Great Affordable Moisturisers: The Inkey List
Somewhat unexpectedly, I’m having much better luck lately with reasonably priced moisturisers than I’m having with fancy ones. I really liked what Alex Steinherr did for Primark (and Sali Huges agreed!), found CeraVe lotion to be a solid basic and now, the n..
The Best Affordable Cleanser I’ve Ever Tried
If you’ve followed me for a while, you know I’m always on the hunt for good, affordable cleansers: I consider cleansing to be of extreme importance and while I’m personally ready to pay a small fortune for a good skin-cleaning product, not everybody can or w..
On Elegance
Elegance is like porn: difficult to define, but you’ll know it when you see it. ‘Elegant’ is a sibling term of ‘stylish’ – another difficult-to-explain concept – that implies a certain gracefulness and sophistication, often also simplicity. I don’t think, ho..
Drunk Elephant Slaai Makeup-Melting Butter Cleanser
My obsession with cleansers is well documented, but I haven’t really found anything to add to my Hall of Fame for a while. Omorovicza Hydra Melting Cleanser is beautiful, but doesn’t remove makeup as well as I’d like and is ridiculously expensive. Kat Burki’..
13 Books I Read in March and April
I didn’t do a round-up for March, as I spent most of the month in despair because of the political developments in Estonia and consequently too distracted to read much. What I did manage to read was fortunately great, so I am adding the March books to the Ap..
I Did Not Wake Up Like This
By now I’m sure we have all learned to approach social media with a certain level of skepticism. We know what we see on Instagram is not a full, unedited account of peoples’ lives. We know the vacation pictures on Facebook do not represent what people do mos..
Dark Romance: Tom Ford’s Velvet Gardenia
It is interesting how any type of nerd culture can simultaneously connect and isolate you. I love to be a part of things like the big Marvel Avengers moment, but also get impatient with people who watch it, but don’t ‘get’ it (I do try not to be a knob about..
Exercise Update and My Gym Morning Skincare Routine
It’s been 10 months since I started working out properly, with a personal trainer. I don’t do anything spectacular – just resistance training twice a week, with a little bit of cardio thrown in. I’ve been consistent, however, and actually train more often no..
Workwear Wednesday: All Rust Everything
As promised in the previous episode of Workwear Wednesday, I’m returning to the head-to-toe neutral dressing with this rust brown ensemble. We have already firmly established that all varieties of beiges and browns are a major trend for 2019: it’s all about ..
Sporty Sunglasses: Dior & Others
Only blogging about things you want to blog about is obviously the main upside of having a small-ish independent blog like mine: there are no advertisers to consider, no engagement numbers to obsessively follow and the readers also know what the deal is and ..