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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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The anti-ageing truth is out – One Truth 818 Serum
Read more: The anti-ageing truth is out – One Truth 818 SerumI’m using this serum morning and night and no other products, to see how much it improves my skin. I am really excited to see the results, after hearing firsthand from Nobel Prize-winning Telomere biologist Dr. Bill Andrews PhD and his team at Sierra Sciences. It took 11 years of research and a $33 million…
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Trilogy Age-Proof is better than ever
Read more: Trilogy Age-Proof is better than everTrilogy has re-launched Age-Proof with a powerful new botanical blend, Glycablend, and a great new campaign starring its beautiful customers who embrace the wisdom that comes with age. The tagline for the ad campaign, starring real customers who responded to their email asking for faces who use and love it, is “What I know now…
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Comedy Fest NZ 2015 Review: “EastEnd Cabaret”
Read more: Comedy Fest NZ 2015 Review: “EastEnd Cabaret”“EastEnd Cabaret” Tuesday 12 May @ 7.15pm @ Q Theatre Everyone, even the most prudish amongst us, deep down, past the facades of sensibility and topics-you-can’t-talk-about-in-polite-company, sits the desire to be teased and titillated, just a little bit. Occasionally, we want to laugh, and we want to feel naughty about what we’re laughing at. Sometimes,…
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Film Review: life imitates art in ‘Gemma Bovery’
Read more: Film Review: life imitates art in ‘Gemma Bovery’Based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, “Gemma Bovery” follows Charlie Bovery and his wife, the titular Gemma, as they move from London to a small village near Rouen, in the north of France. There, they meet Martin (the baker), Valérie (the baker’s wife), Wizzy and Rankin (the insufferable bores), and Hervé (the young,…
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NZ Comedy Fest Review: Get It Girl
Read more: NZ Comedy Fest Review: Get It GirlWe review NZ Comedy Fest show Get It Girl It’s much harder to be insightful and funny than people realise. It’s not simply sufficient to have a different perspective on life, or to be able to turn a witty phrase – and it’s certainly not sufficient to be able to act the goat on stage. Comedy…
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A Comedy Festival favourite, the Big Show 2015
Read more: A Comedy Festival favourite, the Big Show 2015THE BIG SHOW A Comedy Festival favourite, the Big Show in 2015 features four comedians from the UK – the Andrew Watts, Nish Kumar, Joel Dommett, and Lloyd Langford. Held in the Concert Chamber at the Town Hall (which they’ve renamed “the Comedy Chamber” for the next few weeks – I see what you did…
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NZ Comedy Fest 2015: THE GREEN EFFECT with Brendon Green
Read more: NZ Comedy Fest 2015: THE GREEN EFFECT with Brendon GreenHosted by New Zealand comedian Brendon Green, this show is a variation upon the ubiquitous panel show. Green is the host, and his dream is to have some sort of phenomenon named after himself – just as we have the Heimlich manoeuvre, or Boyle’s law, or Alzheimer’s syndrome, so too he wants us to have…
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NZ Comedy Fest 2015 Review: Neel Kolhatkar
Read more: NZ Comedy Fest 2015 Review: Neel KolhatkarNeel Kolhatkar is a young and new Australian comedian. Stand-up comedy is a difficult gig to break into – you’ve got to be fresh, and interesting, and possibly a bit edgy, and most of all you’ve got to be funny. It also helps if your jokes are unique. Neel Kolhatkar has got a lot of…
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Still Life: an absolute gem of a film
Read more: Still Life: an absolute gem of a filmStill Life is an absolute gem of a film, says Michael Tarry. Read our review here… Death is a natural part of life – the only certainty we have, apart from taxes. We’re all going to die. We’re all going to shuffle off our mortal coils eventually. The only questions are when, and how, and…