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Debra Brock has an ultimate happy place. And it’s a pretend makeup counter. She feels no shame. A while ago I had to have a very minor medical procedure involving my shoulder and a big needle. To take my mind off what I was told might ‘be a bit uncomfy’, I sat and visualised my happy place. You might do the same. Perhaps your happy place is a deserted cove you once visited, or a park bench surrounded by tulips...
RuPaul’s Drag Race is back – Sarah Morgan pays homage to her favourite queen Adore Delano (aka American Idol teen star Daniel Noriega) makes me want to be a better woman. I won’t ruin Season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race for those of you watching on UK Netflix  – condragulations on your willpower, I’m devouring season 7 in American real-time like a junkie; a heroine addict if you will (and if you liked that pun, welcome, you’ll be right at...
Lucy Mangan on make-up’s ability to remind you who you are. I went to my first make-up lesson basically in a fugue state. It was about nine months after I’d had a very big baby, my sister was getting married in a few weeks’ time and she’d booked us in at Bobbi Brown to get some ideas for her wedding make-up. So I dragged my sore and weary arse along. In all honesty, I can’t remember exactly what George, the...