gok 16 April 2008
I suspect I am an addictive personality and it goes for a lot of things. At the moment I am particularly taken with Gok Wan’s new series of How To Look Good Naked on Channel 4 (UK station, don’t know if it has travelled further as yet). I found it last year and loved it. Basically, he makes women feel better about themselves through a makeover (never anything more invasive than a new hair do or elastic pants though). I find myself almost in tears at times to see the changes he helps the women make and how happy they are as a result. Also, there is a brilliant testing section each week when ordinary people try out popular products (without knowing what brands they are using) and give honest opinions of them. That alone has saved me money already. I am a hoor for a new product and I so WANT to believe it will do all it says…often it does not and then languishes on the bathroom shelf till it is well past its use-by date (anything up to 2 years) and I finally throw it out RACKED with guilt about the waste of product and packaging, and defiling the earth. He also features some fantastic structural undies and after I finish this I am going to the website to look up some of the stuff he mentioned tonight. They weren’t pretty but they looked like they’d do the job of pulling and pushing in all the right directions, ie money well spent. The only thing I am not fussed about is the being naked bit. Good for all who have done it and they have looked fab and I am sure it’s very liberating and all that but, as some of you already know, I’m for clothing at this stage of my life. And the more it covers, and the more cleverly it does, the better.
