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Hello and happy Monday morning! I'm back for one more week starting today.
Currently myself and the rest of the Jack crew have been having big discussions about boys boy hair. I have funnily enough been getting a fair few emails through about male grooming, hair removal for men and all over body shavers for men! We have even been sent natural looking fake eyelashes for men (we will be doing a road test with these soon after spending a long week finding a boy happy to test them out)!
So as a Monday morning question I put to you some of the questions that have had rattling around our office for a week.
Do women prefer men with hair or without hair?
What happens when waxed/shaved chests become stubble?
And finally................
Are hairy men better in bed?
Have a good week, Lu x
Miss Cay
Sometimes I sit down and wonder what I could have achieved in my life by now if I wasn't constantly becoming distracted by the massive time gobbler known as the Internet. I love the Internet. I love the weird distractions it manages to throw in your direction, mostly when it is Sunday afternoon and you've got a feature to file by 9am the next morning. Instead of being good, making myself a cup of tea and actually getting down to some work yesterday, I managed to get bogged down in what is arguably one of the best blogs I've seen in ages, the rather amazing Sexy People.
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Polls
I'm a bit muddled by all of these celebrity smellies. I've seen three adverts for Kate Moss' Velvet Hour this morning. Three! Do you want to smell like Kate Moss? Do you really? Fags and stale champagne? Yeah, I'm sure in reality it smells lovely. But why has everyone gone perfume mad? There's a new one released each week (yes, Ms Brook I'm looking at you) and Jordan seemingly has a different smell for each day of the week.
But does it matter if a celeb is behind the smell? Will you buy a fragrance just because someone famous is behind it? Tell us what you think over the jump.
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Monday Question
Edward Stourton, something of an intellectual pash of mine (until it was ruined by coming across his photograph on an idle web trawl - rather like seeing what The Archers cast look like, and only marginally less distressing), is in the news this morning with the surprising-to-none revelation that Our Queen Mum was not one for political correctness. Claiming that she called our closest European cousins 'Huns, wops and dagos' he deemed her a 'ghastly old bigot' and recounts in his new book It's a PC World that 'The words were delivered with the eyes on maximum tiara-strength twinkle, but I am afraid I froze...I thought that what she had said was nasty and ugly.'
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In The News...
Following on from Leila's post last week about one Ms. Geldof, there was some interesting Peaches-related news in The Sun yesterday. Reporting that she was "caught leaving a trendy boutique without paying for clothes" I was put in mind of a naughty little chatette that Becca and I had recently, where we (or rather, I, in an rather ill-advised and inexplicable sharing-moment) fessed up to teenage shoplifting badness.
Granted, it was lipstick-testers and More-magazine-tucked-under-arms a-go-go (we were too scaredy to take anything grander) but it feels as if it's the one naughty thing most women have done. And statistically at least, it's girls rather than boys who do it.
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Celebrities
The Zooey Deschanel backlash has begun. Which is a shame, because here at Dollymix we think she's pretty great. We liked her in The Hitchhiker's Guide, she was the best thing about The Happening, Elf and Failure to Launch. But is she just a bit too kooky? That's the question. Jezebel weighs up the evidence. Anthem magazine reckons she's boring. Sure, she has a quirky way about her and a funny way of spelling her name, but since when was that a hanging offense? What do you think, readers? What is the Dollymix readership consensus on Ms Deschanel?
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Our bodies, ourselves
Wonderfully-named journo Hepzibah Anderson has a very interesting piece in the Guardian today about the real meaning of breast augmentation. Here's the gist:
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Monday Question
Interesting piece in one of the London papers recently suggests that couples ought to look for similar couples to hang out with. They give some cautionary tales of failure, and the following tips for double dates: don't bicker, don't get too personal, and don't quibble over the bill. I can think of quite a few more words of advice, but for now...
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Celebrities
She's a fantastically successful artist, rarely out of the news. Her outspoken manner, boozy TV walk-outs and unmade bed have courted controversy in the past. But these days she's an accomplished celebrity - regularly looking composed and confident on telly and talking directly and often wittily about her work.
As her new retrospective opens in Edinburgh (at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art), we have to ask: do you like Tracey Emin? And can we like her without liking her art - or vice versa?
Monday Question
Computer desktops are surprisingly personal spaces. The choice of background, the folders, the clutter (or lack of it) - it all reveals something about you and the way you like to work. Are you a mad genius with stacks of folders covering your whole screen, or a semi-autistic neat-freak with all your house in order? Come over the hop to see what I look at every day. Then, if you like, why not link us up with a picture of yours? Hey, we're all friends here. Come on, I showed you mine.
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