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

The Beauty Pages

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

Foodari

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

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.

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.

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.

Queens Of Vintage

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

ChrissyIley.com

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

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.

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..

Running In Heels

Running in Heels is a pan-European site for women “with brains as well as style,” offering intelligent news and commentary on culture, politics, society, fashion and everything in between.

Tipped

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

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.

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.

Fashion Net

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

Hardens

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

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

Basenotes

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

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…

Londonist

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

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.

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

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…

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.

Urban Path

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

Kickette

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

Handpicked Blogs

Cafe Bebe

Cafe Bebe reviews the latest baby and toddler products to provide you with valuable opinions on everything you need for your child, with interesting observations on the differences between life in the US and life in the UK.

Maternal Tales From the South Coast

‘Maternal Tales’ as she is known, draws on her experience as a former Television scriptwriter to deliver a damn good tale, again and again

Sticky Fingers

I was spending too much time on a motorway and not enough time with my babies. I now work from home with a child hanging off each leg.

Stylejunkee

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

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).

Domestic Sluttery

The home and lifestyle blog for women who have better things to do. Written by women who cook, decorate and design without giving up their lives

Mizz Worthy

Nurse by day - Beauty addict by night! I aim to share my purchases and review any products I get on here and I’ll try to give some feedback which might help other people

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?

Beauty Junkie London

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

Rosie Scribble

Rosie Scribble is the parenting blog of a 30-something single mum juggling work, rest, play and a six-year-old child. Rosie is a freelance writer living in the Midlands.

Get Lippie

Makeup obsessed accountant, with a sideline in personal shopping. Specialises in makeovers, organic product reviews and testing stuff till it squeaks.

Cult Beauty

Cult Beauty is a new kind of online beauty boutique and e-zine, retailing only the best in beauty and grooming products and writing agenda-setting editorial and beauty news.

40 Not Out

Forty Not Out is about navigating life part two in high heels. It’s more than about being a mum and mostly about the shoes…. and the shopping!

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.

MummyTips

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

The Leg Room

Beauty Editor of The Telegraph. The subject I can tell you more about than anything else is legs and my blog is dedicated to showing you how to control it and maximise your assets.

Disneyrollergirl

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

London Make Up Girl

A thirty-something London girl with a bordering on obsessive love of all things cosmetic. I am mostly interested in the smaller unusual brands and more natural skin and hair products

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’.

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.

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.

British Beauty Blogger

I’m a UK beauty journalist, beauty book author and beauty buyer. True beauty news, views & opinion from an industry insider…

Lollipop26

A full-time beauty obsessive whose love for cosmetics knows no bounds. I make videos on youtube, under the moniker lollipop26, and my blog is an extension of this passion…

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…

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!