shopping
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What cleanser is right for you?
Read more: What cleanser is right for you?It’s my belief that the kind of cleanser you use, tells a lot about you. Are you low-maintenance or high? Do you like to wash-off your makeup with water, or do you like a milky formula? Are you busy at night and just can’t wait to hit the pillow and don’t want to muck about…
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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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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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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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Get Un.Tangled with Kevin.Murphy
Read more: Get Un.Tangled with Kevin.MurphyNow THIS sounds like it will be on high rotation in my house. The new leave-in detangler and conditioner by Kevin.Murphy is a miracle-worker that detangles, smoothes, refines, treats and protects. My daughter is a bit of a Rapunzel and when I saw this was called Un.Tangled, I immediately thought of Tangled, so I shot it…
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ON MY DESK – Food & Drink in August 2015
Read more: ON MY DESK – Food & Drink in August 2015This ON MY DESK column stars some of the memorable food and drink releases to cross my path in August 2015… It’s the intersection set of fashion and wine aka my happy place. Limited edition Brancott Estate wines in World of Wearable Art Awards bottles for 2015 are available 1st September for $17.29 each. If…
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INDUSTRY NEWS August 2015
Read more: INDUSTRY NEWS August 2015News in the New Zealand fashion and beauty industry in our latest INDUSTRY NEWS column, for August 2015, featuring KILT, Glassons and Otago Polytechnic, Elizabeth Arden, ObjectSpace, NZ Fashion Week, Marr Factory, and Heroes and Villains jewellery… KILT opens New Zealand factory NZ fashion brand Kilt (www.kilt.co.nz) is opening their own NZ made factory! That’s right…
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Sheer Delight: Dermalogica releases new Sheer Tint SPF20
Read more: Sheer Delight: Dermalogica releases new Sheer Tint SPF20This little beauty is a hardworker. Dermalogica Sheer Tint is better than ever with a silkier and smoother texture in the tinted moisturiser with skin health advantages with hero ingredient, Hydrolyzed Pearl Powder. Better than your average BB cream, Sheer Tint crosses over from makeup to skincare with the skin health benefits. Pearl power “Hydrolyzed Pearl Powder is rich…