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My lifelong beauty wishlist: 25 coveted products
I have been watching The Victorian Pharmacy on SBS recently: a period documentary that brings the lotions and potions and cure-alls of the burgeoning pharmacy industry in Victorian England back to life through a ‘training’ program that sees a trio of modern-day adults learning the fine details of the trade as it was practiced back […]
Packing for a tropical holiday
April 11, 2011
I love packing for a trip, and my recent sojourn to Bali, Indonesia was no exception. I think I love packing so much because it allows me to feel excited and to dream in a childishly happy way, and the tangible act of preparing and packing takes me that little bit closer to the actual […]
Four things I love
January 30, 2011
MV Organic Skincare Rose Plus Skin Booster. If you are a fan of my Facebook page you will know already that I am in love with this truly gorgeous product. The scent is divine: a rich, old-world, heady rose, and even though I have oily skin this has not broken me out or put little […]
Pre and Post-Surgery Pampering
October 31, 2010
As many of my lovely beauties would know I had surgery recently to remove a large skin cancer via skin graft: thus I have two rather sizeable and ugly wounds, on my chest and my thigh. A week after surgery I had the stitches removed. And by ‘stitches’ I actually mean large metal staples, which […]
Holiday Beauty: what I actually used
September 7, 2010
Beauties, hello again! I am still über excited about my recent trip – to San Francisco, central California coast, Long Island (Montauk) and of course New York, New York. So excited in fact that I have had blog blindness – too excited to blog about any one detail because I want to blurt everything out […]
Products which make me feel beautiful part 1
March 8, 2010
So I was hesitant to have a series like this because I do not want to promote consumerism and superficiality in beauty (seriously) but I cannot resist talking about my favourite beauty products .. because I love them so and in their own small, perfect ways they do make me feel beautiful. 1. Chanel Inimitable […]
July 15, 2011
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