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Get to Know Your Credit Score

Hey, princess (dudes are no exception), do you know what your credit score is? BUZZ KILL. If you're using a personal credit card, taking out student loans, paying a monthly cell phone bill, or are liable for something as grown-up as a mortgage, the credit bureau has your number—your three-digit credit score number, that is, and you need to give a care.

Champagne Taste on a Beer Budget? Tips for Living the Princess Life for Less

You like the good things in life: spas, eating out, clothes, vacations. Who doesn’t love those things? But few of us can indulge in the good things with abandon, without considering the financial hangover that sets in after a month of overspending on the good stuff.

How to Plan a Summer Wedding

Summer is the perfect backdrop for a garden wedding underneath the stars or a simple ceremony at a charming lakefront venue. When it comes to planning a summer wedding there are many things to consider from venue to theme and even deciding if you want to take things outdoors. With the warm weather and beautiful blooms, this season is sure to be the perfect time of year for a beautiful affair.

How to Choose Summer Flowers for Your Summer Wedding

From bright pinks and summer yellows to classic whites and reds, summer blooms come in a multitude of colours to suit any taste and theme. Ordering flowers that are in season during the summer months can be a budget-friendly way to incorporate beautiful blooms into your wedding day. From the bride’s bouquet to the fabulous centerpieces, flowers are the perfect way to add a seasonal touch to your special day.

How to Update Your Summer Wardrobe Without Breaking the Bank

Blame our genes! The desire to welcome summer with new clothes is beyond our control. Think about it. For five months of the year—or longer—we Canadians suffer. Hidden under sweaters, down parkas, and snow boots, fashion becomes more about warmth than style.

How To Protect Your Skin: What to Know About Sunscreen

We all know that wearing sunscreen is a must when it’s warm and sunny out, but just slathering on the sunscreen while on the beach isn’t enough. Here’s what you need to know to protect your skin.

How To Clean Up Your Act: Refresh Your Skincare Routine

Is your skincare routine as clean as it could be? Follow these tips to better-looking skin.

How to Buy the Perfect Mother's Day Gift

Mother’s Day is just around the corner but somehow, year after year, we struggle to find the perfect gift to celebrate someone who has done so much for us. It may feel like you’ve been recycling the same gift ideas, but that’s because mom loves the same things year after year: she loves spending time with you, she loves relaxing, and she loves a surprise treat. Here are new spins on old favourites to make this Mother’s Day a truly special one.

How To Get The Look Of The Real Housewives For Less

They strut around in limited edition heels, dress in the hottest designer labels and are on speed dial with the trendiest makeup artists and salons. Oh, to channel the exorbitant beauty regimes of the Real Housewives! Slice wants you to snap out of your high-priced reverie, and wake up to the reality! Copying their fashionable ways is within reach.

How To Have A Culturally Themed Wedding

From soirées with endless amounts of food to celebrations spanning multiple days, wedding traditions from all over the globe make for sophisticated ways to say “I do.” If you’re soon to be planning any type of culturally inspired nuptials, read on to find trends and tips to pull off a wedding fit for any culture.

How to Curb Your Consumer Spending Desires

The truth is, in our debt-laden society, we may be paper chasers, but few of us ever seem to catch enough. With student loans, mortgages and credit card debt, most of us rack up a lot more than we can pay off.

How To Plan A Winter Wedding

Winter is possibly one of the most beautiful times to get married and if you live in Canada, or a northern location, a blanket of fresh white snow could be just the perfect touch.

How To Boost Your Calcium As You Age

Milk is one of the best sources of dietary calcium but it turns out that most of us don’t get enough in our diets. It is a particularity important nutrient when it comes to bone health. Our bones are compared to a calcium bank. As you eat food that contains calcium, that calcium is stored in this bank. This bank then donates calcium to your blood to make sure your blood levels always remain within the normal range. If your body does not get enough calcium from food, you can lose calcium from your bones.

How To Dress The Petite Frame For Summer

Summer is here and the temperature is rising; is your wardrobe ready? It’s time to take those dresses and shorts out of storage and reexamine: What can you get rid of? What’s no longer figure flattering? What are the season’s must-have pieces?

How To Increase Your Metabolism

Here are some tips that could help to increase your metabolism.

How To Beat The Summer Cold With Food

There's nothing worse than coping with a summer cold. Summer colds have a way of ruining vacations and making you completely miserable. To beat the summer cold your best defense may be right on your dinner plate. You can strengthen your immune system's infection-fighting ability by eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly and getting enough rest.

How To Serve Healthy Food To Your Little Picky Eaters

Children can become picky eaters for a number of reasons. Some children are naturally more sensitive to taste, smell and texture. Other children develop picky eating habits by modeling their parents' fussy eating habits. Picky eating habits are more likely to develop when parents punish, bribe or reward their children's eating behaviors. Here are some tips to try with your picky eater.

How to Throw a Mid-Budget Stagette That Hits All the Marks

I'm not a stagette person. When I got married, I forwent the stagette, the shower, and the bridesmaids, which left me regrettably clueless when I was called upon to help with a girlfriend's stagette. My main issue?

How to Save on Your Wedding So You Can Splurge!

Rich Bride Poor Bride wedding planners Angelique Sobschak and David Connolly share their best tips on where to save when preparing for your wedding and where to splurge. Also check out their calls on the hottest trends in weddings in 2010.

How To Impress Your Man This Valentine's Day!

We all know what it’s like to have the men treat us well on the big romantic day every year. Why not try to impress him for a change? In my case, he deserves a bit of a treat.

How To Manage The New Mating Divide

Forget religion or race. The new dating and mating dilemma is interdietary romance. Can a meat-eater and a vegetarian or vegan have a happy and fulfilling long-term relationship? When you think about it, it makes perfect sense. We’re living in an era where a lot of people define themselves by what they will or will not eat. We celebrate or victories with food and soothe our sorrows with more food. There is food for every occasion.

How to Be a Real Party Mama

The bigger the better, from poufy hair to plumped -up lips, you are the grand dame of the party. Sure, the party may not be for you, but it is certainly about your taste and your child (okay, so by extension it sort of is about you). So clip the "Bumpit" into your barnet and toss out the LBD, this occasion calls for big-time glamour.

Get Inspired by Your Favourite Era

This Holiday, Get Looks Inspired by Different Periods in Fashion

How to Regift

We know you’ve done it before, at least once, because most of us have done it too—and you’ll likely do it again. You’ve kept it secret because of the guilt you’re feeling and because you know you can get away with it and no one will be the wiser.

Have a Designer Holiday

Every year as the December holidays approach, desperate and often frantic shoppers fly in and out of stores, searching for those perfect gifts for everyone on their list.

How To Get Outfitted For Running Gear

As someone who is new to the sport of running, I found it can be a time-consuming daunting task trying to decipher between running belts (or fuel belts), what running shoe I should buy, clothing, running bras, etc.

The hottest fashion trend: Eyeglasses

Hey Four-Eyes! All those years of high school mockery might actually be paying off. These days, eyeglass-wearers are the coolest kids in class. Those cumbersome specs many of us used to do anything to hide have become the ultimate accessory — and the bigger, the better.

How to Wear Guy-liner

From guy-liner to man-scara: More guys are wearing makeup―and not just rock stars.

How To Not Be An Annoying Guy

Who wants to be "that guy?" You know the one: That guy everybody avoids because he's so annoying.

How To Kick-Start a Flagging Sex Life

Is "I'm too tired" the new "I've got a headache?" Today's average couple is always on the go and busy, and it could be getting in the way of good sex.

How To Understand Relationships Between Women

What would life be like without the girlfriends who have been there all along? Family is one thing, but friends are very important in their own special way.

How To Plan Ahead for a Haircut

Itching to update your locks? Plan ahead before you get anything lopped off.

How To Decipher Your Teen's Behaviour

Why do humans in this pimply, lovesick stage of development insist on doing the very things we explicitly forbid them to do? The obvious answer: Because they're biologically programmed to do so.

How To Get Control in Your Wardrobe

For figure-fixing innovation, we give thanks to Spanx, the first of the new generation of girls'-best-friend undergarments, a brand-name that is now used as freely as Kleenex or Band-Aid to describe underclothes that shape, support and smooth the figure. Finally, wise retailers are putting similar materials right into their clothing.

Laid Off and Laid Back

A good friend of mine once said, when life gives you lemons, add vodka. I wholeheartedly agree, which is why I’m kind of thankful for my recent influx of free time. I’m determined to make my layoff a positive step in my career and, ultimately, my life. Coming off a ten-year career, this is the first time since high school that I’ve been unemployed.

How to Meditate

Multitasking shreds my brain into thousands of splinters. By 5 pm (or 6, or 7, or whenever I actually stop working), my mind is an endless cycle of unrelated things: tomorrow’s to-do list, tonight’s dinner, an outfit for an important meeting next week, the best gift for a friend’s birthday, whether The L Word’s Shane and Jenny are a good couple, and that embarrassing thing that happened in high school 10 years ago.

How To Change Up Your Style

On Style Her Famous, fashion-challenged women get the celebrity makeover of a lifetime. Participant Lucia Wamala shares what she learned from her Jada Pinkett Smith-inspired treatment.

How to Determine Your Wedding Budget

Expenses are part and parcel of a wedding: you can’t have one without the other. What you can do, however, is budget yourself accordingly so that the end result won’t come as a complete surprise or totally overwhelm you.

How to Avoid Hidden Wedding Costs

Some couples get so caught up in their wedding planning that they forget to look at the big picture, or rather the small print. Your vendors might have come highly recommended, and you might be impressed by what they can offer, but—and this is a big but—there might be a good reason why the small print at the end of your contract is so small.

How to Have a Multicultural Wedding

For some couples, paying homage to their cultural backgrounds is of utmost importance. Here’s a list of various cultural traditions from around the world.

Have a Spa Day at Home

All right everyone, Spring is here and it’s time to freshen up. Shedding those extra layers of winter clothing is a real relief—until you notice the state your poor bod is in after a season of heavy layers and grooming neglect. Well, it’s almost skirt and sandal season, so most of us are thinking about getting pretty again. Here are some easy tips for a home spa day.

How to Choose for Your Wedding Registry

Make a list of the items you and your fiancé(e) have. Which of these items will you be keeping and bringing into your new home and which will be sent to recycling or to your local charity?

How to Choose Your Officiant

Selecting your officiant is like choosing a fine wine: it takes time and a lot of consideration. Remember this is the person who will be overseeing your nuptials. It’s important to pick someone who’ll take your needs into consideration.

How to Manage a Wedding Budget

Setting a budget is paramount to ensuring a stress-free beginning to your wedded bliss. This budget checklist has been designed to help you determine some of the expenses that can come into play, which can add thousands of dollars to your wedding.

 
 
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