My hair has been high maintenance as long as I can remember. Born with dark, curly/frizzy fine hair but heaps of it, in a tropical location gravity loses badly to the atmospheric humidity that turns it into an afro – which looks quite bizarre with my very fair skin. Luckily, over the years, technology has […]
Summer in Provence means lavender – fields and fields of breathtaking swathes of mauve flowers waving in the summer breeze to the seasonal music of Provence – cicadas (or ‘cigales’ as they’re known in France.) Lavender flowers bloom in Provence during high summer – bursting into life anytime between June and August depending on weather […]
It was a few years back that I was there … So what was I doing at a health retreat? No alcohol, no caffeine, no fatty foods for five whole days – sounds like hell doesn’t it? It was anything but. By way of explanation: I married a modern-day, male version of Typhoid Mary – […]
It’s the next best thing to sliced bread, according to the hype – or at least the next big thing after the discovery of the benefits of omega 3 fatty acids. We’re talking hydrolysed, ingestible collagen that is essentially a beauty treatment (but not only) that works from the inside out, effectively slowing (and repairing) […]