So, it’s a Sunday night, and what you want more than anything in  the world is more History revision, right?

Erm… Wrong actually.

Oh really?! Then why the hell did you click on this, eh? EH?!

I thought it was going to be about Harry Potter, goddammit!

Oh….

Shit.

ANYWAYZ.

Know what I love?
Appeasement.

*puts hand up*

*sighs*
What now?

Yeah so…. Erm…. I was just wondering… What the HELL is appeasement?

I was getting to that.
Geez.

(Appeasement is basically where you give in to lesser demands of aggressors in the hope that then they’ll stop asking for more. In this context, Britain and France kept giving Germany what they asked for in the hope that this would stop him asking for more serious demands and in turn waging a full-blown war against them.)

So yeah, I love appeasement.
I really do.
Like, in the same way people love Sporks.
It’s so weird and crazy, you think it just miiiight work.
And then you try and eat soup with it.
And all you get is Hitler stains on your clothes.
Or something like that….

So yes, todays topic is:

*drumroll*

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN: A GUILTY MAN?

Or, in simple terms:

HOW STUPID WAS OL’ NEV FOR THINKING APPEASEMENT WOULD ACTUALLY WORK?

Chyeahh.

“All rise. On trial today is Mr Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister 1937-1940. He has been accused with general stupidity for believeing appeasement could actually stand a chance… Bring him in boys”

“IIiin the blue corner, weighing in at 126 lbs* we have Neville ‘Guilty Man’ Chamberlain”

*Cheers from Revisionist Historians* 

“Aaaaand in the red corner, weighing in at a hefty 189 lbs*, iiiiit’s Winston ‘Bulldog’ Churchill.”

*Cheers from Traditional Historians*

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today…

Oh, wait… Wrong script.

Right, *ahem* FIIIIIIIGHT.

Churchill: You asshole Chamberlain, look at what you did! What the hell were you playing at, trying to appease Hitler?! That man is UNAPPEASABLE, you hear me? He wrote all about his little invasion plans in Mein Kampf, which he published in 1925, a full 12 years before you even became PM. You should’ve KNOWN he would just agree to a little bit! You should’ve threatened him with WAR!

Chamberlain: Oi, calm it Churchy baby. You know as well as I do that you can’t just go trying to threaten a man with a ‘tache like his!  We, my friend, were in a very vulnerable position, what with our large and scattered empire. He could easily have wiped us out!

Well then maybe you should’ve tried a little bit harder to make some more allies, no? Instead what do you go and do? You’re kinda rude to the Frenchies, you refuse to attend a world conference proposed by the US in 1938, which could’ve seen them change their isolationist attitudes, and OH, that’s right, you make NO ATTEMPT to form a pact with the Soviet leaders ’cause you were a little bit scared of Communism. Pshht.

Woah, woah, woah. Hold it, right there. The French clearly had a very weak and unstable government, they weren’t really that valuble as allies were they. And the Americans? Don’t even get me started… As if they’d have come to help us! They didn’t enter the war at all until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. They were only ever going to think of themselves. And the Russians? God. “I must confess to the most profound distrust of Russia…. I distrust her motives, which seem to me to have little connction with our ideas of liberty.”**

Shame the public didn’t agree though, eh Nev. In the Public Opinion Polls of 1938-9, 84% said that not only did they want to see Britain and the USSR being more friendly to each other, but that they also wanted a military alliane with France and Russia.

Know why that is though, Winny? Because they DIDN’T WANT A WAR. Have you completely forgotten the last one? A ‘war to end all wars’, a ‘lost generation’… Any of that ringing a bell?!

Well maaaybe, your silly policy of appeasement only ENCOURAGED Hitler. Maybe, without you being all “No go on Adolf, help yourself” he wouldn’t have been all “Our opponents are worms. I saw them at Munich”** and then maybe, just maybe, he wouldn’t have thought he could walk all over us… Meaning that he would’ve wanted to avoid a war too cause we’d have been all scary!

My policy? Hold your horses, Churchy. Britain’s policy of appeasement was in place long before I came to power. And I’m sorry, but had you not noticed how weak we were in terms of both our defence and our economy? Hitler knew we were in no fit state to be waging war… He’d have KNOWN we were bluffing.

You should’ve rearmed faster though! Then we would’ve been ready for a war, we could’ve scared him off and everybody’s happy!

Do the words ‘weak’ and ‘economy’ mean nothing to you? I did the best I could given what little money we had! In 1937, when I became PM, 5.6% of our Gross National Product was being spent on defence, whereas by 1939, this had reached 2.4%. Given what a crappy situation we were in after WW1, we couldn’t actually afford to do anymore. Se we did what any sane country did, and we bided our time until we COULD afford it. Four year plan, anyone?

And a fat lot of good ‘biding our time’ did us. If we had fought in 1938, we would’ve had the Czechs and their army as allies. But no, y0ou screwed that up at Munich with your silly little piece of paper. Instead, Germany just carried on getting stronger.

And so did we! We were much better prepared for war in 1939 then we had been previously! Not that anything would’ve happened differently if war had broken out earlier, anyway. Do you recall that whole Phoney War business? You know where NOTHING HAPPENED?! And ANYWAIZ, we couldn’t have kept the Czechs OR the Poles for that matter… The Poles were still slaughtered despite us declaring war against Germany. It didn’t help!

But if you’d have been less weak and indecisive, and you’d have had more experience in terms of foreign policy, then maybe you’d have rearmed faster and then….

It would’ve made no difference! Know what I focussed on when we were rearming? The RAF. And you know why that was clever of me? Because we won the Battle of Britain. And Hitler didn’t win the war. DUH.

But…. But….

SHUT UP. We had to bide our time, bitch! Hitler announced his rearmament in 1935… I hadn’t even come to power then! What was I meant to do? We had to sit it out, and prepare ourselves, okay? WE WERE TOO WEAK. We had a lot of enemies, and no really strong allies. Even General Ironside said “We can not expose ourselves now to a German attack. We simply commit suicide if we do.“** So there. 

*Ding ding ding*
We have a winner.

Though saying that, it’s all about how you argue it.
You personally might think that appeasement was a load of bull, and the stupidest policy Britain could have possibly followed.

But personally, I think it made sense.

We weren’t ready for a war, so Chemberlain did the sensible thing.
He waited until we were.

“I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride,”

* Totally made up fact. Sorry, I have no idea how much either of them weighed.

** “Hi, I’m an actual quote. Put me in your essay, bitch!”

You do A-Level History right? All about “Saving Europe at a cost”, right?

No? What? Oh…. Erm…. Then I guess just carry on with whatever you were doing.”

Oh, you do? Good good.

Come with me.

Right, where was I?
Ah yes, for the next two weeks, the Wiggle is now a HISTORY REVISION SITE! *ta-da*

Sounds fun right? No? Oh okay, well we liked the idea…

ANYWAIS.

Less chit chat, more revision.

And our first port of call?

THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES

Background Info:

• It was signed on 28th June 1919. After a lot of debate between the ‘Big Three’.

“Wait, what? Who are the Big Three? It rings a bell…. I think Evans mentioned them once….”

The Big Three: -David Lloyd George (Britain) ‘They need punishing, but y’know not too much.’
-Georges Clemenceau (France) ‘Stick it to ‘em hard! We’re in trouble! Erm….Zut alors!’
- Woodrow Wilson (USA) ‘Clearly I don’t think like George Bush, cause I actually want to prevent wars.’

• So basically, USE has come up with these 14 points, right?  And during WW1 they’d offered them to Germany as a form of truce. But Germany had been all “Hell no!”, which kind of sucked for them ’cause then when they lost the war (woo!) the allies refused to let them base a peace settlement on them. Sucks to be you, eh Germany? Cause yeah, those points would’ve been quite nice on Germany really.
• But nooooooo, the Treaty of Versailles was created instead. I’ll touch on this in more detail later, but yeah basically Germany lost a lot of land, and were told to admit they’d started the war and to pay a lot of money to all the countries they’d messed around with that little war of theirs.

“Sophie? Yeah, hi. I’m not sure where this is going… I thought you were going to talk about the League of Nations. I mean, that’s what we’re all here for.”

“Cool it, kid. I’m getting there, okay? Geez. You try and help people….”

• And from the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations was born. Happy now?
• The League of Nations started work in January 1920.

This brings us to our second stop on this fun revision cruise of ours:

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Remember those 14 points I was talking about earlier? Well the League of Nations was based on them. Basically, they wanted to stop all the fighting by disarming, and encourage people to get on. And just generally improve lives and what-not. Blah blah blah. But yeah, people had high hopes of the League actually, they thought it had some good ideas, which is fair enough really.

But just how well did they live up to these expectations?

The Positives:

• They did actually sort out some disputes without fighting, believe it or not. Need an example? How about the dispute over Upper Silesia in 1921 between Germany and Poland.
• It helped refugees after the First World War. Good stuff L. of N. Smiley face for you.
• Although it was working to avoid wars, it did fight against diseases such as Malaria using inoculations. Hurrah!
• And it worked against slavery, ’cause of it’s whole ‘better working conditions’ ideology.

“Sounds good right?”

“Right.”

“Shut up.”

Of course things weren’t that great, there were some major issues too.

The Problems:

• The USA didn’t join - They thought the Treaty of Versailles was too hard on the Germans, and so didn’t like the League either. Also, due to their Isolations attitudes (this means that they wanted to focus on their own problems rather than get involved with other countries), they thought the League was too expensive and that actually it was un-democratic. A biiiig no-no there for Woodrow.
• It wasn’t powerful enough – It didn’t have the USA behind it to ’scare’ weaker countries into submission, therefore any sanctions imposed were going to fail. Simple. Due to it’s whole ‘war is bad’ outlook, it had no army behind it, this means they got ignored… By Italy as much as anyone actually. Although Britain and France were ‘big bosses’, they were both pretty crappy after the war and so didn’t really do that much. In fact, the whole organisation of the League was a shambles… There was no real agreement. Sad face there. Oh, and did I mention that Germany and Communist Russia weren’t allowed to join at first? Although Germany became a member in 1926 that still made the League pretty weak and generally shit to start off with.
• Corfu (1923) – To put it simply, an Italian diplomant was murdered. Bad times for Mussolini. So as usual, what does he do? He occupies the Greek island of Corfu and demands compensations of course! Not the League really mess up big time here, and start demanding that the money’s given to them instead. I mean, what the hell?! And Mussolini, not being a pushover, has this decision overturned and gets both the money AND a ’sorry’. And the League? Well, they’re left looking pretty weak aren’t they. Gutted.
• French Occupation of the Ruhr (1923) – So Germany couldn’t afford to pay for the £6600 million reparations they were told to, not surprising really is it, what with their economic crisis and all… So yeah, to fight back French decide to do the civilized thing and INVADE, Good one. :/ Basically they just barged into the Ruhr, the industrial region of Germany,  and occupied it. And the League? They did nothing. NOTHING. Eugh. So guess who ended up having to fix things? The US of course, they helped fix it with the Dawes Plan, this made the reparations easier for Germany to deal with and stabilised their currency etc. (though this did cause a great reliance upon the US which meant that when the Great Depression struck, Germany was still in the shit). This eventually lead to France leaving the Ruhr in 1923, and really only made the French look nasty and the Leagur look weak. Bad stuff.
• The Great Depression – In the 20’s the US was the ‘most prosperous’ country in the world with high wages and mass production and all that. But pride comes before a fall, right? So then suddenly there was too much supply and not enough demand (cause all the other countries were too poor and already relying on American loans), so there was the Wall Street Crash of 1929. This meant that everyone realized companies were in trouble and started selling their shares for low prices as quickly as possible. This caused the Great Depression. Bad times. Suddenly, instead of lending money out to other countried, the USA started calling in all it’s loans, which cause real problems for other countries. Want some unemployment statistics? By 1932 over 12 million were unemployed in the USA, 2.5 million in Britain and more than 6 million in Germany. This caused the League a lot of problems, suddenly Britain and France wanted to concentrate on their own economic problems rather than looking after the rest of the world. Also, the fact thst suddenly everyone was broke meant that people turned to support extreme right-wing leaders, hoping that they’d be stronger. *ahem* Hello Hitler.
• The Manchurian Crisis – Although Japan has become stonger during the First World War, the depression hit them hard, leaving military leaders to call for expansion in order to strengthen them again. So in September, it sent troops to take Mukden, and overrun Manchuria. Except it made it look as though they’d given Manchuria their independance by putting a weak leader in charge so they could control him. Sneaky, eh? So the League rushed in to help right? Wrong. They send one man, ONE MAN, to assess the situation and blame Japan. And then? They did nothing. The failed to confront Japanese agression. Big time. And how did that make them look? Weak my friend, very weak. This lead to a treaty between Japan and Germany in 1936, whi started to invade China in 1937. Once again, the League did F-all.
• The Invasion of Abysinnia – You knew Italy was controlled by the Fascist dictator Mussolini during this time didn’t you? Oh good. But you knew that in the early 30’s he was generally on Britain and France’s side right? Godd, just checking. Well basically, you know that little country just about Kenya? Abysinnia? Never heard of it? No, I hadn’t either, it’s called Ethiopia now-a-days for the record, I’m sure you’ll have heard of that. But yeah, he invaded it in 1935. As dictators tend to. Basically, following a previous defeat by Abysinnia, Mussolini wanted revenge and a big empire, so encouraged by the Leagues lack of action with Manchuria etc. he went for it. Fair enough really. So yeah, Mussolini sends in his troops, and Abysinnia asks the League for help. What do they do? They impose ‘economic sanctions’. Sacry stuff… What Britain and France failed to do was close the Suez canal which would have stopped the Italian ships getting through. This meant that the sanctions were pointless and by May 1936 Mussolini was in charge of the whole of Abysinnia. Good one League… Good work there. :/ (Note the sarcasm). So yeah, once again the League looked weak and generally ineffective. And this once caused both Germany and Italy to become more confident, wtih Italy and Germany signing the Pact of Steel in 1939. Good move.

Overall:

• The League’s main aim was to prevent agression and encourage co-operation. FAILED.
• Although it succeeded in improving the lives of some eg. slaves, this wasn’t it’s main aim. :/
• It did provide the groundwork for the United Nations though, which is good I guess.
• It can also be argued that it wasn’t their fault that the Usa didn’t join, and that their problems were made worse by the Great Depression, which was also out of their control.
• BUT, they could’ve done more to prevent the weak and inneffective impression they gave out. They didn’t oppose any agression, and so the agressors won easily every time.
• They failed to force countried to disarm and instead allowed secret alliances to be formed once more.
• To put it plainly, the League of Nations did nothing really to prevent the Second World War.

Epic Fail.

Then go look up Ellie Goulding, one of the best females to hit music for a fair old time.

With her electronic-folk style, this lady really has a voice which makes you stop and take notice.

In fact, saying that she’d already been named BBC’s Sound of 2010, as well as winning the Crtitic’s Choice Award at the BRITs.

I know, I know, I wish I was her too.

Having worked with Frankmusik,  Starsmith and even the long forgotten Diana Vickers, she’s set to really make a name for herself in the up and coming year.
As she definitely deserves.
Oh, and did I mention she supported Little Boots last year?

Her Second single “Starry Eyed” will be released on the 22nd February, followed by he first album, “Light” on the 1st March.

To be honest, I think all I can really say is that her music speaks for itself and I can’t quite tell you how good she is.

Go and listen.

But what?!

I, my friends, have the answer.

This is an Alpen Light bar, and in my humble opinion I have to say that this is the king of all cereal bars.

Three reasons why I love these bars?

1. The sheer variety of flavours! Chocolate and Fudge, Chocolate and Orange, Summer Fruits and Apple and Sultana are just some of them. And they’re ALL yummy.

2. In comparison to Special K Bliss bars, Alpen Light bars have fewer calories, but taste much richer. None of that fake chocolatey taste, they’re seriously tasty, especially the Chocolate and Fudge ones (they’re my favourites). For the record, Special K bars have around 80 or so calories. Alpen Light? 60ish depending on the flavour.

3. In comparison Harvest Morn bars have a similar amount of calories in them… And they aren’t even half as nice. Seriously.

To put it simply, if you’re gonna buy a breakfast bar, make sure it’s an Alpen Light.

Please.

But anyway, this is a book review, not just me spouting a load of Menopause facts at you.

Though I could do that instead if you like…

First things first,‘The Secret Pleasures of Menopause’  is written by bestselling Author and general all-round Menopause know-it-all Christiane Northrup.
(She’s even been on Oprah to talk about it for goodness sake!)

But, ahem, yeah…. She knows her stuff basically.

Her book covers all aspects and problems assosciated with Menopause, from a range of common symptom to ways to beat the blues.
The overally feeling from this book has to be, as Dr Northrup says, “It’s not over!”
She tells readers how they can be healthier, happier and engage in the best sex ever.
Wow, right?

More than just a feel-good read for the Over 50s, to remind them that there’s nothing wrong with getting older.
In fact, if a woman turns 50 and hasn’t had any problems with heart diesase or cancer, she can apparently expect to live until the ripe old age of 92.
Now that’s impressive.

Now, without giving too much away, all that can be left to be said is that ifyou’re struggling to cope with Menopause then this book might just be the answer.

I say, give it a read.

And remember, “Practice makes pleasure!”

Okay, first things first, here’s a little info about my hair.
It’s naturally pretty straight, and in generally good condition.
I don’t straighten all that often.
Oh, and I condition every two washes (generally every other day or more frequently).

Right, let’s get started then.

The Positives:

• It smells all sweet and yummy and reminds me of being a kid.
• If you’re in a rush, it’s much quicker than actually conditioning.
• A couple of squirts into wet hair, quick brush and that’s that.
• To be honest, for how long a bottle of it lasts an average of £3, depending on where you buy it from, is really really good value for money in my opinion. (That price is for 250ml by the way).
• It seems to detangle my hair. Seriously, the brush glides through my hair when I use it soooo much easier than when I just shampoo.
• Even after swimming (and the terrors of chlorine) I used this instead of normal conditioner, which is something I would never normally do, and my hair was actually absolutely fine. Soft and smooth and knot-free. YUM.

The Negatives:

• Okay, so it’s not the same as a normal conditioner, and personally I don’t think any spray-in can be as good for your hair as the real thing.
• Erm, that’s it actually….

So yeah, to sum all this up, alright, it’s not quite as good as a proper conditioner.
But in all honesty, it’s the best leave-in I’ve ever tried.

Therefore, I would give this product a 4.5/5.

Fo’ shizz.

New Year = Drunk times with friends/family right?

But you know where I spent New Year ‘09 and ‘10?

That’s right, a health spa.

Ragdale Hall – Health, Hydro and Thermal Spa to be precise.

For this review I’m going to split it up into a few catagories.
(This is my attempt at being organised.)

 The Welcome:

• A warm welcome to say the least, porters collect yor bags for you and park your car whilst you are swiftly checked in by friendly receptionists. After being stood for 5 minutes at the most you’re then taken to sit in the Garden Café (don’t worry, it’s not actually outside) where you’re served complientary coffee or tea. A relaxed but organised atmosphere all in all.

The Accomodation:

• My room was very spacious, with a large bathroom (including his and her sinks). Plenty of hanging space for clothes, as well as space to put your suitcase while unpacking. Two comfortable sized armchairs, a footstool and table were placed by the large french window, which was of course complete with a balcony. A large flat-screen TV came complete with a wide choice of channels, and as it was attached to a movable bracked, it could easily be seen from whichever seat (or bed) you chose. The beds themselves had the thickest, comfiest matresses I have ever slept upon, and you had a choice of the ‘normal’ pillows on the bed, or duck feather, normal feather or v-shaped pillows if you so desired. Also, as I was part of a party of six, I discovered that each of our rooms was individually decorated, and each with a different, but equally as appealing feel about them.

The Facilites:

• A gym - Complete with all the exercise equiptment you could desire.
• Two exercise studios – With classes ranging from Pilates to ‘Seventies Boogie’.
• An extensive range of treatment rooms, including nail salon.
• Thermal spa – Including Sauna, multiple steam rooms, Thermarium, under-water cave pool and more.
• Large swimming pool – Equipped with comfortable loungers, whirl pool and yet again, a sauna and a steam room.
• Three shops – One dedicated to beauty products, one for various lovely gifts and one which sold clothes as well as any essentials you may have forgotten to bring.
• Two café areas – Each well-decorated and with a large choice of delicious drinks and snacks.
• Many rooms perfect for sitting and reading a good book.
• The Retreat – A perfectly silent room, complete with day beds, futons, comfortable armchairs, and even a swing.

The Food:

• Ragdale Hall has a ‘window’ system on it’s menu, which means that if you’re being careful you can choose a low-calorie dish (one window), however, if you want to splash out more you can choose up to three windows. However all of the food was extremely tasty and of restaurant standard. At lunch time you can order either soup or a cold starterto start, followed by a buffet consisting of a large range of hot and cold food. This is then followed by either a ‘comfort pudding’ or a much lower fat yoghurt and fruit option. Breakfast however, is served in your room, with a wide choice of food and drink which you order the day before. All of the food was sufficient for an appetite even as large as mine, as well as being very, very tasty.

The Treatments:

• My first treatment of my stay was a manicure, usind Leighton Denny products. This was relaxing and left my nales looking amazing and my hands feeling nourished. 4 days later and still not a single chip.
• My second treatment was a back, neck and scalp massage combined with a facial. All I can say is it was posibly the most relaxing experiences of my life.
• All the therapists were nice and chatty without being inrtusive. Basically, the treatment were definitely one of the highlights of the whole stay.

 Overall, I have to say that this was a very relaxing and enjoyable stay.
However, Ragdale Hall is expensive.
Mind you, as I wasn’t paying, this really didn’t bother me.

Okay, so the concept of a ‘must-have present’ is nothing new.
But usually (and I use that term loosely), it’s not such a useless, waste of space.

I’m sorry, but what the hell is the point of a Go Go Hamster©?!

I really don’t see why anyone in their right mind would ever choose one of these four expensive yet pointless things in comparison to a real living, breathing animal.

Yes, that’s a real one.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeease tell me you can all see the difference too?

Right, Okay.
I’m starting to get a bit wound up about it now, so let’s do this properly.

Cases FOR a Go Go Hamster© (Please note any sarcasm):

• Admittedly, they don’t poo. So you don’t have a cage to clean out. ONCE a week. That’s not exactly hard anyway is it. AND it teaches kids responsibility.
• It doesn’t eat either. That’s a good start for kids, teach them that ‘pets’ don’t need food. Clever.
• It talks. Wow.
• Different models have different ‘personalities’. Because  clearly REAL hamsters have no personality. Good one guys.

Cases for a REAL Hamster:

• Go Go Hamsters© don’t even come close to how cute real hamsters are. Seriously, aaawwww…
• My hamster monkey-bars across his cage. I’d like to see a Go Go Hamster© do that.
• The cost hardly anything. You can get a hamster for a pet shop for about £3. A Go Go Go Hamster© on the other hand costs over £18 on Amazon. Ridiculous? I think so.
• If you lick a real hamster you don’t get cancer. Fact.

Basically I’m not a big fan of these things.
And actually nor are any of the kids I know.
Honestly, none of them want one or even knew what they were until it was announced on the news that they were the ‘must-have’ this year.
Which makes me wonder, is this just another scam?

All I know is, I won’t be swapping my hamster for a more expensive, less adorable version.

I know, I know, there’s thousands of lip balms out there.
And yes, I know you like to go for whatever’s cheapest.
Or whichever tastes nicest.
And you’re sure that this one can’t be any different to all the others you’ve used, so you don’t want to waste your money trying it.
But that’s why I try these things out, so you don’t have to.

The Positives:

• It smells scrumptious. Whilst wearing it I had no less than three people ask “What’s that I can smell on you?”, and sure enough, it was this beauty.
• It has a slight pink tint which I thought made my lips look nicer without any lip gloss (which I tend to find annoys me very easily because it’s so God damn sticky).
• It’s proud to not be tested on animals. Woohoo!
• The packaging’s cute, definitely nicer than that of cheaper brands.
• It’s 100% natural, so you’re not going to put any nasty chemicals on your lips. Always good I find.
• It’s super dooper moisturising. As in “Oh my god, my lips are so soft, I’m gonna go around kissing strangers just to show off how nice they feel now.” *Ahem* And that’s not just my opinion. I have a friend, we’ll call her S. Johnson (because that’s her name), and she had nasty chapped lips, so she saw my lip balm, asked if she could borrow it, used it ONCE and that was all it took. The next day they were soft without a hint of dryness.  Results like that speak for themselves don’t you think.

The Negatives:

• It’s not exactly the cheapest lip balm on the block at around £3-£3.50

The Verdict:

Having tried many, many lip balms in life I’d have to say this is probably my favourite. With a yummy smell and clear results, it’s worth the price. It’s give this product 4.5 out of 5.

As always, Sopho’s doing the testing so you don’t have to. This time it’s a much talked about MOUSSE foundation.
“MOUSSE?!” I can hear some of you cry.
Yes mousse.
And no, not the tasty chocolatey kind either.
So hey, let’s see if it’s all it’s cracked up to be….

The Positives:

• It comes in a wide variety of shades so chances are you’ll find one to suit your skin. (I’m very pale so I favour ‘Ivory’. Yes, I know, I’m realllllly pale.)
• It’s not as heavy as a liquid foundation so it doesn’t feel caked on, which was a definite selling point.
• As a result of it not being heavy, you don’t get that nasty edge-of-your-foundation line around your jaw.
• Personally, I found that it lasted a long time, unlike some foundations that run out quickly.
• It’s about the average price for a foundation, so not as pricey as a lot of high-quality foundations can be.
• Very easy to take off at the end of the day, and doesn’t leave your skin feeling horrible afterwards.

The Negatives:

• Due to it not being as heavy and thick as many foundations I found that it didn’t neccessarily seem to stay on as well as some. However, I’m not saying that it wore off straight away, and I’d definitely rather use a make-up that wears off gradually than something thick and horrible that you have to chip off at the end of the day.

The Verdict:

This really was my idea of a good foundation, not orange, gloopy or too pricey. Definitely a 5 out of 5 as far as I’m concerned.