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How to be a sex goddess
How to guides: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me". Vamp screen icon Tallulah Bankhead was a sex goddess with some bite to her, and she even managed to keep her clothes - most of the time. With some nips and tucks to your attitude, not your body, you can be a bona fide sex goddess too.
How to be a pirate
Pirates vs ninjas: Leaving aside their bitter rivals the zombies, robots and monkeys (for the moment), Mookychick will attempt to answer the age-old question - pirates or ninjas? This week, Deborah Taylor (scourge of the seven seas and owner of a genuine hip flask filled with rum) will discuss the magnificent nature of one of the finest creatures known to man - the less-than-humble pirate.
How to be a punk
How to guides: Punk is as relevant today as it was when it first rose up and people like Iggy and Siouxsie had no idea what they were doing, only that it felt right. It's pro-intelligence and anti-apathy, and that's why we like it. Here is the Mookychick guide to how to be a punk. Hey. Ho. Let's go. Oi oi!
How to make a pirate ship cake
How to guides: When Mookychick discovered the lovely Ericka knew how to make a pirate ship cake (both dairy and vegan versions) we just about went mental. Nothing else mattered. Let's drop everything, stop wasting our lives and make pirate ship cakes IMMEDIATELY.
DIY Burlesque queen - how to make your own burlesque nipple tassles!
How to guides: Nipple tassels (aka "pasties") are the ace up a burlesque dancer's proverbial sleeve as she turns her back to the audience to remove her bra and reveal she's topless... but not quite!Nipple tassles are not just for a burlesquer. They are a perfect way to end a sexy striptease or to complete an outfit and even better, while lingerie companies charge an arm and a leg, you can make them yourself!
How to look good on the dancefloor
How to guides: It's Saturday night, the party's on, you've got your best high heels and you're pumped full of confidence for the night ahead. Except... uh-oh. The dance floor. Whether you're a smooth shaker or a diva of disaster, here are some simple rules to making sure you're the best little mover out there...
A Roller Derby Widow's Guide to the Grief Process
How to guides: So, fellas, and some lucky ladies, your partner has joined the rollergirl derby? And now you sit in a house full of sexy hosiery wondering when you will see your partner again...
How to start a crazy project and take over the world
How to guides: Crazy Projects have become almost the norm lately. What with any number of small-time, local projects where people don't use electricity or sign a pledge not to buy anything unnecessary for a year, it's almost as if everyone but you has a crazy project going on. Here's how to start your own!
How to throw a tea party!
How to guides: Every girl, whether a natural-born tomboy or not, has at one point in time wished deep in their heart and soul that they could participate in a classic tea party! With all the frills, fluff and glitter that they've heard of on television or in books! So here's how to have one!
How to decorate your room for a black light party
Throwing a themed party? Or want to turn your room/toilet into an unearthly glowing dream? The Mookychicks give you the lowdown on decorating your room so it glows under a UV black light...
10 Top tips for surviving Summernats car festival
Summernats car festival in Australia is extreme twice over: it's a man's world of cars, cars cars... and it's a festival, with all the craziness a festival has to offer. Larissa has been to one and survived. Now you can, too...
10 Top Tips for surviving Rollergirl obssession
Skating, bonding, bruising and super-slut fashion are all part of what it means to be a rollergirl, and it's an obssession you pay for... in sweat. Read Hope 'n' Gory's 10 top tips for surviving a crash-course in becoming a rollergirl!
How to help the homeless at Christmas
Christmas consumerism can be lovely when kept in its place, but if you're yearning to do something different this year, one option might be to help the homeless as well as your family, friends and self. Giving homeless people a nice Christmas might be easier than you think!
How to decorate for Christmas on the cheap
No-one keeps their house festively decorated year round, not even you, but sometimes you gots to impress a special guest with minutes to spare and no cash to hand. Here are some quick tips for making your place look, smell and sound Christmassy on the cheap...
How to catch and keep a fairy lover
Popular culture has only recently admitted that male fairies are not only fickle and dangerous but also outrageously good-looking. Read our 10 top tips on catching and keeping a fairy lover...
The Mooky guide to jazz-age slang
Language changes all the time, but the late 1920s and 1930s were a period of music, poverty, alcohol and sexual freedom - creative, dangerous times. And oh boy, did the slang move around a little! Grab some moxy, add a little jazz age colour to your life, and everything'll be just peachy keen...
10 Ways to get really great at scare-acting
Scare-acting is one of the more unusual jobs out there - you'll find scare actors in theme parks, 'haunted house' visitor attractions - anywhere where there might be a need for a vampire or werewolf to jump out at a punter and scare them sideways. The lovely and non-scary Wendy Withers gives you 10 tips on how to be really effective at scare-acting...
10 Ways to survive emo heckling
If you've got a lip-piercing and a curtain of hair some crazy people will automatically think you cut yourself. Or sing songs about how numb/full of feeling you are. That is, they will call you an emo kid. Jazz Croft tells you how to deal with this if/when it happens to you...
10 Tips for going to your first Convention
Whether it's a tattoo, fetish, comics or classic sci-fi convention, the rules are always the same: save money on food/hotels so you can spend it on the things that really matter, dress up if you dare and aim to get as much out of the Con as possible. Wendy Withersnarrows it down...
How to make the world a better place
From planting flowers and buying food for strangers to giving a boyf a surprise bj, there are 101 gajillion ways to be a happy emo and make this world a better place. Amanda Prouten (the big tease) is going to give you 12 of them.
How to hunt in vintage stores and charity shops
Charity shops, or vintage stores, can be a strange-smelling world of ugly support girdles or an Ali Baba cave of brooches and die-for one-offs. Anna Blackaby tells you how to turn the mysterious forces that govern charity shops into your ally, not your enemy.
How to hunt in vintage stores and charity shops... and make a successful kill
How to survive Valentine's Day
Debbie Read points out that Valentine's Day (a) is a satan-spawned commercial moneyhole, (b) is a way for cheapskate loved ones to get out of pampering you every day of your life, the way you so richly deserve, rather than just once a year. But it's still rather cute. Even if you're single.
How to survive Valentine's Day
Debbie Read points out that Valentine's Day (a) is a satan-spawned commercial moneyhole, (b) is a way for cheapskate loved ones to get out of pampering you every day of your life, the way you so richly deserve, rather than just once a year. But it's still rather cute. Even if you're single.
10 Ways to survive being an alternative student
Alternative students may feel stranded and freakish if college feels alien to them. If you're a corset-wearing goth rather than a guitar/bong indie kid, you can flourish in college and still remain true to your own bitchin' alternative self.
10 Ways to deal with a nasty break-up
Things seem to be going well in your relationship then all of a sudden you're told that 'it's just not working'. You're left with nothing but a head full of now unwanted memories. Holly-Rae Smith says it's time to take matters into your own hands...
10 Ways to survive your twenties
Keep a blog, knit, write a book, question your sexuality, start a band and don't think about being thirty ... Kaite Welsh gives you some top tips for surviving your twenties with style.
Learn how to go dumpster diving!
The DIY ethic is an anti-consumerist stance that says you don't have to buy to get what you need. Dumpster diving is a legal, easy and much-fun way to start rejecting consumer sensibilities.
10 Top Tips to Survive College
University and college will rarely prepare you for a job, but will teach you how to enjoy yourself and form opinions of your own. They are rewarding if you play by your rules, not the university's...
10 Ways to cheat at pool
Let's be straight - you couldn't use these tactics if you were hustling, say, Paul Newman, but in a friendly hook-up in a poolhall or bar all these techniques are 100% valid. Especially if you have half an eye on your opponent.
10 Ways to survive a festival
Mookygirls love a good, loud, screamy festival occasionally. This festival survival guide will make sure you come out the other side with fond memories, rather than head injuries and STDs.
10 Ways to survive australian men
Aussie men are pretty much from the same pot as other XY specimens, except they have a bit more sand down their pants. Amber McGown-Rules explains how to survive the malleable boythings that are aussie menfolk, and get azactly what you want from them...
20 WAYS TO SURVIVE AN UNDERGROUND JOURNEY
Whether the problem is bombs, crazy bastards or boredom, our guide to 20 ways to survive an underground journey will remove your underground train phobias for ever.
20 WAYS TO SURVIVE A HANGOVER
For everyone who has woken up in the bath half-dressed and clutching someone else's shoe, here's the real and definitive way to survive a hangover.
10 Ways to survive the UK hooded top ban
You've all heard about the bad press that hoodies have got in the UK, with the government wanting to ban hoodies because they hide the faces of naughty criminal types on CCTV cameras. Let's beat the ban!
