Best of 2018: Life & Style
I always like to see what really, truly works for people: even if it’s not something that would be right for me, I find it interesting and instructive. So I’ve gathered here a few of my favourite things from this year that do not fit into the best of skincar..
Best of 2018: Books
I just had a year-end chat with a friend that went something like: it was a decent year – daughter happy, work fine, reading good. And it was, although I have been somewhat frustrated with my reading recently; more about this next year. I have written about ..
Best of 2018: Makeup
I admit this title is misleading, as it’s in no way a comprehensive assessment of stuff that came out in 2018. Firstly, I don’t buy that much makeup any more. Mind you, I still buy much more than an average person, but I don’t test as much as I do with skinc..
Best of 2018: Skincare
It is that time of the year again. I’m going to tell you what I liked in 2018 – in beauty, books, style and everything else. It is obviously a highly subjective take, as even with my level of obsession, there is a limited amount of stuff I can try. There are..
7 Things To Do When It’s (Almost) Christmas
It’s not fashionable to be too enthusiastic about Christmas and I can see why. It’s a holiday of overeating, overspending and overstressing; it also has a direct link to organised religion, not really a plus in my book. That’s not the fault of Christmas, tho..
What to Wear in The Lord of the Rings
I was a big daydreamer as a child, a combination of not having an overabundance of friends, an active imagination and reading more than was probably strictly healthy. When I was very small, I read so many fairytales (in addition to the usual suspects like th..
Cheap Skincare: Alessandra Steinherr x Primark
I had never been inside a Primark store until this autumn, when Alessandra Steinherr launched her skincare line for the brand. For those of you that don’t spend silly amounts of time on Instagram checking people’s skincare routines: she is a former Glamour m..
Wardrobe Confessions
I had a noble aim to do an Autumn Edit post on my clothes, but this was a very weird autumn. In Brussels, it was so warm until the end of October that I was still wearing my summer clothes. Then I went to Lebanon where it was +27 degrees and when I returned,..
15 Books I Read in October and November
I missed my traditional wrap-up in October, as I was travelling and then sick and when I recovered it was almost mid-November. I’m therefore doing an overview of two months’ reading today and will need to be rather laconic, otherwise it’ll be a terribly long..
On Dressing Like a Character
One of the big pleasures of dressing is that if you want, you can tell stories, convey moods, create characters. When I talk about dressing like a character, I don’t mean trying to look like a specific person, a protagonist in a movie or a book. I mean a con..