We grow up listening to this ‘beauty mantra’: a healthy skin regime must include a cleanser, a toner and a moisturiser. Then, there’s Clinique’s 3 step-system to reinforce it and for many periods of my life I tried to stick to it (but not with Clinique’s Clarifying Lotion anymore because it contains alcohol – more […]
It works more or less like this: one day you wake up, look in the mirror and find out there is a spot on your face that didn’t exist until yesterday. Yes, it sucks. The infamous melasma comes out of nowhere but can take forever to go away. The catalysts are well known: hormonal […]
Besides the perfect red lipstick, I also carry an endless search for the perfect mascara, which, according to my standards is not an easy task. It needs to lengthen, separate and thicken my lashes (like Minnie’s and Daisy’s!) but without that artificial ‘doll face’ look. And never, ever leave those annoying clumps! My obsession reaches […]
I know nothing is perfect but that didn’t stop anyone to search for the perfect partner, the perfect job, the perfect haircut… Personally, one of my main quests was the perfect red lipstick. In my dreams, it must be a cherry tone to match my skin colour, have a creamy texture (no dry lips feeling!) […]
It is almost like a horror movie. You look around and find hair strands all over: on the bathroom floor, in the tub, in your pillow… And there more you comb it, the more it falls. It’s so nerve-wrecking. Hair loss can be caused by many reasons: from hormonal fluctuations to stress, going through nutritional […]
I’ve always been crazy about nail polish. Long before the recent polish/nail art fever I already had a respectable collection that occupied an entire drawer (today it’s been heavily edited). I also learned to DYI at 14 just because I have no patience to schedule appointments and wait at the salon. Besides, the fun of […]
I wasn’t born a redhead but I’m really happy when people think I’m a natural one (even here in the UK, land of gingers, I have been asked about it, which is really flattering). Until my late teens, I applied a kind of golden blonde, honey-toned colour but in 2004, started thinking about a more […]
You know that beautiful, smooth, shining, silky and bouncing hair from shampoo commercials? For me it has always been perfectly achiavable. That’s probably the reason my quest for perfect hair never ends. I’ve written here about my hair dryer detox, which was deepened after my move to London. Now I almost never use it, only […]
I’ve already told you here about my dilemma with the effects of water on the hair and skin. Before moving to London I knew I would have to buy a shower filter to remove chlorine and other metals from the water, which here is so heavily treated that dishes (and everything else you wash) gets […]