Handpicked Media
The Independent Lifestyle Network

Handpicked Media

Handpicked Media is the first network of independent websites with a focus on the publishers. The network has an audience reach of Beauty, Style, Entertainment, Food, Art and Culture. Handpicked Media champions sites that are creative and unique with high quality content offered throughout the network.

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Handpicked Sites

Movie Muser

Launched in May 2009, presenting the best in news, reviews and content on cinema, DVDs and Blu-ray, the site also gives users the ability to host their own blogs and interact with other users…

The Beauty Bit

The Beauty Bit is all the best beauty bits from cult website Beautyandthedirt.com and more. Retail links for hot beauty picks and over 100 interviews with iconic Beauty Experts..

ChrissyIley.com

ChrissyIley.com features all the archived celebrity interviews by ‘Celebrity Interviewer of the Year’ Chrissy Iley.

Londonist

Londonist celebrates London and everything that happens in it. That means news, reviews and events; the history and future of London

Urban Path

Urbanpath is a guide to nice things in London, such as bars, restaurants, shops, hotels, spas and more.

Beauty And The Dirt

A female lifestyle site featuring the best in beauty, fashion and entertainment. Mimi is your glamorous host and gives you the inside scoop on everything you need to know.

TheGoodWebGuide.co.uk

TheGoodWebGuide.co.uk is the definitive guide to the best sites on the internet, taking the slog and guesswork out of finding what is great about life online

Tipped

London Reviews, London Top Restaurants, Pubs, Shopping, Nightlife, Services and More.

Foodari

Foodari is the food social network where food lovers can create an online kitchen to manage their culinary lives.

Local Food Advisor

LocalFoodAdvisor.com is the UK’s number one local food website, attracting a high proportion of young, ethical, female, foodie visitors who are interested in living more sustainably and healthily.

Basenotes

Since Basenotes’ launch in August 2000, we have grown to become the largest fragrance information resource on the internet

International Life

The interactive luxury lifestyle channel. Hunt down the latest trends every day at internationallife.tv - a hand-picked selection of the very best of everything in London and around the world.

The Other Side Magazine

It’s the year of the indie mag and The Other Side is leading the charge. Produced by a team of exceptional writers, illustrators and designers we have our finger firmly on the pulse of what London needs.

Watch With Mothers

Watch With Mothers is a TV news, review and preview site with a dedicated readership and some fiercely intense debate in the comments section, from a truly devoted readership…

Kickette

The authority for football gossip, hot players and the WAGs who love them

Hardens

Harden’s Restaurant Guides are the longest- established pocket guide to London restaurants.

The Chic Geek

The ChicGeek.co.uk aims to be the best and most definitive online men’s style site around. I want you to feel that everything we cover is done in an inclusive and approachable manner.

The Beauty Pages

The-Beauty-Pages.com is a stylish website entirely dedicated to beauty.

Queens Of Vintage

QueensOfVintage.com is the world’s first daily global glossy magazine for vintage lovers

Open Magazine

Open Magazine bridges the high arts with the best of popular culture. With features, exclusive interviews, reviews and events Open is a cultural salon with a keen eye on trends and talent, whilst keeping relevant and accessible.

Official London Theatre Guide

The Society of London Theatre is a trade body for the London theatre industry. The official site gives the latest news of all the shows happening in London

Fashion Net

Launched in 1995, Fashion Net is the leading search engine and guide to all things chic

MumsRock

MumsRock is an edgy online glossy for independently-minded mums and dads, because there is life after birth. Perfect for parents who seek a work/life balance, and want to have a laugh finding it.

Greenmystyle

Greenmystyle.com is the UK’s leading daily eco glossy magazine.

Nonstopmama

Nonstopmama is a daily blog and site for on-the-go mamas. It features beauty, fashion, fitness, homes and celebrity interviews in a glossy, at-a-glance format.

Handpicked Blogs

The Beautiful And Glammed

Beautiful And Glammed fashion mag interns who spend our days *ahem* running in heels at a top fashion glossy,

MummyTips

A blog for the truly modern mother. An evolving story of love, life, family, work, ups, downs, loves and hates.

Disneyrollergirl

Observations and opinions on fashion, lifestyle trends and popular culture from an anonymous fashion insider

Notes From Inside My Head

At the respective ages of 49 and 40, my husband (the frog) and I, two sane adults who had never before given a single thought to becoming parents, decided we ‘may as well give it a go’.

Beauty Bombshells

Think red lipstick, arched eyebrows, perfect black liner and luminous skin. Platinum blonde hair, wavy red curls, impeccable bobs. The products that achieve that bombshell look, how to do it and how to carry it off.

Fashion Bite

As the high street suffers, the online world booms and fashionbite will bring you all the latest news, products and goss in the online fashion/beauty world

English Mum

I used to work from home testing and developing recipes for a food magazine, but they didn’t pay me, so now I mainly loll around moaning and drinking wine

Hot Cross Mum

Hot Cross Mum offers an honest, frank and humorous insight into the domestic rollercoaster of life as a Stay At Home Mum to two young boys. Recently listed in the Independent Top 50 Parenting Websites and Blogs…

Bangs and A Bun

Think of it as the friend who always tells it like it is. The go to site for your daily dose of humour about fashion, music, relationships and the things that matter (to people who spend way too much time on the internet).

Beauty Woo Me

Beauty Woo Me is a travelogue and beauty blog that follows a beauty editor as she travels around the world, picking up local beauty finds, tips and news in corresponding, far-flung locations worldwide.

Bringing Up Charlie

Bringing up Charlie charts the progress of a stay-at-home Dad as his wife goes back to work leaving him holding the baby and changing the nappies

Baby Baby

Sandy Calico writes the blog Baby Baby about life with her husband Andy and two sons, born within a year of each other. The rest of the time she eats a lot of biscuits (when she’s got a hand free to do so).

MsMarmitelover

MsMarmitelover is a blogger and chef, her food blog is one of the top food blogs in the UK. She is also the pioneer of the supperclub home restaurant movement in the Uk with The Underground Restaurant

The Beauty Edit

With over 20 years in the beauty industry, I’m going to share some of the beauty secrets I’ve picked up along the way with you, introduce you to industry insiders and let you in on the latest launches.

Ape to Gentleman

Ape to Gentleman is a Male Grooming blog dedicated to help you evolve from ape (not to be taken literally) to a well groomed modern day gent.

Amyantoinette.com

A 23 year old graduate who loves big hair, high heels and mini dresses. This is my place for all things girly and pretty.

Dulwich Divorcee

A fortysomething mother of two blunders through the legal system, Dulwich Park and life, in search of True Love.

Make Up to Make Out

Life and times of a make-up whore. Mission:To never let you buy a disappointing product ever again! I’ll try before you buy!

It’s a Mummy’s Life

My life as working mum; baby sick on my top and a laptop in my nappy bag…

The Fat Club

Blog for eclectic music loving party people with an ear for a fresh sounds and eye for contemporary upfront cultural recommendations.

Product Placement

My blog is a bit of chat and a bit of testing. Probably more chat than testing, but you’d get bored otherwise. I’m always completely impartial. Otherwise, what’s the point?

Stylejunkee

StyleJunkee is a one-stop style haven for the sophisticated and the glamorous.

Beauty Junkie London

Beautyjunkielondon is a blog about beauty products, treatments, make-up and basically all things girly.

Are We Nearly There Yet Mummy?

I am Laura, mother of two (boy aged 3 and girl aged 5) and stepmother to 1 (aged 14). This blog charts my journey through motherhood, the longest journey I’ve ever taken.

Cherie City

Cherie City is a guide to all the strange and exciting things to be found when you step off the main streets of Europe’s coolest cities.