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Our 10 favourites from this week’s ASOS’s ‘New In’ section
[nextpage title="Next"] As avid readers of ShinyShiny will know, we bring you our favourites from ASOS's 'New In' section every week, and, just because Christmas has just been and gone doesn't mean this week is any different. If anything, it's a great week to spend all the money you got as Christmas presents! Or, you…
15 short, thought-provoking novels to read over the Christmas period
[nextpage title="Next"] Ah, Christmas – it’s the time of year when almost every one of us wants as much time off as we can wangle. If you’ve succeeded in eking out an extra few days of holiday and it’s been as relaxing as you’d hoped, you may have found yourself munching on mince pies, watching…
10 comfy and cosy outfits for a quiet New Year’s Eve in
[nextpage title="Next"] We've already provided all you party animals with our favourite sparkly outfits for an amazing New Year's Eve night out, but overpriced nightclub entry and drinks isn't to everyone's taste. Sometimes all you want to do to bring in the new year is snuggle up on the sofa and watch Jools Holland's Hootenanny…
10 sparkly outfits for New Year’s Eve
[nextpage title="Next"] At ShinyShiny, we love a good sparkly outfit - the name says it all really - and New Year's Eve is the perfect time to bring out your inner magpie, without anyone judging you for going OTT. From dresses to playsuits to co-ords, these are our favourite outfits with a bit of sequin…
More replies, fewer photos of sky: my social media resolutions for 2015
Because these are slightly easier than giving up cheese. I will take one photo of the sky a week, maximum I daren't look it up for fear it's something ominous to do with climate change, but I SWEAR the sky is more beautiful these days than it used to be. Or perhaps I'm just more boring these…
App review: the new Zomato helps you find restaurants that do pancakes (among other things!)
Zomato has been around for a pretty long time – 6 years, in fact – as a restaurant discovery service. But there are lots of those, so it hasn’t really ignited our interest until now, other than making us vaguely wonder why you’d spell tomato with a Z. But they’ve just launched a new version…
The week in hashtags: #AskACop, #Bebo, #WorstDateIn5Words, #TheInterview
The good, the bad, the awful and the hilarious of the week's hashtags – in a few more than five words. #AskACop When CNN launched a Q&A ahead of its Cops Under Fire special on Tuesday using the hashtag #AskACop, the network certainly received questions. Some considered the torrent of angry tweets about racial profiling,…
Want to know if your brain’s healthy? Stand on one leg
Japanese researchers have invented a new, easy way to gauge the risk of brain abnormality... and make us look stupid at the same time. (Well, doctors are under a lot of stress, I guess they needed a laugh.) Yasuharu Tabara, from the Center for Genomic Medicine at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in Kyoto…
Wine ice cream exists, and you can get drunk on it
The universe has heard your prayers.Your favourite two guilty pleasures – ice cream and wine – have come together in a heavenly fusion that can only be described as dangerously brilliant. This isn't wine-flavoured ice cream, oh no. This is eight separate flavours of wine-infused, proper ice cream with a butterfat content of 15% and a proof of…
10 presents you can still buy on Christmas Eve
Ahh. It's Christmas Eve. Your stocking's hung, your pies are minced, and John Lennon's on the radio. All is calm, all is... wait, you didn't get a present for Uncle Keith and it's literally Christmas tomorrow. Panic sets in. You consider re-gifting him your office secret santa present, even though it's a framed photo of you…
