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I knew it, I KNEW IT! Kimberley Vlaeminck, the Belgian girl who claimed she fell asleep while 56 stars were tattooed to her face, has admitted she was lying.
Well, of course she was lying. Either that or she was in a coma. I mean, how do you sleep through a man needling five stars onto your nostril?
But she's come clean now.
"I asked for 56 stars and initially adored them. But when my father saw them, he was furious. So I said I fell asleep and that the tattooist had made a mistake," she said.
And it was such an obvious, awkward, oh-crap sort of lie it's actually a little heartbreaking. She's only 18 and I think we've all suffered buyers' remorse.
So what have you bought that's caused you the most remorse?
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Shopping
Now that the recession has reached "Stage Two" (for those not in the economical know, that roughly translates to "really bad"), overdrafts are still recovering from a festive pillaging, and actually HAVING money will now place you as a prime suspect on the Met's new "Too Much Bling, Give Us A Ring" campaign, please join me as I give a big old twos to the credit crunch and provide my list of top 10 recession-flouting wonders, all of which are culturally sound AND financially viable (£5 or under). That's right, January ain't too bad after all (and I have, sensitively, left off all ingestible products for the new-year-resolutioners amongst you).
1. No Country for Old Men, £3.98, amazon.co.uk Based on the book by Cormac McCarthy, this film won four Oscars (that's less than £1 per award), and is directed by the consistently brilliant Coen brothers. On this premise, expect eerie existentialist leanings, attractive yet frightening men, mixed in with the odd scene of ultra violence.
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, £2.50, amazon.co.uk. Scott Fitzgerald set out to create "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple, intricately patterned" with this piece, and what do you know, he succeeded. Money, greed, ambition and love are recurrent themes, and it's set around the time just before the first big recession, so it's also spookily relevant.
More ideas after the jump...
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Shopping
Feels like a few years ago everyone could literally not get enough of eBay, just as journalists couldn't (apparently) get enough of those 'College girl sells virginity for $4.5bn..' or 'Man sells entire life...' stories. I always wondered if eBay's PR put them out, but I sincerely doubt it given the intensely disturbing personalities normally in the background of those stories.
Firstly, for every winner there are hundreds of thousands of unsuccessful bidders who might decide to take matters into their own hands (literally or metaphorically - either way it's dark times.) Secondly, surely you'd sooner make like Sarah Beenie and get on mysinglefriend.com before you'd actually sell your virginity? Rosie Reid, eBay virgin from back in '04, definitely wishes the Beenie had been on the case back then, I bet. Better still, hi, you're at college in America. Haven't you *seen* Animal House?
Instead of entrusting her cherry to anonymous bidders, perhaps she could have bid on this handy implement, at real-life eBay for posh people - Bonhams.
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Shopping
Short notice I know, but if you can get yourself to Carnaby Street this evening, you can treat yourself to a 20% discount in all of their shops from 5-9! There's a pop-up bar too. (What is it about pop-up bars at the moment?) I like pop up bars. For some reason they remind me of Alice in Wonderland.
If you can brave the very very scary snowman decoration, you can find out how to get your ticket after the jump.
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In The News...
Tarina Tarantino is officially my new favourite lady designer. After last week's Barbie excitement I thought nothing could make me more giddy. Until this:
Bright Pink Barbie! God I'm good to you. I really hope the newly announced human Barbie catwalk collection looks like this, otherwise it'll be creepy.
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The Times is good value today, we've got religious camps to cure you of your pesky homosexuality, the world of male spinsters, and men you should never date (what's the worst profession to date? We should come back to this later)...
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Gallery
We are skeptical, to say the least. An article in Marketing Week looks at advertisers' attempts to appeal to women. More often than not, it seems that making something female-friendly means making it... pink. This patronising 'pink up' has long been rife in the world of mobile phones of course (Motorola is releasing a jewel-shaped mobile handset called 'Moto Jewel') but how far does the sickly claw of this colour extend? Can't one buy a beer, a computer, a bar of chocolate any more without encountering the appropriately-coloured 'girlie' option?
It all reminds me of this brilliant article from Germaine Greer, last year. "Nothing beautiful was ever pink". And at some point, check out the Top 10 Pink Handsets gallery over on Shiny Shiny and see if you agree. But first look at our gallery of pink monstrosities/guilty pleasures!
In The News...
The Sex and the City movie is the fastest selling DVD of the year having flogged more than 920,000 copies IN THE FIRST WEEK. I have it, with extras! Stand by for Dollymix review next week.
Lots of motherhood/pregnancy related content in The Guardian at the moment, here's one about being a real-life soccer mom that I enjoyed.
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Fashion
It's a geekily beautiful thing is this Cycle Chic site. It's divided into five areas, Cycle Fashion guides you on practical pretty things that'll ensure you cut a dash next time you pop round the North Circular to Tescos. And there's a shop where you can buy actually-cute helmets that will keep you safe without the humiliation of having children point at your head when you ride past, saying "that's where the tennis ball went, daddy." Hey, it happened to me. Plus it tells you how to go about buying one of those awesome shopper bikes with a basket on the front.
Thanks to the superlative Hippyshopper for the heads-up.
Food and Cooking
I don't know about you, but I sure need a lot of tea to get me through a Monday afternoon. Here are some of the best interweb pages I have found for you during caffeine-fueled my cruise up the internet superhighway today. They're full of tanniny goodness!
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I knew it, I KNEW IT! Kimberley Vlaeminck, the Belgian girl who claimed she fell asleep while 56 stars were tattooed to her face, has admitted she was lying.
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