The team at My Fair Lady Lingerie are organising a charity catwalk for Macmillan Cancer Support and are currently looking for local designers who would like to showcase their designs. The catwalk will take place on September 12th, 2010 at UK paper in Sittingbourne, Kent.

Professional models, photographers, makeup artists and hair stylists will be helping out at the event and the team already have a couple fabulous designers but would like to get a few more onboard.

There will also be a fashion auction and raffle to help raise even more money for this worthwhile cause. Any donations to this auction and raffle would be gratefully received.

Tickets are now available at the Kent Catwalk website with all of the proceedings going to the Macmillan Cancer Support.

To get in touch with the organisers of the event please contact [email protected] mentioning Lady M Presents.

Subject: Rimmel Complaint

To whom it may concern:

I recently purchased one of your mascaras, having been tempted by the advert promising that I could indeed capture the ‘London look’ and in fact, rank amongst superstars such famous model Kate Moss, your ‘face’ of Rimmel, with my fluttering, coquettish eyelashes.

Now, being the possessor of average eyelashes – I am neither going to be stealthily stealing the legs off spiders any time soon, nor could I be held responsible for strong G-forces eminating from my eyes and thus contributing to hurricanes halfway around the world – I had fairly high hopes for this product. It was not that cheap, either, and as someone who is loathe to part with hard earned cash for anything less than perfection, I was somewhat disappointed to discover that, despite the giraffe-esque lashes I was expecting, the result was not so extraordinary. In fact, I may as well have gone out bare lashed.

I marked this unfortunate purchase down to experience, assuming I had somehow accidentally applied some kind of long-lasting vaseline to my lashes, causing the mascara to slip off mysteriously throughout the day.

Imagine my surprise to discover, when I then scrutinised one of your television adverts with the aforementioned Kate Moss, in small writing at the bottom of the screen thus: “Filmed with lash inserts.”

Lash inserts? What is the point of this? This is like filming an advert for a hair colourant, only to announce “Filmed with a wig”, or indeed, declaring on an advert for Bernard Matthews Turkey Fillets, “Filmed using goat meat.”

In fact, the only conclusion I could come anywhere near from your advertisment, amid words such as ‘false advertising’ floating around my head, was that it was the whole thing was a big lie. What is the point of even putting those words in there? Does that make it ok to fool many women, and some men, into thinking they too could have two-inch long eye lashes?

It may come as a surprise to massive corporations such as yourselves, but the majority of consumers are not idiots. I say majority, because of course we cannot ignore those who purchased in the past a Soda Stream machine, the Crazy Frog mobile rigntone or the Tamagochi. But at least these products did not claim, for example, to be sold with fake frogs, or with real animals inside a tiny electronic machine.

I can only conclude that you do in fact believe that people, such as myself, will be sucked into the vortex that is fashion advertising, and not stop to question the fact that your concealer will, despite being flawlessly displayed on an air brushed model on screen and in print, clog their pores and leave them looking a little like Queen Elizabeth the 1st, that your lipstick rubs onto teeth the minute you dare to open your mouth and speak (which is why I suppose it works so well on models) and that your natural bronzer, which promises a ‘sun kissed glow’, will in fact make the wearer look more like David Dickinson, circa 2003.

I think I might just stick to coating my lashes with permanent marker – at least it’s visible to the outside world.

I eagerly await your response.

Kind regards,
Rebecca Ash