Getting the man of your dreams is no easy task and the initial hurdle - that dreaded first date can feel like a minefield. But don’t panic, who better to advise you on believing in yourself then three girls who ooze confidence and exude sexiness, the three girls from Liberty X?

If anybody knows about self-belief it’s Michelle, Jessica and Kelli. The three girls who beat off stiff competition from thousands of others to be two thirds of one of the most successful pop groups of this millennium.

Joining them on the couch is Hannah Sandling. The celebrity stylist who has dressed the likes of Sienna Miller and Emma Bunton and knows a thing or two about getting the look right for that all important date.

With Hannah’s help, Michelle, Kelli and Jessica have all picked out their favourite ‘flirty skirt’ and each created a look that they are sure will give any girl celebrity confidence on that all important first date.

Join Michelle, Jessica, Kelli and Hannah as they help the nation’s girls feel confident and grab that tall dark handsome stranger…

Liberty X girls Michelle, Jessica and Kelli join Celebrity stylist Hannah Sanding online on Saturday 21st July to looking fab and getting that man.

The Liberty X girls have recently joined forces with Tampax to promote new Tampax Compak, with a protective 'skirt'. For more information visit www.beinggirl.co.uk/tampaxskirt where you could win an exclusive shopping spree with the Liberty X girls!

H: Vicki Letch, host
S: Hannah Sandling, celebrity stylist
J: Jessica, Liberty X
M: Michelle, Liberty X
K: Kelli, Liberty X

H: Hello and welcome to the Lifestyle Show brought to you by Tampax Compak, my name is Vicki Letch. Now, the skirt. It can be sexy, it can be frilly, it can be full, it can be long, it can be short, it can be pencil thin. With such a choice on the market surely we can find a skirt to suit absolutely everyone, whether or not you want to go out there to dress to impress or bag yourself a lad, my guests in the studio are here today to tell you how to best use your skirts. Now Tampax Compak feel that the skirt needs to be pushed, so they went out there pounding the streets to find out how we all feel about our skirts, and ironically over one third of us like to keep our skirts in the deep, dark depths of our wardrobe, me probably being one of those. Now I have been joined by some lovely guests today, talk about the power of the skirt. I’ve got celebrity stylist Hannah Sandling

S: Hello

H: The lovely Jessica

J: Hiya

H: Michelle over there and Kelly, all of course from – I’ve got to do it - Liberty X. Had to do it. So let’s start just having a chat about this survey

M: I was a little bit surprised about how many people, how many girls don’t want to wear skirts when they’re on their period because I’m the type of girl who doesn’t really think that much ahead, I’m like I don’t really care, I’ll wear a skirt. But since I’ve read the survey I’ve asked so many of my female friends and almost all of them won’t wear a skirt when they’re on

H: Really?

M: Yes they won’t, yes

H: See I’m surprised by that as well. Because I wasn’t blessed in the leg department ladies, no, I generally don’t wear skirts that often but I’ve got to be honest I wouldn’t be put off it were the time, the time of the month wouldn’t put me off

M: I wouldn’t but a lot of girls are

H: Ok so you would still go ahead and wear one?

M: I would yes

H: You crazy girl you!

M: I’m a crazy one

H: Living life on the edge! How about you girls?

J: I’d definitely wear a skirt, yes

H: Yes

S: I just think skirts give you so much confidence you know when you walk out you do feel really good and it’s so sad that girls, because they’ve got their periods they just dump them at the back of the wardrobe and that’s it and they scrape them back out a week later, but it’s so sad because we’re feminine, we should show our legs, everybody doesn’t matter what shape or size you are, suits some type of skirt, so it’s just really sad that they’re just sort of banished to the back of the wardrobe, you know

K: And the confidence thing as well, the survey said that on the whole women’s confidence is right down when they’re on their period, so you want to get it back, so wearing a skirt is a way of getting it back, you – I think most women would say they do feel more confident flirty, especially in summer time in a skirt, it’s a way to bring the confidence back up

H: It’s a sort of catch 22 isn’t it, because I don’t know about you but you know let’s be honest, when I look in the mirror at certain times I literally could cry

M: Without a doubt. I was like that this morning, totally, but if I wore trousers to today I’d feel less glamorous than I do in a skirt, regardless of how I felt about my body, I’d still feel less glamorous. And when I go out I usually wear short skirts, even though I hate my legs, it’s just – like Kelli says – you automatically feel a bit more confident when – and a bit more flirty when you’ve got a skirt on, and you know 9 times out of 10 –

H: Not that you go out and flirt Missy!

M: No I know but 9 times out of 10 men don’t look at you and think oh she shouldn’t be wearing a skirt because she’s a little bit chubby, they think oh wicked, she’s really good fun

H: And she’s got a skirt on. I think that’s the whole thing of even when you feel dead inside, you’ve got to just push yourself a little bit to actually make the effort, and once you make the effort you feel a lot better don’t you?

J: Absolutely

S: You know it’s like make-up you know if you don’t put any make-up on or you don’t put any nice clothes on you feel a bit draggy don’t you? But as soon as you put make-up on, get your hair looking good, pair of high heels, gorgeous skirt, suddenly it’s like this whole new character sort of comes out of yourself, do you know what I mean? You ooze confidence and your personality totally changes and people pick up on those good vibes, you know

H: You carry yourself differently I think

S: Yes

H: Certainly on a Sunday when I’m walking round in my jogging bottoms, my furry boots or my flip flops

M: Or your hat and your –

H: Yes - don’t look at me, don’t look at me! Ok so we’re talking about the whole flirting thing, we’ve got to go there haven’t we? It’s summer, we all like to put it out there a little bit – not you. And not you either actually?

J: No

M: Do you know what though, I am married right but it’s alright to flirt. Andy flirts with girls all the time

H: And you hate it!

M: He doesn’t even know he does it, does he?

K: He does, I’ve been witness

M: He’s just very clever, he pretends he doesn’t know he’s doing it, so I think it’s alright to flirt

J: If you pretend you don’t know you’re doing it!

S: You know what it is, it’s window shopping, you can look but you can’t have

H: It’s window shopping isn’t it? Save your pennies. Now of course this is an interactive show so I just want to say thank you very much for everyone whose sending in their questions, and let’s get on with some of the questions. I’ve got one here for you actually Hannah, and it’s from Gemma and she’s asking “what is the biggest clothing no-no for a first date?”

S: Oh where do I start? There are so many. Do you know what if you want to go into a room, and you want to own that room and you want to turn every single head, you’ve got to ditch the trousers and you’ve got to put a gorgeous skirt on, whether it’s a puffball skirt, whether it’s a little micro mini or a long skirt, gypsy skirt, that is a way to steal attention, so I’d say a no-no are trousers, absolutely

H: Oh dear. I hate a date the other week and I wore trousers, he didn’t call me back!

S: See

M: I probably would have said jeans, heels, and something simple on top, but I know what you’re saying now and – whenever Andy says “oh she looks nice” – she’s always wearing a skirt. Or she’s blonde.

H: She’s bitter - I’m alright with him flirting – and she’s blonde!

S: But you know what though, it’s actually true because I always say don’t give a man too much, don’t go out with your boobs on show, your tummy and your legs – but if you have your legs on show and you’ve got a nice high neck top, the guy will think she’s classy, she’s cool – oh I wonder what’s going on underneath there, but it’s all to get the pins out because – celebrate femininity, do you know what I mean?

H: Unwrapping the gear. Not that we’re encouraging anything untoward here, but –

M: I know I know

H: Puffball skirts, I just want to have a very quick chat about puffball – because obviously being a child of the 80s, I thought I’m going to revisit the puffball and went to a very well known high street shop, got really ridiculously excited about seeing a puffball skirt, literally jumping up and down, put it on, looked absolutely heinous – what sort of body shape do you have to be to wear a puffball?

S: Puffball skirts are really difficult to pull off actually. If you’ve got really chunky sort of calf muscles it looks terrible, it just looks like you’ve got two trunks just sticking out the end of a puffball skirt. If you’ve got a big bum it’s quite good because it does kind of conceal it, because you can put it all in there and no one knows exactly how big or small your bum is. It’s a really difficult look to pull off, and you can either look like a complete idiot or you can look really fashionable and really cool. It’s a skirt that I would say, you know veer away from unless you really know what you’re doing

M: Yes, I’d be that idiot

K: I think the puffball skirt is for me because I’ve got that bum haven’t I, the high bum

M: She thinks she has but her bum’s the perkiest thing I’ve ever seen

K: I said high, that was diplomatic, I didn’t say big

M: It’s tiny

H: And great legs, lovely long legs

K: Yes I might go for leggings underneath a puffball skirt

H: That’s nice

K: Because that’s a good compromise and especially black ones if you feel like your legs are a little bit bigger, would slim them down a little bit

H: I need a bit more reinforcement than that. Anyway let’s move on, this is from Celia and she asks, “How can you tell if a guy fancies you?” And that’s for Kelly

K: Don’t know if I’m the best one to know this. I think you can tell, well I think guys will make an effort to talk to you out of the group of friends. You know if you’re with your group of friends, they’ll a lot of the time be addressing you rather than your friends. And just, the eye contact thing – I know it’s a cliché, but you know they will try and catch your eye, and if you have a moment where you catch a guy’s eye and you smile, chances are, I mean most guys are interested in most girls, so chances are they are interested I would say

H: What sort of men do you meet?

K: Honest men who tell me like, if they’re looking at you, the chances are they’re interested

H: Absolutely

M: Or, your skirt’s tucked in your knickers!

H: Or you’ve got loo roll on your shoe, which has happened to me

S: Me too

H: And not long ago I was in Poole and actually I was being really snobby about the toilets in the shopping centre, I was like oh it’s horrible, it’s horrible, and the woman in there did not like me, she thought you’re being really snobby, and I had a very long skirt on, so how I did it I don’t know, I think it was the very large pants I also had on, and the entire skirt was tucked into my knickers

J: Not good

S: You see I had that on the Fulham Road, I was walking down and this, and I didn’t have large knickers on, I had a thong on, even worse, and I walked down the entire Fulham road, after about 20 minutes this woman stopped me and said “oh excuse me madam” and I thought she was going to ask me something about fashion, and she said “I just thought I’d let you know your skirt’s tucked in your knickers” – my whole bum cheeks were on view. My skirt was tucked in

K: And you thought all the boys on the Fulham Road were interested in you that day!

S: The worrying thing is, I didn’t even get a hoot from any of the builders that I went past

J: What!

S: How depressing!

H: Not one great bum – unbelievable! Ok we’ve got another one here, this is from Estelle and she asks “when I’m on my period I feel really bloated – eye eye – what kind of skirts would help me to feel sexy and comfortable again?” Hannah

S: I would say a long gypsy skirt’s really good, also an empire line, I know it’s not a skirt; it’s kind of like a dress but an empire line top. What actually is a really good idea is to get a skirt that’s kind of a hipster skirt if it’s elasticated and pull it up over your boobs, because actually then you’ve got a kind of like an empire line dress, a slightly shorter, but then you’ve got a double usage out of the skirt and it covers the stomach, so that’s a really good idea

H: I like that a lot because I suffer – I’m going to open up, I’m going to share – I suffer in the hip area

M: Yes I do

H: It’s horrible

S: Empire lines are brilliant for that

M: Like from one day to the next my jeans just won’t go up.

H: Yes

M: Maybe it was the big curry I had the night before

H: It’s amazing how your body just seems to change overnight. Well certainly for me anyway

S: I’ll tell you another good style is the maxi dress, they’re very good because again they start from up here and they cover the whole of your body, and also if you’ve got white, hairy corn beef looking disgusting looking legs, because you haven’t had any sun, then they cover that up too

H: Get it out of a bottle, we all do it.

K: Not me

H: I don’t know about maxi dress, I haven’t heard of them

K: Oh my God!

M: You haven’t lived!

H: Tell me everything

S: Do you not read –

H: I was born in Swindon, what do you expect?

S: Do you not read your weekly magazines religiously?

H: I do actually

M: They’re just summer dresses, that like are tight here below your boobs, and just float out very slightly

S: Straight down to the floor

H: Will that not make me look with child?

M: No because they’re quite tight and what it does, it just make you look twice as tall so if somebody’s stumpy like me, I suddenly look like I’m Giselle, and also they cover like I said, your bum, your tummy, hairy legs, white legs, call me fashion looking legs, you name it, you’ll look fabulous

K:I actually like that with child look, I rock that, I do that

H: But that’s because you’re very tiny

K: But I think for taller girls, because I’m a bit tall, you probably can’t tell it on telly, but I am

M: She is

H: She is

K: But I think it’s sort of like accentuates the height and you sort of find a lot of model-type girls who are tall will wear that maternity sort of look, and you end up looking floaty and you know earthy, like you’re going to a festival, and I like that look

H: Yes I do but I’m short and quite wide so it doesn’t work. Ok Susan asks “when I go shopping I’m so self-deprecating, when I go shopping I get so frustrated because there’s so much to offer and I never know whether to trust the shop assistants. Any suggestions?” To Michelle. Don’t believe a word

M: I personally wouldn’t believe shop assistants, I was a shop assistant for years and I got told I had to lie to make people buy

H: Did you?

M: That’s what you do. I’m not going to say, I’ve worked in many shops, but just always trust your instincts and always bring someone to the shop with you

K: Not your boyfriend

M: Not your boyfriend, no because he’ll be just as –

K: They don’t care

H: They don’t care

M: He’ll just stretch the truth anyway to make you feel better, otherwise you’ll have to slap him.

K: To hurry you up. All they want is fast, buy it, buy it.

M: You know what from my experience mums always tell the truth, and people who you don’t really know very well. I think best friends sometimes stretch the truth as well because they don’t necessarily want you to look as good as they do. Am I just really mean?

H: Showing your true colours!

M: Well what I was going to say was we start a competition where we take the winners of the competition on the Tampax Compak website, on a shopping spree, and we are the idea people to go shopping with because

K: Maybe not Michelle because she won’t want you to look as good –

H: You’re actually going shopping?

M: Yes we’re going to take some people shopping

H: Great

M: So that’s going to be good

H: Puffballs, maxi dresses – you should definitely get them to try on a maxi dress, I hear they’re brilliant! And will you be honest, will you be honest?

M: I will, I will yes because they’re not my best mates they can look as good as they want because I don’t have to go out with them!

H: And how do they get involved with the competition?

M: They just have to call the Tampax Compak website, and all the details are on the website

H: Great, that sounds fab. I might enter! That’s below here by the way, the website address. I’m not allowed to enter am I?

M: No. We’ll take you shopping though if you want

H: Thanks

M: You don’t need it, you look gorgeous

K: You need to get some more skirts though

M: Yes

H: I literally own 2, 3 skirts – and one of them, sorry look away, is bright green with kind of sequins darted down the front

K: I think that sounds good

H: Oh really?

K: Yes it’s a bit like yours

S: Yes a bit like mine

H: No it’s nothing like yours

S: I like a bit of sparkle, I’m a little magpie

H: You like the sparkly bits. I feel ready to venture into the world – I love the skirt you’re wearing, it’s beautiful

J: Thank you

H: Very sophisticated, sophisticated. Goes very well with the shoes. I had to mention the shoes. They’re beautiful. Ok I’ve got another question here, this is from Cherie, and she says “my mum always complains that my skirts are too short and as I have really long legs for my age. I want to be able to wear the same skirts as my friends but they look like belts on me. Any advice Jessica?”

K: She’s lucky

J: Kelli just said she’s lucky, that is a good problem to –

K: Very lucky

J: Have. I’d probably just take my skirt in my bag and get changed once I’d left the house!

H: Naughty

J: I’m joking, I’m so joking. I’m so joking

H: I bet you did do that didn’t you?

J: No do you know what I haven’t – my mum’s quite cool, she’s really sort of – I don’t know, what’s the answer to that one? But if it covers your bum – how old is she?

M: If she’s like 16 going on 17 then you know, I mean get over it mum, but if she’s like 14 then listen to your mum, I wouldn’t let my 14 year old

J: No and it’s probably not a good look to be in something that looks like a belt unless you’re, like you say, 17, 18

K: It depends where she’s going, because sometimes skirts that short are just not that appropriate. If you’re going to the high street you don’t need to be wearing skirt that short, that’s that short, but if you know you’re going to a club, and like we said it’s not a case of cleavage as well, then it’s ok to show a bit of leg

H: Get a bit of leg out.

S: If you’re going out on a date though you have to be really careful because you don’t want to give it all away, and a micro micro belt skirt will actually give the wrong messages, you know, across, so you’ve got to be really careful otherwise he’s just going to want to take advantage of you if you know what I mean – unless you want that

K: My mum always says if you’re too young you don’t know what you’re advertising, and I think that’s really good, I think if you know what you’re advertising and you feel confident to do that, then go for it, but if you’re a bit young and you’re still at that age where you’re not sure and you don’t know what you’re doing yet, then I would say steer a bit clear, be careful

J: And there are other skirts that look fab, you don’t have to go for the mini or the micro or anything. Like you could, if she’s tall and leggy then like a pencil skirt or a tulip skirt would look fab, and they’re fashionable anyway so she doesn’t need to do the whole sort of flash the legs –

H: And you were saying about the leggings. Are ra ra skirts still in fashion?

K: Yes they’re cute

M: I wore a ra ra skirt last night, it was actually like an all in one dress / ra ra skirt thing, and it was cute

H: Gorgeous

M: They’re the best types of skirts when you’re going clubbing, because you can shake your bum in it and it looks really flirty and fun, and it doesn’t matter how short they are, it doesn’t actually look as slutty as if it was a big, tight belt, do you know what I mean?

K: And leggings are so in at the moment, so they’re a good compromise, if you’re not sure and you feel like it might be too short, then whack a pair of leggings. And you can get those half ones as well that are quite sexy

S: Especially if you’ve got your period, I mean you know with Tampax Compak, because they did with the survey, it’s just so sad that women have just put all their skirts in the back of the wardrobe, but what’s so great is I kind of feel like we’re making history here, to say to girls, you know what it’s totally cool to wear your skirt, it’s totally you know brilliant if you want to walk in and make a fantastic sort of like entrance. And wearing leggings is also like rally good because it means you can still wear your skirt and your leggings if you feel you know just not that confident, so you still look really minxy and really hot, you know?

H: It’s that bit of security. Ok we’re going to move on to Mandy now, Mandy asks “I’m only 4’ 10, and I wear lots of skirts, long, short, flowing, but is there a particular type of skirt that would make me look taller?” I like this one because I’m short

S: Well firstly I know it’s not a skirt, but always put high heels on because they magically elongate your legs and streamline your figure. It makes you look twice as tall. Wear – whatever you’re wearing on top, so let’s say you’re wearing pink on top or black on top, wear black on the bottom, because wearing one colour from head to toe will again make you look twice as tall. If you’re going to wear stripes, wear vertical stripes rather than horizontal stripes, because again magically elongates the leg, and wear something like the empire line dress that starts up here. Again it looks like your legs start from up here, so you’ll look twice as tall

H: I like that but I’ve got to say as a shorter female, I always get very frustrated about the heel thing, because sometimes I just don’t want to wear high heels, sometimes I want to go out for a nice afternoon in the pub, I don’t want to wear high heels and I want to wear flats but I always look in the mirror and think it’s wrong. Is there any skirt at all that you think we can get away with little pumps?

S: An A-line skirt is actually really good because they look kind of minxy but you have to be really careful that they don’t end on the biggest part of your leg, because it will actually make you look shorter and larger, so wherever your thinnest part of your legs starts, unless you say it’s here, because your calf muscles come out here, it has to end there, but if you feel maybe that it should end here it actually makes you feel taller, so all I’m trying to say is that it has to end, the skirt has to end at the part that’s the thinnest on your leg

H: Ok, well that’s good to know, that’s interesting.

S: Gypsy skirts are really good, long long gypsy skirts again are really good because you can sneak your, you can put high heels on with them, but also flat shoes look really good with them, but they really do elongate the leg as well

H: Yes I quite like my gypsy skirt, I get that out now and again

S: Or you just have to look like a little stump like I do

H: So stumpy – not buying that at all. Ok, Emma asks “I am the worst flirt” – Emma, you naughty girl – “and all my friends tease me about it. What flirting tips do you have?” And that’s for Michelle. I’m a bit scared!

M: Don’t be scared! Right I’m remembering what I was like at school right, so this is for like 18 year olds, you know below 18 – I always got in their eyeline. I’m not saying I was a stalker or anything, but like when we were at school dinners or whatever, I’d always make sure that I was in their eyeline and I’d make sure that I was noticed. Not necessarily being loud and boisterous, but I would make sure that I’d maybe laugh a bit louder than I usually would or play with my hair, or give them a little look, just something –

K: The shoulder

M: The shoulder

H: What?

K: It’s famous

H: Tell me, teach me?

M: Like that

H: Am I doing it? Am I working it?

M: Yes – yours is maybe a bit too hot, I think just a little smile

K: Bit cheeky – because you’re pouting

M: Yes don’t pout, just smile

H: Don’t pout, just smile. I’ll work on it

M: But if you’re in their eyeline, they see you more than a few times a day, then they’re going to notice you more. They’re going to think oh I’ve never really - maybe they’ve never noticed you before, but if you’re in their eyeline most of the time, and it’s in a positive way, then they’re going to notice you for the right reasons

H: You’re going to catch me and I’m standing on the street corner –

M: On the street corner

H: Ah, not really! I remember when I was at school, all those many moons ago, when it would be a real case of the boys would pick on the girls, and I wonder if there’s still a little bit of that going on where you tease each other, I think it’s quite often –

M: Yes I think when you’re younger I think there was, yes, I remember when I was about 10, 11 when you start to – not necessarily want to kiss boys, you just notice that they’re there and you notice that they’re not as ugly as you thought they were, that’s when you start to pick on boys or they pick on you and you notice whether you’re in for a chance later in life. Eleven years old is far too early

H: It’s far too early, but I still think it’s good to have a little bit of banter isn’t it in the old flirting?

K: Jessica’s the best flirt I’ve ever met

J: No

K: Yes you are

H: No!

K: She’ll pretend – look she’s all coy, that’s part of the master plan

H: Me?

M: She’ll talk to you and she’ll go, she’ll go really? Isn’t it?

K: Then she gets so embarrassed. Her voice changes if she’s talking to a boy she likes her voice changes and it goes down a tone – she goes “hi”

J: I don’t, I promise you I don’t know I’m doing it

M: Hi – I’m Jessica

J: Oh no the shame

H: Have we got any footies in here, I would like to see that, I would really like to witness that. Ok, save you from more embarrassment, we’ll move on. Chloe, who is a huge fan of Liberty X has written in because she has heard that you are splitting up. She wants to know what the future holds for all of you girls, and do you know what I want to know as well because I was a little bit upset when I heard this news.

M: Me too, I had to read it

H: What!

K: We fired Michelle and didn’t tell her!

H: So who wants to jump in here?

M: We –

K: I’ll say, shall I?

M: Go on

K: Yes we just decided not to record –

H: Oh, hold hands or something!

K: Yes we’re just not going to do any more recording together, we feel like we’ve had a great run – 6 ½ years is longer than we ever thought, I don’t know what we thought really but we just didn’t think we’d be here for 6 ½ years. We’ve had great times, and we’re just at that next stage of life, you know like –

H: I feel a bit emotional

K: Yes

H: It’s sad isn’t it?

M: It’s really difficult because the gigs that we’ve been doing lately – we’re still gigging by the way for the next couple of months – have been the best ever, we’ve had such a great reception from people, and people have been like proper singing our songs out loud and we’re singing them, we can’t even actually hear ourselves. It’s been such a great feeling, so we have been coming off stage thinking you know oh what if, but it’s just not right any more. I mean music’s moved on from where we were 6 years ago, and it’s all about the internet and it’s all about Lily Allen and the guitar based bands, and we just – we don’t know whether we would fit in today’s – what’s the word that I’m looking for?

K: Market place

M: Market place yes, and we feel that if we – we don’t want to flog a dead horse do you you know, and we’ve had such a good time, we’ve had great success and we feel like it’s the best time to call it a day now and go our separate ways

K: Leave with some pride and dignity

H: Exactly – some – I mean mentioning no names, but some people let it sort of pitter out and you’re not leaving on a high note so – you will be missed, but I’m sure they’ll be things happening will there?

M: Hopefully yes

K: Yes

H: Fingers crossed – let’s do that for the drama. Ok, Natalie asks – do you actually do that?

J: Yes we do

M: I mean everyone say X when we do gigs

K: When I wake up in the morning –

H: Natalie asks “what is the best chat up line you have heard and the worst. To all”

J: So many bad ones

H: So many. Go on darling, get your coat, you’ve pulled

K: That’s rubbish

M: Here’s 10p, ring your mum you’re not going home tonight

H: Beautiful
J: Are you tired because you’ve been running through my mind all day?

M: Really, really horrible ones

H: It’s quite amusing, it’s kind of a chat up line but not really, it’s more dissing someone, someone said to a girlfriend of mine another week “can I buy you a drink?” And she said actually I’d just rather have the money!

M: Brilliant

H: If there’s anyone that you’re not too keen on, just ask for the cash

M: Sounds very good

H: Chat-up lines are difficult though because I mean if someone’s very good at it you can fall for some really terrible – or is this just me?

M: I don’t know, I haven’t heard one good chat-up line, the only thing that works – or worked for me - is when they appear to be honest, like I’ve just got to say I think you’re really beautiful, or something like that, or do you know you’re the most gorgeous girl in this place?

K: Flattery always –

M: Flattery yes not like oh you’ve got a nice arse, not like that, just very polite

H: Not that skirt looks really great on you, really flattering for your figure, and I’m so glad you’re confident to wear it at this time of the month!

M: Yes, that’s a big no

H: Ok Molly, Molly asks “what is the worst date you have been on?”

J: Worst date –

H: Do you want to share?

J: Yes I went on a date with a model, he was gorgeous

M: Yes

J: But it was horrendous. It was horrendous

H: Not have a lot to say –

J: Just nothing to say, like nothing though, we were like eating though and it was just like, all I was thinking about was you could hear the knife and fork and you could hear the plates – I just could not wait to get out of there, I couldn’t wait

M: Was that the cycle –

J: I just wanted to stop phoning him, I just wanted to stop phoning him, I just wanted to cut him off and just not phone him again which is awful, and I think it’s terrible, but Kelli was like no, you have to dump him, you have to do it properly

H: I agree

K: Because he loved her, he loved her and if she’d never called him, I don’t know why because they obviously didn’t have anything in common, but he was talking about babies and things.

J: Shocking

H: On the first date?

J: That was like run a mile. Run

H: That’s what the – the mistakes that women make, surely –

J: So bizarre, such a bizarre person

H: Did he just sit there looking at you like that the whole time?

J: Yes, yes basically

H: I find it very uncomfortable eating in front of a very very good looking man I think that was a posey man – if he didn’t have a personality –

K: Well I’ve got to say, as far as dates go I think eating’s not really the best thing to do for the first date because so many things can go wrong, you know the whole food you know down the side –

M: Dribbling

K: Or on your clothes, the dribbling, or the spitting

M: The safest thing is definitely going to the cinema and maybe have a drink in the bar afterwards

H: Do you though because I think – I’m new to this dating thing, I’m new – just out of a very long relationship

M: Ah

H: And I’m thinking cinema, is it really a good option because then you can’t talk

M: It’s a safe option

K: For a first date it isn’t

M: It depends on how confident – if you’re not very confident and you really don’t know what to say to them and you’re really nervous, the cinema’s the best thing to do because you can feel if you’re at ease with a person just by getting of their –

K: If they laugh at the same bits

M: Yes exactly, and then go for a drink in a bar after

H: That’s true

K: That is it, that is the one thing because going for a drink afterwards means that you can talk about – you’ve got something to talk about because you’ve just watched the same movie, so it alleviates a little bit of that uncomfortable – oh what do you talk about, what do you talk about. You can always talk about the film

M: Yes, but there’s only so much you can talk about the film

K: For a bit

M: If you’re going on a date, write a few questions down – this is what I always – I’m very organised, I’d write a few questions down

H: Yes I know about your lists

M: Oh my goodness

H: We’ll talk about that

M: And then you kind of like you’ve got something in your head already prepared, just in case you do get that awkward moment

S: Most importantly what you have to do is say to your friend, best friend, phone me in an hour –

K: Totally

S: If I’m happy I’ll say I’m happy, if not I need to be called away on an emergency

M: Totally

H: Girls thank you so much, I feel so educated in the world of skirts and I’ve certainly – I’m going to go shopping and do some posing. To the rest of you, I really hope you’ve enjoyed it and you’ve learned about skirts a little bit more with us. Now listen, have a look on the website, do be sure to go onto that website and enter that competition, I would love to go shopping with you girls. Here’s the address for you, good luck to all of you, hope you win

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