I love a good face mask, especially the fresh masks from Lush because they always make my skin feel so lovely! When I was in store and Abby told me that they now have a self preserving version of Mask of Magnaminty, I knew I had to give it a go because I’m always terrible at using my fresh ones up in time. View Post
December 1999: Blonde hair, bare midriff and bad brows
I was a teenager in the 90’s when thin eyebrows were in. I’ve been looking through my photo albums and the thinner the better, it seems – a few of my friends shaved theirs off and drew them back on with liquid eyeliner (something I was never game to try) but mostly we all had our brows plucked super thin. Fast forward some 15-odd years and I’ve realised that I shouldn’t have ever tried to jump on the brow trend wagon. Thin eyebrows look fine on some people but a thicker natural brow looks much nicer on me.
I’ve spent the last five years or so in brow rehab, trying to grow them back into a normal shape and restore them to their former glory, before I got all heavy-handed with the tweezers.
I’m trying to undo years of bad brow shaping and overplucking that have left my brows too short and quite sparse. I fill them in with pencil or powder in an attempt to hide my brow sins, but there’s a point where a gal needs a bit more help.
Welcome to brow rehab. View Post
I’d been thinking about wanting to expand my jewellery collection (you know, to include more pieces that I actually wear), when I started talking to Sheree, an old high school friend of my boyfriend. As luck would have it, she happens to make jewellery (fortuitous timing, don’t you think?) under the label Polly Collective. And it is beautiful. View Post
Christmas is my favourite time of year at Lush, because all of my favourite scents come out to play. I got to have a sneak peek at what will be hitting the shelves at Lush stores this Christmas and I wanted to give you a look at my Lush lust list – the delicious treats that have caught my eye – so that you can plan what you would like to pick up (or pop on your wish list) when these goodies hit stores on 8th October. View Post
When it comes to makeup, I think I’m pretty blunt about the fact that I don’t have killer makeup skills. I like to keep it minimal, and my go to style is more of a no makeup makeup look than when I’m going for a full face look. I only use a few products to give me a look that is polished but not overdone – I switch out my full coverage foundation for a tinted moisturiser, swap my lipstick for a more subtle one and just generally tone everything down a bit.