So I’ve been wearing prescriptive glasses since the age of 11 as I’m quite short-sighted and since that age, I’ve always had to stick to a certain style of lens; one that would suit my round face. That was until the age of 16 when I became obsessed with novelty sunglasses and prescriptive lenses that […]

Earlier this year, Mavala launched the That’s My Colour campaign in which the public were encouraged to post photos to all means of social media, including Instagram, Facebook and Twitter using the #ThatsMyColour tag and featuring images of colours that they’d like to see launched as a Mavala nail polish. Fast forward a few months […]

Now, I normally don’t tend to splurge on the good stuff unless it’s been on my wishlist for years or I’m in the mood for being a bit fancy (these moments are few and far between). The latter was one of these moments recently as I glided towards the YSL counter at House of Fraser, […]

I don’t know what it is about short hair that makes me want to experiment more with makeup. This time, I thought I thought that I’d bring out my ‘inner vamp’ with the help of a couple of items from Bare Minerals’ Marvelous Moxie collection; notably ‘Live Large’ lipstick and the ‘Electrified’ liner, both a […]

Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noel, Frohe Weihnachten, Feliz Natal and Merry Christmas to you all! I hope everybody had a lovely time spent with friends and family eating and just generally being merry. I don’t normally put the slap on come Xmas, but this year I thought I may as well as I wanted to play […]

Ever since I watched the famous ‘staircase’ scene from the movie ‘The Little Colonel’ featuring Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson and Shirley Temple, I have wanted a pair of shiny, black brogues to call my own. Even though brogues aren’t exactly tap shoes, they are close enough to what I wanted and I’ve finally been able to […]