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How to Steal the Style of The 1920s.

by Carly Jacobs
  Match the colour of your handbag to your shoes and belt. How quaint.   Wear Chanel No. 5 – the signature fragrance of Marilyn Monroe created in 1921. She wore it to bed… and nothing else.   Drink whisky with ice and paint your fingernails and lips blood red.     Wear as many bangles that will fit on your wrist and carry a clutch bag. A delicious beaded one with nothing more Read the rest!
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How To Survive a Long Distance Relationship.

by Carly Jacobs
Love is so inconvenient. I’d know. I fell in love with an 18-year-old when I was 22 and we’ve quite casually and completely accidentally been together for 6 whole years. Fuck knows how that happened, I was supposed to spend the last six years on boats in Greece getting lots of hairy cock and STDs but as fate would have it, here I am, living in domestic bliss with a man who still gives me tingles in my n Read the rest!
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How to Pose for Photos During the Christmas Season

by Carly Jacobs
This is the time of year when you will get photographed continuously. It’s also the time of year when most of us are sporting extra podge and/or sunburn. Here are a few tips that I like to keep in mind around those sneaky Chrissy morning snappers. * Always pose. There’s nothing worse than a picture of you all hunch backed and double chinned, glugging back a cocktail with your eyes half-shut. Just be a Read the rest!
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How to Stay Focused When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed.

by Kimberley Smith
Today we have the inspirational Kimberley from Dream. Delight. Inspire. with tips on how to stay focused when you’re feeling overwhelmed. Oh how I wish I were a super productive little dynamo Virgo like our dear Lady Smaggle here, but unfortunately I am a disorganised million-miles-an-hour Sagittarian mess. I usually have about a bajillion great ideas, a gaggle of to do lists, a stack-load of bookmarked websi Read the rest!
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How to Style Curly Hair so that it Stays Curly and Frizz Free

by Carly Jacobs
Hello my lovelies. This is a follow-up video to… follow-up… on my previous hair videos. I had a light bulb moment where I realised I completely forgot to show you my secret technique for keeping my curls under control and frizz free. Products used include Moroccan Oil, Moroccan Oil Curl Control Mousse (sent to me from Elise at Stuff That I Bought for editorial consideration), John Frieda Volume Spray Read the rest!
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How to Recover From Major Embarrassment.

by Carly Jacobs
This week, I had a reader ask how to save face and move on if you’ve done something really embarrassing. Before we get on with it, I have to say that it is almost impossible to embarrass me. It can happen, but it’s rare. I’m the daughter of a nurse and a plumber so poos, wees and farts are child’s play in the embarrassment leagues for me and in my life I’ve worked with teenagers, drug Read the rest!
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Smaggle’s Guide to Women for the Modern Man – Blunt Version

by Carly Jacobs
  These are questions that I’ve heard actual men, ask real live women in the past week. Here are the answers. The blunt ones. Why do you use so much toilet paper? We bleed, quite profusely, from our vaginas for five to seven days every month. Think about how many tissues you’d use, if you had a week long blood nose. We also use toilet paper for both wees and poos, which means we use it around five Read the rest!
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How to Break-Up With Friends without Looking Like a Dick.

by Carly Jacobs
  I had a reader write in this week asking about how to break up with friends. It’s so awkward. Especially if someone is not picking up on the clues that you’re trying to phase them out. Please don’t take this advice as harsh, it’s for dire situations only and I truly believe that no one should have to spend their free time with people whose company they don’t enjoy. Here’s Read the rest!
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How to Create An Amazing Group of Friends

by Carly Jacobs
This guest post comes from my girl Sarah Von. When she was visiting we were dicussing how sad it is that all our greatests posts are dying in our archives. I’ve dug out a piece she wrote on how to craft an awesome group of close friends. Enjoy. May I wax immodest for a moment and tell you that I have an amazing group of friends? Really. I count some of the funniest, smartest, most accomplished, most amazing Read the rest!
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How To Stop Hannibal Lecter from Eating Your Face.

by Carly Jacobs
  When you were a little kid, did your parents have a scary video that you weren’t allowed to watch? A video that was so awful, so horrifying, that they warned you implicitly NEVER to watch it? My parents had one. It was a recorded off the TV, VHS tape of The Silence of the Lambs. They hid it at the back of the video cupboard. They needn’t have bothered. I had no intention of EVER watching that v Read the rest!
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