Whale I...I never noticed your eyes before Said it before, say it again, we at Squeamish Bikini just want to help you. We want you to think of us as your (purely textual) friend. The wise one, who sagely nods when you do the right thing; a feminist Jiminy Cricket, if you will. Whenever you have a conundrum we want to be the definitive resource you turn to and then ignore. Which is why we have come up with some tricks we think everyone should know and join us in swearing by.
If you have any tricks of your own you think everyone should know do share in the comments.
If you have any tricks of your own you think everyone should know do share in the comments.
1. (This one'll blow your mind) This isn't the best trick but I've been obsessed with house lifestyle programmes since the dawn of time. Recently my auntie told me that, at the age of 11, having recently visited her cottage in a picturesque village outside of Dover, I bestowed a house selling trick on her that changed her life! The cottage had been on the market for a year with not one offer made. As I left to go back to London I said, "If you de-clutter the cottage it will sell". She did. A week later the cottage sold! Ta-dah! I also have another trick that's good for the heatwave, freeze half a bottle of water over night, then add cold water the next day. You'll have chilled water to elegantly sip from. Squeamish Nicola
2. Maybe this is only a trick all make-up wearers should know, but the best way to get a smoky eye with ease is to use the chunkiest meltiest fattest pencil eyeliner you own, sharpen it to a long point, and then close your eye (GENTLY) around the point. Then drag the pencil from corner to corner, tightlining your waterline. If your pencil was chunky and melty enough, not only will you have got your waterlines done perfectly, but the excess will have smudged and smoked its way around your eye without you having to worry about doing anything to make it happen. F1 Kate
3. You can make pretend ice cream out of bananas, and nothing but bananas. And it's as easy as this: cut bananas into chunks. Freeze those chunks. Blend them. They go powdery and then... they turn into icecream. When I learned this I couldn't stop going on about it. It’s amazing. Ice cream. But fruit. And you can add chocolate or syrup or whatever if you want it to taste more unhealthy, but the texture is just like creamy ice cream. Squeamish Louise
4. Fancy building a bonfire but have no idea how to get it going? The easiest kindling to use is rubber, like the stuff you get in a bicycle tyre repair kit. It burns really easily and quickly even when wet. Stick a tiny strip in the middle of a pile of dry twigs and you'll have a ranging inferno in no time at all. Just leave the bongos at home, please. Gareth
5. I love little tips and tricks that baffle and astound onlookers. Such as olive oil stops a pan boiling over, a spoon in the neck of the bottle stops champagne going flat, sanitary towels make better insoles than insoles. However, I have been caught short as it were by some of these so called tricks. One being hanging up a crinkled shirt/dress in the bathroom as you take a steamy shower. The idea is the wrinkles will drop out. People, they don't! You may have to just buy an iron. Or hang your clothes up properly. Squeamish Kate
2. Maybe this is only a trick all make-up wearers should know, but the best way to get a smoky eye with ease is to use the chunkiest meltiest fattest pencil eyeliner you own, sharpen it to a long point, and then close your eye (GENTLY) around the point. Then drag the pencil from corner to corner, tightlining your waterline. If your pencil was chunky and melty enough, not only will you have got your waterlines done perfectly, but the excess will have smudged and smoked its way around your eye without you having to worry about doing anything to make it happen. F1 Kate
3. You can make pretend ice cream out of bananas, and nothing but bananas. And it's as easy as this: cut bananas into chunks. Freeze those chunks. Blend them. They go powdery and then... they turn into icecream. When I learned this I couldn't stop going on about it. It’s amazing. Ice cream. But fruit. And you can add chocolate or syrup or whatever if you want it to taste more unhealthy, but the texture is just like creamy ice cream. Squeamish Louise
4. Fancy building a bonfire but have no idea how to get it going? The easiest kindling to use is rubber, like the stuff you get in a bicycle tyre repair kit. It burns really easily and quickly even when wet. Stick a tiny strip in the middle of a pile of dry twigs and you'll have a ranging inferno in no time at all. Just leave the bongos at home, please. Gareth
5. I love little tips and tricks that baffle and astound onlookers. Such as olive oil stops a pan boiling over, a spoon in the neck of the bottle stops champagne going flat, sanitary towels make better insoles than insoles. However, I have been caught short as it were by some of these so called tricks. One being hanging up a crinkled shirt/dress in the bathroom as you take a steamy shower. The idea is the wrinkles will drop out. People, they don't! You may have to just buy an iron. Or hang your clothes up properly. Squeamish Kate
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