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Not-fast-fashion: my latest opshop charity store haul
Read more: Not-fast-fashion: my latest opshop charity store haulNot-fast-fashion: here’s my latest op shop charity store haul. Readers will know of my love of op-shopping for an affordable fashion hit. I also believe it’s good for the environment to recycle and re-love some pre-loved items. In this story, I’ve used a black sleeveless dropped-waist dress as the base to appear in many of…
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Online shopping: my picks of the January Sales from NZ Designers
Read more: Online shopping: my picks of the January Sales from NZ DesignersSort: Low to high! That’s what I’ve been doing, on a mission to bring the cheap goodness to you, dear reader. Here are my personal picks of great deals that are on now on the interwebs with New Zealand fashion design on sale. I am saving for my trip to Japan but there’s no reason…
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Best of Beauty – Editor’s Picks for 2014
Read more: Best of Beauty – Editor’s Picks for 2014Sorry this is a bit late – as I’ve been on holiday – but when I asked on Twitter as to whether you’d like to see my “Best of Beauty Awards” Editor’s Picks for 2014, all the responses said “yes”, so here it is; better late than never. These are my personal products that I…
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Selling Old Fashion Essentials To Buy New Ones
Read more: Selling Old Fashion Essentials To Buy New OnesIt’s not a bad idea to sell your old clothes, bags, shoes or jewellery to help free up some cash. Sure, style changes from year to year, but you likely have some basic essentials that held value and are in good shape, but just don’t get used often. The sell-and-buy model allows you to unload…
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Streetstyle in K Road by Photographer Fabricio Veltri
Read more: Streetstyle in K Road by Photographer Fabricio VeltriPhotographer Fabricio Veltri shot streetstyle in Karangahape Road for Thread, capturing looks on passers-by that caught his eye. We weren’t looking for the latest fashion – but people who had their own individual style. Fabricio is a photographer from Argentina, who has come to Auckland “in search of new experiences”. “The first years since I…
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Baylis & Harding has arrived in New Zealand
Read more: Baylis & Harding has arrived in New ZealandI have great news if you’re buying gifts and are on a budget but still want really cute and fun presents for the family- the British brand Baylis & Harding that many of you will know from travel to England, is finally available in New Zealand and will be stocked at The Warehouse here. Affordable,…
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CYBELE 10-day Store in Ponsonby
Read more: CYBELE 10-day Store in PonsonbyCYBELE is holding a 10-day store in Ponsonby from tomorrow, Friday October 31 to Sunday November 9th open daily 10 – 6pm. It will also be the launch of a new jewellery collaboration with emerging Jeweller Niki White, pictured above. The 10 day store will feature new summer stock, limited edition garments, sale items, clothing,…
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Bargain Beauty – new summer makeup from Designer Brands
Read more: Bargain Beauty – new summer makeup from Designer BrandsIn this latest Bargain Beauty column, we look at new summer makeup from Designer Brands – a cosmetics brand that’s incredibly well-priced. I hadn’t been aware of this brand until recently, and I was sent these new summer season products to try out and have a play with. I’m impressed with the look and how…
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Hydro power
Read more: Hydro powerWe 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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Pretty in Pink
Read more: Pretty in PinkPretty 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…