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Thread 2015 Best of Beauty Awards
Read more: Thread 2015 Best of Beauty AwardsDrum roll please for these much-loved and oft-lauded beauty products. Welcome to my end-of-year Editor’s Picks summary known as the Thread 2015 Best of Beauty Awards. I’ve been doing this column for a few years now; you can read the past columns for 2012, 2013, and 2014. Like I’ve said before, I adore trying new products.…
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ON MY DESK – new in Beauty November 2015
Read more: ON MY DESK – new in Beauty November 2015ON MY DESK – new in Beauty November 2015 featuring what’s new across my path in the worlds of beauty and skincare. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights… MAC MAGIC OF THE NIGHT The name “Magic of the Night’ actually keeps having me hum “Music of the Night” from Phantom of the…
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MACnificent Me makeover collection
Read more: MACnificent Me makeover collectionDespite being somewhat of a tongue twister – and making me say “Maleficent” at LEAST twice – the new MACnificent Me makeover collection from MAC featuring six inspiring people who were chosen from a thousand entrants, is simply magnificent. The public from selected countries around the world (Australia was one, but sadly not New Zealand)…
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New from MAC – Studio WaterWeight and Vamplify
Read more: New from MAC – Studio WaterWeight and VamplifyNew from MAC this month come two exciting new products that are quite fresh and unique in their fields, namely, Studio WaterWeight foundation, and Vamplify lipglosses. WaterWeight is unique in that it’s an elastic gel serum formula, meaning fluid and thin formulation that blurs imperfections. Vamplify lipglosses are also a hot new product, as they…
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Backstage with MAC at ZAMBESI AW16
Read more: Backstage with MAC at ZAMBESI AW16We were lucky enough to get backstage passes and hang out in the rarified, model-filled air of backstage with MAC for the ZAMBESI AW16 show at New Zealand Fashion Week 2015. The MAC lead artist, Kiekie Stanners, was talking their team of makeup artists through the look and my fantastic photographer Anupam Singh and I…
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MAC makeup for ITZME and Julian Danger at NZFW 2015
Read more: MAC makeup for ITZME and Julian Danger at NZFW 2015I totally enjoyed both of these shows. The first, ITZME, was a fun and youthful collection and this was followed by Julian Danger’s sleek and chic looks that were very polished and mature in design. Great work by both brands. DESIGNER: ITZME KEY MAKEUP ARTIST: Samantha Holley INSPIRATION: ‘Feminine with a daring edge’ KEY PRODUCTS:…
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MAC makeup at Harman Grubisa at NZ Fashion Week 2015
Read more: MAC makeup at Harman Grubisa at NZ Fashion Week 2015The Harman Grubisa show was beautiful beautiful beautiful! The styling, the clothes – all just divine. The Autumn Winter ’16 collection, entitled DAKOTA, is the label’s fourth season. Dakota takes its name from a famous apartment block in New York’s Upper West Side that has been home to leading ladies including Lauren Bacall and Roberta Flack.…
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Kate Sylvester “a Muse” at NZ Fashion Week 2015
Read more: Kate Sylvester “a Muse” at NZ Fashion Week 2015The Mercedes-Benz Presents Kate Sylvester show “a Muse” at NZ Fashion Week 2015 ended the first amazing day at this year’s fashion week with her AW16 collection against a stage set of abstract art depicting the three muses. Kate Sylvester is always one of the leading labels I get excited about seeing each year. Last year, her…
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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…