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?
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On Beauty Cold comfort
Last week, I saw my breath for the first time in months and I wasn’t fazed. Sure, winter’s closing in, but like some kind of burrowing beauty-obsessed creature, I’m happily lining my bathroom shelves with bagfuls of inexpensive but expertly formulated products to keep me glowing through the dark times ahead. Top of the list? Urban Retreat’s divine skincare range for Boots and Soap & Glory’s spa-inspired body treats, slathered on with abandon. That’s the beauty of guilt-free beauty gorging. Kim Parker
Beauty bargains
Perfect for at-home facials: UR THE Facial Elixir, £15 (beautique.com)Fights flakes: Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Body Scrub, £9 (available soon at boots.com)
Turns hair silky: James Brown London Moisture Mask, £5.99 (jamesbrownlondon.com)
Softens skin like no other: The Body Shop Cocoa Butter Body Butter, £12 (thebodyshop.co.uk)
Instant karma
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored
From the diaries of Evelyn Waugh
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In Town Last Night
The glitziest events
Princess Beatrice and Sarah Ferguson took to the runway with Naomi Campbell to raise money for the Rotary Flood Disaster Appeal. More party pictures 
Good news Women! Do you bounce when you run? Invest in Triumph’s brilliant Tri-Action Extreme N sports bra, £27, for an end to attention-grabbing jiggling.
Bad news Researchers at Edinburgh university have found that in the brightest two per cent of the population there are two men to every woman.
The Big Issue: lessons for a long life
GP Dr Chris Martin claims to have devised a computer programme that can predict when you will die. The programme analyses blood pressure, cholesterol levels, smoking habits and medical history to measure life expectancy, with predictably hilarious results. The good news is that your mortal span is by no means set in stone. Aside from giving up smoking, the three most important things you can do are eat more fruit and veg (guarding against cancer), take exercise (to fight heart disease) and bust stress (apparently as big a killer as nicotine). So while running for 30 minutes five days a week (really quite active by most people’s standards) gives you a measly two to four years, having sex every day gains you an amazing 8 years. Aside from begging the question of just whose stress you are busting, that’s
one hell of an incentive to give up the morning run and head back to bed. Then again, aren’t we in the realms of the virtuous circle? Contentedly married couples have frequent sex and live longer because happy people tend to (depressed people, unfairly, have shorter lifespans). If you resented having sex with your other half and did it through gritted teeth it might even hasten your end. Or how about this - does it matter who you have sex with? What if you were doing it with the milkman, the barrista and the nearest available toy boy? The possibilities are endless but the stress of managing multiple relationships, not to mention the worry of finding a daily window of opportunity, might just do for you. On the whole, I think I’ll stick to an apple a day.
Laura Tennant
Bonkers health For those who find traditional yoga a bit too, well, Eastern, there is always Yahwh Yoga, set to contemporary Christian music and incorporating Scripture reading and prayer...
Street Seen
Shake a leg
Feline liquid eyeliner is one of autumn’s hottest looks. Watch our video beauty class to see how the professionals do it.
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MILAN FASHION WEEK CATWALK PICTURES
Going out? The Place
Bungalow 8
St Martins Lane Hotel
45 St Martins Lane
London WC2N
Every now and then, a new nightclub comes along which gets ‘the It crowd’ all hot and bothered. Urgent phone calls are made, bribes are offered and favours called-in as fashionistas and socialites attempt to blag their way in. During London Fashion Week, the buzz away from the catwalk was all about the launch of Bungalow 8, the latest venture from New York nightclub queen, Amy Sacco (above). Manhattan’s Bungalow 8 is a Big Apple institution and hailed as ’a Studio 54 for the 21st century’; London’s boasts Swarovski-designed interiors and a super-strict door policy. As Sacco says: “If you’re in the door, you’re a VIP.” Those without their own clothing range need not apply.
Gabrielle Strachan
Read Me
Apples, pears and hourglasses always seemed an insufficiently nuanced way to describe the female form. Fortunately stylists to the nation Trinny and Susannah have come up with The Body Shape Bible (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, £20), the fruit of over a decade undressing hapless women, which identifies 12 different body silhouettes. Whether you’re a Brick (it does what it says on the tin) or a more fortunate Lollipop (all tits and legs) loveable posh birds Trin and Suze have answers to the sartorial challenges you face on a daily basis. Subtitled Forget Your Size, Discover Your Shape, Transform Yourself, The Body Shape Bible refuses to entertain the notion of fat or thin. Much more important are proportions, maximizing one’s assets and minimising one’s flaws. And since sticky-out tummies and larger thighs are the result of age as much as genes, the book features real women of all generations as well as shapes. A celebration of the power of clothes and the perfect antidote to the prevailing culture of body fascism and female self-disgust.
Laura Tennant
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