Last week I hit up the Cosmo Lingerie party held at the Upper Eastside Hotel in Woodstock. I nearly didn’t make it ‘cos I was riddled with flu and had limbs that felt like heavy sacks of cement, but I klapped a few Corenza’s and dragged myself off to the show. Still, I’m sooo glad I pulled it […]

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Earlier today, Giatjie and I popped into the Look & Feel Good expo. It was a fun way to spend the morning and we enjoyed browsing over 200 stalls that focused on health, beauty and wellness. The Ponds peeps had a HUGE display. It was there that we got a sample of their new spot-corrector, Flawless Radiance […]

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Last week I got invited to have tea at The Cellars Hohenhort hotel with The Body Shop’s international make-up artist Karim Sattar. Despite having worked for big deal glossies like Vogue and prettied up Oscar-winning actresses that he won’t name, Karim’s a superfriendly down-to-earth sweetheart. After a quick meet and greet, we got stuck into the most sinfully […]

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I have two mad (yet awesome) aunts who’ve both fought breast cancer and won, so the battle against the big C is a bit of a ‘thing’ for me. Still, despite all this, I’m far too pathethic and riddled with insecurities to shave off my hair as a show of support. I’m definitely not as brave as they are. On the upside, […]

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The other day I got invited to Clicks’ spring beauty launch. I just looove going to Clicks functions ‘cos they always put out an awesome spread (think mini cupcakes and smoked salmon sarmies) and send you home with a regte sak of beauty booty. Seriously. Like they literally filled a Revlon beach bag with enough spoilage […]

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Sikkeling with dark spots? Ponds’ Flawless Radiance collection promises to help lighten them up thanks to a vitamin B3/niacinamide complex. (Interestingly, vitamin B3 can also help treat acne ‘cos it’s a good anti-inflammatory… ) Anyhoo, I haven’t tried the Flawless Radiance range, so I can’t tell you whether it works or not, but I do know […]

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The  other day I had lunch with the lovely ladies from Cosmetiques de France and got up close and personal with their magnifique beauty brands; some very new to SA like Nuxe and Erborian, (which is actually from Korea), as well as those we know and love – like Bourjois, Bioderma and Uriage. Naturally macaroons were involved (oui! oui!), but I most enjoyed the […]

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Looking for something to do with your girlfriends? Want to score points with the mother-in-law? Head on down to the Style Society’s High Style event taking place at the Nitida wine estate in Durbanville on Saturday, the 17th. (Yes, yes… its a bit of a schlep to get out there if you’re a city girl like me, but this […]

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The other day I get sent two new products from ModelCo, an Aussie brand exclusive to selected Edgars, Red Square and Dis-Chem stores. They’ve been rather innovative in the self-tan arena for a while and where one of the very first lines to produce a ‘tan in a can’. Anyway, Kirsty, their PR peep, told me I’d […]

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Today I got treated to a yummy lunch at Sevruga with the ridiculously gorgeous Renate, she of le ‘Madonna arms’, who just so happens to be the distributor for !QMS and Acquizhen. For those who don’t know, Acquizhen is a fairly new organic skin care brand. I wrote a little review on it a few months back when I was working […]

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If you didn’t know, Dr. Brandt is a big deal dermatologist in the states who treats even bigger deal celebs like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow.  Anyway, the doc who says he performs more Botox and filler injections than any other dermatologist in the world has his own skincare line which is now available in South […]

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