Category: Makeup

There are so many perfumes out there – the beauty shops and cosmetic counters are swimming in bottles of scent of some sort or another and our ears are bombarded with sales assistants imploring us to buy this offer or that when we get to the checkout.  I am very careful about any perfumery products […]

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I’ve had presents to get for a couple of seriously difficult people to buy for this year.  Both of them are very aged and both have dementia in varous stages.  It’s terribly difficult to concentrate the mind on any subject when we visit either of them – they flit from one bizarre disjointed sentence to […]

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Taking care of precious things is something we all think we are very good at.  Secretive little billets-doux as young love spring – never too eternally it turns out, but long enough to want to hide any written evidence . . .  Then there is the jewellery box with our favourite little bits and bobs […]

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There are different perfumes suitable for the changing seasons.  I find a light floral aroma in spring smells completely different again in autumn.  I cannot understand it when it has the same products in each time.  However I have been told that it reacts differently each time it is sprayed on a persons skin.  If […]

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Keeping cheerful in the depths of a cold and wintery day can sometimes be a challenge, even for the sturdiest of us.  I always find that a brisk walk round the lakes at my local country park is a truly exhiliarating exercise and works wonders for the brain, body and skin.  I have a short, […]

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