She's Gotta Have It
Fashion, beauty, shopping, social life and things that make you go hmmm; come scroll with us for the She's Gotta Have It guide to girlitude
Suddenly Single
The adventures of a divorcee-about-town 
Agony Sisters
Advice from the women who know
People
Window Shopping
London’s glitziest shop fronts
Wardrobe Mistress
Hot or Not?
ADVERTISEMENT
On Beauty Smells like teen skincare
One of the things that’s so unfair about being a teenager (apart from, of course, everything) is the fact that just when you’re at your most self-conscious, sebum production skyrockets and sensitivity levels go into overdrive, leading to shiny patches, pimples and irritation. These products boast gentle, sophisticated formulations (minus awful medicated smells) that un-plug pores without stripping, contain no chemical nasties and, best of all, are totally affordable. Genius. Kim Parker
Face forward
Purifying and prettily packaged: Face Boutique Spot-Less Blemish Gel, £10 (faceboutique.com and spacenk.com from October)Enhances your own skin tone: Nivea Visage Young Be Beautiful Tinted Moisturiser, £4.99
Softening and soothing: Young & Pure Face Cream, £4.99, and Face Cleanser, from £3.50
All you need for teenage travellers: Try-Me Young Skin Kit, £19.50
Instant karma
If I were alive in Rubens’s time, I’d be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.
Dawn French (1957-), in the Sunday Times, 13 August 2006
ADVERTISEMENT
Celebrity Horoscope
In Town Last Night
The glitziest events
Matt Damon, Julia Stiles and Kimberley Stewart braved the rain for the London premiere of The Bourne Ultimatum. More party pictures 
Good news Earthly Adornments is a US website stocking vintage and antique jewellery and beads which any self-respecting style mavens with a taste for one-off pieces should definitely check out here Bad news How shows like the X-Factor bring angry people with no friends way too far out of their shells (check out Helen from Wales on Youtube)
The Big Issue: First make your baby, then catch your boyfriend
Calling the Minogue sisters, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Renee Zellweger and all other beautiful but tragically husbandless and childless thirtysomething celebs! I have the answer to all your problems. Find a sperm donor and then find a partner. Just as Tom's ravenous appetite converts Jerry to a hotdog in a bun, so women who want children have a habit of reducing walking, talking, thinking men with complex personalities and feelings, bless them, into mere father fodder. And they can tell. The older the woman and the louder the clock the more obvious it is that she doesn't want a man for sex, companionship,
intellectual stimulation or even free meals, but to Give Them A Child. Nothing is more offputting to a chap, even if, when the baby actually comes, they love it to death. The obvious answer is to procreate the high-tech way, or do as Jennifer Aniston is doing and adopt a baby. Post-partum, you have a blissed-out yummy mummy who doesn't need a man, because she's just embarked on the greatest love affair of her life. And bingo, what you don't need, but would quite fancy occasionally, comes striding manfully right up. That'll be a baby with a side order of boyfriend.
Laura Tennant
Bonkers health Bizarro alternative treatments we’ve never heard of? We love ’em! If you’re looking for a way to alleviate chronic pain, you could try the Bowen technique, but bear in mind that its practitioners gamely admit initial reactions include ‘tiredness, increase in original symptoms, stiffness, headaches, flu-like symptoms and increased dream activity’.
Win an organic cookery holiday in Tuscany
Street Seen
Cute flats
Going out? The Place
Cotswolds88 Hotel
Kemps Lane,
Painswick,
Gloucestershire
01452 813 688
Forget Shoreditch; the latest fashionista haunt is an enchantingly pretty Cotswolds village. Painswick was discovered by hip hotelier, Marchella De Angelis, the creative force behind offbeat boutique hotel, Cotswold88. The exterior of the classically beautiful 18th century manor remains largely untouched, but the revamped interior pays homage to the works of avant garde photo artist, Leigh Bowery. Bedrooms are themed style temples, complete with every imaginable luxury and bespoke wallpaper that can be bought from the in-house shop. Trade your fetish heels for green wellies and indulge in some country pursuits before relaxing in the holistic pod and stuffing yourself senseless in the organic eatery. All just a little too achingly cool? That's exactly why
Cotswold88 is set to become the new mini-break Mecca for the it crowd.
Gabrielle Strachan
Read Me
If 40 is the new 30, then 50 must be the new 40, which makes it about as terrifying a birthday as the latter was for our mothers. Linda Kelsey's Fifty is not a Four Letter Word (Hodder, £7.99) imagines the worst possible scenario: as Hope reaches her half century she is sacked from her job, is left by her husband and discovers her mother is dying. Yet as so often terrifying change taken in the right spirit also signals opportunity. It turns out Hope's sex life isn't quite as comatose as she'd thought and that the end of a dead marriage can mean the start of an exciting new engagement with life. Rather encouraging - in fact I'd even go so far as to say life-affirming.
Laura Tennant
This week’s new books 
