How To Walk In High Heels

The step-by-step guide to having a painless after with the stiletto.

It's always the perfect diet excuse for me: The higher my heels are, the skinner I look. So why cut calories when I can just slip on a higher pair of heels and look like I've shed two kilos in a snap? My walk is sexier, I slouch less, and feel more confident.

The merits of wearing heels are hardly unknown, but wearing how to find a comfortable pair of heels seems like a mystery to most. My friend, Linda, 24 has a small mountain of heels that she absolutely loves (They're really quite swanky). But what do I see her wear daily?

Her pair of worn-in-Birkenstock sandals. "I can't seem to find a pair of heels as comfortable as my Birkies," she bemoans. "It's just unfair, the nice-looking ones always bite!"

Of course they do. But just like boys, the simple solution lies in knowing how to deal with them. so before you attempt a strut down New York city in those four-and-a-halfs (inches, of course), only to hobble back home, read on.

How To Rock Your Single World

Tired of running the race for a ring? It's time to get off the want-a-wedding treadmill and into a fabulous new life. Dowm with the husband hunt, how to rock your single world?

I feel ripped off. I read a book the other day which I thought was going to inspire and entertain me in a way that only good chick lit can, when instead it took my god mood and stoped all over it with its nasty, trailer park stilletos. I was expecting the usual girlie novel formula: Sassy leading lady, gay best friend and neurotic work colleague stumble through life with a dash of drama and flair. But what I got was light years away from inspiring.

The main character was cool enough. She worked at a TV station and lived in a nice pad in the city. The problem was, she spent 13 entire chapters bemoaning her tragic, boring existance as a - shock, horror - single woman. There weren't even any subplots, overbearing mums or crazy bosses to liven things up. This character's entire life revolved around finding and marrying any thing with a Y-chromosome. So how does her fruitless search end?

Relationship Rules

According to relationship research organization one-plus-one, we all come to relationships with different "rules". These affect our attitudes to everything from leaving the toothpaste cap off to having an affair. So it's important to establish some ground rules with your partner if you stay together happily.

10 Deadly Spending Sins

Tired of scraping through with little left over for life's luxuries? Then it's time you tightened up your bad spending habits.

You are broke again - just like last month and the month before. It happens every time you're about to get paid - you run out of money and don't know how you will make it to your next paycheque. Not only does it mean that at times you've had to hit your friends for cash because you can't afford staples like lunch or taxi fare. It also means that your bigger dreams like travelling to Europe or buying a new car will never get a look in.

Clearly your approach to your finances needs a complete makeover. Setting a weekly budget and firm financial goals will, week to week, take the stress out of making end meet. Longer term, it will help you work towards that big overseas trip or even a deposit on a flat if you're together enough to be thinking that far ahead. To adopt a more grown-up approach to your finances and make your money work for you, break the following unhelpful spending habits: