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The book we love:211 ideas to become a brilliant girl

Why does it make us (over)kiffer, us, "daughters of beauty"? Already, because it involves beauty! We learn to do braids, buns and all the tralala. But the tastiest is in the beauty of the gesture. Or rather gestures, the ones you do when you're a perfect hostess like "making a door dog, churning butter or getting out of the car without showing your panties". Recently, the beauty editorial staff as a whole has known how to "make a little dress out of a garbage bag, but also do a U-turn on the handbrake, escape a swarm of furious bees and change a tire without breaking a nail ". Which is not nothing, let's face it!

Finally, we rejoiced when we read the very savvy tips for being a proper "naughty girl." We no longer ignore anything about how to "slide down the mast of a fire station, crack a whip, tackle a man to the ground, ride a jumping ball in a miniskirt, refuse a nutty marriage proposal, spotting a womanizer,” and the particularly useful “hiding a lime in a sponge cake.”

In short, being a really brilliant girl cannot be improvised. And that requires a lot of humor…

By Bunty Cutler at Editions Marabout