Day: August 27, 2012

Clarins’ new spring collection, Colour Breeze, floats into store

.Reading time 5 minutes.

Winter is almost in its moer (thank God!) and all the beauty houses are launching their spring/summer colour collections. Most are pastels or bluesy-focused as that’s what’s ‘on trend’ globally; Clarins’, however, draws inspirasie from both. Behold their new Colour Breeze 2012 collection: It consists of Clarins’ Instant Smooth line-correcting concentrate, a limited edition powder […]

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So I’m rocking mustard in a YOU magazine photospread

.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’ve been reading YOU magazine for what feels like forever. My gran used to buy it religiously and I loved getting stuck into the kiddie’s comic section. Later, I progressed to being fanatical about the Blockword and still can’t toss away a YOU without having filled in all their puzzle pages (except for the sodoku, ’cos, like, that’s for losers…) […]

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In defense of Clifton Shores

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Clifton Shores is a new ‘reality’ TV show set in Cape Town. It features a group of prominently American girls who travel all the way to slaapstadt to work for local entrepreneur Quinton van den Burgh. I got to meet a couple of them at a Peroni yacht party some time last year and thought they were […]

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