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MBFW Survival Pack: Aesop Tuberose Lip Heal & Rosehip Seed Lip Cream
I could make a series of stupid jokes about air kissing causing irreparable lip damage, but that’s cheap and easy and besides, I’m 99% certain that Twitter has driven that joke into the ground already. Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Australia has the gracious timing to occur right on the change of season that leaves Sydney in a ...
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MBFW AU Survival Pack: Aesop B Triple C Facial Balancing Gel, Trilogy Certified Organic Rosehip Oil
The last show started late and went overtime, you didn’t get to bed until late, and the first show starts at 9AM in some far-flung outreach of the Sydney fashion triangle. You slept badly. You feel like hell. You know it (and I know it, but I’m too polite to say something). Did I say ...
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Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate and Midnight Recovery Eye
Happy Tuesday, ladies and hommes! With Gay Christmas aka Mardi Gras rapidly barreling down on Sydney, my friends have kindly requested some fast fixes to stop weeks of partying with naked dancing boys from playing havoc with their skin. Drink lots of water. Oil removes glitter from the skin. If you’re desperate, use a bit ...
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Endota – Nourishing Oil
You’ll have to excuse the crickets and tumbleweeds on swatchgirl.com this week. It was my birthday a few days ago and, well, my beloved other half takes birthdays Very Very Seriously. It’s been a divine festival of breakfast in bed, lunches overlooking the harbour and – the best gift of all – the first holiday ...
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The Year of Hair – Original & Mineral The Power Base protein treatment
It’s been a bit slow in the Year of Hair stakes lately. I haven’t indulged my inner Tank Girl and shaved it off – as tempting as that is sometimes – but rather I’ve almost attained that rare state of hair nirvana: healthy, manageable hair. Some of it has been through trial and error, some ...
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Dermalogica Clean Start mini skin kits
Much like Cthulhu, I have reawakened from my slumber. Unlike Cthulhu, I actively avoid crushing the world beneath my fearsome spectre and seek only to tell you about some funky new packs from Dermalogica’s little skincare sister company, Clean Start. Clean Start is Dermalogica for young skin, focusing on efficacious skincare solutions for young skin ...
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Kiehl’s – Powerful Strength Line Reducing Concentrate
Understatement: I’m a big fan of vitamin C serums. A little topically applied vitamin C helps to give skin that lightful, lustrous, I’ve-had-eight-hours-of-sleep-and-a-glass-bubbly glow, as well as naturally smoothing out fine dehydration lines around the nose, cheekbones and forehead. For someone with fair, cool toned skin like myself who can easily looked ashen and washed ...
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Jurlique – Fruit Enzyme Exfoliator
Oh, AHA and chemical exfoliants. The one branch of skincare judged by how painful they are. We’ve all chased The Burn, man. We’ve all bragged about our glycolic percentages and boasted about how gross our peels were. We’ve all been there, man. There is a quieter side to buffing away a rough face though – ...
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Dermalogica – Barrier Repair
Get in my handbag, Barrier Repair. Also get in my bedside drawer, my bathroom cupboard and in my make-up kit. And in my car. And in my partner’s car. You are my lifeline at the moment and I refuse to be parted from your soothing, skin-babying goodness. Dermalogica’s Barrier Repair is a waterless silicon-based moisturiser/treatment ...
