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Make-Up Artist, writer, beauty blogger and singer Katie Service assisted me for nearly 2 years and is now the right-hand lady to International Beauty Director of Vogue Asia Pacific, Kathy Phillips.

‘The Nu Feminism’ by Katie Service

The best thing about having a Kindle is that no one knows what you’re reading.  I was given a Kindle for Christmas and over the course of the holiday period I was able to dip in and out of the books of my choice, be it Jane Austen, Jilly Cooper or Ovid, at my discretion and without detection.

To those in my company it was unclear as to whether I was reading a steamy shower scene or a world-changing piece of oratory.  The blank back of my Kindle wasn’t going to give me away.

Secret reading – as I now call it – has become my new favorite past time and during one of them, I downloaded Caitlin Moran’s book ‘How to Be a Woman’.  For those of you who haven’t read ‘How to be a Woman’ (and you should have) I shall briefly synopsize… Caitlin recounts the worries and wonders of becoming a woman, bravely and comically dissecting her own awkward teenage years.  It is feminism in it’s funniest form – less hunger strikes and more witty quips, less angry shouting and more laugh out loud, clear as day humour that surrounds ...