Books TV Writing
30th October 2024

A love letter to Rivals by Jilly Cooper (and, technically, Disney+)

Author’s note: this is literally my first writing for sheer pleasure in quite some time, the reasons for which will become clear later. Bear with me, oh Get Lippie readers of yore, I’m rusty, and what follows is sheer self-indulgence. Basically: read on at your own risk. Rivals: The Book As a teen, I was obsessed with three things: the comedy of Billy Connolly; the […]

Uncategorized
21st March 2022

On Writing …

So, I’m just over halfway through my master’s degree at the moment, and I’ve had some thoughts.  These have been a long time coming, so I thought whilst my brain was fresh (ha!), I’d attempt to get something on the blog to at least justify the hosting fees I still pay for it. College is great, there’s a lot going on in my personal life […]

Uncategorized
26th May 2021

A Conversation with my Brain.

(Setting: internal monologue, North London, present day) Oi, Lippie!  Write something! Noooooo!  What if it’s shit? No one will even notice, I betcha. That doesn’t help! But you like writing! And you bought approximately 543,457,436,874 identical blood-red lipsticks during lockdown, including three you already owned (and deliberately so, you numpty), so it’s not like you’re short of material to write about. Yeah, but … it’s […]

Bodycare Review
5th July 2020

Lady Anti Monkey Butt

Yeah … whilst I’m not sure I’m completely onboard with the packaging of Lady Anti Monkey Butt (or even the name for that matter) it’s the time of the year where we talk about chafing, and this year I want to talk about that most taboo of topics: the permanently moist underboob.  Summer, for a fat lass, can be a season of multiple minor irritations, […]

Review TV
1st July 2020

TV Diaries: The launch

We don’t really do binge -watching here in Lippie Mansions, at least, MrL doesn’t. Most of the time, I don’t mind in the slightest, but sometimes you just want one… more… episode… My own fault though, I guess, I married him. That aside, I’m at a bit of a loose end at the moment, having just finished my contract at A. N. Publishing Corp., so […]

Eyes looking upwards
Uncategorized Writing
27th June 2020

Long time, no see …

So yes, I’m embarrassed at not writing, and simultaneously far too embarrassed about it to actually write something to combat the initial embarrassment of not writing. My head, it’s a complicated place, at times. It’s not so much that there has been nothing going on, rather the exact opposite; for example, if I started this update simply by listing only the things that have happened […]

Opinion Tea Writing
16th July 2019

Yorkshire Tea Biscuit Brew: A love letter.

My name is Get Lippie, I am a tea-soaked disaster magnet*, a cack-handed muppet, a recovering parosmic and a Yorkshire Tea Biscuit Brew addict.  Recently, I wrote a love letter about Biscuit Brew, then did the unthinkable.  I sent it to them. Then they made me cry. Again. Let me explain: A couple of months ago, Biscuit Brew became impossible to find in shops.  I […]

Opinion Writing
9th July 2019

Transition

There’s a theory that change actually starts with an ending rather than a beginning …

Opinion Writing
7th May 2019

It stopped being fun …

… and so I was done. Urgh, blogging. So over, isn’t it? Let’s face it, when bloggers started rebranding as Instagram “influencers”, and the quality of the writing started being ignored (by both brands and audiences) in favour of amiable skinny poppets with blandly pretty faces, who recycle press releases instead of having actual opinions, then my place in the “blogosphere” (do not even get […]

Opinion Uncategorized Writing
23rd September 2018

Goop “pop up” store opens in London September 25th 2018

And all I have to say to that is: Take your stupid jade eggs, and your fines for medically misleading claims, and do just fuck off, dear. Kisses, Lippie x PS fuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckoff fuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckoff fuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckoff fuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckoff fuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckoff fuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckofffuckoff PPS: fuck off. As you were.

Review Skincare
30th August 2017

Alpha H Daily Essentials on QVC (with Giveaway!)

I love Alpha H Skincare, there’s simply no getting away from it.  So, when I relaunched Get Lippie recently (hopefully you might have noticed!) I thought what better way to do so than with a giveaway from one of the brands I discovered through blogging, and who, in my opinion, really get skin?  There was only one brand to speak to.  So I did. Then […]

Anosmia Fragrance Home Toiletries
16th August 2017

Aesop Post-Poo Drops

“She thinks her sh*t don’t stink“.  I heard that line of dialogue in a movie once, and for some reason, it has been stuck in my head ever since.  Which, bearing in mind I can no longer remember what the movie was, what I had for breakfast this morning, and occasionally, how old I actually am, is going some.  Now, it turns out, I can’t […]