Articles by: Claire Dodd
a freelance journalist who lives in London. She has written for a number of titles including The Guardian, the LondonPaper, Music Week, DVD Monthly and Theme on subjects as diverse as travel, beauty, food, drinks, fashion, music, entertainments and film. Claire has an unhealthy obsession with vintage handbags and dreams of one day becoming Clara Bow.

Weird and Wonderful: Revitalash (Part One!)

Weird and Wonderful: Revitalash (Part One!)

We love hearing and writing about extreme make-up. The lip gloss that plumps lips and includes an appetite suppressant that we covered back in June being just one example.

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Beauty Road Test: Front Row by Charles Worthington

Beauty Road Test: Front Row by Charles Worthington

I’m used to testing ‘miracle’ products from big-name, leading brands only to find them a disappointment. Many just don’t work. It’s a simple as that. So when Charles Worthington contacted [...]

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Beauty Road Test: Origins Drink Up Intensive Overnight

Beauty Road Test: Origins Drink Up Intensive Overnight

I’ve been a fan of all-natural skin care brand Origins for quite a while. I like their non-nonsense approach. Products are simple, they’re useful, they don’t use harmful chemicals, and [...]

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Tried and tested: Lancome Christmas Colour Collection

Tried and tested: Lancome Christmas Colour Collection

Most girls could do with a guardian angel. Especially if he were gold, glittery and housed in a fetching Lancôme compact. The centrepiece of the brand’s beautifully wintry Christmas Colour [...]

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Revlon invites MFL to the Dorchester to test new DoubleTwist mascara

Revlon invites MFL to the Dorchester to test new DoubleTwist mascara

Make-up. Cakes. Champagne. Cocktails. When Revlon invited My Fashion Life and a specially selected group of fellow bloggers to London’s impeccably swish Dorchester Hotel for an exclusive sneak peek at [...]

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Stocking fillers: DKNY Be Delicious tree decorations

Stocking fillers: DKNY Be Delicious tree decorations

Stuck for present ideas? Not quite made up your mind how to decorate the tree this year? Well we think we can help you out with both those quandries. DKNY [...]

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Top 20 beauty essentials to survive the party season

Top 20 beauty essentials to survive the party season

Oh dear, that last glass of wine probably wasn’t a good idea… As if the harsh winter cold weren’t enough for our skin and hair to contend with, the festive [...]

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Top 20 beauty essentials for the ultimate party look

Top 20 beauty essentials for the ultimate party look

Tis the season to be….shattered, but having to look fresh and radiant for the barrage of parties Christmas and the New Year brings. Easier said than done. But to solve [...]

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An interview with semi permanent make-up artist Sarah Jagger

An interview with semi permanent make-up artist Sarah Jagger

Sarah Jagger has an unusual job. For a start she gets to touch the faces of famous people for a living. As a make-up artist regularly called upon to style [...]

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Guilty Indulgence: The Designer Laptop Bag

Guilty Indulgence: The Designer Laptop Bag

Has your laptop been down recently? Have you found it difficult to wake it up in the mornings? Maybe it’s been lethargic and slow to load pages? Does it need [...]

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Lash Wars: The new mascaras battling it out

Lash Wars: The new mascaras battling it out

Big eye lashes have taken over. Adverts for new mascaras have always centred around the claim that the bigger the lashes the better. For each new product, the message is [...]

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Clinique launches purple party collection for Christmas

Clinique launches purple party collection for Christmas

Clinique has launched a new limited edition make-up range for Christmas. But you’re going to have to love purple as much as Dot Cotton to be excited by this one. [...]

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The latest collections from MAC are just a little bit wicked

The latest collections from MAC are just a little bit wicked

Yep, brace yourself and hide your purse. Those naughty people at MAC have just launched another assault of tempting new products that you’ll instantly convince yourself you just need to [...]

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Welcome to My Fashion Life!

Launched in 2003 My Fashion Life is one of the UK’s leading top fashion blogs. Recognised for combining all the quality content you’d expect to find in an online magazine with the honest opinion and tone of a blog.

We love designer fashion, but we love a damn good bargain, too, so while we might lust after Lanvin one minute, we’ll be traipsing to Topshop the next.

You guys are the only reason we get up at 6am to cover the royal wedding and go to bed 5am after the Oscars – we’re dedicated to bringing you the juiciest gossip from the fashion world and delivering the best shopping guides we can muster, because hey, we’re just doing our job. And it’s a good job we love it!

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