HTC One M9 review: HTC nails it again

Following on from our quick hands-on with the HTC One M9 at the launch event in Barcelona, we take an in-depth look at the flagship phone HTC is hoping will see off competition from Apple and Samsung. With the One M8 being one of the most popular Android smartphones of all time, the M9's got big…

Zoella’s 9 best fashion moments

[nextpage="Next"] Zoe Sugg, or Zoella, as she's more commonly known, is extremely well-known for her YouTube videos. However, as she's nearly always sitting down in them, it's not often that we actually get to see how great her outfits are. We've found you 9 of Zoella's best looks, and we're desperate to recreate every one of…

5 super-handy makeup storage ideas

If you’ve ever done some research into storage ideas for your massive make-up collection, you’ll no doubt have come across the Ikea ALEX unit, which is a standalone, nine drawer unit that looks as if it were made for make-up.  However, if you’re like me, you’d need at least three of these (try not to…

The top 10 fitness trackers for women that actually look good

Now that fitness trackers have finally hit the mainstream, you no longer have to settle for walking around with something that looks like an electronic tag on your wrist. There's a world of beautiful wearables out there, and we're here to show you the ones that look and work the best. Here's our roundup of the…

12 of the best-looking DAB radios in the UK

[nextpage title="Next"] We've written about Bluetooth speakers on ShinyShiny a lot recently, and, because we have so much music on our phones and laptops, it's very easy to forget about that little thing called radio. It's even easier to forget how amazing-looking some digital radios can be. Plus, they nearly all act as Bluetooth speakers…

5 of the best-looking Bluetooth speakers in the UK

With so many Bluetooth speakers on the market, you might as well choose a beautiful one. Here are 5 dangerously good-looking soundboxes that are available now in the UK, and will make your eyes as happy as your ears. [nextpage] 1. Kitsound Hive This honey of a speaker (har har) from Kitsound offers 10 hours of battery life. It's…

This Instagrammer has created a makeup look for every Harry Potter house

The immensely-talented Briana Augustinos is someone you should definitely be following on Instagram if you're into makeup. The pink-haired beauty from Austin, Texas just released a series of Harry Potter makeup looks – one for every house – and we're in love. Not all the products she's used are available in the UK but we've…

5 of the most beautiful beauty products in the UK

The last few years have seen some amazingly affordable beauty brands launch, which has given us the option to binge buy beauty virtually guilt-free, with the main incentive being that we forgo fancy packaging and instead focus on the effectiveness and practicality of the product itself.  This is all well and good, but sometimes you…

It’s Style Week on ShinyShiny

We've never found London Fashion Week and the like to be much use to us, since we're relatively normal human beings who don't have much occasion to wear globe dresses. So this week, we're giving you a more down-to-earth view of style, encompassing everything from stylish women you can actually relate to to gorgeous gadgets…

5 ways the world has changed since the 1999 eclipse

OK, so this morning's eclipse was pretty anticlimactic (another cloud-related disaster: we're sure Apple can sympathise), but do you remember how the world looked last time the sun disappointed us? We do. Here's how things were on 11th August 1999, and how they are now. [nextpage] 1. We've all stopped buying Ronan Keating CDs When the…