New Zealand fashion and lifestyle blog

2014

  • We love: ghd Aura for perfectly polished hair

    We love: ghd Aura for perfectly polished hair

    We love: ghd Aura for perfectly polished hair. This latest hairdryer from the fabulous research laboratories at ghd is a groundbreaker in terms of lightness, quietness, coolness and hi-techness. We love it, but just what makes the ghd Aura so special? What is its point of difference, you ask? Aside from being goodlooking, it has…

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  • Hydro power

    Hydro power

    We try: Neutrogena’s beautifully clean-and-fresh feeling moisturising range, Hydro Boost. This range  actually came to to me at the end of winter, and it felt apt – a clean, fresh start that looked and felt like Spring was coming. The range has a very light and refreshing feeling but this lightness belies the fact that…

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  • Outfit Post: navy cape I sewed, Highnoontea Jumpsuit

    Outfit Post: navy cape I sewed, Highnoontea Jumpsuit

    In this outfit post I feature something old (me. Joking, my shoes), something new (sunglasses), something borrowed (the husband’s camera) and something blue (navy cape). As I’ve been to the hairdressers today I thought I’d do an outfit post while I still had nice hair. The importance of Nice Hair in ‘what I wore’ posts…

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  • Pretty in Pink

    Pretty in Pink

    Pretty in Pink: Products we’re loving! Fat2FitNZ Coffee scrub is something that – like glitter in my daughter’s kindy artwork – is really messy but has great benefits if you can ignore the mess and clean up. Like glitter, coffee scrubs in general go literally everywhere in the shower, and like glitter it gives you…

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  • Latest fashion industry news this week

    Latest fashion industry news this week

    Here’s some of the latest fashion industry news this week, including RUBY x GATTOBRAVO, Deadly Ponies new store, Zambesi and NOMd at the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival, Luna & Co sleepwear shorts, Kardashion shoes in Hannah’s, WHERENEXT app, Penney + Bennett textile designs, and All On KRoad Fashion Thursdays on this week… RUBY x GATTOBRAVO…

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  • Karen Walker Garden People at New York Fashion Week

    Karen Walker Garden People at New York Fashion Week

    Karen Walker Garden People at New York Fashion Week September 2014 By Rebecca Priestley on location in NYC Garden People Karen Walker was back at Pier 59 studios in New York City today to showcase the earthy and floral Garden People SS15 collection. The sophisticated, yet elegantly tailored pieces showcased Karen Walker’s take on Britain’s…

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  • I’m loving: a blowdry using Moroccanoil

    I’m loving: a blowdry using Moroccanoil

    I’m at Lily & Louis PR Showroom today with the fabulous Violet of Moroccanoil for a blowdry and style. Moroccanoil is already loved for its miracle-working Argan-oil hair products that turn frizz into fab. But you may not know quite how many products are in its stable – including shampoo and conditioner containing an extract…

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  • The week on Thread: 4

    The week on Thread: 4

    Some highlights of the week on Thread: 4 including Planes Fire and Rescue, Mexico menu launch, Sealord cooking school, Max fashions summer launch, Cirque du Soleil TOTEM with Olay, Chef on DVD, Benefit cosmetics party for Shaaanxo, Ostro for Father’s Day, and my own Disney Frozen party… Sealord cooking school Sealord invited us along to…

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  • We try: Lasting Beauty anti-aging skincare by The Herb Farm

    We try: Lasting Beauty anti-aging skincare by The Herb Farm

    Beauty blogger Morgan Sassworth reviews the Lasting Beauty 100% natural anti-aging skincare range by The Herb Farm… Skincare is a major part of my life It would only be a slight exaggeration to say a good twenty percent of my home life is spent applying skincare. The past few years have seen the natural skincare…

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  • 14 Days with Trilogy Natural Skincare

    14 Days with Trilogy Natural Skincare

    Our reviewer Simonne Walmsley is a sensitive type, so we got her to try 14 Days with Trilogy Natural Skincare…   The sensitive type Skincare and I have bad history.  I have very sensitive skin and any search for new products can be a minefield.  One year, nearly a decade ago, I gradually worked my…

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