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The ever so chic world of fashion and beauty is a fickle one, think of how big ‘balayage’(dip dyeing your hair) was not so long ago or how a deep side parting was the prerequisite for all fashion forward women last year. But if there’s something to be learnt from all the Fashion Weeks, celeb make overs and fashion bible front covers is that there are some beauty trends that just never date! Regardless of the year, the season, and in some cases even the decade, these timeless classi …

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In case you hadn’t heard, beautifully subtle golden skin is definitely in! Glowing, exquisitely natural skin is the base of all things beauty, and – as seen at Stella McCartney’s Paris Fashion Week runway show 2014 ­– it’s barely there with merely defined eyes and balmy lips. Preparing your makeup for a night on the town doesn’t always have to involve the glam girls go to ‘smoky eye’ or the statement bold, bright lip. However by combining t …

Well there isn’t a difference I hear you cry! Well um, surprisingly yes there is! Many of us find ourselves perplexed by these two skin terms, often because the symptoms such as tightness, flakiness, dull, lifeless, rough, to the more serious- severe redness and cracks in the skin that are prone to bleeding – are one and the same, or so we thought! However there is vast clinical variance between these two terms - dry skin is a  skin type and dehydra …

Some of the worse mistakes I’ve made have been haircuts! 1986 I sported long white hair (a love affair for bleach was born) but so was an ongoing battle with split ends, flyaway frizz and the perennial pain in the hair follicle that is “natural growth”. Foregoing upkeep for the natural look, the next 20 or so years saw long, wavy hair, the occasional colour and a hair romance that remains until this day! However not all of us are blessed with an Armenian heritage (aka Kardashians) or have …