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Her image has evolved over the years from vamp vixen to earthy mother.

But Angelina Jolie proves she is still very much a sex symbol as she poses in a corset for a racy new Mario Testino photo-shoot for the December issue of American Vogue.

The 35-year-old mother of six showed off her enviable figure in a stunning vintage silk corset - a knitted sweater wrapped seductively around her waist.

Mum's a stunner: Angelina Jolie graces December's cover of American Vogue

The Oscar winning actress may be able to credit her slender frame to her apparent inability to cook a good meal.

In the accompanying interview for the magazine Angelina revealed she is such a bad cook that her six-year-old son Pax is better in the kitchen than she is.

Most women's beauty regime divides into skin care (the creams and lotions you use to tackle inherent skin problems from dryness and flakiness, to spots, pigmentation, fine lines and dark circles) and make-up (the coloured stuff that you slap on to hide those inherent problems).

However, a new generation of make-up could change the traditional beauty regime for ever and do away with the need for separate skin care. From acne-zapping foundations, antiwrinkle powders, moisturising bronzers and concealers, the latest cosmetic products don't just temporarily make your skin look better, they offer long-term benefits, too.

The latest cosmetic products don't just temporarily make your skin look better, they offer long-term benefits, too

STEP ONE

Take three-inch wide sections of hair and wrap them around large Velcro rollers, before fixing the hair with a hair pin. Fix with hairspray.

STEP TWO

Start removing the rollers from the back, pull out the curl a little and loosely pin up at the back, creating most of the volume behind the right ear.

STEP THREE

Working forward over the head, keep removing the large rollers and pulling out the hair with a comb. Create a side-parting and sweep the hair over to one side so it falls loosely. Don't pin the front section but continue to loosely pin the other sections behind the right ear.

STEP FOUR

This look is all about casual, effortless hair, so keep it scruffy. If necessary, pull the sections out a little to give them more volume.

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Is being slim the path to happiness? Ursula Hirschkorn says women who believe this are chasing a false lie

What woman doesn’t believe that losing a few pounds would somehow make her happier? That if her thighs were less wobbly and her jeans less tight she would become a new woman, that all her problems would melt away with the fat?

We all believe that being slim is the path to happiness because everything we see and read tells us so, from the slender models that grace the pages of fashion magazines to the teeny tiny celebrities in movies and on TV. Is being slim the path to happiness? Ursula Hirschkorn says women who believe this are chasing a false lie.

After a few months of relentless rain, and even more relentless economic gloom, the prospect of acquiring a tan for less than the price of a cup of tea is alluring. But you may be surprised that the latest place to get your ‘just got back from St Barts’ tan is none other than bargain-basement supermarket Lidl.

The Glow’N’Go Instant Tan will be offered in two formulations — matte and shimmer — and costs just £1 for 100mls. Unlike fake tans, this product won’t stain your skin, but instead creates the illusion of a tan until you want to wash it off. Tan-tastic: Leah Hardy, before, left, and after trying Lidl's Bronze Ambition Glow'N'Go


At Lidl head office, they are confident it will sell out, saying: ‘It is a one-off, as-long-as-stocks-last promotion, and it’s great for people coming back from their holidays and wanting to top up their tan.’But will women really want to get their beauty products alongside budget baked beans? And can a £1 product really give you that Elle Macpherson glow?

The truth is, Lidl has a reputation as the middle-class housewife’s guilty pleasure. While the car parks may be full of rusty Hondas rather than gleaming 4x4s, and credit cards are banned, you can stock up on such dinner party staples as Brie, rocket salad, Parma ham and Prosecco sparkling wine at rock bottom prices.And Lidl also has a record for super-cheap weekly offers that regularly sell out, and often ensure queues of bargain-hunters at the doors.

From unwanted frizz to thin lanky locks, most women fight a daily battle to pep up their hair. So what happened when we challenged six women who have spent years — and thousands of dollars — changing their looks to brave going natural again?

DYED BLONDE TO...ORIGINAL RED

Catherine Warrilow, 31, is a mum and a blogger (babygenie.co.uk). She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and son.

SHE SAYS: I was bullied at school. I had curly red hair, wonky teeth and was really short — an obvious target. The other kids called me ‘Ginger’ and it made me hate my hair.In my mid-teens, I still felt so self-conscious I decided to dye it blonde to fit in with my friends.

Well, in this highly advanced world, all women have dream that they have naturally beautiful and gorgeous skin.

Therefore, for this they always try to perform new tips and use new products everyday etc. well, sometimes after spending lots of hard earned money and precious time they got great response but sometimes they get disappoints or get suffered from unexpected side effects. Similarly, to cope up with all these following problems we are offering you some of the great skin care tips that help lots of women in the world.

· The first and most essential tip is to protect your skin from the sun as it causes wrinkles, age spots, rough, freckles and dry skin. However, the sun exposure can also cause more-serious problems, such as skin cancer. For the most complete sun protection, it better to avoid to go out between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., always wear protective clothes and use sun screen lotions on your skin when you are in the sun

Well, Lingerie is the most  fashionable term used for women's undergarments. This word was initially derived from the French word 'linge', means washables This was further referred to 'lin', corresponding to washable linen, which was the fabric from which European garments were made, before the introduction of cotton and other fabric. 

Lingerie was further modified to give it a new sexual appeal. Though, this wedding lingerie has always occupied a special place in the wedding preparations for a bride, its demand is increasing as per the modern day improvements done to it.

Bridal lingerie is given special importance as it is supposed to enhance the beauty of the bride to make her look more appealing and attractive among others. In effect, a bride pays equal attention to her lingerie as she pays to her bridal costumes. With the modern day and fashion advancements, there are a number of options for a bride is available to choose from. There are different types of lingerie available in the fashion markets, which the bride can pick as per her own body type and needs. However, it should be kept in mind that apart from looking sensuous, the lingerie should be fitting perfectly and comfortable, that helps them to enhance her body contours and curves.

Lets take you step-by-step to creating a copper eyeshadow look.

Step One

Take a medium, soft eyeshadow brush and using a bronze shade, start from the inner eyelid and sweep across, right up to under the eyebrow arch, building the colour as you go

Just 11 weeks after giving birth to her first child, Danielle Lloyd has already regained her model figure.The Liverpudlian model has shrunk back to 9st 7lb and she’s determined to lose even more until she reaches just 9st.Despite gaining over two stone while pregnant with son Archie, it appears the baby weight has quickly fallen off.

Post baby body: Danielle Lloyd shows off her incredible figure just two months after giving birth

She tells the new issue of Now magazine: ‘I want to get down to 9st so I’ve got more toning up to do, but I’m happy with my body and I feel sexy.

For years it has been one of the most basic rules of beauty: if you want a clear, youthful complexion, you must drink at least eight glasses of water every day.

Facialists, make-up artists, alternative health practitioners, nutritionists — and yes, we beauty journalists — have all agreed that a good dose of H2O will ‘flush out’ our systems, banish spots, plump out wrinkles and moisturise our skin from the inside out. It really is the elixir of great-looking skin.

Various dermatologists have suggested in recent years that this theory simply doesn’t wash, insisting the only thing maintaining moisture levels in our skin is the outer layer of skin.

Myth or magic? Beauty addicts cling to the belief water is the tonic of youth

But most beauty devotees remain convinced; just look at all those female celebrities permanently clutching a bottle of the stuff.

Ancient methd that works: Threading is where a thin length of twisted cotton is rolled along skin, trapping hairs and pulling them out

I have my grandfather's eyebrows (his bush out almost an inch from his face) and never pay them much attention other than occasionally tugging out stragglers.

But, after being told my brows made me look like Attila the Hun, something had to be done.

So, it was with great excitement I approached Glow's counter in House of Fraser to have my eyebrows threaded. Glow sculpt brows, taking into account face and eye shape, hairstyle and make-up.

It is being hailed as the most effective way to reap the benefits of a facelift without going under the knife.

Many would argue that having a rubber-gloved beautician massage your cheeks and gums from inside your mouth can hardly be described as ‘non-invasive’.But the ‘inner facial’ is nonetheless winning A-list fans for its ability to sculpt the contours of the face and diffuse the tension around the chin, cheekbones and jawline.

The beauty treatment – which costs between £200 and £300 – claims to reshape the face by giving the inner muscles a workout.Hailed as relaxing and rejuvenating by devotees, it is also said to redefine the cheekbones and tone the complexion.

It promises to spell the end for push-up bras, padding and expensive silicone implants.A small tube of cream dubbed the ‘boob job in a bottle’ can increase a woman’s bust size by half a cup, if its makers’ claims are to be believed.

Boob gel in a bottle: Rodial claim the £125 gel has unique ingredients which stimulate fat cell differentiation

And at £125 for a 100ml pot, it is a far cheaper option than spending thousands of pounds on breast enlargement surgery.Women using the gel rub it into their chest every day for less than two months, after which, manufacturers Rodial claim, their bust will be firmer and up to two-and-a-half centimetres larger while skin will be less wrinkled.

This weekend's Teen Vogue Young Hollywood party at Paramount Studios brought Tinseltown's hot young things out in droves! My favorite look: Twilight star Nikki Reed, who looked super natural and polished but beyond gorgeous.

My favorite red carpet makeup looks this week? Adorable Vanessa Hudgens at the Worldwide Launch and Party for Guess' new fragrance, Seductive.

Lisa Rinna has given the kiss off to her bumpy upper lip.On the Today show Tuesday, she revealed that she had surgery in August to reduce its size.

Rinna, 47, famously had silicone injected into her upper lip in 1996, making her the butt of many jokes and harassment. In April, she fired back at a heckler on Twitter who told her that her lips looked "awful." "Shame on you!" she shot back.

Given the wind-tunnel results of plastic surgery as seen on the likes of Joan Rivers, not to mention the prospect of a general anaesthetic, scars and months of recovery, it’s not surprising that a full-on facelift is about as popular as last year’s It-bag.

After all, if you want to pretend your ever-youthful looks are down to yoga and water, it doesn’t do to be seen to look as if you’ve had serious work.

For a while it seemed as if fillers and Botox would be the secret of stealth rejuvenation, but not everyone wants the chipmunk cheeks and glassy forehead that so often go with them.

So the facelift has been fighting back. But this time it’s different.