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Question: How do you use cream or gel blush and are they better than powder blush? Liza. Answer: Gel blush is more suited to smooth, younger skin, while a more creamy blush is much better for dry or mature skin. Both kinds blend easily. Powder is the most popular form of blush but it can […]

Question: How can I curl my straight hair at home and make the curls stay in for the whole day? Jenny. Answer: Curling tongs are great for creating spring-like curls. Use small-diameter tongs for short hair or to make tight curls, and large tongs to create looser curls. After shampooing with a volumising shampoo, towel […]

The Pomeranian is a favourite among toy dogs and it’s easy to see why. Lively, bold and intelligent, ancestors of this fluffy dynamo were companions for Marie Antoinette, Mozart and Michelangelo. The Pomeranian is part of the Spitz group of dogs and the breed’s family tree begins with larger sled dogs from Iceland and Lapland. […]

An exclusive extract from the June 2004 royal wedding souvenir edition of The Australian Women’s Weekly. When the girl from Hobart came down the aisle, dressed in a luminous, duchesse satin gown with a six-metre train, she took her hand off the arm of her father, John, and took her place on a cream-upholstered stool […]

An exclusive extract from the June 2004 royal wedding souvenir edition of The Australian Women’s Weekly. When the girl from Hobart came down the aisle, dressed in a luminous, duchesse satin gown with a six-metre train, she took her hand off the arm of her father, John, and took her place on a cream-upholstered stool […]

It was billed as “the wedding of the century”, the glittering union of a Hollywood movie queen at the peak of her powers to the handsome ruler of a glamorous European principality. No wonder that MGM, the film studio to which Grace Kelly was bound, demanded that, in return for releasing the actress from her […]

The Queen’s only daughter was known mainly for her show-jumping exploits and feisty behaviour when she announced her engagement to fellow show-jumper and army officer Captain Mark Phillips. Despite her plea for a quiet affair, Anne’s wedding took place at Westminster Abbey and the entire ceremony, apart from the exchanging of rings, was beamed live […]

The world had never seen anything like it. It was the most talked about, filmed and photographed royal wedding in history, with 700 million TV viewers worldwide and a further million people lining the streets of London just for a glimpse of the bride, 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer, and her Prince Charming, Prince Charles, heir […]

On a blisteringly hot day, the nation waited patiently for Sarah Ferguson and her father, Major Ronald Ferguson, to appear in an open carriage on the road to Westminster Abbey. The auburn-haired bride looked stunning in a ivory satin dress with a 5m train. Inside the abbey, Nancy Reagan, dressed in peppermint green, rubbed shoulders […]

What better setting for the Queen’s favourite son to marry in than the grounds of her favourite home, Windsor Castle. Prince Edward, fifth in line to the throne, married Sophie, daughter of a car tyre salesman, after a three-year courtship, and the couple became the Count and Countess of Wessex. The wedding was an evening […]