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I have only recently started watching snippets of QVC fashion shows since the lovely people in this forum alerted me to some of the horrors. I like a bit of car crash television to give a touch of hilarity to my morning. In the dvd, poor Alison Keenan, normally so elegant, looks like she has...

Mon Dieu! Je parle français parce que le familiar boat neckline has recently changed on QVC to a bateau neckline. Pretentious, QVC, N'est ce pas? As for the brown pattern, it's a 1970s wallpaper design.

I was thinking that perhaps the Tens incontinence machine which the enthusiastic lady demonstrator says gives women better orgasms might not make it as a Christmas show. But then I remembered how Charlie goes bright red when she talks about sex, and realised QVC could shove him on top of some...

I only turn over in rare moments to QVC, but whenever I do, it's that advert for themselves which is playing dah-dah-dah-deedy-dah. How can anyone watch a full programme, never mind a full evening, and have that blarting out? I can't even look at the website advertising the two day Christmas...

Come on,then, what's the secret? There are 60,000 people out there ready to buy Loveinamist's Lotion.

And on the theme of beauty claims, does the Prai lady still insist that the sacred prai root was the secret of the complexions of Thai empresses? I always wondered how someone got up close enough to an empress to take a glance at her complexion, and report back to the waiting world "Cor, what a...

A state secret. Although I am prepared to reveal it if Daniel Craig can come up with some very inventive torture, involving a lot of tickling. I owe my stunning youthful looks, so my catty friends at my 60th birthday told me, many years ago, to not having either a husband or children, ergo, no...

No, Vienna, Glycerine and Rosewater seems to be still the same as it has always been. I have bought it, although find it a bit sticky, and now use their Traditional range. For cleaning the face I first rub in their cold cream, which smells of roses and instantly transports you back to the...

It's over 55 years since I last stood in an ink stained overall in a Biology lab and learned about amoebas. But as far as my knowledge of cells goes, they are created inside the body from nutrients ingested, and cannot, once fully formed and pushed up to the outer layers of the skin, benefit...

Hurrah for you! Much better your money goes towards your holiday than those taken by the people who own cosmetic companies.

It's clearly a 'fabrication'.

I have just watched the dvd for the 50 ml collagen bomb. As ever, had a good smirk at the before and after photos...no difference at all except the model had had her makeup done for the after shot..note the longer length of her pencilled eyebrows. And apart from that, for 50 mil product you...

P.S. Maisie. In pursuit of enlightenment, after posting the reply to you above, I Googled picnodgels. Not even Wiki had heard of them. The only reference to them was YOUR post. Fame! You have got yourself a unique listing in splendid isolation in Google. Now, I must pack a thermos of...

I think you might find the beauty thread started by Mia of interest! Meanwhile, I am off to the wild woods to commune with the picnodgels. I wonder if they are wearing woolly hats and stripy socks like their cousins the pixies as they sit on their mushroom stools?

Thanks! Very interesting indeed. Is that QVC's Tiffany in the photo?

You just have to think what a load of waffle most of the 'prestige ingredients' claims are. They just sit on the skin until they are washed off. If you think of nicotine or HRT patches, they are indeed 'micronised' as beauty companies claim for their ingredients, e.g. collagen. But they are...

Mia, you are beautiful just by being yourself. And you obviously have a great relationship with your husband if he can say your face looks like you have lard on it! Have confidence in yourself, you don't need to give your power away to expensive cosmetics which you think you need. Why not try...

If it cheers you up, there was a documentary on BBC a couple of years ago, showing expensive face creams being made. They were water and lard-like fat being mixed in a huge vat, the same ingredients and processes as much cheaper brands. That's when I stopped using anything fancy and went back...

Thank you. And that reminds me, that once I have a tracking number from Hermes my worries are over, because they are responsible from then on for safe delivery. I need not spend days worrying if it's got lost in the post.

Agreed. I have always found Customer Services to be great, especially recently when I thought I had sent back a £300 Caci without adequate insurance., and was a gibbering wreck, only to be calmed by a helpful girl at the call centre.