"Good afternoon and Welcome to Laura Ashley!"

Advantages: A product you can discuss for hours and look at for days
Disadvantages: Not very competitive rates of pay

...Having worked for a variety of retailers over the past ten years- ranging from a well-known supermarket to a local small business- I have experienced both good employers and those to avoid. Laura Ashley Limited sits nicely in the middle, often reaching towards the "Places I Loved to Work" category. I have been with the company for just over a year. In this time, I have been promoted from Sales Leader (supervisor) to Assistant Manager. When promotion opportunities arrive, which is quite rarely in certain areas, I have to admit, the managers are more than happy to promote within, in order to keep the knowledge gained during training. I can understand that this is a negative idea to some, but from an insider's perspective, it worked well for me! Initially, the product knowledge required to work at Laura Ashley can be overwhelming. When...

chellbian 13.08.2009 · Read review
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LAURA ASHLEY Design Service

Advantages: Easier to choose at home, advice from designer
Disadvantages: None

...I have been looking for a new sofa for months now, to no avail. Finally, I found a few I liked in Laura Ashley, at my local Homebase in Ayr. I spotted that they did an interior design service, and I thought this would be a good way of trying to create the room I wanted, with all the little touches and the desired ambience. So I decided that I would ask them to come out to my home. Their design service is £50, and this covers you for up to three rooms. You do get the £50 back if you place an order with them, and I therefore figured this was a reasonable deal. I called the number shown on the leaflet and they gave me a local number to ring and make an appointment. For larger projects, i.e., more than three rooms, there is a £100 charge, again fully refundable against a purchase. I rang my local number (Glasgow) and I made...

helencbradshaw 02.01.2002 (09.02.2002) · Read review
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Laura Mercier Foundation

Advantages: it looks great when first applied
Disadvantages: Doesnt look as good after a few hours.

...Name of the product I will be reviewing: "Laura Mercier Oil Free Foundation" - Price - This is priced at £20-£30; I paid £23, which I wasn't surprised at as Most leading brands like clinique, Chanel and Dior foundations also cost around this amount of money. - Shades available - Porcelain Ivory Blush Ivory Warm Ivory Sunny Beige Vanilla Beige Honey Beige Golden Beige Shell Beige Suntan Beige Sunset Beige Toffee Bronze Deep Bronze This is what I find useful about the Laura Mercier foundation range, the amount of shades available, so you're bound to find a colour perfect for your skin. - What the manufacturers say / what the product offers- Laura Mercier offers an Oil-Free Foundation which are layerable, highly pigmented formula to be used only where needed & allows the user to determine the amount...

Sarahhhx 11.12.2007 · Read review
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I think Laura Wilson is my new best friend

Advantages: A completely absorbing read
Disadvantages: None

...If you enjoy a good psychological crime novel that is written, well I am sure that, like me, you will really enjoy this book - My Best Friend by Laura Wilson. This is the third book written by Ms Wilson, and while crime novels aren't my favourite genre, I found this a remarkably well-written and absorbing book. This book is very unusual in the fact that it has three first person narrators as well diary entries from over fifty years ago and also includes excerpts from children's books. This sounds on first hearing that the book will be messy and hard to follow but Laura Wilson manages to integrate all these elements together into a dark, heart-rending story of a dysfunctional British family over a period of fifty years. The book takes place during and after World War Two and features two sisters, one a children's author...

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Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser

Advantages: Long lasting, lightweight, amazing product!
Disadvantages: A bit pricey

...During the summer months I find that foundations can be too heavy on my skin and I much prefer something lighter. On my sister?s recommendation I decided to try out the Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser. This product retails at £32 from the Laura Mercier counters, so it?s definitely an expensive product! The tinted moisturiser comes in a large variety of shades, so if you visit the Laura Mercier counter they will colour match you for the right shade, in my case porcelain. This is the first advantage I think this product has, because many tinted moisturisers do not come in such an extensive range of shades, therefore they are not always suited to everyone?s skin tone. When the make up artist applied the product he did so using a foundation brush, you can use your fingers, however I find that you tend to get better coverage if you use...

rachieb123 10.07.2009 · Read review
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Laura Mercier Moisturizing Foundation

Advantages: Moisturises skin
Disadvantages: Doesnt look as good when first applied.

...Name of the product I will be reviewing: "Laura Mercier Oil Free Foundation" - Price - This is priced at £20-£30; I paid £23, which I wasn't surprised at as Most leading brands like clinique, Chanel and Dior foundations also cost around this amount of money. - Shades available - Sunny Beige Golden Beige Shell Beige Porcelain Ivory Blush Ivory Warm Ivory Vanilla Beige This is what I find useful about the Laura Mercier foundation range, the amount of shades available, so you're bound to find a colour perfect for your skin. - What the manufacturers say / what the product offers- Laura Mercier Moisturizing Foundation is a highly pigmented foundation especially formulated for drier or more mature skin & hydrates the skin with added moisture. Allows for truly buildable coverage, from a very...

Sarahhhx 05.01.2008 · Read review
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Luca/ Cyprotel Laura Beach Paphos - Cyprus

Advantages: Toasties are great
Disadvantages: Where do i start??

...Me and my husband stayed at the Laura Beach hotel Cyprus from 20th June to 28th June 2007 with Libra holidays. Please note this hotel is also known as Luca Laura Beach and also Cyprotel Laura Beach depending on the brochure, I questioned the rep about this and apparently it used to be part of the Luca group of hotels but has been de-branded. We paid £400 each all inclusive including reserved flight seats. HOTEL The hotel is situated about 30-40 minutes drive from the airport but this does depend on how many drop off's there are. It is situated on the beach front if you can call it that, as it is man made and you do need to go down several steep paths and steps which with the sand are very slippy needless to say when you finally meet the bottom there are a lot of rocks, we only ventured down the once. The sea would not be...

jomarannetyn 17.07.2007 · Read review
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Laura Biagotti Roma

Advantages: Perfume lasts
Disadvantages: Too good to wear to work.

...I have recently had this perfume bought me as a present, and this is one of the best perfumes I have every tried, I am always a bit weary of perfumes, but this was has got quite a delicate scent, not too heavy, and ideal for someone who suffers with allergies, I cannot wear perfume that is too overpowering, but it makes me sneeze and have runny eyes, but this one is a perfume definately okay for people with sensitive noses. Laura Biagotti is quite a new name on the perfume market, but anyone who samples this product will agree that this is a perfume worth trying, the price isn't bad either considering that it is a new product on the market. The perfume is very floral, but fresh, I would recommend anyone go out and buy it, or get someone special to buy it for you....

zeebra 10.04.2001 · Read review
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The surrendered wife by Laura Doyle, a strange concept indeed

Advantages: Enables you to see things from a different perspective
Disadvantages: Seems to force opinions in places

...The surrendered wife by Laura Doyle is a very interesting concept indeed. Its main aim is to suggest that women would be happier in domestic bliss, think Stepford wife and you've hit the nail on the head. The main thesis is that as a married woman one should relinquish all responsibility within the relationship and allow the masculine figure to regain control. This expectation stretches from finances to the way we raise our children. For instance if you would prefer to pay your bills by direct debit and your husband would prefer to leave the bills in a corner until red letters arrive then we, as women should allow him to do so in order to enable him to learn from his mistakes. Whilst the whole idea seems quite daunting, in parts she does illustrate valid points and does clearly state that whilst surrendering to your husband is...

Minimummy 09.08.2009 · Read review
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Laura Ashley

Advantages: Original, Quality
Disadvantages: None

...I've been purchasing from Laura Ashley for many years now, and I just love it! You could totally re-decorate your home from paint right through to finishing touches. Their ranges include paint, furniture, soft furnishings, light, material, crockery, accessories and clothes... I could go on. There is a very distinctive country look but saying this, a lot of the designs would fit into any home. I've found everything I have bought, (and that is a lot) has been of excellent quality though you may pay a little more than average for this which can only be expected. I've brought material by the metre to make my own curtains (I have a Laura Ashley curtain making book) which is good for people on a tight budget but they also provide made to measure services from the same materials which I think makes style accessible for everyone...

a_lil_gem 04.04.2005 · Read review
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