New from Elemis: Pro Collagen Body Serum

It's not just our faces that start showing signs of age, worst luck - the skin on our bodies also suffers. So unless you're super-young and super-fit (and therefore I hate you), you're probably dreading spring time when we're all forced to loose the layers and reveal more flesh.

Pro Collagen Body Serum Intensive Lift (£45) is a new product from Elemis aimed at giving the skin on your body as much tlc as we normally give our faces. It's a light, non sticky gel that smells divine (rose and mimosa, yum) and is quickly absorbed. Apply to any areas of 'concern' (I'll let you decide which yours are) but Elemis reccomend bums, tums, backs of arms, backs of hands, boobs and décolleté (your cleavage and up to neck).

Among it's key ingredients are paracress (helps collagen production) and peptide pea pods (to strengthen skin firmness and elasticity), together with a host of other wonderful stuff this should result in the gel boosting your skins collagen and elastin.

I've been using it for 5 days so far, and my skin looks smoother and is definitely softer. Roll on springtime!

For more info, or to buy visit Elemis Time to Spa

British boobs are a pain in the neck

It’s Friday, so here’s a pointless boob fact. Did you know the average boob size in the UK was a whopping 34DD? Yup it’s true, so contrary to popular belief, British women don’t want bigger boobs, and in fact a quarter of us want smaller breasts!

In a survey carried out by Figleaves.com and The British Chiropractic Association 70% of women said they’d suffered from back pain, and 47% claimed their breast size affects their posture.

So following on from last week's story where we revealed Manchester to be the boob job capital of the UK, let's breath a sigh of relief that not everyone wants tits like Nicola McLean’s.

Bigger boobs up North

Fancy a pointless boob job statistic to get you through this Friday afternoon?

It seems that the rivalry between the North and the South of Britain, even extends to breasts.

Figures on boob job enquiries and procedures have shown that the northwest is the breast capital of the UK, with Manchester coming out miles ahead of anywhere else in the race for getting the best (or at least biggest) breasts.

Women in London and the Southwest seem to be content with their breasts, with a significantly lower proportion of boob job enquiries and procedures than other areas of the country.

Boost your assets

Britain might be going bust, but our facination with big boobs is going nowhere. A leading cosmetic surgery provider has announced a 135 percent increase in UK women boosting their assets. Heaven knows where they're getting the cash from...