than makeup and doesn't have to take much time or effort. The golden rule is to keep your skin a flawless canvas on which you can unleash your style. Once you've performed these skin care routines a few times they'll become a ten minute ritual that will leave you looking and feeling brisk and special.
Sexual health checkups: The positives
Body: An STI checkup at a sexual health clinic need not be a grim experience. As women are apparently supposed to get a cervical exam once a year, Holly-Rae Smith has written about her own positive experience to put some minds at ease.
How to get pale skin
Beauty tips: Her dark hair shimmered in the moonlight - and it struck her admirer that her skin reflected the colour of that pale orb so perfectly as to seem almost bloodless.
Not pale yet, but want the illusion of pallor? Well, all beauty's an illusion. So here's to cheating...
Skin purgatory: Psoriasis
Body: Want a strange kind of body confidence? Get psoriasis, says Kate Morrison. This sexy little skin disease will ensure that you will never again angst over your love handles, your weird feet or chunky calves. Because you'll be far too worried about covering up.
Recharge tips for mooky mommas
If you're a mooky momma building up a tribe from scratch, it could be that you don't always got your sparkle on. These 10-minute tips will go a long way to getting back on the case once you've put the babies to bed.
How to dye black hair blonde...
Sometimes the urban myths are true - yes, dyeing your hair from black to blonde is a nightmare. Mookychick suggests ways to go about it, and comes up with damage limitation tips for when it all goes wrong. Breathe easy. We've all been there...
Health tips: Surviving the party season
'Autumn months are packed with parties', says E_Diva. 'By the time New Year is over, you'll be screaming for a Friday night in. All that high living can take a toll, but there are lots of tricks that can help you out so that you are always looking and feeling your best.'
Bondage for beginners: Scarf-play!
Wendy Withers goes to FetishCon and learns a little about scarf bondage - a sweet, sexy and non-threatening form of bondage for beginners.
Celebrity skin
Now that the sun is (sort of) shining again, it's time to step up your summer skincare routine. The weather is only going to get hotter, meaning trouble in the form of aging UV rays. These quick tips will ensure you look your best all season long!
Hypnotherapy: The Big Smoke
With Britain signed up for a smoking ban in all public enclosed spaces, people are either in the process of building a Depression-era 'smokeasy' in their basement or figuring out how to quit the habit. Veteran smoker E_Diva checks out hypnotherapy to see if it really can make you stop smoking...
Mineral cosmetics - pure makeup for pure people
What's natural, protects your skin from the harsh rays of the sun, great for all skin types, plus gives your complexion a healthy, glowing finish? It's not magic, but mineral makeup; the hottest thirty year old trend to be hailed as the 'new' beauty solution.
Party pills - health guide
A new generation of drugs have appeared on the dance scene over the last two years. They are available from shops and hyped as a safe, legal alternative to ecstasy. But are they as safe as the hype makes out?
Villainess soaps
Do you long for the latest but loathe the hassle? Bring those must-have brands straight to your door without the bother of in-store rack wrestling or standing in crowded lines, via the power of the Internet! There are loads of respected etailers who can make your beauty dreams come true, with a little bit of point and click. Check out what's hot this week - soaps from the glorious 'Villainess'!
The art of bathing
We take hard steamy showers to open pores and get clean, but take long soaks in the tub to revive the spirit... E_Diva suggests curiously exotic products and reveals tricks of the trade to help you explore the art of bathing to its fullest extent.
Be mine, Valentine... Valentine's gifts with love from you to you xxx
Why, oh why, do we care about Valentine's Day? It's simple, really. We're women, and we adore gifts. So why wait for your beau to figure it out? Why not gift YOURSELF this year? No matter how indie, or trendy, you may be... we are all enamoured with lovely things. We like to look good, feel good, and smell great. So whether you're single or loved up this Valentine's Day, pamper yourself a bit and make the holiday special with these 'self love' gift ideas, created by women, for women.
High street skincare and cosmetics for eczema and problem skin
Sometimes you can suffer from 3 problems at once: you have delicate problem skin, you're on a tight budget, and there's no health store near you (or you can't be arsed to go to one). If this sums you up, Georgie Hanmer recommends the products that she finds have personally saved both her skin and her social life.
Hair tips: Removing henna from hair
Henna is a natural, ethical and often beautiful option - but it's a permanent colour so once you've taken the step of putting henna in your hair it's hard to go back. Here are our tips for what to do if you have a henna-based hair disaster.
DIY Beauty: Home-made hair-care products
In an age of hi-tek complicated beauty regimes, why spend a million bucks on your hair when you only end up looking like a pooky old ten? You had better raid your kitchen for natural home-made hair-care products which actually WORK, dammit!
Lip Facercise!
Here are some facercises you can do at home to make your lips firm and plump... Like Molly Ringwald, but better
NATURAL CURES FOR DEPRESSION
We all have times - especially in winter - when we are frayed at the edges and feel as pooky as a chicken in a basket. Mookychick explores a host of natural remedies for a host of common problems.
HOW TO HAVE A DIY ACID SKIN PEEL
Spending loads of dosh to get an acid skin peel may not be dangerous but it is silly. Amanda Prouten tells you how to get the same effect in your kitchen. It involves pineapples and rum... how could it possibly go wrong?
Hangover Tips and hangover Cures
There's
a fine line between making merry and feeling beautiful
and wild and free, and beautifully and freely projectile-chucking
onto a bedroom rug.
Check our hangover tips for
before, during and after boozing to
minimise the possible damage to your body and pride.
HOW TO GET BIG POUTY LIPS
Apparently men go wild for big, kissy, pink, puffy pouty lips as it looks like you're sexually up for it and they'll fantasise like mad about you getting your gums around their plums and such-like. Here's how you get big pouty lips without spending dosh or going under the knife!
Get healthy skin
Whether you want natural beauty or theatrical drama, you'll need skin so translucent friends can see the blue fizzy pop you're drinking go right down your neck.
rsi exercises
You've probably heard of RSI. Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is caused by repetitive hand movements, like when you use a computer. Here are some nice tips to chase it off - because it's rubbish, it really is.
Health and Beauty Tips
Hairstyles, makeup tips, alternative beauty products, beauty tips and makeup tutorials plus holistic health and depression advice - Mookychick
