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Model, 28, who tried to steal £1,000 worth of designer goods from Harrods is let off with a slap on the wrists after a magistrate said she was a woman of ‘considerable talents’
A model who tried to steal £1,000 worth of designer goods from Harrods was let off with a slap on the wrist after a magistrate said she was a woman of ‘considerable talents’.
Natalia Sikorska, 28, a business management student, attempted to make off with a Markus Lupfer jacket, a pair of Claudie Pierlot shoes, a Pinko handbag and the silver knife on 5 July.
But the Chelsea resident was stopped before she left the Knightsbridge, London, store with the haul worth £959.59.
After she admitted theft Westminster Magistrate Grant McCrostie gave the Polish model and actress, who has recently moved to Britain, a conditional discharge for 12 months.
He said: ‘You are a newcomer to this country, you are a student with a place at university.
‘You are obviously a woman of considerable talents, you are obviously intelligent.
Mr McCrostie said if Sikorska, who is currently studying business management and economics at the University of Westminster, stays out of trouble for that period she will not face any further punishment.
Continuing he sentencing, he added: ‘Taking goods from any store, including Harrods is wrong.
‘Your future has been put at risk by these actions.
‘Because of the fact that you pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and you do have a potentially bright future, we will deal with this more leniently than we should have.
‘It will be a conditional discharge for a period of 12 months.’
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Does Wearing Lipstick Make You Smarter? Harvard Study Seems To Think So
You know that wise, old saying “boys are from Jupiter cause they’re more stupider.” Well perhaps they’re stupid because they’re from Jupiter or perhaps it’s because they’re not wearing lipstick.
If you’re like my boyfriend, chances are if I’m wearing anything on my lips that’s not Chapstick I’m not getting any kisses. It’s like I have the plague.
But those tables may be turning as a new Harvard study found that those who wear makeup can feel smarter, and can lead to better grades.
Skeptical? Let’s see the results.
According to researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of Chieti, Italy the ‘lipstick effect’ is a psychological phenomenon in which wearing cosmetics can make an individual feel a sense of overall enhancement in self-esteem, attitude, and personality. And according to the research, it was discovered that female students who wear makeup cognitively benefit from this phenomenon.
The effect of makeup even proved to be a better predictor for higher grades than mood boosters like listening to positive music.
In the study, the team sorted 186 female undergraduate students into groups and gave them a simulated multiple choice university examination about general psychology.
Prior, the groups undertook different mood-influencing tasks, including listening to a ‘positive music excerpt,’ coloring a drawing of a human face and applying makeup.
The researchers – led by Rocco Palumbo, a Cognitive Neuroscience PhD at Harvard Medical School – hypothesized the makeup group would experience the greatest lift in positive feelings and therefore outperform the other two groups on the test.
“In line with our predictions, we found a significant effect of make-up on a multiple-choice test performance, with scores being significantly higher compared to those obtained after listening to positive music and coloring a face,” the researchers wrote in an academic paper published in Cogent Psychology.
Of course, many people find this to be sexist and untrue, and a perpetuating stigmatization of the gender bias. What do you think?
