I love having gorgeous scents wafting through my home – from gorgeous candles to some of my favourite essential oil blends in a vapouriser. This week’s online shopping find profile features a store that you …
Future beauty: what you’ll be buying very soon
I’ve just read a humorous post over at Beautyholics Anonymous and I’m still laughing as most days I do so many of points that Tine mentioned. Admittedly I’m not as hard core a beauty bloggers as …
I have found my new happy place
We floated back into the chaos that had become our typical holiday afternoon. The collective dads and kids were hanging out around the barbecue. The kids were noisy, the beers had been cracked and the …
Blogopolis 2011 #nnb2011: the clothes, the Tweets and the lippy
Today I have Post Blogging Conference Depression (PBCD). To be honest, it came on the minute the plane hit the tarmac last night as I returned home from Nuffnang’s Blogopolis. Symptoms presented thus far include: …
5 clever tricks Zoe Foster just taught me
It’s true. You can teach an old beauty dog new tricks. I’ve been studying Zoe’s new book, Amazing Face (Viking $39.99), for about a month now. And by studying, I mean obsessing. I’ve stalked followed …
Ausblogcon2011: The outfits
Long before we descended in ol’ Sydney town for the Aussie Bloggers Conference last weekend, talk had turned to the omgwhatamigoingtowear question. Can I just say everyone radiated with a high degree of fabulousity*? I …
Fragrant ghosts of Christmases past
The year is 1976. My brothers and I are spending our annual holiday with mum at the Gold Coast. The air is thick with salt, sweat and pre-Christmas excitement. This is a Gold Coast before the very glam …
Nail a manicure that lasts … so loving CND Shellac right now
I am not good with nail care. It’s my grooming weakness. I try to blame that on my heavy keyboard technique developed back in the dark ages. {I’m sooo ancient that I actually learnt to type on a …
A Carefree life … or just 30 minutes … I wish
This is the story of my attempt late on Saturday afternoon to steal a quiet 30 minutes to myself. With the emphasis being on quiet. And the hope that I’d actually get 60. It’s a scenario played …
Spring/summer ’10 Napoleon Perdis makeup – from catwalk to you
Catwalk makeup is meant to be dramatic, to have a sense of the theatrical. Afterall, if we’re sitting down to watch a fashion festival parade, then we’re looking for a show, to be entertained. The …
Oh, Mamma Mia! I’m dreaming of a Greek Island escape
Despite the haze of jetlag that comes from a 30-hour flight, I still vividly remember the moment I stepped off an airport transfer bus at our villa accommodation at Oia on the Greek Island of …
Your makeup shouldn’t be serious … but it should include Benefit(s)
Fans of San Francisco makeup company Benefit will need no introduction to this beauty brand that has been seducing fans all around the world for the past 30 years. The brand has grown from one …