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<strong>Gaz</strong>ette Monday November 5, 20<strong>12</strong> 19<br />
WOMAN<br />
<strong>New</strong><br />
BEAUTY<br />
Get your brows<br />
tattooed like me<br />
Page 27<br />
Dye<br />
another<br />
day<br />
OPINION<br />
MP Priti Patel<br />
Pages 20-21<br />
FASHION<br />
The rustic look<br />
Pages 24-25<br />
Why changing your hair colour<br />
doesn’t have to be<br />
treme
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COOK<br />
Create a delish<br />
babaganush<br />
Life for female MPs with families<br />
LONG hours, minimal family time and thinking about the job 24 hours a day. Life as an MP is not easy. Coupled<br />
with juggling family commitments it is nigh on impossible feat. We spoke to some Essex MPs about the strain<br />
of their day-to-day work and their dedication the what they do.<br />
This is a great way to use up<br />
any unused veg that is<br />
loitering in the back of the<br />
fridge.<br />
Mediterranean veg is really<br />
tasty chargrilled and goes<br />
superbly with babbaganush<br />
Serves canapes for 8<br />
Prep time: 30 minutes<br />
Cooking time: 15 minutes<br />
Ingredients:<br />
Various vegetables you have<br />
in the fridge such as spring<br />
onions, celery, courgette,<br />
cucumber, and asparagus.<br />
Mix and match according<br />
to what you already have<br />
or what’s on offer/in<br />
season.<br />
For the babaganush:<br />
1 large aubergine<br />
1 lemon<br />
1 clove of garlic<br />
2tbsp of mild tahini<br />
½ tsp cumin, coriander<br />
Method:<br />
1. Start by preparing the<br />
babbaganush. The best way<br />
<strong>New</strong><br />
WOMAN<br />
to cook the aubergine is on<br />
charcoal, so light a bbq and<br />
let it die down to white coals.<br />
If not you can cook them<br />
directly on a griddle.<br />
2. Squeeze the lemon and<br />
mince the garlic.<br />
3. When the aubergine is cool<br />
enough to handle, peel it,<br />
discarding the burnt<br />
skin.<br />
Take any clumps of large seed<br />
out also and compost. You<br />
will be left a creamy beige<br />
pulp. Chop this roughly on a<br />
chopping board or pulse in a<br />
blender but be sure to keep<br />
some texture.<br />
3. Now, in a bowl season the<br />
aubergine with the lemon<br />
juice, garlic, olive oil, salt and<br />
pepper.<br />
Then add the tahini with a little<br />
water and stir in. Now adjust<br />
the flavourings to your taste.<br />
4. Cut all the vegetables into<br />
batons, chargrill the<br />
Mediterranean veg very briefly<br />
so they hold their integrity<br />
when dipped.<br />
Keep the crispest vegetables<br />
raw. Dress them with a little<br />
lemon juice and poppy seeds..<br />
5. Serve on its own or with<br />
flatbread.<br />
Priti Patel<br />
“I easily work 80-hour weeks,” she<br />
says. “It is a dreadful situation but I<br />
don’t see my four-year-old son<br />
Freddie at all during a working week.<br />
It is the reality a lot of working<br />
women now face.”<br />
Priti lives in Witham with her husband<br />
Alex Sawyer. She counts herself<br />
lucky that she has support from her<br />
mother-in-law Kathleen with looking<br />
after Freddie during the week.<br />
“We would not be able to manage<br />
the childcare costs otherwise.<br />
“Of course people will say I have a<br />
choice whether or not to work, and<br />
they are right I do.<br />
“The important thing is for women to<br />
be happy and confident in their<br />
decision and do not apologise for<br />
them.”<br />
Rebecca Harris<br />
The Castle Point MP lives with her<br />
husband Frank and young son Ted.<br />
She is on the business select<br />
committee and is currently involved in<br />
gathering evidence on the challenges<br />
women face in the workplace.<br />
Rebecca says: “I have a six-year-old<br />
son Ted who I am lucky is extremely<br />
laid back.<br />
“I have had to make compromises<br />
and I am not such a fabulous house<br />
wife now, but I do not put pressure on<br />
myself to be ‘supermum’!<br />
“It is nothing new, women have been<br />
working for hundreds of years.<br />
“It will be interesting to see what<br />
evidence we get for women in the<br />
workplace and what would help<br />
working mothers.”<br />
Jackie Doyle-Price<br />
Jackie Doyle-Price, MP for Thurrock,<br />
believes that family commitments do<br />
affect a politician’s career.<br />
“It is not easy and probably the<br />
reason often women at the top of<br />
politics, such as Teresa May, do not<br />
have children,” says Jackie.<br />
“Of course there are women like<br />
Yvette Cooper who manage to have<br />
three children and do it. But it is not<br />
easy. She is married to the politician<br />
Ed Balls so maybe it is easier in a<br />
completely political household.”<br />
Jackie lives with her partner Mark and<br />
her <strong>12</strong>-year-old son George.<br />
She says: “I I commute back to<br />
Thurrock every day because I like<br />
being home with my family. We make<br />
sure we have family time at the<br />
weekend.”
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<strong>Gaz</strong>ette Monday November 5, 20<strong>12</strong> 21<br />
Death penalty<br />
MP: I’ll keep<br />
rattling cages<br />
Outspoken – MP for<br />
Witham, Priti Patel<br />
‘<br />
Being<br />
the first<br />
female MP<br />
with Indian<br />
descent was<br />
not the point<br />
She said what?<br />
On the death penalty:<br />
Citing the reoffending of some murderers and<br />
rapists: “On that basis I would actually<br />
support the reintroduction of capital<br />
punishment to serve as a deterrent.<br />
“I have no issue on having a debate. I think far<br />
too many politicians run away from debating<br />
issues like this.”<br />
On Dale Farm, she said: “In fairness to<br />
Basildon Council I think they are right, I really<br />
do.<br />
“The issue here is about people breaking the<br />
law. We can’t have a system where there is<br />
one rule for travellers and one rule for<br />
On<br />
Question<br />
Time<br />
everybody<br />
else. There<br />
should complete<br />
fairness.”<br />
On stacking up £95,000 by submitting more<br />
than 600 written questions to Government<br />
ministers: “I believe it is important in a<br />
democracy that members of the public are<br />
able to have their voices heard at the highest<br />
levels of Government.”<br />
Speaking to the Sun <strong>New</strong>spaper on getting<br />
women into politics: “When you have a lot of<br />
highly-successful woman across all walks of<br />
life and sectors, you have to ask why there are<br />
so few in Westminster.”<br />
WHEN MP Priti Patel<br />
announced that she<br />
supported the death<br />
penalty on BBC Question<br />
Time many viewers were<br />
aghast.<br />
Her comments last September<br />
were in the wake of the execution<br />
of Troy Davis, who was<br />
killed by lethal injection in<br />
Georgia despite a mass of questionable<br />
evidence.<br />
Priti went head-to-head with<br />
Ian Hislop, the editor of Private<br />
Eye, on the show and then<br />
weathered the Twitter storm<br />
that followed.<br />
However the Conservative<br />
MP for Witham, who was placed<br />
on David Cameron’s infamous<br />
“A-list” of election candidates,<br />
has never sat on the fence.<br />
She was elected in May 2010<br />
and in that time has garnered<br />
support and vilification in<br />
equal measure.<br />
Whether it’s her views on<br />
enforcing the death penalty, on<br />
working mothers or highlighting<br />
problems within her own<br />
party, she’s nothing but direct.<br />
Neither does she have any<br />
regrets about things she has<br />
said in her career. As I found<br />
out when I spoke to her last<br />
week.<br />
She says: “I like to challenge<br />
things – the system, the status<br />
quo, I am not going to just stop<br />
being a cage rattler.<br />
“I have not mellowed. I think<br />
I am even more animated than<br />
ever about getting my points<br />
across than ever.”<br />
She accepts this does not<br />
always win her friends.<br />
Priti says: “If you are outspoken<br />
you do set yourself up for<br />
people to disagree with you.<br />
By LOUISE<br />
HOWESON<br />
louise.howeson@nqe.com<br />
But I do not regret anything I<br />
have said.”<br />
This includes her more<br />
extreme views.<br />
“I stand by my comments on<br />
capital punishment. I think<br />
people get annoyed with politicians<br />
sitting on the fence and<br />
they value honesty,” she says.<br />
Priti, 40, was born in London<br />
to Ugandan immigrant parents,<br />
who fled their home country<br />
after being persecuted by dictator<br />
Idi Amin.<br />
Her parents ran a post office<br />
in rural Norfolk and later ran a<br />
string of seven shops.<br />
“My parents came to the<br />
country without a penny,” she<br />
says.<br />
“It taught me how to get on in<br />
a place where you could be an<br />
entrepreneur if you worked<br />
hard.”<br />
Priti went to a comprehensive<br />
school in Watford, then<br />
studied economics at Keele University,<br />
before going on to study<br />
at the University of Essex.<br />
“I was never a ‘wannabe’<br />
politician. I was good at school<br />
but not incredibly academic. It<br />
was always expected that we<br />
would work hard at school and<br />
I was the first to complete a<br />
degree.<br />
After graduating she campaigned<br />
for the Conservative<br />
Party and later worked as<br />
William Hague’s PR officer.<br />
In 2000, she worked in the private<br />
sector before returning to<br />
politics in 20<strong>05</strong>.<br />
She says: “In 20<strong>05</strong> I had<br />
become disillusioned with the<br />
party. They seemed too inward<br />
looking, there was no one who<br />
represented someone like me<br />
and I was a mainstream Conservative.<br />
“I called them and said they<br />
need people who look and<br />
sound like me.”<br />
She applied to over 40 constituencies<br />
before being selected<br />
as the Conservative candidate<br />
for Nottingham North but<br />
failed to secure the seat in the<br />
20<strong>05</strong> election.<br />
She was the first female<br />
Asian Conservative MP and<br />
first Hindu female MP.<br />
“I am not a fan of labels. For<br />
me being the first female MP<br />
with Indian descent was not the<br />
point. I know the Asian community<br />
put a lot of emphasis on it<br />
and thought it was long overdue.”<br />
What is she most proud of?<br />
“No one had heard of Witham<br />
before and they certainly<br />
know about it now! Also I have<br />
had some very humbling experience<br />
working with constituents,<br />
on issues such as<br />
bureaucratic health cases.”<br />
She does not expect a thanks<br />
for doing her job.<br />
“You’re never going to get a<br />
thank you from anyone in Westminster<br />
because they are all<br />
looking out for themselves.<br />
“I did not go into it expecting<br />
it to be the most wonderful job.<br />
“I am a public servant and<br />
could be booted out in two-and-<br />
-half years. All I want is to<br />
make a difference to the lives of<br />
my constituents and make<br />
people aware of Witham.”
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I’ve had to survive on just three<br />
spoonfuls of oats for breakfast!<br />
<strong>New</strong><br />
WOMAN<br />
The Empower Programme<br />
nutrition plan<br />
SIX weeks ago Imade a<br />
vowtoforgo stodgyfood<br />
and get fitter before the<br />
onset of winter.<br />
This wasthe opposite of my<br />
usual habit of letting my<br />
trainers gather dust in the<br />
chilly months and indulging<br />
in more comfortfoods.<br />
Iwas helped along the way<br />
by instructor Annie Mullis at<br />
Energie Fitness for Women.<br />
She got me started on the<br />
Empower Programme and I<br />
began alow GI diet and met up<br />
with her for weekly exercise<br />
sessions.<br />
It has not been easy and I<br />
have not been perfect with the<br />
diet.<br />
Afew meals out and socialising<br />
have tested my willpower,<br />
as well as my patience!<br />
But overall, Ihave stuck to<br />
Annie’s advice and I am<br />
happy tosay Ihave had fairly<br />
good results.<br />
Ihave lost seven pounds in<br />
six weeks, which was mytarget,<br />
and according to Annie I<br />
have lost ten and ahalf inches<br />
all over my body.<br />
The low GI diet is particularly<br />
good at getting rid of<br />
belly fat and Idropped three<br />
By LOUISE<br />
HOWESON<br />
louise.howeson@nqe.com<br />
inches from around my<br />
tummy. The diet and fitness<br />
regime re-educates people on<br />
nutrition and helps them<br />
boost fitness and lose weight.<br />
During the six-week<br />
regime, members of Energie<br />
Fitness receive in-depth<br />
advice on what to eat and<br />
weekly 30-minute exercise<br />
sessions with an instructor,<br />
where they are also weighed<br />
and measured.<br />
Annie said thatpeople need<br />
to focus on having “good”<br />
weeks, where they stick<br />
wholeheartedly to the programme,<br />
rather than “good”<br />
days and then having a “bad”<br />
day asareward. This way if<br />
you doslip up and have an<br />
occasional treat it will not<br />
affect youtoo much.<br />
Having to show Annie my<br />
food diary each week was a<br />
good incentive to be strict.<br />
Annie admitted that she<br />
was a bit shocked at how<br />
much Iate at the start ofthe<br />
programme.Idoalot of exercise,<br />
luckily, as she said otherwise<br />
Iwould have been alot<br />
heavier!<br />
My diet before consisted of<br />
large portions of rice, cereal<br />
and too much bread.<br />
That all changed on the diet<br />
as I eliminated bread completely<br />
and stuck tosmaller<br />
portions.<br />
It did take awhile to adjust<br />
to ameagrethree tablespoons<br />
of oats for breakfast but by<br />
adding chopped apple and a<br />
banana it wasveryfilling.<br />
The best bit about the low<br />
GI diet is that you do not get<br />
the same sugar highs and<br />
crashes as with ahigh GI diet.<br />
I have also found my<br />
appetite has reduced.<br />
The wholesome food gives<br />
you sustained energy and I<br />
found Ihavebeen alot happier<br />
and more sprightlyasaresult.<br />
Ihave made apromise to<br />
Annie that Iwill keep up the<br />
diet and exercise and, having<br />
stuck to it for the last six<br />
weeks,Ifullyintend to.<br />
Visit effw.co.uk/southend for<br />
further details.<br />
Healthy – Louise Howeson with Annie Mullis<br />
Examples of breakfasts<br />
Low fat yogurt (5 oz) and<br />
fresh fruit<br />
Porridge made with three<br />
tablespoons of rolled oats,<br />
7 fl oz water and fruit<br />
Examples of lunches<br />
2 oz canned tuna, salad,<br />
two Corn Thins<br />
humus (4 oz), raw carrots,<br />
cucumber, Corn Thins<br />
Examples of dinners<br />
Grilled chicken breast and<br />
unlimited vegetables<br />
3 oz of lean beef mince or<br />
Quorn, one jar of passata<br />
and 2 oz of spaghetti<br />
Snacks<br />
Two litres of water per day<br />
Fruit or yoghurt
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<strong>Gaz</strong>ette Monday November 5, 20<strong>12</strong> 23<br />
The Awkward Question<br />
Should<br />
we ban<br />
mobiles<br />
in shops?<br />
YES<br />
says Keith Gunton<br />
FAMILY food store and deli, H<br />
Gunton, in Crouch Street,<br />
Colchester, has been going since<br />
1936. The shop brought in its own<br />
“no mobiles at the till” ban four years<br />
ago.<br />
Owner of the store, Keith Gunton,<br />
said: “I think the ban was a great idea<br />
and our customers seem to<br />
appreciate it. Before we introduced<br />
it, we’d have quite a few customers<br />
chatting on their phones while we<br />
were trying to serve them and we just<br />
found it plain rude!<br />
“It doesn’t take two minutes to put<br />
your phone away, let us serve you,<br />
and then carry it on once you are out<br />
of the store. It should be a rule in all<br />
shops – people would find it rude if I<br />
was serving them and took a call.”<br />
KATRINA Hammond, 22,<br />
from Great Clacton, is a<br />
Prince’s Trust award finalist.<br />
Despite being diagnosed with cerebal palsy and epilepsy<br />
at five, Katrina worked hard to stay in mainstream<br />
school and now volunteers<br />
as a teaching assistant,<br />
as well as working with<br />
special needs children<br />
at Colchester Toy<br />
Library.<br />
She is up for the<br />
Young Achiever<br />
of the Year<br />
award.<br />
Mobile menace? But is a ban a step too far?<br />
NO<br />
says Anita Hawkins<br />
SHOPPER Anita, 47, from<br />
Colchester, can see both sides, but<br />
isn’t in favour of an outright ban in<br />
shops.<br />
She says: “Whoever has not<br />
answered their mobile when they<br />
shouldn’t may cast the first stone! I<br />
am not innocent.<br />
“Phones in public places are<br />
extremely difficult to ignore but<br />
maybe we all need to rethink our<br />
mobile manners?<br />
“I was at the till in a shop the other<br />
day and I suddenly had the thought<br />
to buy a voucher for my friend, so I<br />
decided to call them at the till to<br />
ensure they had this shop in their<br />
home town.<br />
“I did apologise to the cashier and<br />
asked if they minded.”<br />
RADIO 4’s <strong>Woman</strong>’s Hour<br />
launched the <strong>Woman</strong>’s Hour<br />
Power List of the 100 most<br />
powerful women in the<br />
UK.<br />
Amongst those<br />
mentioned were<br />
Conservative MP<br />
Priti Patel, crime<br />
writer Val<br />
McDermid and TV<br />
presenter Dawn<br />
O’Porter, right.<br />
HOLLYWOOD actress Tina Fey<br />
spoke out about her frustration at<br />
the trend for men redefining rape.<br />
She pinpointed Missouri<br />
Republican representative Todd<br />
Akin’s claims that the female<br />
body is made to minimise the<br />
chance of getting pregnant from<br />
rape.<br />
She said: “Mr Akin, I think you are<br />
confusing the phrase ‘legitimate<br />
rape’ with the phrase<br />
‘competitive gymnastics’.”<br />
<strong>New</strong><br />
WOMAN<br />
BOSSES at a convenience store<br />
in Somerset made the headlines<br />
this week after bringing in a ban<br />
on people talking on mobiles at<br />
the till. But are shops like<br />
County Stores, in Taunton, right,<br />
and should outright bans be<br />
introduced in shops and<br />
restaurants??<br />
OTHER THOUGHTS<br />
FROM FACEBOOK<br />
SEAN LATIMER: “I agree with<br />
the shop completely!”<br />
IN ESSEX... ...IN THE UK ...AND ABROAD<br />
BECKY CRANE: “A lot of bus<br />
drivers now will not let you on if<br />
you are on the phone. At the<br />
end of the day it's just a bit of<br />
courtesy not to be ignorant.”<br />
Who we’ve loving this week...
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<strong>Gaz</strong>ette Monday November 5, 20<strong>12</strong> 25<br />
I wasn’t sure I had<br />
the front to be my<br />
gay friend’s Breast<br />
Man...but I survived<br />
SADIE HASLER<br />
Sadie Hasler is a writer,<br />
performer and radio<br />
presenter. She has<br />
appeared on Russell<br />
Howard’s Good <strong>New</strong>s, Al<br />
Murray’s Multiple<br />
Personality Disorder,<br />
Harry Hill’s What Are The<br />
Chances, and CCTV<br />
cameras throughout the<br />
land...<br />
WHEN my friend<br />
Mandy asked<br />
me to be Breast<br />
Man at her wedding,<br />
I squealed.<br />
Then I stopped, confused. A<br />
new term. What does it<br />
mean, to be Breast Man?<br />
I wouldn’t have to get them<br />
out would I? Hang on – DO I<br />
LOOK LIKE A DUDE WITH<br />
BOOBS STUCK ON?? What<br />
does it even mean to be married?<br />
I’m not sure, having got<br />
it wrong already. In and out of<br />
it within a year and wondering<br />
how it even got that far. I was<br />
no model of matrimonial<br />
sagacity, but I was pretty sure,<br />
as in all things, that Love<br />
helps.<br />
It was one of these nice easygoing<br />
weddings where you’re<br />
not expected to spend a fortune<br />
fitting in with someone’s<br />
‘theme’. It was to take place at<br />
Brighton Pavilion, with a lowkey<br />
reception at something<br />
called The Earthship, an ecojoint<br />
deep in a nearby country<br />
park.<br />
It has always seemed to me<br />
that the best weddings are not<br />
those which demand things of<br />
people, but which inspire them<br />
to give something more meaningful;<br />
their thought. To me,<br />
this was what being Mandy’s<br />
Breast Man was; giving<br />
thought in the best way I could<br />
– nice words. That’s all I had to<br />
offer – a speech.<br />
Suddenly, after a year of<br />
anticipation, the wedding was<br />
upon us and I was bound for<br />
Brighton.<br />
The Pavilion glistened in the<br />
October sun, and the famous<br />
domed turrets seemed like the<br />
conical Madonna breasts of a<br />
new bride reclining in the<br />
grass. I reflected on how amazing<br />
it was that we were even<br />
here in the first place, celebrating<br />
the marriage of two<br />
women in love.<br />
It’s such a new thing, to have<br />
the courage to be openly gay.<br />
The culture and vibrancy has<br />
been there all the time, but<br />
had to be kept secret, or<br />
certainly quiet, in corners,<br />
and here I was with a<br />
bride in a top hat being<br />
driven by two glorious<br />
homosexuals, one in a chauffeur’s<br />
uniform bibbing at traffic<br />
and waving like the queen,<br />
and one dressed as Baby Spice<br />
gone bad.<br />
The pavilion was built as a<br />
testament to love by a king for<br />
his queen, a regency palace of<br />
splendour, and here we were<br />
squealing outside it really<br />
loudly. In fishnets.<br />
The wedding was beautiful.<br />
I’ve never seen faces so lit up<br />
by love as those of Mandy and<br />
Debbie, and naturally those<br />
ruddy lesbians completely<br />
ruined my sodding make-up.<br />
I was terrified about the<br />
speech. I would have read The<br />
Owl & The Pussycat or something<br />
if the public degradation<br />
of Edward Lear hadn’t been<br />
something I had inwardly<br />
screamed at so often at other<br />
nuptials. No, I couldn’t maul<br />
someone else’s words, I’d have<br />
to bleat out my own. And once<br />
it was out of the way, and I’d<br />
got a high-five from a very<br />
straight-speaking drag-queen,<br />
I knew I’d done alright. I<br />
could relax. The job<br />
was done. I could<br />
‘<br />
Marriage<br />
now<br />
means<br />
whatever you<br />
want it to<br />
mean<br />
join in the fun<br />
going on around<br />
me like a saucy<br />
carousel.<br />
It’s quite a picture,<br />
you know –<br />
a lesbian wedding.<br />
I’m sure<br />
most of the guests<br />
this refers to wouldn’t<br />
mind me suggesting<br />
that they had<br />
‘embraced their male side’.<br />
That is, the emblematic nods<br />
to the traditional male. Short<br />
hair, suits, little or no make-up<br />
in some cases.<br />
I was why-curious. Why, if<br />
they aren’t attracted to men,<br />
are there so many ladies seeking<br />
to look like them, in<br />
relationships with other ladies<br />
who look similar?<br />
Is it escape from the perceived<br />
weakness of femininity;<br />
is it an emulation of power?<br />
Is it a revolution against<br />
patriarchy by taking ‘maleness’<br />
over and making it their<br />
own?<br />
Is this, even, just a cultural<br />
phase? If open lesbianism is, in<br />
terms of freedom, in its<br />
infancy, having spent countless<br />
centuries as clandestine<br />
encounters, love to be<br />
ashamed of, only peeking out<br />
occasionally from under the<br />
covers in permitted sapphic<br />
flourishes designed for the<br />
titillation of men, are lesbians<br />
then just...teething? Chewing<br />
on the freedom of it all like a<br />
rusk until their adult teeth<br />
have formed? Feminists don’t<br />
feel the need to wear stiff polonecks<br />
and tut at lipstick anymore.<br />
Perhaps lesbians will<br />
soften their guard in<br />
time too, when it’s<br />
all lost that air of<br />
brave novelty.<br />
Perhaps I am a<br />
naive ignoramus<br />
and missing<br />
something<br />
more subtle. I<br />
might have spoken<br />
to them about<br />
it in more detail<br />
had I the nous of a<br />
BBC correspondent and<br />
not been so rangooned on table<br />
wine.<br />
But one thing was clear by<br />
the end of the day. That I know<br />
what it means to be married. It<br />
means whatever you want it to<br />
mean. That’s the freedom we<br />
have now. Love is free, free is<br />
love.<br />
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If summer was all about patriotic red, white and blue, then this<br />
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Racing greens, muddy browns and burnt oranges are key tones<br />
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wear fashionable clothes that<br />
are on trend and I probably go<br />
shopping about twice a week.<br />
“I really like High Street shops<br />
and it is possible to get really<br />
nice things that are<br />
affordable.<br />
“There are a lot of celebrities<br />
that inspire me fashion wise,<br />
such as Victoria Beckham.<br />
“The hat and boots I am<br />
wearing today are from <strong>New</strong><br />
Look, so is my scarf, and my<br />
coat is from Top Shop. My<br />
leggings are from Top Shop<br />
and I bought the bag online.”
26<br />
<strong>Gaz</strong>ette Monday November 5, 20<strong>12</strong><br />
Give your<br />
haircut the<br />
Factor<br />
...and you don’t<br />
need to be quite<br />
as drastic as TV<br />
style queen Tulisa<br />
COLOUR COMMITMENT<br />
BEWARE if you’re heading towards<br />
a Tulisa-style drastic<br />
transformation. You’ll require a<br />
friendly (and affordable) colourist<br />
on speed dial.<br />
But with new techniques like “finger<br />
painting”, “hot fringes” and “chalking”<br />
on hair colour menus, you can decide on<br />
your level of commitment.<br />
Galvin’s finger painting technique can add<br />
depth and movement, minus the pesky<br />
root regrowth, while chalking is a<br />
temporary way to dabble with brighter<br />
shades for parties or special occasions.<br />
SEASONAL SWITCHOVER<br />
JUST like your wardrobe, changing your hair<br />
colour with the seasons can give you an<br />
instant boost. But that can be achieved with<br />
a new tone or technique, rather than a full<br />
overhaul.<br />
If you’re unsure about which colour direction<br />
to take, the head of colour at Errol Douglas<br />
Salon, Jessica Speechly, says: “Wardrobe<br />
SHE began the current<br />
X Factor series as a<br />
brunette, picked her<br />
contestants as a platinum<br />
blonde, then kicked off<br />
the live shows by returning to<br />
the dark side.<br />
Tulisa Contostavlos clearly<br />
likes to experiment with her hair<br />
colour, but switching your tone<br />
for the new season doesn’t have<br />
to be quite so dramatic.<br />
Talking at this year’s home of<br />
the X Factor contestants, London’s<br />
Corinthia Hotel, where he<br />
has a VIP suite, celebrity stylist<br />
Daniel Galvin says your crowning<br />
glory shouldn’t actually be<br />
the “mane” attraction.<br />
“When you have the perfect<br />
hair colour, the first thing other<br />
people should notice is not the<br />
hair colour but the eyes,” he<br />
explains.<br />
“The hair colour makes that<br />
possible.<br />
“When you have the wrong<br />
hair colour, the first thing people<br />
notice is your hair.”<br />
“Hair colour needs to be as<br />
low-maintenance as possible,”<br />
Galvin advises, “but grey hair<br />
will need to be covered every<br />
four to six weeks.<br />
“Condition of the hair is also<br />
paramount. You can be a little<br />
more experimental with short hair<br />
as it's less damaged.”<br />
Be wary of so-called home colour semipermanents.<br />
Galvin warns: “Use a ‘pure’<br />
semi-permanent. Level 2 has peroxide in it,<br />
which means it’s a longer-lasting semi<br />
permanent, but it alters the natural hair<br />
colour and doesn’t fade back.”<br />
Chalking<br />
decisions can be virtually<br />
pointless if there’s no<br />
hair plan in place.”<br />
For autumn, she<br />
suggests warming up<br />
your colour: “Blondes go<br />
golden, brunettes hint at<br />
red, and all hair types should<br />
be rich, glossy and warm.”<br />
Go red?<br />
MAINTAIN MODE<br />
WHETHER it’s a professional job or a<br />
bathroom sink DIY, hair colour requires<br />
extra upkeep to ensure it looks vibrant.<br />
“Immediately after having your colour<br />
done, wait a couple of days before<br />
shampooing to preserve the colour,”<br />
advises celebrity hairdresser Andrew<br />
Barton.<br />
Invest in shampoos and conditioners for<br />
colour-treated hair that won’t “strip” your<br />
new shade. Barton says: “Commit to<br />
weekly conditioning masks to nourish hair.<br />
“Up the intensity of at-home treatments by<br />
using a plastic cap or warm towel to<br />
increase the temperature at which the<br />
product works.<br />
Between touch-ups, coloured dry<br />
shampoos are a<br />
great way to<br />
disguise tell-tale<br />
signs of root<br />
regrowth.<br />
Asda Barton<br />
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<strong>Gaz</strong>ette Monday November 5, 20<strong>12</strong> 27<br />
Before...<br />
...during ...and after<br />
Fed up with your<br />
high-maintenance<br />
eyebrows? I got<br />
mine tattooed...<br />
Hollie Wakeham – she decided to tattoo her brows, above<br />
HI HONEYS! Eyebrows<br />
are the most<br />
important feature on<br />
you face. They frame<br />
your eyes and, with the<br />
right length and shape, they<br />
can make you face appear<br />
thinner, wider and longer –<br />
and can even make your<br />
nose look smaller!<br />
Your eyebrows can age you<br />
and take years off you.<br />
They can open up your eyes<br />
with an arch. With a variety of<br />
ways to wax, thread and pluck<br />
away your eyebrows to chisel<br />
out a designer style and then<br />
tint the hairs for depth and<br />
colour.<br />
But if you don’t have many<br />
hairs, you can spend forever<br />
pencilling, and powdering<br />
them in and even stencilling to<br />
create a pair of matching<br />
brows.<br />
We try our hardest to avoid<br />
the rain, or touch that area for<br />
fear of smearing an eyebrow<br />
across our forehead, or the<br />
rain washing a nice brown line<br />
down our face.<br />
Well, imagine if you could<br />
wake up and your brows<br />
where already drawn on.<br />
Imagine if you could<br />
go in the sea on holiday<br />
and your<br />
‘<br />
brows didn’t<br />
wash or rub off.<br />
The answer is<br />
eyebrow tattooing.<br />
I have gone<br />
and got these<br />
puppies tattooed.<br />
After years of<br />
Take a<br />
photo<br />
with you<br />
of someone<br />
with brows<br />
you like<br />
Hollie Wakeham, who runs a salon in Colchester,<br />
gives us the lowdown on the latest beauty<br />
trends.<br />
She is a regular at the fashion weeks and posts<br />
make-up seminars on YouTube.<br />
Hollie Wakeham’s Beauty Lounge (next to Just<br />
Essentials) is located at <strong>11</strong>A Eld Lane,<br />
Colchester. Call 07814965207 or visit www.<br />
holliespampur<br />
wanting them done, I’ve done<br />
it – and oh my goodness, I love<br />
them.<br />
I went to Dermaspa, in Milton<br />
Keynes, to get my<br />
brows tattooed. It is<br />
very important to<br />
do your research,<br />
because it cannot<br />
be erased.<br />
Anesthetic<br />
cream was<br />
applied to my<br />
brows, so they<br />
would go numb,<br />
and I then decided<br />
on the shape of brow I<br />
wanted with the beauty<br />
therapist.<br />
It is a good idea to take a<br />
photo with you of someone<br />
with eyebrows you like.<br />
My brows before the<br />
treatment were<br />
sparse without<br />
make-up. They<br />
have always been<br />
like that. I just<br />
wasn’t blessed<br />
with thick eyebrows.<br />
Over-plucking,<br />
waxing<br />
threading<br />
and<br />
over<br />
years can also make your eyebrows<br />
thin and, in the end,<br />
over time they will not grow at<br />
all.<br />
My eyebrows were<br />
measured to make<br />
I didn’t<br />
feel any<br />
pain when<br />
they were<br />
tattooed. It<br />
took half an<br />
‘hour<br />
sure they were<br />
completely symmetrical.<br />
I didn’t feel<br />
any pain when<br />
my brows<br />
where being tattooed.<br />
I have tattoos<br />
on my body,<br />
but it didn’t feel<br />
similar to that<br />
experience.<br />
The tattooing took about<br />
half an hour. After that, the<br />
stray hairs where threaded<br />
away.<br />
Mineral powders where<br />
applied to the surrounding<br />
area of my brows to calm them<br />
and add a little natural colour.<br />
I know the brows looked<br />
very dark to start with, but<br />
this is normal and the beauty<br />
therapist assured me they<br />
would be dark to start with<br />
until they scabbed over.<br />
It only lasts a week and they<br />
then go a natural shade.
28 <strong>Gaz</strong>ette Monday November 5, 20<strong>12</strong><br />
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<strong>New</strong><br />
WOMAN<br />
NOT<br />
going<br />
out<br />
Together at<br />
home – Jen<br />
Lant with her<br />
dog Spud<br />
Picture:<br />
ADRIAN<br />
RUSHTON<br />
CO71425_19<br />
JEN Lant was struck down with agoraphobia out of the blue three years<br />
ago. Since then the 22-year-old, of London Road, Marks Tey, has spent<br />
every day wondering whether today is the day she will leave the house. Jen<br />
is raising money for Anxiety UK and tells Vanessa Moon about the daily<br />
struggle to deal with her condition.<br />
IFEEL like time is running<br />
out. I really miss the<br />
freedom of being<br />
able to go out and<br />
socialise.<br />
Before I got agoraphobia my<br />
best friend and I used to go out<br />
for dinner at Sam’s Diner every<br />
week, we would take road trips<br />
together and visit Brighton.<br />
These days, some people I<br />
used to know think I am faking<br />
it. Most people have completely<br />
forgotten about me<br />
‘<br />
because they know I can’t<br />
go out and just a very<br />
few have stuck by me.<br />
Since I got agorapho-<br />
IT<br />
bia I have been in one<br />
relationship and that<br />
lasted for all of two<br />
months. It gets really<br />
lonely.<br />
I don’t think one particular<br />
thing set it off. I was going<br />
through quite a lot at the time. I<br />
had been bullied at my job<br />
where I was a waitress, so I had<br />
quit two months earlier.<br />
My flat mate at the time was<br />
very abusive towards me. I had<br />
no money, no food in my flat and<br />
then I finally got a job interview<br />
in Colchester town centre.<br />
I had to take the bus because I<br />
can’t drive and during the whole<br />
journey I was feeling really anxious<br />
and nauseous, which was<br />
awful because I have phobia<br />
about vomiting.<br />
As soon as I got off the bus I<br />
threw up, right on Osborne<br />
Street in Colchester.<br />
I just lost it. I completely<br />
broke down, crying, shaking,<br />
hyperventilating.<br />
I was having a panic attack<br />
and my chest was tight.<br />
I had had anxiety attacks<br />
before but nothing on that scale.<br />
I didn’t know what was going<br />
on and I remember<br />
thinking, God,<br />
someone help<br />
me.<br />
But no-one<br />
did. Everyone<br />
walked<br />
past and<br />
ignored me<br />
or just<br />
stared. It<br />
took me ten<br />
minutes to get<br />
myself together<br />
and I thought it will<br />
get better, just go to the interview,<br />
so I did.<br />
That day, three years ago, was<br />
the last time I went into town.<br />
Surprisingly, the interview<br />
went well and that night they<br />
called me to ask if I could come<br />
in for a second interview the<br />
next day. But as soon as I woke<br />
up the next morning I had<br />
another panic attack and I<br />
couldn’t bring myself to go out.<br />
After that day I was having<br />
ten panic attacks a day.<br />
At its<br />
worst I<br />
was having<br />
ten panic<br />
attacks every<br />
single day<br />
I wanted to go out but feared I<br />
would have another panic attack<br />
or be sick and that people would<br />
stare at me. It got so bad I couldn’t<br />
even go a few steps outside to<br />
the corner shop.<br />
I ended up moving in with my<br />
dad for a while, before I came to<br />
live with my mum six months<br />
ago.<br />
It was my dad who said I<br />
should get my agoraphobia sorted<br />
out.<br />
I hadn’t even heard of it and<br />
had to research it, but when I<br />
finally spoke to my doctor (I had<br />
a phone consultation because I<br />
couldn’t leave the house and<br />
they refused to come to me) I<br />
told him what I thought it was.<br />
I have a different doctor now<br />
AGORAPHOBIA<br />
FACTS<br />
IS estimated that<br />
there are up to five<br />
million agoraphobia<br />
sufferers in the UK.<br />
The condition usually<br />
emerges between<br />
the ages of 20 and 40.<br />
More women than<br />
men suffer from it<br />
It accounts for about<br />
60 per cent of phobias<br />
Often co-exists with<br />
necrophobia (fear of<br />
death).<br />
who comes to see me at home<br />
and reviews my medication,<br />
antiemetics, which help with the<br />
nausea and vomiting.<br />
Now I try and go out one day a<br />
week.<br />
I can manage to get to the<br />
Food Company roundabout and<br />
to the car boot sale fields to walk<br />
my dog, Spud, because it is not<br />
too far away, but it is still really<br />
hard.<br />
I haven’t had a severe panic<br />
attack in 18 months now. The<br />
last mild one was about four<br />
months ago when my mum<br />
drove us to Tollgate to get a coffee<br />
from Costa. She went inside<br />
and I waited in the car and I had<br />
a panic attack. But I was able to<br />
get it under control.<br />
TREATMENT OF<br />
AGORAPHOBIA<br />
On a good day I will wake up<br />
at 8am, take the dog for a walk in<br />
the field or the garden, watch<br />
some episodes of the Simpsons<br />
or Family Guy and if I have<br />
some money, then I will go to the<br />
shop and buy myself a treat as<br />
an incentive to go out.<br />
On a bad day will sleep until<br />
about 2pm, take the dog for a<br />
walk in the garden and sit in<br />
front of the television eating<br />
junk food, feeling incredibly useless.<br />
I used to go to therapy groups,<br />
but now I just take each day as it<br />
comes.<br />
If I get out then great, if not I<br />
will try again another day. I<br />
want it on my terms, not being<br />
pushed by a therapist.<br />
Regardless of the cause, agoraphobia is a<br />
debilitating condition which completely<br />
disables the person who is suffering from<br />
it.<br />
When treated, psychotherapists<br />
traditionally focus on using exposure<br />
therapy.<br />
This type of therapy puts the patient right<br />
in the middle of their phobia in order to<br />
gradually desensitise them to irrational<br />
fears.<br />
This is usually accomplished gradually over<br />
time and is often executed with a close<br />
and trusted friend nearby to provide<br />
support.
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<strong>Gaz</strong>ette Monday November 5, 20<strong>12</strong> 29<br />
ROCKERS<br />
All about vintage<br />
– Liz set up Junk<br />
Jamboree as an<br />
alternative to the<br />
high street<br />
BA72021<br />
Jamboree to feature a live band and the<br />
best in secondhand clothing and jewellery<br />
CALLING all vintage and<br />
secondhand clothing<br />
enthusiasts, the Junk<br />
Jamboree is back.<br />
Returning to Church Hall, in<br />
Colchester,for the thirdtime,the<br />
event will be jam packed with<br />
local retailers.<br />
Vintage sellers include<br />
Revolver, Easy Tiger Vintage,<br />
MaryLu, Divine Intervintage and<br />
What's Your Tale Nightingale?<br />
There will also be avariety of<br />
homemade items on sale, including<br />
jewellery, cushions as well as<br />
photographic prints.<br />
Liz Cardy set up the event in<br />
May after being inspired by a<br />
established vintage event in Norwich<br />
called Clutter City,<br />
Liz says: “I thought Colchester<br />
would really benefit from asimilar<br />
event.<br />
“I wanted to offer awelcome<br />
alternative to the high street and<br />
somewhere to grab a<br />
bargain and enjoy some live<br />
music.”<br />
Liz ran a shop in St John’s<br />
Street in Colchester in the late<br />
Nineties called Kitsch Bitch and<br />
has run the vintage stall Easy<br />
Tiger for over 20 yearsatavariety<br />
of festivals and events.<br />
She says: “There is ademand<br />
for individual one off pieces.<br />
“People are turning away from<br />
buying cheap clothes that could<br />
Handbags and gladrags Liz Cardy used to run Kitsch Bitch in St<br />
John’s Street in the Nineties<br />
be made in sweat shops and might<br />
fall apartinfavour of quality vintage<br />
clothing.<br />
“Things were really made to<br />
last. If adress dates back tothe<br />
1940s and it has survived until<br />
now more than likely itwill be<br />
prettygood quality.”<br />
Liz is an avid fan of vintage and<br />
secondhand clothing and her<br />
wardrobe is bursting with pieces<br />
she has collected over the years.<br />
Liz says: “I have always loved<br />
vintage clothing, before it was<br />
quite mainstream to do so.<br />
“I am not a purist about it<br />
though, Ilike tomix it up abit. I<br />
will wear anew dress and then<br />
maybe match it with a vintage<br />
handbag.”<br />
Also at the Junk Jamboree will<br />
be Jenny from Betty's Rock and<br />
Rollers, who will be recreating<br />
glamourous hair and make-up<br />
looks from different eras for<br />
willing customers.<br />
There will be musical entertainment<br />
and<br />
Emma from the<br />
Pink Vintage Tea<br />
Caddy will also be<br />
on hand to provide<br />
delicious refreshments,<br />
such as<br />
bacon butties, veggie<br />
hotdogs and cupcakes.<br />
TheJam Jamboree<br />
event has raised over<br />
£700 so far for Clarks<br />
Farm Greyhounds, a<br />
re-homing centre in<br />
Little Totham, near<br />
Maldon.<br />
Liz says: “I have three hounds<br />
myself so know what wonderful<br />
pets these dogs make.<br />
“With this next Junk Jamboree<br />
in November we’re hoping to top a<br />
grand.”<br />
The Jam Jamboree takes place<br />
at Church Hall on Saturday<br />
November 10 from 10am to 4pm.<br />
Thefull address is Church Hall,<br />
Cardinal Bourne Hall, 51 PriorySt<br />
Colchester CO1 2QB.<br />
Entry is£1and free for under<br />
16s. For more information e-mail<br />
junkjamboree@gmail.com or<br />
visit www.junkjamboree.co.uk<br />
Buttoned up<br />
ENJOY a leisurely latenight<br />
Christmas shopping<br />
evening at Go Bananas.<br />
The children’s play and<br />
activity centre is located in<br />
Mason Road, Colchester.<br />
On Monday, November <strong>12</strong>,<br />
the store will be open from<br />
7.30 to 10pm.<br />
Visit www.gobananas<br />
.co.uk for more details.<br />
Sell your<br />
soles...<br />
IF your shoe collection is<br />
getting out of control then<br />
why not sell your<br />
unwanted footwear?<br />
Shoe shop Schuh, located<br />
in Culver Square,<br />
Colchester, is giving away<br />
£10 vouchers for each<br />
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30 <strong>Gaz</strong>ette Monday November 5, 20<strong>12</strong><br />
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Your stars<br />
Gok: My hell<br />
over mystery<br />
back pain<br />
Fashion consultant and TV presenter Gok Wan<br />
talks about the daily pain he suffers from his back<br />
...and how his pet puppy’s helping him recover<br />
GOK Wan’s wrapped up<br />
against the cold, with his<br />
eyes shielded by sunglasses<br />
as he walks his dog,<br />
the flamboyantly-named Dolly<br />
Albertine Dishcloth.<br />
He jokes that the French bulldog<br />
puppy insists he gets up early to go<br />
for a walk and he’s clearly devoted<br />
to her.<br />
“She makes me come out in the<br />
morning, no matter what sort of<br />
shape I’m in or what aches and<br />
pains I’m suffering from,” he says<br />
with an indulgent smile.<br />
It would be all too easy to assume<br />
a high-octane celebrity lifestyle is<br />
taking its toll on the fashion consultant,<br />
author and<br />
TV presenter who<br />
seems to be rarely<br />
‘<br />
off our screens,<br />
but in fact he’s<br />
currently suffering<br />
from a<br />
severe back<br />
I’ve<br />
had to<br />
have seven<br />
operations on<br />
my back<br />
problem,<br />
which means<br />
he sometimes<br />
has to use a<br />
walking stick.<br />
“It’s been a really<br />
tough year,” he admits.<br />
“I’ve had to have seven operations<br />
on my back which was a real shock.<br />
It started in March when I went to<br />
the gym and felt this pain, which<br />
turned out to be slipped discs.<br />
“I had physio treatment, but one<br />
morning as I bent over in the shower<br />
I was plunged into absolute<br />
agony. I was losing the feeling in<br />
the lower part of my body because<br />
the pain was so intense.”<br />
Within a few hours he’d had the<br />
first of two discectomy operations,<br />
where the soft part of the damaged<br />
disc is removed to take pressure off<br />
the nerve in the back, and has subsequently<br />
had surgery five more<br />
times to treat the area.<br />
“Most people recover within<br />
around five months, but mine is<br />
still a problem. The nerve canal in<br />
the spine is inflamed and hasn’t<br />
settled so all sorts of doctors are<br />
looking at it trying to work out the<br />
mystery of how to sort it.”<br />
A natural communicator and<br />
bubbly extrovert, he found fame as<br />
a consultant on TV shows encouraging<br />
women to love their bodies<br />
and dress with confidence, no matter<br />
what their size. In 2006, he<br />
starred in the first of his own hugely-successful<br />
shows in Channel 4’s<br />
How To Look Good Naked.<br />
He’s since written books on style<br />
and fashion, launched<br />
his own clothes ranges,<br />
this year presented a<br />
cookery show, Gok<br />
Cooks Chinese and is<br />
currently hosting a<br />
dating show, Channel<br />
4’s Baggage.<br />
Stoically, the 38-<br />
year-old refuses to see<br />
his back problem as<br />
anything more than a<br />
temporary setback and<br />
won’t scale down his<br />
workload.<br />
“No way, I’m a<br />
workaholic. I love my<br />
life, which goes at a<br />
million miles an<br />
hour, and if I’m busy<br />
it’s not unusual<br />
for me to put in<br />
around 100<br />
hours a<br />
week,” he<br />
says.<br />
Overcoming<br />
challenges<br />
is not<br />
unfamiliar<br />
to Gok, the<br />
son of an<br />
English mother,<br />
Myra, and Chinese<br />
father, John, who<br />
was brought up in<br />
Leicester.<br />
He credits his<br />
family with helping<br />
him through the<br />
tough times in his<br />
life.<br />
It’s partly in recognition<br />
of the key<br />
role support can<br />
play that Gok’s<br />
again supporting<br />
the Vodafone World<br />
Of Difference<br />
Programme.<br />
It gives 500<br />
people in the<br />
UK the opportunity<br />
to donate<br />
their time to a<br />
charity<br />
get paid.<br />
and<br />
To find out more<br />
about Vodaphone’s<br />
Wolrd Of Difference<br />
Programme, visit<br />
www.vodafone.<br />
co.uk/worldof<br />
difference Entries<br />
close November 13.<br />
Smiling through the<br />
pain – Gok Wan has<br />
been suffering with<br />
severe back problems<br />
with CLAIRE<br />
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