To be honest, I would rather forget about May. Between the disappointments, doctors offices, heartache and hospital stays it was a pretty rubbish month. But I’m all about silver linings at the moment and what better way to make myself feel better about the month of...
It feels like the mid-year slump is hitting us early this year (or is it just me?) which makes every weekday seem a bit more blah than usual. The darker mornings are not helping either. When it comes to hating life because of a bad day, I am the champion! Not even...
Eeeek, I have been AWOL for the past two weeks and I have been feeling terrible about it! But then I reminded myself why I started this blog – as something to enjoy and love and as a creative outlet. I didn’t start it to be regimented or to feel “deadline...
A happy hello to all of you, people of the internet. So my wife has asked me to review a product that she recently purchased for me called Ambrosia, a shaving cream from LUSH. I am not entirely certain whether she bought this for me out of care, love and concern or...
If I was told that I could only take one make-up product with me to a desert island, it would have to be mascara. With my super blonde, basically see-through lashes, mascara is my saving grace. I've always been a Mac Zoom Lash girl but after my last tube finished I...
If you were baking a cake, would you mix all the ingredients together, pour it into the cake tin and then hope for the best? Never! Or if you bought a new car, would you drive around not ever filling up with petrol and pray that you won’t break down on the freeway? Of...
I have always had the firm belief that the quality of our skin is determined not only by what we apply topically but also by our diet. If we eat a Big Mac three times a week, we can’t really expect to have perfectly healthy, glowing, blemish free skin - unless...
I love having gel on my nails and I've had them done consistently for 2 years without any complaints. I’m lucky enough to not have oily nail beds and so I haven’t found a brand of gel that doesn't last on my nails for less than 4 weeks. Anyway, last week when my plane...
The skin can be so confusing, sometimes it feels like it has a mind of its own and can become super frustrating. I was a skincare therapist for a good few years and so I thought I would try to decode a few things. Oily skins should still use a moisturiser! Even though...
This past Saturday I attended the Dermalogica consumer day at their concept store in The Zone, Rosebank. It was such a great afternoon learning about their new high performance products and being spoilt with an incredible microzone treatment. Dermalogica is a...
Those of you who have been avid followers of Mascara & Mimosas will remember a little while back I did a post listing all my beauty bucket list products. Well, you can only imagine my excitement when I actually got to try number one on my list – the Thalgo Prodige...
We all have different budgets and sometimes, some months are a bit tighter financially than other months. But that’s no reason for our skin care routine to suffer. I’ve put together a bit of a list of products to suit everyone's budget and still deliver on quality....
This skin of mine, at the moment I just cannot seem to keep it happy! It’s become too oily (hormonal changes, joy) for the products that I used to be happy with and it gets too dehydrated for products made for oily skin. I keep breaking out along the jawline (classic...
There are just some things we cannot get away from, no matter how hard we try. Stretch marks are one of them – if you’re predisposed its tickets for you I’m afraid. But here’s the good news – if you start with preventative measures now or start treating stretch marks...
Those of you that follow me on Instagram and Facebook (if you don't, you definitely should!) know that I was away on business last week in the tiny little town of Mafikeng. There isn’t much to do there and so I may have gone a little crazy on my favourite online...
Those of you that deal with an oily skin every day know the drill - 11am shine check in the bathroom mirror, grasping at tissues to blot away the oil, a slip and slide on the sides of your nose by lunch time and your friends (or husband in my case) commenting...