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Lilac Dreams
When you live in a cold climate, encountering something truly lush in nature is rare. Nordic nature tends to be austere and while I love it, it makes me appreciate those moments when it goes against the type even more. Lilacs are one of those anomalies that ..
The Art of the Understatement
Remember how I praised the virtues of a dark, statement lip? Or how I said that wearing pink in spring is, frankly, unimaginative? I hope you don’t, because what have I actually bought this spring? Two understated pinky nudes. To make things worse, these are..
Form & Function
It seems there is a secret organization running the universe that has decided that certain things just have to be ugly. Some time ago, for example, all music-playing equipment had to be silvery and plasticky and rounded and ugly as hell. For several decades ..
The Colours of Marzipan
Today’s post was supposed to be about something totally different. About something conceptual and intelligent and … stuff. Well, maybe not quite, but I do have the posts mapped out some time in advance, so that I can plan and don’t wake up post-less and pa..
Blush and Bronze
I was defending the trends the other day and while I was trying to make it sound all analytical and stuff, I was of course just defending myself. I seem to be so influenced by visual cues that I can pick up a trend or two on my way from the bathroom to the k..
Persian breakfast
I have to trick myself into eating breakfast, as I usually don’t have time or I just… forget. So I must come up with things I really, really like and I really, really like everything Persian-inspried. I’m not sure Dareios would recognise my muesli as an a..
SPRING IS COMING
After years of thorough research (also known as reading every women’s magazine available), I have concluded that in spring, women are expected to do three things: wear pink lipstick, use pastel nail polish and sport colourful accessories.
I have no proble..
Pewter, Silver, Pebble, Grey
For all my love of overstatement, I have my minimal moments. And when they arrive, I often turn to grey, the most sophisticated of colours. There is a thin line between sophisticated and boring and I’m not entirely sure I always manage to stay on the side I ..