Ramblings of a rampant beauty editor…
Garnier Ambre Solaire Golden Protect is a new range of sun care products promising top-notch sun protection that complies with all those super confusing new sunscreen laws while enhancing your skin with a subtle shimmer. I was given their Medium SPF 20 lotion to try and loved that it didn’t feel ‘sunscreeny’ in the least thanks to a super light, easily […]
Read MoreLast year, the most gorgeous Christmas card I received by far was a paper ‘butterfly collection’ by Green Grass Design from Eye Candy’s Freda Isingoma. (Eye Candy, for those who don’t know, is a fab chain of eye and brow bars. I like to pop into the shop on Kloof Street to have my brows tinted and sometimes […]
Read MoreChappies bubblegum will always remind me of my childhood. My sister and I used to get a couple of Rands as pocket-money every Saturday and almost always blew it at the corner cafe on a diabetes-inducing sugar haul that always include grape Chappies (still the best flavour to date), Count Dracula sherbet, chewy apricot sweets and Perky Nana chocolate*. Anyway, to celebrate the fact that they’ve recently […]
Read MoreI occasionally cruise foreign beauty boards and stumbled across a number of chicas who were using St Tropez Brozing Mousse on their faces and raving about the results. They were thrilled because it looked super natural but nice and dark too. Fab, right? So! I thought I’d give it a bash myself but I’m not going to […]
Read MoreThis month Swarovski (yes, the jeweller) is launching a new fragrance; Aura by Swarovski: A soft fruity-floral, Swarovski’s intension was to create a multi-faceted jewel-like fragrance that you could wear like an invisible body crystal. They describe it as being a ‘prism’ with three distinct rays; a fruity one with notes of lychee, a floral one that features white tuberose and a spicy […]
Read MoreIf I had a rand for every person who asked me what they had to do to start a blog, I’d be able to buy an apartment in Bantry Bay. The answer, fortunately, is pretty simple. Sign in to WordPress and get writing. Ta da, you’re a blogger.Thing is, what most people are really asking […]
Read MoreThe other day I was invited to a fancy little crayfish braai hosted by Toby Scheckter, he of Scheckter’s Organic energy drink. As it was a hideously hot (but beautiful!) afternoon, getting to sip Scheckter’s-infused cocktails under a pool/beach-side marquee was kind of like the best thing ever. .. Anyway, for those of you who […]
Read MoreIf you’re an Arden fan, keep your eyes on the counter next week; the brand’s going to introduce their new, sleeker-looking skin care line up to SA. You’ll find they’ve dropped a few products, kept everyone’s favourites, improved certain formulas and consolidated everything into one easy to use regime-focused skin care range called Visible Difference. […]
Read MoreThe L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate. In a word: Wow! As I type, my head’s still pounding from yesterday’s bubbly and I may never regain the feeling in my toes, but boy was it all so worth it. The LQP is still one of the best and most glamorous ways to kick off the Cape Town fashion calendar. ‘Cos that’s what it’s all about, right? I […]
Read MoreSo remember how I told you that Avon sent me a bunch of goodies the other day? I’ve already raved about their awesome Avon Glow bronzing pearls in a previous post, it was pretty much the stand out product of the bunch. Still, there were other li’l darlings that impressed and I thought I’d fill […]
Read MoreI’m going to be straight with you; The Met is for drunken plebbs. It’s where you go when you want to watch semi naked student boys rocking red and yellow body paint throw up all over the grass after crushing a can of Black Label on their heads. It is not glam. In fact, it’s […]
Read MoreSo let’s just lay it out there; I’m obsessed with Batiste dry shampoo. Obsessed! I always have a mini can in my bag and a stockpile of the big boys in my bathroom cabinet. For a girl with super fine hair that needs washing once a day, it’s a freakin’ lifesaver. In fact, I don’t […]
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Lipgloss is my Life 