MELANIE Chisholm looks perfectly polished as she smiles for the camera before Wednesday's live performance at HMV in London's Oxford Street.

Her wiry bleached locks have grown out and been transformed into a dark, glossy mane. The tracksuit she sported in her Spice Girls days was binned in favour of a stylish black and deep blue, satin-trimmed suit jacket and her perfect make-up would make any beauty editor proud.

Having endured a huge amount of criticism from the press in her time, it looks like Mel C's solo career is now back on track and any thoughts of the Spice Girls reuniting seem unlikely as the singer claimed: "I'd rather kill myself."

Funny, that's how most of the public feel about the Spice Girls reunion, too.