2015
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Perfect your salon colour
Read more: Perfect your salon colourOf course your hair looks great as you walk out of the hairsalon…and maybe the next few days. But after a couple of washes, does your colour start to change? Did you know you need to protect your colour using colour-specific haircare at home? One of the great recent releases by L’Oreal Professionnel is the…
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The Herb Farm’s beautiful makeover
Read more: The Herb Farm’s beautiful makeoverThe Herb Farm’s makeover with beautiful new packaging is just gorgeous! It’s all made at their herb farm in Palmerston North New Zealand and is cruelty-free and a sustainable business… The range pictured is their dry skin range formulated using rosehip oil. The new packaging features hand-drawn herb illustrations by a New Zealand artist and copper…
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Kronenbourg 1664 – a fashionable drop
Read more: Kronenbourg 1664 – a fashionable dropMerci, Kronenbourg 1664, for this incredible hamper to celebrate being the official beer of NZ Fashion Week! Not only that, the French premium beer is also a partner of one of my favourite New Zealand fashion labels, Stolen Girlfriends Club, who are showing their AW16 collection in the St James Theatre this year and it…
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ON MY DESK – Beauty and Skincare August 2015
Read more: ON MY DESK – Beauty and Skincare August 2015In my August edition of ON MY DESK I take a look at highlights in new releases in the worlds of beauty, makeup and skincare that have crossed my path lately, including Antipodes, MAC, Garnier, The Aromatherapy Company, Essie, Neutrogena, Estee Lauder, and Rimmel London. I also threw in an Instagram pic of one of my…
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MAC makeup at Kate Sylvester at Marr Factory 2015
Read more: MAC makeup at Kate Sylvester at Marr Factory 2015Makeup and fashion go hand-in-hand like a model carrying a smoke wand. Like WHAT?!” you ask – well that was what happened at Sunday night’s Marr Factory show fro Kate Sylvester’s in-sseaon SS15/16 collection down at Golden Dawn. Models bearing pink smoke wands strode the runway in the standing room only bar with Nineties neo-grunge…
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INDUSTRY NEWS August 2015
Read more: INDUSTRY NEWS August 2015This is the week between Marr Factory and NZ Fashion Week. It’s basically the equivalent of the days between Christmas and New year; you’ve had fun, you’re waiting for more fun, and it’s like time stands still in this no-mans-land. Okay it’s not quite the same, but nevertheless this week’s industry news column is all…
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Kate Sylvester smokin’ hot at Marr Factory 2015
Read more: Kate Sylvester smokin’ hot at Marr Factory 2015Kate Sylvester showed a (literally) smokin’ hot show at Marr Factory 2015 tonight with smoke wand-bearing models styled by Katherine Lowe of KatherineIsAwesome blog, sporting “just kissed Johnny Depp” hair by Matt Benns of Stephen Marr and makeup by MAC artist Kiekie Stanners. Pink smoke filled the Golden Dawn pub on Ponsonby Road for the last…
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The Week on Thread: Episode 18
Read more: The Week on Thread: Episode 18The week on Thread Episode 18 covers highlights of my week in photos, including fashion and food. If you’d like to follow me up-to-the-minute on Instagram, it’s at @ThreadNZ First up, I thought I’d share with you what my workstation looks like. It always has tea and I’m trying to drink more water everyday from my…
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MAC makeup looks at Karen Walker at Marr Factory 2015
Read more: MAC makeup looks at Karen Walker at Marr Factory 2015Following on from the feminist icons of the suffragettes from last collection, Karen Walker again nods to strong women with a collection inspired by actress Joanna Lumley in Sapphire and Steel. Designer Karen Walker says as a young girl she “watched in awe” the 1970s time-travelling crime-fighting detective series, and realised that “functional and strong…
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MAC makeup looks at the Nom*D show at Marr Factory 2015
Read more: MAC makeup looks at the Nom*D show at Marr Factory 2015Check out the stunning beauty by MAC and the incredibly clever key artist Kiekie Stanner’s facechart from last night’s Nom*D show at Marr Factory. DESIGNER: Nom*D KEY MAKEUP ARTIST: Kiekie Stanners, M.A.C Senior Artist INSPIRATION: Music icon Nico from the Velvet Underground’s slept in eye makeup. KEY PRODUCTS: Face: M.A.C Face and Body Foundation with M.A.C…