by Fortysomething Fan Girl | May 28, 2017 | Fashion
This week I happened to walk past Countdown’s Rachel Riley. Rachel is a young woman who has learnt the power of the dress early in her life. She has a degree in Maths from Oxford University and can slay a man with a figure. Hers. Wearing dresses is something I’ve come...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Apr 30, 2017 | Fashion, Health, Tips
My face has been through a lot. In my teens I got friendly with sunbeds and hung out with them whenever I could. Back then Ultra Violet in my book was the shade of eye shadow that sat next to Electric Blue in the palette. I couldn’t get enough. In my twenties I took a...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Apr 16, 2017 | Fashion
In the photo she posted on Insta recently, my goddaughter looks like a young Dusty Springfield. She has the ‘up-do’, a teeny-weeny shift dress and enormous eye lashes. A small part of me is jealous. It’s the lashes. Thick, long and totally artificial. I look at my...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Apr 2, 2017 | Fashion
In 1979 my school friend Sarah bought her first LP. It was The Fine Art of Surfacing by the Boomtown Rats. Between the pair of us we had a record collection which amounted to her Boomtown Rats album, my copy of Blondie’s Parallel Lines and a 7” of The Floral Dance....
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Mar 5, 2017 | Fashion
My friend Rebecca is one of those direct types. I think it comes from years of nursing. All those hours of genito-urinary fun probably knock all the tact and discretion out of you. “Your boobs aren’t that big!” She said as I entered her house for dinner one evening....
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jan 8, 2017 | Fashion
It is a warm London night in the early 90s. An arm encircles my waist and I feel hot breath in my ear. “You do have a quite fabulous… pussy-bow,” I hear. My heart beats a little faster, for this arm belongs to a young man who will go on to become a...
