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Plant Love - Colours for your lips

Take a peek into a woman’s handbag and chances are, 9 out of 10 times you are going to find a tube of lipstick amongst some many other colouring tools. And as important as cosmetics has become in the lives of the fairer sex today, lipstick has made its’ mark as a basic foundational need in the cosmetics family. Women generally own some ‘colour’ with the most common being lipstick.

And often enough these luscious lip colours come packaged in the most amazing tubes – plastic tubes ...

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Hairy Business

You know the saying that inspiration is everywhere? Well it is true. In fact you can find it in the most mundane and wretched of places. And being a writer, one of the most common problems you can face is a writer’s block. Well I turned to my office today and found the inspiration for today’s piece in my very Neanderthal looking superior. Jokes aside this woman really has odd bone structure and a very very bad case of hair (too much) in the wrong places (we’re talking about nose, face knuckles, everywhere! Ick!). ...

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Celebrating Christmas with a new hair colour

It is the night before Christmas... finally after all the rave, the grand day is finally here. All those headaches and fuss about what gifts to buy, what decorations to put up and what dinner to serve is finally going to pay off as families and friends reunite and rekindle the love lost. But for a woman, the fuss really doesn’t stop there, not by a long shot because just like any other event - this is Christmas and she wants, needs and deserves to dress up to the nines to be admired and adored.

Now many may think it’s a bit too late ...

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Doctor Fish

I’m not sure how everyone feels about spa treatments but I think it can generally be agreed that good ones don’t come cheap but they do have a magically therapeutic way about them. Little known fact of appreciation is that spa is actually a form of balneotherapy – the treatment of various maladies through bathing.

Balneotherapy is a celebrated form of natural therapy because it makes use of natural elements such as climatic factors, ...

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Healing Scars the natural way

There are some things, events or moments in our lives that we wish never took place. Sometimes all that remains of those moments are their haunting of our memories, other times there are scars etched deep into our skin to embody them.

Scars are usually painful reminders of events we’d much rather bury away – it can be from illness, accidents or a surgery but the fact is, scars like the pain behind them do fade. They may not disappear entirely but with the right tenderness and help you can speed up the healing. And as cliché as it ...

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Light Concept Nails

Every girl has got a particular beauty regime that she’s obsesses over like it’s a matter of life or death. For some it’s all about their face, for others it is their crowning glory. But there are the select few (well maybe not that few) who show more TLC (tender loving care) towards their nails than any other part of their body. They spend lots of time and (even more) money to ensure that their nails are perfectly shaped, buffed and professionally/impeccably extended then decorated with beautiful nail art.

So we know about the dangers of ...

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Colours from Nature

Okay so nature’s got some really lovely colours that we wish we had in our hair, eyes, lips, skin etc. But over the years, our dreams have been brought to life by the birth of an even brighter and wider range of colours made available in our little colour pots and jars, all thanks to artificial colour pigments.

But we know those come at a price, a financial one, a health one and an environmental one. So what does the sustainable green woman do? She turns to Mother Nature to ‘borrow’ their colours that’s what we do.

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Make-up

Make-up, what’s that they say about it? Oh yeah how just about how every woman can’t live without it. Some just use a tad of it (a whip of mascara or a dab of sheer lip gloss), others a bit more (perhaps eyeliner, blusher/rouge and lipstick) but some ‘need’ (not by means of how they are inadequate in features without it but instead as an addiction-cosmetic addiction) the whole lock stock and barrel.

In all honesty, cosmetic IS a form of rocket science. Whoever told you otherwise ...

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Dressing up your daugther's hair

A head full of thick luscious hair is every mother’s dream for her little girl. In fact brushing her hair, conditioning it and dressing it up in ribbons, plaites and curls are all a natural part of strengthening the bond between mother and daughter.

I’ll never forget how my mother did my hair for me every day, how we’d go shopping for ribbons and clips, how she’d learn up and try ...

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Of nutmeg and salt

I’ve always been blessed with good skin, not perfect because of its sensitivity to a truck load of allergens but good skin nonetheless. Growing up it was always clear, even in my teenage years all I had to do was keep to the rules – stay unexposed to unclean, dusty and particle filled environments (sounds terrible and impossible but I assure you it’s quite easily attainable).

I have never had acne issue nor any real pimple breakouts so imagine my horror when I suddenly had ‘spots breakout’ that began on my forehead and gradually 9more like overnight) ...

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