Kia-Elise Green

Manchester

Features Writer at The i Paper

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Why you're showering all wrong: The nine biggest mistakes

5 days ago | inews.co.uk | Kia-Elise Green

Believe it or not, even something as simple as taking a shower and cleaning your face has rules. Washing doesn’t need to be a 10-step, two-hour mission, but there are ways and means to ensure you’re not drying out skin – and not ignoring the areas that need it most. The i Paper asked dermatologists the mistakes people are making when it comes to cleaning their bodies and faces.
At 22, I've got agonising back pain - from years of looking at my phone

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Kia-Elise Green

When I first saw a chiropractor, I was 13 years old. She told me I had multiple muscle imbalances from using my dominant right side more than my left, and a super tight neck from looking down too much. Of course, as a teenager in the digital world, what I’d been looking down at is my phone. In the nine years that have followed I’ve spent hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds seeing different physiotherapists and chiropractors to sort out my back pain.
I dressed like a millennial for a week (and worried people thought I was in my 30s)

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Kia-Elise Green

There are many debates between Gen Z and millennials but the intergenerational warfare reaches its peak when it comes to socks. Put simply: if you still wear ankle socks, you’re most definitely a millennial. If you’ve evolved into covering your ankles, wearing proper-length socks no matter what shoes you have on, then you’re a Gen Z. It comes down to more than just socks though. Fashion choices in general continue to divide the young from the (according to TikTok) old.
I'm partially paralysed but was denied PIP after I drove to the appointment

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Kia-Elise Green

When Amelia Peckham went to an assessment to receive personal independence payments (PIP) from the Government, she didn’t think it’d be a problem for her to meet the criteria. She is partially paralysed from the waist down, cannot walk without aid, and has issues with her bladder and bowel. When she received a 40-page document outlining why she didn’t need support, she was devastated.
My mum rejects my ADHD diagnosis - she says it's my excuse for being lazy

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Kia-Elise Green

When Amanda* told her mother last year she’d been diagnosed with ADHD aged 48, her mother’s response was that she was just lazy; that doctors will hand out a diagnosis to anyone who wants one. But for Amanda the diagnosis was confirmation of a lifelong sense that she was ‘different’. As a baby she never slept. As a child she was always hyperactive. “I didn’t function like everyone else,” she says. “At school I was always feeling like I didn’t belong. I was painfully shy and floated between groups.
I bought a £500 coffee machine to save money - but now I spend £2.4k a year on it

4 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Kia-Elise Green

Brits have always been known for our love of a good cuppa. But apparently that is no longer the case, as coffee is now the favourite hot drink of 37 per cent of under 35s (Gen Z and Millennials) with tea only taking the top spot for 25 per cent, according to new research. That is no surprise to me – as a coffee addict I’m drinking two to three cups a day, and spending hours looking at the best way to make it, as well as driving to my nearest independent shop to queue for my caffeine fix.
I'm 56 and divorced - I have no pension and fear I'll never retire

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Kia-Elise Green

Lisa Mckenzie grew up on a council estate and was the first in her family to go to university. She worked hard at school, and while at uni volunteered at a homeless hostel, convinced she was destines for a better life. She even completed a PhD and is now a university lecturer – but, at 56, McKenzie says her salary is stretched to the limit and she struggles to make ends meet. She has no savings or pension and is “terrified” about the years to come.
My £1,000 all-inclusive learn-to-ski holiday in notoriously expensive Norway was a joy

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Kia-Elise Green

At the end of my first day skiing, I peeled off two pairs of socks to find that my feet were exactly how I thought they would be – battered and sore. Still, I’d had visions of being at the bottom of a mountain, alone and unable to get up. So, I was taking this as a win. I was in Beitostølen, a village on Valdresflye mountain in eastern Norway, finding my ski legs on a Crystal Ski Holidays Slope Starters programme.
My brother stole a phone - 13 years on, he's still in prison

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Kia-Elise Green

Last week Clara White got a call to tell her that her brother had attempted to break his own legs and smashed his own face on the floor. Her brother, Thomas, is 42. He was arrested and jailed in 2012 for stealing a phone. Over a decade later he’s still in prison, unsure when he’ll be released.
I would not have had fillers at 19 were it not for social media

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Kia-Elise Green

When people turn 18, they usually can’t wait to order a drink at a bar or go to a nightclub. But what I’d been waiting for was an appointment to change my face. Since I was a young teen – around 13 – I planned to have lip filler as soon as I possibly could. My lips were uneven and small (with hindsight, they probably just looked like the lips of a child) but they were worlds apart from what I was seeing every day online. I’d grown up with social media.