Everytime I open most of my favourite magazines, nine cases out of ten there is a heading emblazoned across page five saying something like….

Brangelina in Perfect Plastic Poutgate

or

Has Cheryl fallen foul of the latest cosmetic procedure?

Quite frankly, who cares?

Well, most women when they are on their lunchbreaks do. And then there are the surgery obsessive women in Argentina.

Apparently, Argentina is the place to be if you are obsessed with your body, you want perfection and you want to share your waxer with a three year old. Yes, indeed in Argentina they start ‘em young when aiming for body perfection.

So, it was with great interest and a fully raised eye brow – no botox here – that I read about the demand for plastic surgery by Argentine women.

It is fairly unbelievable. How can liposuction on your legs, stomach, arms, waist, back and a boob job be a quiet year’s work? But that is what it is! Its seen as perfectly acceptable practice to go under the knife in an attempt to create the perfect body.

As I read, it is a sorry tale of woe. Yearly body updates, eating disorders and the age old being thin = success. The horrendous comment:

Being fat is the worst thing that can happen to you

Makes me feel quite sad – surely, life is more than: can you see my ribs and hip bones but not my cellulite?

Breathing a sigh of relief that my quest for chicness does not mean I will starve myself or go under the knife, needle or any other non-invasive procedure, I reach for a fabulous glass of red and a chunk of dairy milk!

I love my iPhone. I love it even more now I have the Love it or Lose it App.

It’s going to make shopping just so much better! As anyone who knows me will testify, I can never make a fashion decision in the first shop I go to. It’s always a day long trawl around seventeen shops only to return to the first shop and buy the first thing I saw. Intensely irritating I know.

So this marvellous little app will make my life so much easier. All I do is the find the item of my dreams, take a photo and post it to my fellow devoted fashionistas in the Love it or Lose it community and wait for the honest feedback.

Perfect.

I will be a one stop shopper and enjoy time for an afternoon cocktail!

I think this lovely lady is my style heroine.

The Fabulous Joan Harris

What’s not to love?

Fabulous figure. Stunning Style. And a great strength in one liners.

This has got to be my favourite quote. Probably ever.

Go home, take a paper bag, cut some eyeholes out of it. Put it over your head, get undressed and look at yourself in the mirror. Really evaluate where your strengths and weaknesses are. And be honest.

How truthfully fabulous!

If you haven’t enjoyed Mad Men already, kick off your sling backs and watch an episode.

Drinking a Manhattan naturally.