Health
Is your doctor giving you placebo drugs?
When we visit our local GPs, many of us only feel as if we have been properly dealt with if we leave with a prescription for appropriate medication. But how would you feel if you found out that your doctor had issued you a placebo drug, instead of a medicine that have some chance of [...]
SlimSticks latest diet product to claim to stop hunger pangs, but do they work?
It appears that the usual way of getting rid of those extra pounds by exercising and eating less food are losing favour, and people are looking to quick fix diet aids, that utilise everything from fat binding to fat freezing in an attempt to aid weight loss. Step up to the plate the latest product [...]
Zombie Scent is a surprising hit with the living!
In an age of celebrity fragrances, where anyone who is worth a few quid has launched their own perfume, you definitely have to create something that is pretty spectacular to stand out in an ever increasingly over burgeoned market. To this end, a top fragrance company has launched the first perfume, inspired by the living [...]
Rodial’s Glamolash is latest mascara to promise thicker lashes in just TWO WEEKS!
Well here’s one I missed earlier! For regular Shoppersbase readers interested in our beauty product section, you may have already caught our article on the Top Ten Mascaras for 2013. Here we focused on mascara formulations that instantly enhanced eyelashes, providing both a natural and a full on false lash effect. Now, the beauty experts [...]
Nicki Minaj Launches Pink Friday Perfume at Selfridges with Limited Edition Outfits for the Bottles
She is undoubtably one of the world’s most colourful and unique pop stars to emerge from the last few years. Her ever-changing image could rival that of Madonna’s, and her outspoken views on the U.S TV American Idol have made her into a national treasure. Nicki Minaj, the 30 year old rapper, born in Trinidad [...]
Spring and Summer 2013 Hair Trends
It wasn’t just the clothes making waves on the catwalks at the spring-summer fashion shows, trendsetters had their eyes firmly on the hairstyles too. From super straight locks to grown-up blow dries, sexy secretary-style buns to low maintenance ponytails, there was something to suit everyone. Here’s our round-up of the biggest hair trends for the [...]
Top Ten Mascaras 2013
Have you noticed that adverts for mascaras no longer use digitally enhanced images or lash inserts? Do you think that we can now start believing what we see on magazines and the TV, and that beauty companies are being more honest about what their products can actually do? Let’s hope so, but in the meantime, [...]
Kim Kardashian tries out new Vampire Blood Facial – the new anti-ageing facial is called Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections
Well, it was surely only a matter of time before we started injecting our own blood into our faces, in a vain attempt to hold back the years. I mean, let’s face it, we’ve tried snake and bee venom, dragon’s blood and tree bark, squeezing vials of our own plasma into our sagging cheeks should [...]
Vampire and UV LED lights are new trend for Contact Lens wearers
There is a brand new trend, hitting the clubs and high streets, and it is not for the faint hearted. Films such as Twilight and Batman have seen the rise of the manufacture of some pretty weird designer contact lenses, and young people are wearing them in order to look like their favourite movie stars. [...]
Fifty Shades of Orange? Darker Tan Colours Outselling as we all want to look like TOWIE Stars!
A healthy tan typically meant a few weeks sunning yourself in warmer climes, nowadays, achieving a golden glow is simply not enough, as consumers are looking to their favourite reality TV stars, and choosing darker shades of orange as their favourite selftan colour. Reports are suggesting that it is the really deep shades of fake [...]
