Ramblings of a rampant beauty editor…
If you’re a regular reader you’ll know I often bang on about hyaluronic acid. Something that occurs naturally in your skin, its one of the best hydrators on the block as it can attract and hold up to a thousand times its own weight in water. While we’re born with lots of it, we start […]
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A little while back a company called Mini-Me got in touch offering to help me create a li’l Lego version of myself so I took them up on it. Creating a teensy Lipglossgirl turned out to be super duper easy. All I had to do was visit their site and pick out my bits – […]
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Ready for a shameless plug? My friend Lee-Anne van den Berg* has always been a talented meisie and her gorgeous stationary and gifting company, Fox & Heroine is a testament to her creativity. You might have spotted her stuff in selected stores around the country but now she’s hit the interwebs so you can snap […]
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So Revlon do this thing where, when they drop off a press pack, they want their promo girl to take a photo of you holding it to ensure that it got to you. I have no clue why they do this, but hey. Still, there couldn’t have been a worse time for their latest delivery. […]
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Ah, peel-off masks! I used to love these guys in high school. My besties and I would buy them in cheap ass single dose sachets, slap them on to an Alanis Morrissette soundtrack and then have fun picking off the bits while debating super important stuff like ‘who’s hotter – Pacey or Jordan Catalano’. (For […]
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If you live in Cape Town and like a good jol changes are you’ll know all about DJ Rene ‘The Frenchman’ Tanguy. Dude’s been getting the party started at HQ for ages, blaring the beats with a mix of live drumming. After a short break, he’s now back to help get your ass out of […]
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You’ve probably heard of mesotherapy, right? For those who haven’t, it’s a cosmetic procedure that involves injecting a cocktail of active ingredients into the transdermal layer of your skin, using multiple teeny tiny needle pricks. The results you can expect depend on the ingredients you use. As an example, hyaluronic acid will hydrate and plump, […]
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Rooiberg Winery sent me a bottle of their award-winning Red Muscadel. If you didn’t know, muscadel is actually a sweet, dessert-style red – the kind of thing you could drink on crushed ice and pairs beautifully with warm desserts topped with vanilla ice cream or a very good dark choccie. I, however, am a strange […]
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Morgan Taylor’s winter collection, The Great Ice-Scape, has arrived on SA shores. It features six new (mostly) cool-toned shades (R149 each) inspired by figure skating. I was given two to play with – the frosty copper that is Ice Queen Anyone? and Lace ‘Em Up, a dark navy creme. While Ice Queen Anyone? doesn’t really […]
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Having a little sister who lives in France (between Lille and St Tropez) is pretty awesome because I’ve got to spend a bit of time that side and it’s a wonderful place to visit. The last time I was in Paris I got to see the Eiffel tower, watch the Lido, hang out in Salvador […]
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NYX Professional Makeup (yep, they’ve changed their name to something longer) have launched a new palette called Love Contours All (R354,95, Clicks). The nice and heavy-feeling mirrored case contains two highlighters (gold and silvery pink), two contour shades (light and dark) and two brow powders (light and very dark) along with nine eye shadows. Keen […]
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When the PR for Little Eskimo first got in touch, asking if I’d review their ice masks I wasn’t all that excited. (Sorry Jonathan!) I kind of thought that if I really wanted to ice my face I’d just wrap up some ice and get jiggy with that. But nobody really does that. It’s awkward […]
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Lipgloss is my Life 