The beauty market is swamped with products and procedures that claim to reverse the aging process and restore our lost youth. The latest method to register on the radar of our ever vigilant Poppy Watt is the new Fraxel treatment offered exclusively at EF Medispa. Stripped of her makeup, our resident beauty expert put herself up for the course!

Painting your nails has been a tradition that stretches back for thousands of years and is far from being exclusive to women. Poppy Watt caught up with nail expert and manicurist to the stars Pippa Hebhen to talk about why she feels you’re not fully dressed unless your nails are suitably decorated.

Having a problem in the bedroom? Research suggests that the solution might come not from a councilor but your bank manager. Patricia McLoughlin investigates the claim that the secret to satsifaction is just like buying fireworks: The bigger the bucks the better the bang!

When Poppy Watt received a press release from Kelloggs about the breakfast habits of 21^stCentury British school children she couldn't quite believe what she was reading. It seems that our kids' are more inclined towards junk food than juice bars to kick-start their mornings.

When it comes to celebrities, as soon as we have built them up the first thing we seem to do as a nation is engineer and then delight in their downfall. Human nature or something more sinister? Patricia McLoughlin suggests we look no further than Schadenfreude for the answer.

Speak to many men and they would rather hide behind a wall of ignorance or denial than accept that cancer could affect their lives. As wives and partners we might need to give them more of a push in the right direction to ensure that they accept the "C" word doesn't apply just to women!

Never one to turn down the opportunity of a new experience, Poppy Watt took up the offer to sample the quality service at one of London’s most presigious and exlusive Spa’s – Spa at 51 – and came away with her definition of luxury completely redefined.