beauty | brighten up your smile with opalescence go!

beauty | brighten up your smile with opalescence go!

This post is sponsored by Opalescence Go.

For someone who doesn’t drink coffee and who doesn’t smoke, I seem to have found myself in the predicament of having slightly yellow-stained teeth. Luckily, fast forward to the end of January 2018, Opalescence Go sent me their home teeth whitening kit to try.

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read | is business ruining blogging?

read | is business ruining blogging?

Photography by Tegan Smith for Topshop South Africa

I’ll never forget the day I was scrolling through my Instagram feed, casually minding my own business, liking posts as I went by, looking for inspiration, and suddenly my entire feed was bombarded with pictures of Edgars denim, and a variety of influencers telling me about the new range and a competition – all at the exact same time (which reminds me, Instagram please #BringBackChronologicalOrder). That moment was, albeit, a few years ago, but it stuck with me because I realised that particularly in South Africa, something about the way we do influencer marketing just… wasn’t right.

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beauty | the power of make up tutorial

beauty | the power of make up tutorial


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beauty | AW inspired halo eye

beauty | AW inspired halo eye


It looks like I have another YouTube tutorial up! This time I tried to a bit of a bolder (yet still wearable) look – and this brown/purple/gold-y halo eye seems to do just that.

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outfit | winter baddie

outfit | winter baddie

Photos by Ayabukwa Bikitsha

On the 8th of June, I won tickets to Cosmopolitan & Forever New’s VIP Shopping Experience in Canal Walk and throughout that evening, they took us through some of the major trends for this season. Two of them that really got me good were bodysuits and the colour maroon (it probably had to do with Marsala being Pantone’s Colour Of The Year last year ?). View Post