Image & Beauty

Wellbeing uncovers some of the latest footwear trends to nurture your feet!

A new poll of 2,000 people from The Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists found almost 4 in 10 women knowingly buy shoes that don’t fit them. The survey reveals that 37% of women wear uncomfortable shoes as long as they’re fashionable and 17% of men admit buying the wrong size. Perhaps not surprisingly, a massive 80% of the women surveyed reveal that they have suffered foot problems like corns and in-growing toe nails.

• Half of women have cut back on spending on their make-up
• More than a third (35 per cent) of women are hanging onto old make-up in a bid to save money
• One in five women have caught the men in their life using their eye make-up

This January, British women may want to make a New Year's resolution to clear out their make-up bags following new research from the College of Optometrists that reveals over a third (35 per cent) of women in the UK are hanging onto their make-up for longer in a bid to save money.

Our skin is our packaging, our outer covering, our protective film against the elements. Our skin knows when we are sick and hormonal, it glows with good health and rages against us for over indulging.

False eyelashes have been around for years, and while they are more popular than ever, a new craze for semi-permanent eyelash extensions is also emerging thanks to celebrity fans like Cheryl Cole. Yet while there is a growing trend for long, luscious lashes, eye experts at the College of Optometrists are warning women not to put fashion before their eye health when choosing to embrace the Cheryl look.

Remember eating boiled eggs with soldiers when you weren't feeling very well? Or sitting round the campfire eating toasted marshmallows that were burning hot and oozing down the stick? Or tucking into delicious barbequed food on a hot summers day?...We have all sorts of memories and their associated feelings attached to the things we eat.

Probably most of us can remember some happy times spent eating and drinking with family and friends.

'Can't wait for my Thalasso,' trilled Marie-Christine's email, detailing her hectic summer in Paris, Provence and Dieppe - the latter, it seemed, to recover at her Spa of choice.

Could Thalasso - hot seawater health and beauty treatments - be the secret weapon, not just of my friend Marie-Christine but of her glamorous Gallic compatriots? When I next crossed the Channel, I made time to visit Les Bains, Dieppe's magnificent modern Thalassotherapy and Aquatic Centre which reopened last year after a £20m refit.

When you look at toiletry products and on the label it says it is 'natural' or is made with 'natural ingredients', what do you think this means? Most people would assume that the product is made from wholly natural ingredients. Well, you would be wrong. To shed some light, the term 'natural' has absolutely no meaning at all. The word can be applied to ingredients made from both plants and petrol.