More SHB contributors reflect on the past 12 months in life, and in beauty.
 
SARAH MORGAN, WRITER

Five key things, really.
1. According to RuPaul?s Drag Race, you can use lube as a primer.
2. American hair dyes are a bit bloody lively. On a work-trip to LA I went to a mysterious place called Hot Topic and bought Manic Panic hair-dye, which was all but a mythical vegan legend when I was a British teenager. Typical over-zealous American, it stained my pastel lavender hair (and the bathroom floor of the airb&b I was staying in) blue. I sent my landlord an Amazon gift card. I still feel terrible.
3. Your back will feel more better (betterer") after a £15 yoga class than after a £60 massage. Word. Also, I learned to stop feeling guilty about exercising during my working hours. It unbungs your brain-pipes. Also, youtube yoga videos are the SHIZ. 4. Gel nails are my new God. I?d never got it before, because I didn?t get why you?d want to be stuck with the same nail varnish colour for weeks when hey the ruddy world could end any minute right guys, let?s fuck. Then I had an hour to kill in America (oh hi yeah I?ve been to America, I only mention it cause it?s much cheaper there, due to supply and demand ? see also: fanny waxing, food, and therapy. It?s a smashing country.) After, my frail, chippy claws were plump like cherubs and shiny like newborn babies eyes and also unbreakable, like Kimmy Schmidt. It was an amazing fortnight?s holiday from giving a shit about ...