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Taking the plunge to change all your products to cruelty free ones can be pretty daunting. Up until quite recently many beauty companies have tested on animals and your choices for good, vegan cosmetics were limited to say the least. With the boom of modern science and the development of computer-based testing, it’s becoming easier...

Carolina Are is a 25-year-old Italian/Londoner and multi-talented extraordinaire. Being a novelist isn’t the only thing she’s got under her belt - she’s also a pole dancer, performer, lecturer, PhD student and even writes her own blog where she writes all about her fascinating life. Not to mention she’s currently working in academia full-time teaching Criminology,...

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. The highly anticipated next instalment to Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada series is coming this year! Most of us have read the first two books or watched the film at least, and loved the high fashion, sassy characters and glamour. So it’s only natural that we’re all buzzing for...

If you’re anything like me you’re incredibly proud of your little library of books you've collected over the years. You’ll display them on your shelf with a glorious sense of pride, spines pristine and un-cracked, pages beautifully preserved. Your books look like they belong in a museum and you’ll be sick of hearing comments like “none...

Up until recent years the fantasy market seemed to be dominated by ‘blokes in cloaks’, they were long, wordy novels about the heroics of men – don’t get me wrong I love The Lord of the Rings more than anything – but I always felt that they were missing something important. That important little thing they...

There was a time where if you said “I love Young-Adult literature” you’d be met with a dirty stare and assaulting comments like “but that’s not proper literature” or “why on earth would you bother reading that?” However, since the release of gritty gripping YA thrillers like The Hunger Games and Divergent or sultry romances...

If you’re after a show jam-packed full of girl-power, fabulously dramatic 80’s hairstyles and realistic women - that don’t look like they’ve just stepped off the catwalk - then Netflix’s GLOW is the TV show you’ve been waiting for.                     If you think women’s wrestling your...

In this day and age it still continues to surprise me that so many Makeup companies continue to test on animals. Being a total animal lover buying makeup that bashes bunnies is something that’s never sit right with me, but I’ve always found that it’s hard to find makeup that is genuinely good and doesn’t...

The 90’s: those were the days weren’t they? When your life was free from the restraints of technology, catching up with your friends meant meeting up at the local park or - God forbid - using the house phone, and the height of fashion was glittery jelly shoes or the coolest light up trainers. Life really was...