Category: Opinion

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 […]

9th July 2019

Transition

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

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 […]

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.

4th August 2017

Whee!!!

Flipping heck! It’s all a bit shiny and new around here at the moment!  Huge thanks to Phil at Pipdig for the blog refresh, and the seamless transfer of the back end.  It all looks so different! I tell you, blogging on a massively outdated platform is a huge bore, and a terrible chore. Because of all the backend changes, I’m not quite “back” in […]

10th May 2017

Dove: a conversation about bottle shapes

  Dove: “Each bottle evokes the shapes, sizes, curves and edges that combine to make every woman their very own limited edition,”   Get Lippie: “Oh grow the fuck up. It’s unnecessary, unneeded, unrequired and unasked for. It’s also unwelcome.  Do you really think us fat fuckers people are so absolutely insecure that we need our body lotions to look like us? Or was the thinking more […]

11th April 2017

Back Soon!!

   Get Lippie (the blog) is just having a short break whilst Get Lippie (the writer) finds that having a full-time job and trying to write a book whilst still having an actual life at the are all making things just a bit hectic. I’ll be back soon, bigger, better and smellier (ha ha!) than ever, I promise. In the meantime I’ll pop in every now […]

19th March 2017

Beauty Pie – the buyers club for beauty lovers(?)

So, Beauty Pie, then.  Launched with no little amount of hyperbole towards the end of last year by Marcia Kilgore, the founder of (amongst others): Soap & Glory and FitFlop.  Hyped as “makeup without the markup”, the website boasts of “luxury” lipsticks from £2.84, eyeshadow palettes from £6.94, and foundations from £4.75. Sounds amazing, right?  By cutting out the middleman, using generic packaging, and charging […]

4th March 2014

Nasomatto Black Afgano: Chasing the Dragon

By Laurin One of my favourite customers of recent weeks was a dapper young gentleman who had clearly just been bitten by the perfume bug. He was high on vetiver and giddy with tales from the Le Labo counter. I was immediately jealous of him in the same way that I’m jealous of people who have never watched Six Feet Under – that is, I […]

29th May 2012

Chafing? “Chub rub”? Blisters? Have I got a miracle cure for you …

Hot weather is great, isn’t it?  Sandals are wonderful, aren’t they?  Skimpy clothes are simply marvellous, don’t you think? Well, not if you are prone to chafing, or have wobbly bits that like to rub together, or your sandals have eaten your feet. Sandals are evil.  I hate them.  They hate you, as well. Last year I wrote about Bodyglide, and I think it’s time […]

7th March 2012

Book Review – The Perfume Lover by Denyse Beaulieu

Fangirl disclosure: Denyse Beaulieu writes Grain de Musc, a blog I’ve read for years (though I’ve always been too shy to comment on it), and for the last year and a half I’ve been saving my pennies to go on Denyse’s highly-regarded “Perfume: Understanding Fragrance” course at London College of Fashion. So, when the chance came up to review this book, I leapt at it. […]

2nd April 2011

Give And Makeup

I get emails every now and again from people asking me what happens to all the things I sample for Get Lippie, and wondering if they can buy the samples that I’ve featured, particularly if I don’t seem that enamoured with them, and a lot of people have been asking me recently if I will hold a blog sale. First things first, I would never, […]