Beauty

Sometimes, whether it’s a lazy Sunday morning heading out for brunch, or when i’ve snoozed my alarm one too many times, I like to keep my make-up routine super minimal, rocking the very basics to look a little more human. Here are the essentials I like to use to look …

I’m often a little here, there and everywhere and for the last few years of my life, that’s just how it has been! A definite pro of that is that I am pretty sassy when it comes to packing, especially my beauty bag which I currently haul to and from …

I’m often told that my sense of smell is pretty acute, Adam says it’s resemblant of a blood hound and I have to say, that’s not always a good thing – Don’t get me started on telling you about that time my good friend Wout and I were passing through …

Beauty products I’ve been loving in the month of April… Hair: I am quite fickle when it comes to the ‘cheapy’ shampoo and conditioner I have on rotation in my shower. I like to save my SHOW Beauty ‘Sublime’ duo and my AVEDA ‘Shampure’ set for special occasions and then …

I never feel ‘fully dressed’ without a pop of colour on my lips. There are four different shades that I am currently coveting and all of which are unique in formulation an pigment. I am normally a through and through traditional lipstick kind of girl however, I have recently been …

When it comes to applying really great make-up, it’s all in tools! I must admit, for a long time I was one of those girls who would apply blusher with a glittery handled, coarse bristled brush. I probably got it free with some make-up from a shop such as ‘The …

It’s taken me a good few years to start singing on the same hymn sheet as those who wax lyrical about blush. As someone who has a face filled with plenty of natural redness as it is, I couldn’t see the need to add fuel to the fire. That was …

When I was a child, I had large, rounded eyes which you can see in this picture I uploaded to Instagram on Mother’s Day. As I have gotten older and my face has changed and matured, my eyes have become hooded and teeny tiny. I barely have an eye-lid and …

I have to admit, I was suckered by the seriously satisfying apothecary-esc packaging, the blogger hype and a sample I was given to try when wandering by the Kiehl’s counter a little while ago. Yep, I have succumbed to the blogger-sphere and added the Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate to my …