Girls Aloud serve us a whole lotta history, fashion fails and beauty wins

It's tricky.

That's tough. That's true.

The Brits?

Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe the Brits.

That was a really special time.

I feel like we'd worked really hard for a lot of years.

Like the single had been number one.

The album had been number one. Yeah.

The tour was sold out.

We won a Brit.

It was just, it felt like everything had been building

and then that night was

a big like moment for us. It all came together.

And everything came together.

So I think maybe that one.

Yeah.

I think the best thing you learn over the years

is that less can be more.

There's often times where I look back at things

and I can see myself, caked.

When I really did not need to be caked.

Build rather than slap loads on at once.

Just being in a band is actually

such a massive support

that you maybe don't fully appreciate at the time.

But then you do, like when you're away from it.

If you're having a bad day,

throw it onto a couple of the other girls for that day.

You know, if you're not really feeling

in the mood for something.

You kind of all like,

share the load. You're just not

out there on your own. Yeah.

I think we tried so many looks.

Unfortunately for us, they have stuck around.

People can just find them anywhere.

We had this really adventurous stylist in our second video

when we'd done No Good Advice.

Please do not bring this up. Don't show it again.

It's just scarred enough people, including ourselves.

But we all wore silver tin foil basically esque.

And at the time we thought we looked great.

And we were so new to it.

So when somebody told us,

this is like so London, Yeah.

This is so cool.

We were like, okay, yeah.

When someone says we're gonna wear head to toe silver.

We were like oh okay,

yeah we are. Bring it on

Good hair.

Honestly, I think you can get away with not much,

let alone no makeup if you've got a nice hairdo.

And Nicola decided to tell me earlier that

I've got the wildest hair of all of us, untamed.

I remember staying over one night,

we'd been somewhere and woke up in the morning

and I was thinking, what have you done in the night?

How have you woke up with your hair like this?

You must sleep really like in your pillow or something.

But good hair. A good blowout, and I'm happier.

I really enjoy the Wow product, actually.

Have you tried

the Dream Coat? Yeah.

I use it on mine as well.

And the the volume. The volume mousse.

Yeah. It's so good.

With the flex style.

Yeah. Yeah.

Just like the heat. Together.

And that together.

What you see in my little bouffant that I've got on today.

Your little bouff.

I feel like the one thing that probably myself

and most of my female friends have in their makeup bag

and have had for the past 20 years

is the Benefit Hoola.

I've still got it. [Kimberley laughs]

I've still got it.

It lasts forever.

How does it last that long? I still have it.

You can literally like

make yourself have a face with a Hoola.

I need to get one of these.

I don't have one. Yeah, they're good.

When you're on a band, it's difficult.

You know, each of us always has our own say.

There's, you know, we've never been one of those bands.

When other bands say that they're

just told what to do. Yeah, that's true.

You're kind of pushed in directions.

That never happened for us.

And I don't think we've ever really understood that

with other artists that that have that.

Yeah.

So there's always that.

So as much as we each, you know,

everything's kind of for the better of the group.

We do have our own individual, individual voices

Maybe to be in the moment in my present self,

so that I don't look back when I'm older going,

oh, I wasn't quite there Yeah, that's a good one.

And I maybe wasn't happy or I didn't feel myself.

I think trying to be as authentic

to who you are in the moment.

Saying what you want, saying what you don't want.

I feel like in a group there's a lot of compromise

because you're doing everything for the greater of the band.

So I guess it's about finding the balance.

So that when you get to like your sixties, seventies,

you look back and go, I was still who I was.

Because I think in my younger self I definitely was not.

So this time around for me it's like

I am making sure that I'm doing that for myself.