Five of the best sites to customise your life
The internet is a pretty wonderful place to shop for the objects of your desire. Filled with every kind of retailer you can imagine, you’ve got a pretty unlimited array of options for clothing, food, transport and well, anything really.
The greatest advantage of shopping online has to be customisation. Worried about turning up at a big family event in the same dress as your Aunt Glenda? Design your own online. Need the perfect present that shows someone how much you love them? Get clicking.
So, fancy pimpin’ up your life a little? Here are a few of the best customisation sites.
Kenneth Cole releases a range of touchscreen watches for the fashion crowd
We’ve got touchscreen tablets, touchscreen phones, touchscreen TVs (for a lucky few), so it was only a matter of time before touchscreen watches hit the market too. The man behind this new collection of watches is Kenneth Cole, a man better known for producing sought-after shoes than high-tech time wear. Having already been seen on the delicate... Read
Sherlock Style: Grab his Belstaff Millford Coat
While Sherlock may be better know for his brains rather than his beauty, he also has the ability to be a rather dapper chap. His style revolves around smart suits, a dark selection of scarves to keep him warm whilst dashing around London and, of course, the ever present Milford coat that had girlgeeks across the nation swooning. His patterned coat... Read
iPulse Smooth Skin: Dork Review
Hair removal. Tedious, time-consuming and occasionally painful. You’d think this would be something evolution would have sorted out for us ladies. I’ve tried most of the methods out there for defuzzing. A brief dalliance with waxing, epilating and threading tested my (very low) pain threshold to the limit. Hair removal cream only succeeded... Read
Dork Adore at the Cosmopolitan Blog Awards
Last week I went along to the launch of Cosmopolitan magazine’s first blog awards. It started at 9am (9am!) and I got there so fashionably late that I actually missed all the speeches and most of the pastries. However, there were just enough people still wafting around the cool, creamy interior of the Future Gallery in London to make it worth... Read
Group Buying: The latest online shopping trend
River Wellbeing Spa at The Rafayel Hotel A couple of months ago, I wrote about the various bargain designer clothes sites available online. Since then, another type of shopping has taken off in a big way, giving consumers the chance to take advantage of group buying for fun activities. Group buying (also known as mobdeals or groupons) is where a website... Read
Five of the best dorky t-shirts
Every dork worth his or her salt has a geeky t-shirt somewhere in the wardrobe. Whether it features a favourite video game, a geeky sci-fi program or a random catchphrase no one else has heard of, it’ll be lurking there somewhere. So if you haven’t got one yet, your geek credentials are in serious doubt. I suggest you rectify the situation... Read
Review: Sketchers Shape-ups
Being a bit of a gym-dodger when it comes to exercise, the concept of a pair of trainers that tones up the legs and bum without taking a step near a treadmill appealed immediately. So, when Fitness Footwear offered me the chance to try out their latest range of Shape Up trainers, I happily took on the challenge. A few days later and I was strapping... Read
Maybelline Pulse Perfection Mascara Review
A little while ago I mentioned a couple of vibrating mascaras that proudly claimed to be the Next Big Thing in the world of cosmetics. Following in the footsteps of the vibrating cleansers (the Neutrogena Wave and the Clarisonic Skin Therapy System) and the vibrating hair straighteners (The Pink Vibe Straighteners), the vibrating mascaras promise to... Read
Where to find bargain designer clothes online
Designer stores scare me. Snooty shop assistants, ultra-organised and therefore intimidating rails, and huge price tags have me running for the high street faster than you can say “so this season” The thing is, after years of buying cheap and cheerful high street clothes, I want to start investing in a few high quality designer pieces.... Read
