A L’Oreal commercial featuring Penelope Cruz broke industry rules because the actress was wearing false eyelashes, the advertising watchdog has decreed.

The advert for the firm’s ‘Telescopic’ mascara claimed the product could make eyelashes “up to 60 per cent longer”.

According to the Advertising Standards Authority, however, the advert misled because it did not make clear Cruz was wearing some individual false lashes.

With the July 1st smoking ban looming large on the horizon no doubt many of you are thinking about stopping smoking.

Start by making your own decision to kick the habit, if you try to stop just to please someone else the chances are you will fail.

Tattoo’s originally come from ancient Egypt where wall paintings as old as 2000 BC have been suggesting the use of tattoos in the ancient Egyptian society.

They are an integral part of some religious groups where each person following the religion is required to have that tattoo mark on their body symbolizing the person authority as a group member.

This June sees the 10th Annual Everyman Male Cancer Awareness Month, the purpose of which is to help raise awareness of, and fund research into, prostate and testicular cancer.

Prostate cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the most common cancer in men, and the incidence of testicular cancer has increased dramatically – almost 4-fold in the last 50 years. And it’s not only men who need to take notice – women play a crucial role in encouraging loved ones to visit doctors and making sure the message is heard loud and clear.

New guidelines issued by the Department of Health say that women who are pregnant or wish to conceive should totally abstain from drinking alcoholic beverages, this replaces previous advice which recommended not more than one or two units of alcohol once or twice a week and to avoid getting drunk.