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YO, Mo. The Northern Ireland Secretary gets our vote as style chick of the week

YO, Mo. The Northern Ireland Secretary gets our vote as style chick of the week. Having discarded both wig and turban, she now sports a distinctive crop of baby-soft hair and sets an example of chutzpah to us all. Frankly, follicly-challenged men who go to tortuous lengths to train their few remaining strands across the top of their skulls could learn a lesson from the wonderful Doctor M.

Never known for her reticence, she shows that sassiness - and honestly - will always by stylish.

The IT's resident guru on such matters describes Irish band The Mary Janes as "hippy-dippy folk rockers" which hardly inspires much confidence. However, The MJs have also turned into clothes horses lately, cleaning up their appearance and modelling labels from street fashion retailer Urban on Dublin's Drury Street. They still look like a bunch of boys in polo shirts to us, but the guru was so impressed with their new image, he even took away the band's promo CD for a quick listen.

Thirty years on and more than 118 million bottles later, Clinique's Dramatically Different Moisturising Lotion is still going strong. To mark this anniversary, the company has issued a list of (distinctly wacky) statistics such as the news that every four seconds, someone somewhere buys a bottle of the moisturiser.

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Even more bizarre, enough DDML has now been sold that, if poured out in a thin line, it could wrap around the world 30 times - imagine what that might do to any parts of the planet's surface suffering from excessive dryness. A helpful assortment of alternative names for the product is also given, our favourite being The Yellow Stuff; so much easier to request than DDML's tongue-twisting full title.