If you know me, you'll know I'm a scientist because I'm enough of a dork about it that I tend to tell everybody I meet. So, the idea of wearing some science round my neck for all the world to see got me very excited. These science equipment necklaces (£6.99 each from Finest Imaginary) are the … [Read more...]
Last Minute DIY Halloween Costumes
Left it a bit late to get your Halloween outfit sorted this year? Did you fail to pay heed to Emma's Best Halloween Outfit recommendations last week and now find yourself in a panic? Well now, shame on you, whatever were you thinking? Fortunately, I have been spending some quality time with the … [Read more...]
The best Halloween outfits
Halloween. A time when children dress up as cute little pumpkins and witches, teenage girls put together a 'costume' that merges scary with slutty, and grown ups desperately attempt to create something that looks cool and yet effortless. No doubt this year's ghoulish festivities will be primarily … [Read more...]
Super-geek Wil Wheaton collaborates with J!NX
Wil Wheaton, star of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Big Bang Theory, has recently announced a collaboration with J!NX to create a line of clothing. Wil Wheaton, who is a passionate supporter of the geek community, has helped design a selection of graphic t-shirts, influenced by gaming and geek … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Sherlock Style: Grab his Belstaff Milford 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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Group Buying: The latest online shopping trend
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) … [Read more...]