Ramblings of a rampant beauty editor…
Hey girls Clicks’s beauty sale ends on the 16th, so you’ve got 9 days left to shop for your stock pile. I’m thrilled to see you can get any two Jessica nail polishes for a mere R120,00 You can also save R10 on Nivea self-tan and R20 on John Frieda shampoos and condtioners. See you […]
Read MoreThis New Year’s eve, my mate Al decided to throw a big-ass house party with a Circus Freak theme. More than a hundred peeps rocked up, including a few gate crashers. (Luckily, we had a giant squid with a guest list working the door). Naturally, I decided to go as a ring master. But of […]
Read MoreOooh! I’m so excited! Vincent from Crabtree & Evelyn just mailed me to let me know that their big sale starts tomorrow (the 6th of Jan)! Expect 50% off all their festive and Rosewater body care as well as those awesome HUGE 500ml value size shampoos, conditioners, bubble baths and body lotion. Last year, I […]
Read MoreOooh, so I found the print ad of the new Jimmy Choo fragrance online. It stars the company’s co-founder, Brit millionaire Tamara Mellon. Now tell me, are Ms. Mellon’s hands just, like, super-tiny, or is that not the biggest bottle you’ve ever seen? Jislaaik. Reckon if I like the scent, I’ll buy it and keep […]
Read MoreOMG! I just spotted the eye shadows from MAC’s upcoming Jeanious collection and am now having heart palpitations. Look, look, look! Could make-up get any prettier?!! I want them all, yet don’t think I could ever bring myself to use one. I’ve just tweeted Brigid Shipalana, the person I most envy in this world MAC’s […]
Read MoreThe other day, Sonia Potgieter, operations manager for Eyecandy in Kloof Street, got in touch to offer me a ‘brow experience’ that involved ‘threading’. Naturally, I was super excited. I’d read so much about le fine art of threading and love to try new things… but a part of me was tres terrified too! A couple of years ago I’d gotten my brows […]
Read MoreI’m crazy about perfume and every year I like to take a squizz at the fragrance blogs to see what new and exciting scents are due to hit the shelves. To take a sneak peek at just a few new fragrances you can look forward to sniffing in 2011, check out this list on Now Smell This. Celebs bringing out EDT’s this year include Taylor […]
Read MoreHey girls! Thanks to everyone who entered my L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate competition. This morning, I painstakingly wrote out all your names on bits of paper and had a colleague pull out two lucky winners – Cecilia Barron and Rozitta de Villiers! (Funnily enough, Cecilia actually happens to work with me here at Jupiter. Can’t tell […]
Read MoreThis is just too good not to share… Popped into Blonde, one of Beluga’s sister restaurants, for dinner last night. They’re running a fab special that sees you score a cool 25% off your bill from Tuesday to Saturday and 50% off on a Sunday until the end of Jan. This includes drinky-poohs too, FYI… […]
Read MoreDon’t you love snapping up an el cheap-o impulse beauty buy that turns out to be a total winner? The other day, I popped into the back end of the Clicks cosmetics sale at the V&A. Pretty much everything decent was sold out, but I did that whole ‘let me buy just one thing anyway, […]
Read MoreWant to clean up nice for the New Year? Pop on down to le fancy pants Suntra spa at 15 on Orange in town. They’re running a rad special – for just 700 buckaroos, you can pick any THREE of the following treatments; a 50 min massage, Guinot or Dermalogica facial, scalp therapy, reflexology, body […]
Read MorePopped into an interesting Camps Bay house party the other day. A bunch of millionaire dudes from Europe and the States are down for season and have rented a few ‘mansion huise‘ in the hills so as to throw fab private pool partyjies. I’ve always found these skops to be loads of fun – even when the 500-buck a bottle wine is served […]
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