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Ariane Poole is a woman who has worked in the exciting and glamourous world of makeup artistry for a good few years, highly talented she started her career at BIBA. She worked with top photographers, Mario Testino, John Swannell and David Bailey, she has applied makeup to the Supers Christy Turlington etc and Hollywood actresses including, Penelope Cruz and Jane Seymour, She was the first person to pluck Elizabeth Hurley’s brows And she was resident makeup artist on This Morning and Style Challenge, she has launched her own makeup range called ARIANE POOLE  and today she is gave me a makeover and told us ways that makeup can make us look fresher and even more gorgeous!

Find out more here:

https://arianepoole.com/

Insta: arianepool

#RadioGorgeous #Beauty #Wellbeing

New York singer Emma Frank talks about her latest single which is a cover, Emma loved the lyrics to the cover, but she has totally changed the music. She talks about her global musical influences which include Hanne Hukkelberg, Becca Stevens and Simon & Garfunkel.  Emma's natural voice is folkie, simple and unaffected. Jazz music has helped her learn to improvise. She explains as an artist that heart felt intimacy  in her work is very important to her. 


http://emmafrankmusic.com/

#RadioGorgeous #Music #GorgeousEntertainment 

Polly Clark, writer and former zoo keeper travelled to Siberia to study Tigers which she found to be extraordinary, independent animals. The humans in the book learn a new way of life based on survival from these wild, independent, territorial cats.

https://pollyclark.co.uk/
Tiger is published by Quercus
#GorgeousReads #RadioGorgeous 

Love a cuppa? Fall in love with La Lovell - you can't escape her passion and enthusiasm for tea the way we used to drink it before the bag deprived us of the deep pleasure of the full leaf. The Iron Goddess of Mercy lit her fire and it will inspire you to aspire to savour your tea and save the valiant tea farmers. A modern day adventurer - all global all the time - whose pioneering spirit is bringing tea back to true full leaf life. (This is why they let her stay at Claridges for free!) Pu'er bliss!

www.rareteacompany.com @raretealady @FaberBooks #Infused

Katie talks all things health for World Wellbeing Week. We meet top nutritionist Marcelle Rose who tells us how to eat for maximum gut, bone, and menopausal health. Marcelle is giving away 3 mini-consultations to Latte Lounge fans, just email her.  And we meet super- blogger on the  menopause Jennifer Kennedy who is a comic writer and now stand up comic. Jennifer talks about her hilarious book Galloping Castastrophe, musings of a menopausal woman.


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Sarah Tucker takes a trip down under to Sydney’s winter and the annual drama that is the Vivid Festival.  Sydney becomes a living firework for three weeks during the Vivid Festival  www.vividsydney.com. due to celebrate its 12th anniversary in 2020.   Known for the best New Year fireworks in the world over Sydney bridge, the festival makes the most of its iconic Opera House and harbour to shower the skies and waters with light and music during the Autumn months of May and June, which is still usually brighter, warmer and dryer than the English early summer.  The opera house ‘sails’ are lit by Andrew Thomas Huang and ‘choreographed’ the wonderfully named Toogie Barcelo, where images and colours merge into others, trees become dragons, stars become street dancers all set on a large scale with the backdrop of the bridge on one side and tropical gardens on the other. The overall effect is like looking at something out of Bladerunner. Concerts boast performances as diverse as Herbie Hancock and The Cure to Underworld and Hayden James. (sydneyoperahouse.com) Spend a week or two around the city centre and interesting suburbs of Redfern and Chippendale, made infamous by the indigenous demonstrations against marginalisation in 2018 where ‘gentrification’ of the area marginalised the indigenous people who lived there.  The demonstrations have gone but there is still ill feeling towards a government that continues to ignore the rights of the people who were there before the English arrived.  Its not banker country yet, but the students and creatives (the artists, poets, authors) have moved in, and with them brought colour and gentle renovation to the area. I took a trip with culture tours guide Greg (www.culturescouts.com.au), who is a colourful artist living in the area and walked round the streets, walls covered with dramatic and beautiful murals, intriguing internationally recognised art galleries and funky restaurants housed in buildings which were abattoirs, breweries and gangsters.  It has a San Francisco edge about it, with its incredible architecture and heritage buildings, a far cry from the sand and surfing Sydney.  Neighbouring Chippendale has recently undergone urban transformation, with sky scrapers with the largest walled gardens in the world, and areas which look as though they’ve been there for decades only to be told it’s a few years.  Art Deco hotels which wouldn’t look out of place in Miami, and a china town which looks as established as our own but is only a few years old, make this tour a must do for anyone wanting an alternative Sydney.   It may not have the culture and street symmetry of Melbourne, but it's Melbourne that has a chip on its shoulder about Sydney – not the other way round.  Vivid is not just about fireworks, light shows and music.  There are plenty of bright sparks in human form giving talks during the festival.  Vivid Ideas offers future facing talks, hands on workshops and industry shaping forums.  The year I was there I watched game changers Spike Lee and Ester Perel speak to hundreds challenging the assumptions on race and relationships. I listened to Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, an internationally talk about the dark net and digital future.  And another group of five women talking how science has shaped their life as marine archeologists (why the Titanic will never rise), forensic scientists in zoos (wildlife crime is the fasting growing global crime), and astro physicists showing how and why the stars above our heads at night ‘fall in love’. Fascinating and important stuff.  If you want a break from the city, head out two hour drive to wine region of Hunter Valley and stay at the Chateau Elan (www.chateauelan.com.au). Visit the nearby vineyards of Brokenwood (brokenwood.com.au), Tulloch (tullochwines.com) and my personal favourite Usher Tinkler wines (www.ushertinklerwines.com) - small but perfectly formed and with a pub buzz and playing Home Cooking by DJ Yoda while you taste the tipple.  Ask for Luke Mulligan to talk you through the wines. An epic experience.  Stay sober enough for an early morning (five am) rise to balloon flight 800 kilometres at 2800 feet above the vineyards and kangaroos (www.balloonaloft.com). Watch the mist rise and colours scorch the sky, and then head to the Peterson House restaurant for full English (vege option) with local bubbles. It is the most haunting, mesmeric experience, and the Hunter Valley morning sky shows just how nature creates the best fireworks of its own should we choose to get up early enough.  Ask for Sam to be your guide and the purple and green balloon (they have a pink one too).  If you prefer to have your fun down on the ground, visit Port Stephens and the largest moving coastal sandmass in the Southern Hemisphere. Take a camel ride at dusk (Oakfield Ranch Camel Rides.com, or quad bikes (sandduneadventures.com.au) over the dunes.  Take a glance at the ocean along the beach, where you’ll see dolphins, whales and in season, lots of Great Whites (a tourist was eaten there last Christmas).  Vivid is designed to make you smile and dance, to make you think deeper and more creatively open your eyes with its light and music but it’s the landscape and seascape which is the real cool of the vivid experience.  

Sarah stayed at the Four Seasons hotel and Ovolo, both a boomerang away from the Opera House and Botanical Gardens.  For details of the Vivid Festival, visit www.vividsydney.com. For the official visitor guide to Sydney, visit www.visitsydney.com.

  #GorgeousEscapes #Sydney #RadioGorgeous  

How many friends do you have? On Facebook or Instagram we seem popular, but who are our real friends and how can we cultivate deep wonderful lasting friendships?

Caroline Millington is a top journalist, writer, editor and digital producer. She is currently working at ITV as a digital producer. Today we are talking about her second book THE FRIENDSHIP FORMULA: Add great friends and subtract Toxic people and multiply your happiness.

#RadioGorgeous #Wellbeing #Friendship

The Friendship Formula is published by Head of Zeus

Follow: Twitter https://twitter.com/ShowbizMillie @ShowBizMillie
Insta: @showbizmillie https://www.instagram.com/showbizmillie/

 

My guest today is Yorkshire Woman of the Year, she is a shepherdess, a farmer, she runs a B&B, supplies creams teas, and has hundreds of farm animals, she is a collector of beautiful things, a writer, a TV star and most importantly she has 9 children. She is the amazing Amanda Owen and she is here to talk about her latest book: Adventures of The Yorkshire Shepherdess.

Buy the book: Adventures of The Yorkshire Shepherdess.

Go and see Amanda on tour: https://www.yorkshireshepherdess.com/public-speaking-events/

#RadioGorgeous #Memoir #Yorkshire 

Christy Lefteri's moving story of a couple tested to the limits of their love and sanity as casualties of the war in Syria was born of her experiences as the daughter of Cypriot refugees as well as helping Syrian and other refugees in Athens. Nuri and Afra live on the outskirts of Aleppo where Nuri tends his beehives and Afra is an artist; these are not political people and yet, the ravages of war are inescapable and their lives are decimated. Their journey to the UK and back to eachother is a testament to the hope that we all carry. 

#RadioGorgeous #Authoroftheweek #Syria 

www.bonnierzaffre.co.uk @christy_lefteri @ZaffreBooks #

Loose woman Andrea McLean is the guest on this month's Latte Lounge podcast. Andrea tells us about her up and coming show Confessions of a Menopausal Woman, hot on the heels of her best selling book. This year has been a game changer for Andrea who is coming up to the big 50. She has recently been on TV on the programme Who Dares Wins, and she tells us of the most terrifying moment in her life, jumping out of a helicopter into a lake and her 10k run last weekend in big black pants!
Katie update us on whats been happening in the Latte Lounge which turns 3 this month. 


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