Amy Winehouse singing live at Cardiff Student Union I clearly remember the first time I listened to Amy Winehouse’s album Frank. More than any other album in my life, the songs and the clarity of her lyrics had a massive impact on me. That’s what her legacy should be – the ability to move millions [...]
November 24, 2010 – 3:53 pm
The UK government is considering introducing plain packaging to tobacco packs, in an effort to deglamourise smoking to children. According to health secretary Andrew Lansley, “The evidence is clear that packaging helps to recruit smokers, so it makes sense to consider having less attractive packaging”. It’s all a far cry from tobacco’s consumerist heyday in [...]
By Jeni
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Also posted in Fashion & Beauty, Health & Fitness, Marketing and advertising, Musings
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Tagged advertising, amelia earheart, anti-smoking, blogs, brown tobacco packs, cigarettes, Fashion & Beauty, marketing, smoking, tobacco, uk government, vintage adverts, vintage smoking adverts
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October 13, 2009 – 1:43 pm
tFS A word of warning; normally where Mary-Kate Olsen leads, fashion trends follow. Expect to see a plethora of clogs, woven bags, velvet skirts and eighties-style wetlook jackets in a store near you soon! Any flares I owned were thrown out along with my crop tops and scrunchies back when I was about eleven, but [...]
By Jeni
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Also posted in Fashion & Beauty, Inspiration
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Tagged 80s, bags, Celebrity & Media, chanel, clogs, eighties, Fashion & Beauty, flares, jacket, mary-kate, olsen, olsen twins, olsens, style, trend, velvet
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October 11, 2009 – 6:12 pm
What do the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Scarlett Johansson, Ashlee Simpson and Agyness Deyn (to name but a few!) have in common? They all know the secret. Well, not so much a secret, but one of the best cures for boredom or a life-rut is to change your hair-do. Not content with simply getting a [...]
By Jeni
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Also posted in Fashion & Beauty, Inspiration
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Tagged ashlee simpson, blonde, brunette, change, christian louboutin, color, colour, dye, dyeing, evangeline lilly, hair, ideas, Inspiration, lily cole, lindsay lohan, nicole richie, outfit, raven, redhead, scarlett johansson, selma hayek, should, style, wardrobe, wear, what to wear
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October 6, 2009 – 7:05 pm
This is the first in a series of blog posts where I am going to merely display lots of pictures and some info about a certain celebrity, TV show, artist or whatever. First up is my new addiction – True Blood. Having watched both season one and two in a matter of weeks I am [...]
By Jeni
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Also posted in Musings
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Tagged alan ball, alexander skarsgard, anna paquin, bill compton, fellowship of the sun, jason, ryan kwanten, sookie, stackhouse, stephen moyer, true blood, vampires
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September 26, 2009 – 7:40 pm
Digital file-sharing is not going to go away. It is a passion for music which sustains such habits, and yet it is also a passion for music which argues that it cannot go on. Falling sales revenues raises fears that fewer and fewer artists will be able to fund themselves and their music if their [...]
By Jeni
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Also posted in Music, Musings
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Tagged Annie Lennox, Downloads, Ed O'Brien, FAC, Featured Artists Coalition, File-Sharing, Government, illegal, Kate Nash, Lord Mandelson, Music, music industry, piracy, radiohead, Spotify, Three-Strikes
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