rainbow styling!

Just when we thought fluoro was dead, gone, never to be seen again (‘Thank Gosh!’ we hear you say), yet another brand collaboration, OPI & Sephora, bring you their latest range of shades for your claws… none other than Day Glo Flouro, the Digital Diva collection!


And as spring fast approaches, Colour! We Welcome You! (and the brighter the better!). These colours, bursting with Pantone®brilliance, have been given names such as Skinny Jeans, IM Beauty, Hi Def and Techno Girl. So it’s gotta be either a Sydney Ksu-bot or Acid House Raver that have been ruling this product development team.

http://www.sephora.com/

A note not on beauty

If life was literally and not just proverbially like a box of chocolates, then ra-rette would sure hope it was a box of Pierre Marcolini’s, the chocolates that her bestie (aka The Kittycat) keeps bringing her back from Brussels. These, fellow friends, are heaven in a chocolate, to be enjoyed, slowly, delicately and guaranteed to leave you smirking as contently as a Cheshire cat.

Ra-rette especially loves the latest delivery from The Kittycat - The Palets Fins 16. A perfect grid of 16 ever so thin chocolates filled with flavours like Caramel Passion (ra-rettes favourite), Caramel Gingebre, Caramel Beurre Salé and Praliné Pistache Noisette. These fine squares of chocolate perfectly explain why Pierre Maconlini chocolatier has been described as ‘the creator of happiness’.


http://www.marcolini.be/EN/accueil.html

raise the brow!

If your apartment is anything like ra-rettes, filled with the warm, subtle light of vintage chandeliers and retro lamps, you too will be struggling to keep your eyebrows high brows. Stray hairs lingering as low as the dark grey sky…

Consequently ra-rette was left with no choice but to make covert missions to the fitting rooms of her local American Apparel store, pretending to try on the same pair of black tights over & over again as a decoy, to her one-on-one time with the bright lights & big mirrors, in an effort to re-acquaint herself with her perfect arch. That was, until, she discovered New Best Friend, tweezermate, a 10X optical magnifying mirror with light attached that fits perfectly into your hand, your bathroom and your purse. Take a bow now please…. TWEEZERMAN.

Other products we love from tweezerman are the polka dot tweezers and the special edition Dream Garden Collection of tweezer sets in vintage floral pouches to suit your mood and your outfit.

www.tweezerman.com

meeeoooww.... new season make-up

Pre-empt the spring, don’t wait for the sun, make haste & hit your nearest MAC store. There’s nothing quite like a new season MAC make over to get your groove back and this season is MACs cutest collection to date. MAC and Hello Kitty have joined forces to bring some bling into your spring with Hello Kitty Kouture, a limited edition range of Swarovski crystal compacts, Hello Kitty Mild, a softer colour collection for mysterious kitten princesses and Hello Kitty Wild, all out fabulousness for the unmistakable queen kats that never let their presence go unnoticed. See the colour collections at www.maccosmetics.com and be sure to enter the Hello Kitty Sweepstakes! puss puss.

And beyond the shiny and the new, sitting stable in their places, ra-rette was so happy to see her two iconic, can’t live without, MAC colours, MARGIN for the cheeks and SMUT for the eyes. Oh please never let them go.

There’s really only a few things that can calm the feelings of doom from the constant grey clouds above: red wine, a good movie with a friend, a warm bowl of pumpkin soup, and a lovely, candle lit bath. The later that is, until you emerge looking as shriveled as your sweet old Nanna (Puff! goes the talcum powder!).

Bathing oils are probably not on the top of any girl’s list but desperate times call for desperate measures and if you’re like this ra-rette & short of a dime, don’t despair because it’s nothing a drop or two of Olive Oil straight from the cucina won’t fix. But if you dream of something a little more decadent & aromatic than Papa Giseppi’s olive groves… look no further than the Apotheke for our new favourite brand Dr Hauschka (www.drhauschka.co.uk). With a range of 5 bath oils to suit your mood including Lavender, Lemon, Rosemary, Sage and Spruce, we’re going to start to ‘warm and vitalize the body’ with lovely Lemon. Oil Up! x.