Echo Monday March 3, 2014 echo-news.co.uk /newwoman 19 WOMAN New Style tips in black and white How to make the most of monochrome PAGES 24-25 PLUS Red carpet makeover, P23 Hollywood hair, P29 ACTING IS EASIER THAN BEING A SUGABABE Heidi Range’s new role P20-21 A FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS Women’s Day P27 20 Echo Monday March 3, 2014 What’s on echo-news.co.uk /newwoman this week ‘ Singing is second nature to me, but the acting side of it I had to relearn Game of Thrones actress NATHALIE EMMANUEL got a warm welcome from American royalty Oprah Winfrey at the Black Women in Hollywood Lunch in Beverley Hills. @missnemmanuel Had the honour of meeting @Oprah who “spudded” me (you know the fist to fist greeting) when she was told I was on @GameOfThrones #mademylife KARA TOINTON is feeling pretty Zen nowadays. @ktointon 5th week into yoga with my dad. Changed my life. Internal external well being. Too premature to call myself a yogi just yet? RACHEL RILEY finds a novel way to use up her leftover chicken. @RachelRileyRR Our new series of @TheGadgetShow is almost on – 7pm C5 find out which tablet cases protect against frozen chickens! DENISE VAN OUTEN finds out that a ciabatta is not just for lunch. It’s also a toasty little foot warmer too! @denise_vanouten I’m such a doughnut! I forgot to pack socks. Problem solved. Nice and toasty! RUSSELL KANE gets pouty and posey before he goes on stage. @russell_kane Pre-show Zoolanding #dorset What did Joan Rivers say to LEONA LEWIS that made her want to sit on her? @leonalewismusic The ravashing @Joan_Rivers today on @e_FashionPolice WOMAN New Echo Monday March 3, 2014 echo-news.co.uk /newwoman These are happy days...singing in a musical is so much easier than being a pop star! FORMER SUGABABE HEIDI RANGE IS ENJOYING HER ROLE IN THE HAPPY DAYS MUSICAL, WHICH COMES TO THE CLIFFS THIS MONTH By LOUISE HOWESON [email protected] B EING in a musical is a breeze after being a pop star, according to ex-Sugababe Heidi Range. The 30-year-old singer is starring in the bright and bubbly Happy Days musical, set to appear at the Cliffs this month. She is enjoying every minute of playing the role of Pinky in the musical’s UK tour and, being a bit of grafter at heart, she finds the pace easy to manage. Heidi says: “Being in a musical is a lot easier than being a pop star. In Sugababes, we would be in four different countries in one day, doing 20-hour days seven days a week. We would go for months without a day off. “Being in the show, we spend a week in a city and really get to know a place. We come to the theatre to perform in the evenings, then we have maybe two matinee shows, then the rest of the time is our own.” Co-stars – Heidi Range with Ben Freeman in Happy Days. Left, Heidi’s pet dog Betty Starring in a musical has come as a nice change for Heidi. She says: “I have starred in pantos before, but never a professional musical as a lead role. I was in Joseph and Robin Hood when I was a kid and I looked up to the people playing the lead roles. “I went in a different route recording music, but I knew I would go back to theatre work afterwards. I turned down a lot of roles before this, because they weren’t the right ones. I wanted to wait for something special and I felt this was it.” Her former band mate Jade Ewen has also taken a theatrical route since the band split up two years ago and is starring in the musical Tonight’s The Night. Heidi says: “We message each other to see how we are getting on because we’re both in musicals!” She admits that when the band broke up, it had a big impact on her life. Heidi says: “Although the break-up was a very natural progression for us and wasn’t a massive shock, it was a hard time for me. “I was going through a massive break-up (with Capital FM DJ Dave Berry) and moving house at the same time. All the familiar things I knew suddenly changed.” Heidi took some time out to reflect on her career and what to do next after being in a band for 11 years. She says: “I had to reassess what I wanted to do and I needed that time away from it all to figure it out. “After I did Dancing on Ice, I decided my next move would be to do musical theatre. It was just a case of finding the right role.” She loves the immediacy of performing live and acting alongside Cheryl Baker and West End star Ben Freeman. Heidi says: “Singing is second nature to me now, but the acting side of it I felt I had to relearn. It has been exciting developing that skill and I have learnt a lot from the rest of the cast. “I love the reaction we get from the crowd and because it’s such a great show with so many good songs, you get an amazing energy from the audience that is very infectious.” Heidi admits being away from her London home and her current boyfriend is a bit lonely. She says: “I have missed my boyfriend and home, but I have brought my dog Betty with me. She’s my little bit of home I take with me!” Happy Days runs at the Cliffs Pavilion from Monday, March 17 to Saturday, March 22. Ticket prices vary. Call 01702 351135 or visit southendtheatres.org.uk for details. COOK Norwegian potato muffins WHEN it comes to food waste, lots of people chuck away their leftover potatoes. But it seems a shame to chuck away your spuds when there are so many recipes to try. Potato is a versatile ingredient that can be the base of many delicious dishes and pastries. What about making muffins with today’s leftovers? Here is a sweet version. Don’t worry too much about the optional ingredients – we made a batch without the syrup and stabiliser and they were delicious! Prep time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes Ingredients For the muffins: 150g butter at room temperature 150g sugar 2 tsp vanilla sugar or vanilla essence 4 eggs 3 tbsp light syrup (optional) 100g ground almonds 250g wheat flour 3 tsp baking powder 200g peeled, boiled potatoes 2 tablespoons sponge cake stabilizer (optional) 200ml milk For the topping: 250g cream cheese 1 tsp vanilla essence 50g butter at room temperature 600g icing sugar Method Preheat the oven to 200°C. Mash the boiled potatoes together with half of the milk. Cream the sugar, vanilla sugar and butter and add one egg at a time. Stir well. Add the syrup, then the dry ingredients and the rest of the milk, before adding the mashed potatoes. Fill the muffin cases half full and bake them for about 15 minutes. For the topping, mix the cream cheese, butter and vanilla essence. Add the icing sugar little by little, until the texture feels right, and put on top of the cooled muffins. 21 22 Echo Monday March 3, 2014 echo-news.co.uk /newwoman Echo Monday March 3, 2014 echo-news.co.uk /newwoman Now Jordanne looks ready for the red carpet A WARD season in the UK and abroad is a time for celebrities to start their juice diets, emergency botox and 5am mountain hikes, so they can look their best in their fancy frocks. From the Oscars on Sunday, to the Baftas and Golden Globes, the award ceremonies have been coming thick and fast and in a wave of beautiful gowns and stunning hair and makeup. But why should movie stars have all the fun? We have teamed up with Eastgate Shopping Centre to give lucky readers their own Hollywood makeover. First up is Jordanne Reed, events coordinator at South Essex College, who was transformed into a glamorous starlet with the help of the Eastgate team. Jordanne’s outfit was based on Amy Adams’ look at the Baftas in February. She looked stunning in this fitted, high-collar dress by Victoria Beckham. The American Hustle star was nominated for best supporting actress – she missed out, but she won in the style stakes. AFTER By LOUISE HOWESON [email protected] Michelle Moore, personal shopper at Debenhams, at the Eastgate centre, says: “Jordanne’s look is based on Amy Adams’ Bafta outfit. It is an elegant and understated look that really suits Jordanne. “As a personal shopper, I style people according to their shape and skin tone. I ‘style, fit and colour’ the individual to make sure that they are wearing clothes that accentuate their best bits. “For Jordanne, I chose this navy dress by Debut (£120), because it complemented her warm skin tone. Jordanne is a classic pear shape and she is smaller on her top half. To suit her shape, I went with this long high-neck dress. She really suits a long, flowing dress and it looks stunning on her. “I paired the dress with a Debut bag £32,50, Debut shoes £32, Collection necklace £20 and Collection bracelet £15. The overall look is very old-school Hollywood glamour. “People can sometimes feel daunted when they have to buy clothes for a special event. They can pop in and see me for a completely free consultation at Debenhams and I will help and advise them on what to wear.” BEFORE Holly Robbins, makeup artist for Estee Lauder in Debenhams, says: “For this glamorous look, we went for smokey eyes and red lips. Because Jordanne is blonde, we went for an icy blue base eye shadow colour for the eyelids and then winged it out with a darker blue. “Sometimes people go straight for the black eye shadow to create She Hair stylist Sue smokey-eyed look, really suits abut Carr, at Regis for those of Salon, at the Eastyou who are a long, gate centre, gave blonde or have a flowing dress Jordanne a gorfair complexion geous Hollywood sometimes using and it looks hair makeover. blue is more flatstunning on She says: “I put tering. Jordanne’s hair in hot “To complete the her rollers to start off with look, we finished off and then parted it to one with some nice red lipstick side. with orange undertones, which “We then shook out the curls a suit Jordanne’s complexion.” little bit before I clipped the hair to one side. Mike Horton, promotions “It is the perfect sophisticated manager at the Eastgate centre, look for a special occasion.” says: “It just goes to show you Regis offers hair styling simidon’t have to spend a fortune to lar to this look for £26. Visit look a million pounds! Jordanne regissalons.co.uk or call 01268 would not look out of place at 244428 for details. any red carpet event.” ‘ Style inspiration – actress Amy Adams at the Batfas WOMAN New Glamour – Jordanne Reed after her red carpet makeover COMPETITION And it could be your turn next... EASTGATE is offering up the chance for reader’s to win a Hollywood makeover and £250 voucher to spend in Debenhams. To be in with a chance of winning, write in and tell us why you deserve a makeover or nominate a deserving friend or relative. Send the letter to Newspaper House, Chester Hall Lane, Basildon, Essex, SS14 3BL. 23 24 Echo Monday March 3, 2014 Pie = happiness... a simple equation, but one that works for me every time echo-news.co.uk /newwoman STREET FASHION MONO MANIA Peplum top, £22; jacquard trousers, £30; jacquard dress, £40; all Gok for Tu at Sainsbury SADIE HASLER ‘ The black and white obsession continues for another season. LISA HAYNES seeks out the chicest monochrome must-haves Black grid top, £12; white skirt, £12; court shoes, £12; all Matalan matalan.co.uk I F you’re not quite ready to leap on to spring’s key trends, go back to black and white basics instead. The writer, performer and radio presenter with her take on the peculiarities of modern life politics of a second-hand bookIT’S not an exact science, but shop (new volunteer Des chalsometimes you can tell how lenging old-timer Jane’s sysmuch fun you’re going to have tems – I almost cracked the by the size of the rustic pork pie spine of a Reader’s Digest Dick you’ve just bought from an artiFrancis waiting for that one to san bakers. play out.), and then went back If it’s big enough to break a to our room for the real purpose window from five metres, you of the break. Bed. can strap in for some serious From the crisp starchy whitegood times. As I say, not a definness of our hired cloud, we nesitive equation that Hawking tled and surveyed the hills would bother expounding at a stretching out before us. They lecture to collected genii, but were, as we suspected, unfortusomething in it nonetheless. nately shut for activities that Maybe just one of those arcane day – but from our nest we old unwritten laws from the could gaze over them anyway. Olde Englishee booke ofe Olde Kingsize beds are brilliant, Factes. Like: Rain = Wet, and aren’t they? Duvets are brilSheep = Bad Gay Farmer Jokes. liant. Pillows are brilliant. Big pie = Happiness. Boyfriends in their pants are Matt had some gigs up Norbrilliant. Views of Derbyshire thish last week so we turned it hills, all wavy like a green into a mini break, which essendesert mirage through the raditially meant going to a town ator heat – brilliant. Spring sun we’d not been to before, allowyawning through trees probaing ourselves to eat twice as bly planted by Jane Austen much as we usually would in a when she was taking a break normal day and then rolling from writing a classic – brilaround on a kingsize bed feelliant. ing like we’d earned the immiChurch bells at unfathnent nap. We did a bit of walkomable times, like the ing too, but didn’t want village is run by misto undo our good The chievous masons, work. busybody starIt was on one of hills were, lings whooshing these walks as we in and out of the around Bakewell eaves with gosin Derbyshire suspected, sipy chirrups, that we stumbled nearby pub across the Pie. shut for lights like And the Bakewell activities that lanterns switchtart. And the ing on with a wink cheese. And the chutday at dusk, calling you ney in the cute jar. And back out into the cold. the coconut jam pie that Wellies, tankards, fires, ale looked like it was the baked pumps, dogs, flat caps, locals, dandruff of angels. And the rain, the prospect of rain, the olives, though I’ve forgotten coming of rain, the escape from what they had to do with the rain. All bloody brilliant. “Midlands in February” theme England. Sometimes you’re we were going for. so much a part of it, you forget We also, for good measure, it’s there. I sighed at the headybought a bag of mixed salad, because as we all know having ing intoxicating normality of it something green on the plate all. It was nice to be away. More offsets most of the carbs and specifically, it was nice to be saturated fat. under the sheets in the afterArms laden with award-winnoon with my boy and a massive bloody pork pie. Three days ning country produce, and of this passed like a naptime some wine and chocolate (for dream. emergencies), we tottered dutiWhen the time came to leave, fully round the historic town, by way of thanking the cleanhalfheartedly looked at some ing ladies for our lovely stay, I antique fairs, bought some did a diligent pre-tidy as an act DVDs from an ageing hippy in a of respect and left them the bag church hall (for emergencies in of salad. I knew they’d know case all the hills were shut), earwhat that meant. wigged upon the burgeoning echo-news.co.uk /newwoman Appearing on the catwalks over consecutive seasons, monochrome is no longer a trend but a staple, like trench coats or skinny jeans. Gone is the retro play on the Sixties vibe, making way for a fresh, modern silhouette. From off-duty casual to couture-like glamour, monochrome’s versatility makes it a major player in your wardrobe for summer or winter season. If in doubt, work black and white and nothing else. WOMAN BOUTIQUE BLOGGER by CHARLOTTE ROSEN Check out the cream of the crops Left, Topshop felt-tip top £36 and matching skirt £34 Above, Maribel ruffled crepe skirt, £90; cashmere sweater, £140; both Iris & Ink theoutnet.com Right, Isla dogtooth cardigan, £18; Amelia geometric top, £14; skirt, £18; hat, £12; all Boohoo boohoo.com Right, Minnies Boutique (Brentwood) Maggie top £12.50 and Bobbie tie-dye skirt £12.50 True Decadence at Dorothy Perkins monochrome jacket, £50 dorothyperkins.com Left, Miss Selfridge bonded lace top £25 and matching skirt £30 GET THE LOOK PEACHES GELDOF went hell for leather at the Brit Awards in a slick skirt. Get her exact black leather full midi skirt, £130 at River Island now riverisland.com 25 New WHEN it comes to the crop top, we have come a long way from the ‘sexy schoolgirl’ Britney Spears look and the Spice Girls era. Do not fear, I know this trend can look a little scary, but the best way to wear it is with a matching skirt combo. As a little tip, choose a high-waisted number, so you only show a slither of skin. I have been on the look-out, roaming the shops, down the local broadways and on the internet, and I have found some stunning two-piece sets to start you off. Edith Gyekye, 38, from Southend, is a chef at the Roslin Hotel EDITH loves nothing more than recycling her old clothes, but she has had to tone down her style since becoming a busy mum of three. Edith says: “Things are a lot different now than when I used to totter to work in six-inch heels in the City. I am always rushing about either at work or looking after the kids, so heels are pretty much out of the question – unless I’m on a night out, of course! “I still like to express myself through clothes and I love colour and patterns. I am always digging out old stuff from my wardrobe and wear things from years ago, like this coat I’m wearing today. “I don’t spend a huge amount of clothes and I occasionally pop into Primark and buy a few things. My scarf, jeans and trainers are all from there. I am quite a good shopper – I can zone in on the things I like very quickly, even if it’s really busy.” Echo Monday March 3, 2014 Primark straw hardshell clutch, £8 primark.co.uk Right, Hanami Print Dress, £149 from Damsel in a Dress damsel inadress.co.uk Right, Miss Guided Misia dog tooth top £12.99 and matching skirt £12.99 26 Echo Monday March 3, 2014 echo-news.co.uk /newwoman Echo Monday March 3, 2014 echo-news.co.uk /newwoman We are making our voices heard on International Women’s Day SATURDAY, March 8 marks International Women’s Day across the world. It is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements W O M E N ’ S rights campaigner Betty Makoni is heading to the House of Commons this week to speak about issues such as female genital mutilation. of women past, present and future. International Women’s Day honours the work of the suffragettes, celebrates women’s success, and reminds of us all of the inequities still to be redressed. LOUISE HOWESON and VANESSA MOON take a look at the events taking place across the country. Betty, who runs the Girl Child Network, has teamed up with Women’s Federation for World Peace to present their case to Virendra Sharma, the Labour MP for Ealing, Southall. They hope the debate will be discussed in Parliament and bring about real change for women across the world. Betty says: “We will be discussing the security of women worldwide and ways we can support and educate woman and children in the future. “One of the Britain issues is female genineeds to tal mutilation. be an “It is barexample to the baric and it should be world on stopped. female genital “But we are saying how can mutilation we stop it across the world if we can Commons debate – Betty Makoni will be speaking not not stop it in the UK? in Parliament about female genital mutilation We need to be examples to the rest of the world.” children, is a gender-based she has spoken to girls who Betty fled Zimbabwe for violence expert for the Forhave experienced it. the safety of Stanford-Leeign Office and has won 33 Betty says: “I have seen Hope six years ago. She had international accolades, girls who have broken suffered persecution as a including the 2007 World down in tears when they result of her work in helpspoke about it. Many have Children’s Prize, which she ing get justice for child rape kept it a secret and are received alongside Nelson victims. scared to speak out. Mandela, while in 2011 A shocking 20,000 girls in “I would like to see an Newsweek named her in its Britain under the age of 15 empowerment centre creatlist of 150 women who are at high risk from female ed in Essex for women to go shake the world. genital mutilation. to if they need support and She wants people to be Betty has visited schools someone to speak to.” aware this mutilation can in inner city London where Betty, 42, who has three be in the form of proce- ‘ World event THE first International Women’s Day was in 1911. More than a million people attended demonstrations in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland to highlight sexual discrimination. They were campaigning for the right to vote and the right to work in good conditions with equal pay. Russian women took part in the international celebration for the first time in 1913. In 1917 the demonstrations kick-started the Russian Revolution. It wasn’t until the rise of feminism in the Sixties and Seventies that IWD started to be celebrated once more outside socialist countries. dures that involve partial or whole removal of the external female genitalia and labia elongation, where private parts are pulled outwards. Betty was a victim of female genital mutilation as a child and wants people to be aware of the implications for women. Betty says: “We want people to be aware of labia elongation otherwise in the countries where it is being carried out it may continue. “There are health risks in later life with both practices. They both make childbirth very dangerous and they can have a negative impact on a woman’s daily life.” Visit www.muzvarebetty makoni.org for further details. WOMAN New Collective – Elisa Vasquez-Walters with Megan Saliu, Louise Reader and Jen Tinsley-Hall Celebrity culture celebrates the wrong things THE night promises to be electric. Full of readings, music, performance and good old chatter, Colchester will host its first International Women’s Day on Saturday. “It’s so important to shout about the great things women have done in the past, and are doing now, whenever we get the chance,” says Elisa VasquezWalters. The Colchester mum, one of the founders of the recently formed Essex Feminist Collective, continues: “We need to celebrate these things in order to inspire women today to offer role models. “It gives us the chance to see what women are achieving around the world.” Originally celebrated in 1911, International Women’s Day events take place around the world. Each year features a different theme and 2014’s theme is Inspiring Change. But Elisa had trouble finding something in Colchester. “I have always travelled to London to celebrate the day but as far as I know there’s nothing siginificant happening in Essex. I have never found anything in Colchester but it is important for it to be marked. That made me think about organising something myself.” Along with members of the Collective, Elisa began putting together a showcase of local talent, from singers to writers and DJs to fire dancing, the event at the Waiting Room at Colchester’s old bus station aims to celebrate and offer role models for younger women to follow. Elisa says: “There are a lack of role models for women at the moment. It’s something that gets talked about a lot. “Women are not celebrated enough for the right things. We live in a very celebrity-driven culture, that’s society, and we are celebrating the wrong things.” The event will run from 4pm until late and include displays of women’s literature from Colchester Library and Red Lion Books, a talk by author Liz Trenow, poetry performance by Joan Norlev Taylor and the showing of a 30-minute documentary by Elena Dirstaru on the life of Romanian women. For more information or to get involved follow the Essex Feminist Collective on Twitter @EssexFemCollect and include the hashtag #hervoice ‘ We need to celebrate these things in order to inspire women today 27 28 Echo Monday March 3, 2014 echo-news.co.uk /newwoman WOMAN TALKING POINT New Someone mistook me for my slim sister Is new TV channel aimed at women a good idea or not? IF the TV channel Dave is anything to go by, men are mostly interested in Top Gear re-runs and survival shows with Ray Mears in them. So what do TV channel bosses think women want to watch on the box? Well, if ITV have their way, they will launch a “female-focused” channel, filled with programmes like the Only Way is Essex. The new channel, ITVBe, will broadcast lifestyle and reality TV programmes currently shown on sister channel ITV2. ITV said the adfunded new channel will be targeted at a younger, female audience, and will complement ITV2 despite taking a number of its popular shows. But is this really what women to see on TV? Is just light-hearted fun or should women be offended that the TV bigwigs think they can dictate what they want to watch? Peter Fincham, ITV’s director of television, said: “We identified an opportunity to develop what is currently part of the ITV2 schedule – reality and non-scripted shows, which are very popular with young women and housewives with kids – into a distinctive channel proposition, aimed more squarely at that audience.” By LOUISE HOWESON [email protected] T ONI Hammel has always been bubbly and confident, but now she has more energy than ever, having lost an incredible four stone. The 24-year-old nursery worker first gained weight when she was studying at college. Too many takeaways and snacking saw her weight creep up to 15 stone. She says: “I was really focused on my studies and my weight started going up and up. I never weighed myself, so I didn’t really notice.” It was a visit to the doctors that made Toni do something about losing weight. She says: “He said I was overweight and on the border of being obese. I couldn’t believe my weight had gotten so out of control. “Because I was nearly obese, he referred me to Slimming World, where I had six free sessions. This really kick-started my weight loss and I decided to continue going.” As soon as Toni started focusing on eating healthily, she saw results. She says: “I was eating too many takeaways and not even thinking about what I was eating really.” Toni is determined to maintain her weight loss. She says: “I want to lose another half a stone with the Slim for Good challenge and keep the weight off for good.” Toni is now a healthy ten stone and 13 pounds, and other members in the Pitsea group look to her for advice. And she even gets mistaken for her slim sister Leigh by friends and family. She says: “My sister, Leigh, has always been the slim one and even though she has had two kids, she is still a size 10. “The other day someone mistook me for Slimming success – Toni my sister. I was so pleased! We borrow each Hammel, left, before her other’s clothes now, which is great!” weight loss, and, above, Visit slimmingworld.com for details. Yes, it is TONY DUDLEY, owner of A Touch Too Wild, in Leigh Broadway says... Why shouldn’t there be a light-hearted channel for girls? There is far too much depressing TV at the moment, it’s nice to have some light relief. I watch happy shows on Gold like Dinner Ladies, that always cheers me up. If running this shop for 20 years has taught me one thing, it is what makes women happy. I know how to dress women to look their best and make them feel great. I also know a lot of them love romantic films, agony aunts and the Only Way is Essex. If you can put all of those in one channel it is sure to be a hit. No, it isn’t Singer LILI LA SCALA, from Westcliff, says... I always find TV channels geared towards women intensely patronising, especially as the people who make the broadcasting decisions are usually men. I would prefer a channel commission groundbreaking and unusual television, rather than churning out “gender-appropriate TV”. I’m not keen on the idea that men watch “macho” shows and comedy panel shows but women need with her sister Leigh something pretty. It further seeks to make young people of today aware of the gender divide. So, in conclusion, girly TV – oh God, no! Why not create something new, groundbreaking and gender universal? Slimming group will drop pounds to raise money LISA Ward’s Slimming World group in Pitsea are dropping pounds in order to raise cash for Little Havens. They are taking part in the Slim For Good sixweek challenge in aid of the children’s hospice. This week Lisa, who had been running the group for eight weeks, will start logging people’s weight loss each week. Lisa says: “It is a fan- tastic opportunity for my members to lose weight and raise money for charity. “We will have a foodtasting session on the last week to celebrate the end of slim for good.” The group runs in Pitsea Leisure Centre, 5.30pm and 7.30pm. Anyone interested can call Lisa on 07840 141224 or join her Facebook page Lisa Ward Slimmingworld Pitsea. Echo Monday March 3, 2014 echo-news.co.uk /newwoman WOMAN New Copy Nicole’s Hollywood braids HOW TO... I N honour of all the star-studded events at the moment, we are going to show you our all-time favourite red carpet look. What is interesting about lots of the current red carpet looks is how relaxed the hair has become. Severe hair-up styles have been banished in favour of soft pony tails, braids and curls – proving that casual chic can be super glamorous. Take this fabulous Nicole Kidman braid for example, which she wore to some music awards. Teamed with a drop dead glamorous dress, it hits all the right notes! But it still has a freshness and undone look, which makes her face look soft and natural. Creating braids is a hairdressing staple, which the students at Central Hairdressing Academy are taught as part of any hairdressing course. Once they have learnt how to master the basics, the students are Charity shop CHIC IT has been a sad couple of weeks for charity shops in Southend, following a spate of overnight raids. Five shops were targeted in the area and thieves stole money, clothes and jewellery from the premises. Despite difficult times such as these, local charity shop workers are doing their best to keep their stores looking as presentable as any high street shop and with a variety of quality clothes. With limited time and money this is no easy task. LOUISE HOWESON visited the beautifully-kept Havens store, in Thorpe Bay, and found some vintage goodies on sale. Asos coat, £7, size 12 encouraged to get creative when it comes to putting their own stamp on the look, so they use celebrity looks such as this one for inspiration. Start by gathering all the hair to the side which you have chosen to wear the braid. Next neatly separate the hair into three equal sections, making sure it is combed smooth, before plaiting the hair. Secure the ends of the plait with a hair band. Never use an elastic band as it damages the hair. Gently tease and pull the loops of the plait apart to further loosen before securing with Unite Go365 Hairspray. If you have long hair, ensure that the front of the hair is also kept loose to keep the overall informality of the look. If you wear a fringe, try pushing it to one side for a softer look, as we have done with our model. Central Hairdressing Academy is the largest NVQ Level 2 training provider in the UK and is based at 112-114 London Road, Southend. To find out more, call 01702 333262 or visit central hairdressingacademy.com A-list hair – Nicole Kidman Evening dress, £10 Vintage jacket, £5 Capri pants, £4 size, 12 Soft mustard-coloured clutch bag, £5 Norman Martin vintage skirt £7.50, in medium 29 30 Echo Monday March 3, 2014 echo-news.co.uk /newwoman
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