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La Melle and The New You

At the beginning of September, we received possibly the most exciting email we have received (to date) inviting us both to participate in testing products and treatments. While the idea of being pampered never will get old to either one us, the fact that the brand behind the said treatments was La Melle caused immense […] Read more…

Favourite Five – Beauty by Tessa Passmore

A monthly collection of five of our favourite things done, seen, tasted, heard, smelt, worn, bought, savoured, enjoyed, touched, liked or loved. This month’s favourite five is a little different to the norm; we have a VERY special guest writer who has kindly taken some time to take us through her favourite beauty products. Our wonderful […] Read more…

We love Sephora! {Giveaway}

During the past year, Sam has slowly been converting Ilaria into a cosmetics demon, one eye mask at a time… and while Ilaria never really needs that much extra convincing, Sam did drag Ilaria into at least five different Sephora stores during our trip to Paris and Madrid earlier this year. We might have also […] Read more…

Matis Deluxe Treatments

I think I may have literally let out a small shriek of excitement when we received an invite to experience the ultimate in luxury pamper treatments at Matis Spa in Rosebank. The invitation however was only available to one of us – ummm…how the heck to choose who goes? We felt the fairest way was to probably go old school, and […] Read more…

#MUDONMYFACE

It wasn’t until very recently that I found out about the amazing Make-Up Designory (MUD) brand and concept, although Sam assures me she once told me about her make-up brushes from MUD… MUD was founded in California 16 years ago with a vision to bring quality education and products to the make-up artist community. The brand […] Read more…

Marsala Magic – Pantone colour of the year

The PANTONE® name has established itself as the standard language for color communication across the globe. This innovative company has created a unique system for identifying, matching and communicating colours to often solve problems which are associated with colour matching between a diverse range of colour-critical industries – it’s crazy how many times I have […] Read more…

The Winner of the Aesop Parsley and Seed Masque

The winner of Spruce’s giveaway is SALLY BUTTON.  Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter this giveaway – we LOVE all your tips on sprucing up and wish we could have given the masque to each one of you. Please stay tuned and keep reading for more exciting giveaways in the future.  […] Read more…

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