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Self-styled Social Media Socialistas Catriona and Eva – a.k.a. Coco & Lowe – are living the dream. The continent-hopping duo draws inspiration from all things exotic and everyday, found in adventures abroad to street fashion in Toronto. 

ChickAdvisor: What did you hope to accomplish when you started blogging?

Coco & Lowe: We wanted to open a boutique but since the economic climate...
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In honour of Canadian Thanksgiving, we offer this little diversion for breaks between feasting:



Ahhhh...

Oops, sorry!  Degrassi moment there...
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Searching for your favourite products, services, and advice on ChickAdvisor just got a whole lot easier.

Our new and improved search engine will now gather results from related Articles, Forum discussions, and Deals in addition to the Product and Service listings we've offered until now.  It's easy to tab your way through helpful advice, section by section. 
Click on any listing...
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Mile-high heels can be hard on feet, knees, hips, lower back and spine – but the truth is, we women have a bad habit of sacrificing comfort for the sake of fashion.  Try these daily tips to keep the spring in your step:

1. Roll a tennis ball under the arch of your foot – up and down, side to side.  It will loosen the tightened and strained plantar fascia (arch tissue). 

2....
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Back by popular demand, your Hotlist can now be embedded into your blog!  It's the fastest and easiest way to show your readers which products and services you're wild for right now. 

How to Create a Hotlist

1. Look up your favourite products and services listed on ChickAdvisor.  Click on the "Add to your favourites" link.

2. Select your list from the drop box that appears...
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The Social Network (or as we've been calling it, "The Facebook Movie") is finally in theatres and we couldn't be more excited!

The film follows the socially awkward Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg as he builds the Internet's most popular social medium and becomes the world's youngest billionaire.  Paced like a thriller, The Social Network is about greed, power, money and most...
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As Tim Gunn might say, "Make it work, Anna."


World of Interiors mag October 2010 issue has a worthwhile peek inside Anna's Long Island (NY) summerhouse (though to the rest of us simple folk it's rather palatial).  Unfortunately for Anna, the woods are "deer infested" and the river is "toxic"

Well, we'd rough it there, despite such challenges.  Somehow...

File that one...
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Our favourite bloggers are hard at work this week (if you can call talking shoes, fashion and home decor "work").

At Home with Kim Vallee highlighted the cutest water bottle we’ve seen by Issey Miyake.

BeautyGeeks found the perfect solution to emergency footwear because no matter how much we love our heels, sometimes that love is unrequited.

We’ve been checking out the hot fashion at London...
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Hey everyone! I’m Hafsa, the new editorial intern on the ChickAdvisor team! I’m an international student studying journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, and my home city is Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For my posing wall, I’m showing you all some pictures of where I’ve come from!
Many of you probably already have your perceptions of Dubai... sure, there’s gold, glitz and glamour -...
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The countdown to the penultimate Harry Potter movie has begun, with this week's release of the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (pt 1) trailer.



There was an unfortunate glimpse of the irritating Dobby (who, as grand luck would have it, is my son's favourite character), that ghastly Voldemort manicure, and plenty of snakes which I didn't appreciate, but everything else looks quite...
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