With Christmas and New Year’s Eve coming up, many of you are gearing up for a well-deserved getaway. Whether you normally wear make-up or not, everyone should still, at the very least, take care of their skin, and especially when travelling – because flying and a different climate can be real stressors for your skin. […]

Now that Halloween and Guy Fawkes Day are well and truly over, it’s time for Christmas to shine. Our bodies couldn’t be more ready for mulled wine, cheese platters and plenty of partying, but as we’ve learnt from previous years, it’s a marathon, not a sprint. And the key to surviving the silly season (other than getting your Secret Santa […]

Lately I’ve been having a real dilemma every time I finish a beauty product in the bathroom: Do I throw it in the trash or should I take it to the kitchen to recycle? A year ago, this is a question I never would have asked myself, but lately I’ve been thinking more and more […]

With the rise of non-toxic beauty, people are spending a little more time checking out the packaging of their cosmetics. You may be paying stricter attention to ingredient lists and the like, but what about the symbols on your beauty products? These handy illustrations often signify pretty important things, like how long you should keep a […]

As you unwrap the latest batch of goodies from your most recent beauty, cosmetic and personal care shopping spree, much of the packaging containing your favorite items, from shampoos to moisturizers, consists of some form of plastic. If those empty containers aren’t recycled properly, they’ll most likely end up joining the 13 million tons of plastic dumped […]

THE ORGANIC BEAUTY INDUSTRY IS GROWING, WITH NEW ‘NATURAL’ BRANDS CROPPING UP LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE, BUT ARE ALL OF THE INGREDIENTS USED ACTUALLY ORGANIC, OR ARE WE BEING ‘GREENWASHED’ INTO SPENDING OUR CASH ON UNCERTIFIED PRODUCTS? Warning: this article may ignite a real-life Mean Girls Regina George Kalteen bar type realisation, except you haven’t unknowingly been eating […]

From bestie-ready workouts to an elevated means of moisturizing, the week’s best beauty Instagrams were a study in reinvigorated routines. Georgia Fowler hopped a flight to Sydney, and an adorable munchkin—in this case, the muse’s platinum-maned niece. Elsewhere, model Bambi Northwood-Blyth exchanged a sheet mask for a snorkel mask, while Sara Sampaiosaved her goggle-framed selfies for St. Mortiz’s snowy peaks. […]