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Win one of 40 Nissans to drive for a week
WIN A NISSAN FOR A WEEK – DETAILS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST Recently I was in the market for a new car. I knew this only because my husband told me that my tyres were worn, so were the brake pads, the car didn’t have enough “puff” to get up hills and the [read more]
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Celeb News: Family feud in the Warne blended family?
It all started out so well. As far as blended families go, Shane Warne, his fiance Liz Hurley and his ex-wife Simone Callaghan gave the impression they could make things work. Liz and Shane are often seen out and about with Liz’s son Damian and Shane’s kids Brooke, Summer and Jackson; a few weeks ago [read more]
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Female Entitlement Mentality: It’s all about ME.
Female Entitlement Mentality. It’s “always getting what you want, when you want it, even in defiance of reality and other people’s wishes,” according to Miranda Devine, who wrote about FEM in an opinion piece for the Sunday Telegraph over the weekend. Whether it’s career or family related, Miranda suggests there’s an increasing number of women [read more]
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Period photos: are these 7 images confronting? (NSFW)
They’re just periods. So why the big deal? Why do we refer to them as ‘that time of the month?’ Why do women always whisper when they need to borrow a tampon? And why do the ads for pads and tampons always use blue liquid to demonstrate their effectiveness? They’re just some of the questions [read more]
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6 things I plan to sue my private school for.
by ANNA SPARGO-RYAN You might have seen this news story around last week – a former Geelong Grammar School student and her mother are suing the school because she did not get into law. She claims the school did not support her, the school notes she did not finish all her work. [read more]
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Celeb news: Mel B’s wardrobe malfunction.
This is what happens when your nipple gains a prime time television audience. There were a few things trending on Twitter last night. There was 60 minutes. There was Downton Abbey. And then there was Mel B’s nipple. The Dancing with the Stars’ host’s wardrobe received plenty of attention on the social media platform. Take [read more]
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The most surprising end to an ad, ever….
This is an ad telling the story of Phil Pace, a contender in the Mr Australia bodybuilder title. Bodybuilding, you might say, is an extreme sport. An extreme sport now used to advertise an extreme product – but what product? Remember to watch till the very end. Just watch.
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How many times a day do you look at your reflection?
Sometimes I like to pretend I’m a fancy-pants writer with an office, a secretary and an income by going to cafes, ordering a latte and wedging myself in the corner by the window to write and avoid eye contact with the staff, who don’t fully appreciate my attempts to stretch a single coffee over two [read more]
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What book have you read more than once?
BY REBECCA SPARROW It’s literary comfort food; like a serving of warm apple crumble on the coldest and bleakest of nights. Re-reading our favourite books can be a source of comfort, a reliever of boredom, something soothingly familiar when the world around us has gone mad. I’ve read Little Women more times than I care [read more]
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The only sport where players get a manicure
BY KATE HUNTER There’s a kiss of winter in the air. Big doonas are replacing waffle blankets, there are stew recipes in the Sunday papers and if I worried about pedicures, I’d worry even less for a few months. And it’s football season. Yeah yeah yeah. But equally exciting, for more Australians, it’s netty time. [read more]
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Best and worst of the week.
Happy Friday and welcome to one of the most popular posts of the week. It’s time to reflect on what’s happened during your week – the good, the bad and the in-between. Sharing is caring and for several years now, Mamamia readers have been gathering here on a Friday and over [read more]
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Are fashion magazines endangered?
BY MIA FREEDMAN My phone and inbox started pinging yesterday arvo with news that Australian Vogue Editor Kirstie Clements was out. She’d been in that role for 14 years. Almost immediately came the news that she’d been replaced by Harpers Bazaar Editor, Edwina McCann. The magazine industry is not a big place and I know [read more]
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Meet the most powerful celebrity in the world.
Last year it was Gaga. This year it’s JLo. Jennifer Lopez has been named by Forbes magazine as the most powerful celebrity in the world… Meaning she’s more powerful than Oprah (who ranked #2), Justin Bieber (#3) and Rihanna (#4). We didn’t see a lot of Jennifer Lopez for a few years, but she’s been [read more]
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Husband Hunting: the new sport for women who want to get serious.
Husband hunting anyone? Thanks, but married men aren’t my thing. That’s what I said when my girlfriends first told me about the concept of Husband Hunting over a few glasses of pinot gris in Melbourne a few weeks ago. My immediate reaction was to picture groups of women dressed in fox hunt [read more]
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Wow. What advertising looked like before political correctness
Santa smoking. Gay dessert. Women as rugs. Yes, as rugs. You really have to click through this gallery of REAL PRINT ADVERTISEMENTS from the 60s and thereabouts … try not to snort your coffee out your nose. Ads are from the Mediascope Pinterest page which you can find here. Thoughts?
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Open Post: What’s on your mind?
BY MIA FREEDMAN Welcome to Mamamia’s Wednesday tradition that is open post of the week. Once a week we dispense with a theme and just open the post to you and anything you want to talk about. On My Mind (OMM): I am constantly tortured by the idea that I’m not capturing memories. That I’m [read more]
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Nissan want to give you a chance to drive one of their really cool cars for a week
One of the many perks of working at Mamamia is that we get to see and experience a lot of cool stuff. Sometimes we even get to take some of this “coolness” home with us. In fact just recently Nissan gave us the opportunity to drive both their Dualis and their [read more]
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Is this image really so horrifying?
Take a look at this picture. The woman is 28-year-old Irish student Emer O’Toole. As part of a social experiment, she quit waxing and shaving for an 18-month period and then debuted the results on national TV last week. It was a daring move and the reaction was huge – but not all positive. [read more]
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‘I judge you because you can’t spell’
When I joined Facebook back in 2007 one of the first groups I “liked” was called something along the lines of ‘I judge you by your spelling and grammar’. And this was true. I completely and utterly judged people’s intellect by their use of written language. I did this from a young age: I was [read more]
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Best and worst of the week. How’s your week been?
Happy Friday and welcome to one of our favourite posts of the week – best & worst. It’s time to reflect on what’s happened during your week – the good, the bad and the in-between. There are no “rules” – just join in and tell us about your highs and lows. Remember that if you [read more]
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The collage of your life. Sorted
Every year, at Christmas, I make a collage of the last twelve months. It’s a present for my husband. More trouble but less expensive than an iPad and always appreciated. They’re nothing fancy, just one of those A3 glass frames with a higgldy piggldy collection of photos, some pages torn out [read more]
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Prince Charles reads the weather with a chance of humour.
Prince Charles decided to give weather forecasting a try during a tour of the BBC Scotland television studio. And you know what? We’ve decided he’s kind of awesome. Take a look.
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30 things you should know – and have – by 30
BY EM RUSCIANO So I saw that Glamour magazine in the US has published a list of “30 things every woman should have and should know by the time she’s 30.” Instantly I was interested, I had a burning desire to know if I had satisfied the lists requirements. Deep [read more]
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Open post. What’s on your mind?
Did someone say sleeeeeeep? I feel like I’ve hardly had any since we launched our very first e-book The Gift of Sleep last Friday. I must admit that on Friday night, after our The Gift of Sleep website had gone live, I gave myself the gift of wine. Followed by the gift [read more]
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SEALED SECTION: “I’m not happy in bed”
Frustrated in bed? And I don’t mean when you are lying there trying to fall asleep? Mamamia sexpert Tracey Cox may have some advice that you could help you… Today’s Question: I love the man I’ve been seeing for past eight months but he’s absolutely hopeless in bed. I love sex [read more]
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Bitch stole my name.
Think of it as baby name etiquette. When it comes to choosing a name for your child (or future child), what are the rules? You like the name Josh, but that’s the name your greengrocer gave his third. You’ve always been partial to Sarah, but that’s the name of your best friend’s sister. And your [read more]
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Best and worst of the week. How’s your week been?
Happy Friday and welcome to one of our favourite posts of the week – best & worst. It’s time to reflect on what’s happened during your week – the good, the bad and the in-between. There are no “rules” – just join in and tell us about your highs and lows. [read more]
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How old is too old to live at home?
Why does everyone care so much where the twenty-somethings live? A couple of years ago, I wrote a post for Mamamia – my first piece for Mamamia – about why I lived at home. I was 23 at the time, fresh out of uni, and – in hindsight – terribly naïve. Looking back now, I [read more]
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Did you know designer vaginas were Government funded?
We didn’t see that coming. Who knew Medicare covered cosmetic procedures like vulvoplasty and labiaplasty which are used to improve the ‘look and shape’ of the vulva? The procedures are used by some with medical conditions that cause painful and sometimes embarrassing problems. Others just want to look ‘prettier’ down there. The Australian Government has [read more]
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Which words grate on you?
OMG. You know what’s totes ridic? The number of new words I’m overhearing in tween and twenty-somethings’ conversations. From the OMGs to the whatevs, it seems like every word has been condensed and replaced with one or two syllable versions of its former self. Totally has become ‘totes.’ People has become ‘peeps.’ Professional is ‘profesh.’ [read more]