Elizabeth Arden’s new spring colour collection, New York in Bloom, recently hit the shelves and its definitely one of their prettiest yet. As the name suggests, it was inspired by the big apple in spring time and features bloom-covered packaging and pretty powders embossed with petals. Item-wise, you’re looking an Eye Shadow Trio in Violet […]

Come Wine With Us (CWWU) is a series of fun, themed get togethers that always involve vino and run by PR Sybil Doms. Last month’s event was called Beauty, Bubbly and Baking and took place in the V&A market on the wharf. Sybil was kind enough to invite myself and blogger bestie Karisa to join […]

Shiseido have added a new foundation to their line up called Sheer and Perfect, R430. The brand’s lightest foundation yet, Sheer and Perfect feels fabulously weightless on your skin and offers the kind of coverage you could easily refer to as ‘natural’ or ‘your skin but better’. It’s also got a few CC Cream-like tricks […]

For a while now, I’ve been rocking a giant rose gold faux Michael Kors that I picked up at Cotton On. While I love it to bits, it’s starting to show a bit of wear of tear and rose gold is soon going to be a bit of a dunzo trend (if it isn’t already) […]

For those who aren’t daily readers,  J. C. Le Roux asked me to compete with other bloggers to create an online campaign to promote their new non-alcoholic bubbly, La Fleurette. I then asked that my readers (you guys!) help me out by sending me piccies to match the mood board they’d sent me – think […]

Heard about Make A Difference Foundation Charity (MAD?) I attended the Glamouraid charity ball the other day and MAD was one of the beneficiaries. They’re a non-profit organisation founded by rugby star Francois Pienaar and aims to give gifted underprivileged scholars a better education. Since 2010, Estee Lauder’s worked together with MAD via their Foundation for the Nation (FFTN) programme. It sees R10 of […]

The other day myself and a bunch of fellow ‘beauties’ got invited to a spolicious day of pampering at Equinox day spa in the Cape Royale Luxury hotel. Upon arrival, we got to change into big, fluffy gowns and then got led out to the deck where an array of gourmet goodies had been laid out to […]

Swish sushi restaurant Koi (which also exists in Jozi) has recently opened its doors at the Ambassador hotel in Bantry Bay, taking over the spot where Salt used to be. It’s been open for a while but last week celebrated its official opening with a launch party. While cocktails flowed freely from the bar, guests got to try plate after never-ending […]

So Nederberg was kind enough to send me a bottle of their Winemasters Reserve Cab Sav (a 2011, nogal) as a li’l something to sip to while watching the final of MasterChef. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to catch that as I had to hit up a launch in Jozi but I did see a rerun the […]

Earlier this morning, @Misstoffoli (Hey Caterina!) asked me what my top three skin care products where on twitter and I replied that I loved Botox, RoC retinol serum, Environ’s AHA gel* and Proactiv Dark Mark Corrector with hydroquinone. As Proactiv (and all hydroquinone products) are available OTC in South Africa, I buy it via eBay and the […]

For those of you a little out of the loop, J C Le Roux sent me a bottle of their new La Fleurette non-alcoholic bubbly and told me I was now in ‘a competition’ against nine other bloggers to see who could create the best campaign to promote their product on the net. They even […]