Skin Rejuvenation Clinic

2019’s Biggest Beauty Trends: Skin Rejuvenation Clinic

The start of a New Year isn’t just a good opportunity to reflect on how the previous year went but it’s also a great time to look ahead.  What’s in store for 2019? Dr Brigid Lee from the Skin Rejuvenation Clinic has a few predictions on what will be big in 2019. […]

Showstopping Style

Showstopping Style

The next generation of designers will be ruling the runway in March, when the prestigious iD Fashion Show hits Dunedin.     Thirty-seven designers, who are in their final year of studying or have graduated in the last 12 months, will be showing their collections at the showstopping event. Entries in the […]

Via Sollertia

Bespoke treasure: Via Sollertia

There’s a slight organic shift happening in ring trends, so think Clare and Joel of New Regent Street’s Via Sollertia.     They design and sell mouth-wateringly lovely engagement and wedding rings, amongst other jewellery. The current mood seems to point in the direction of very simple yet hand-crafted, faceted rings in […]

Wild for Weddings

Wild for Weddings

Weddings and all customs related are completely addictive. It’s probably because they’re an excuse to indulge in an otherworldly, fabulous day and because planning the details is an excuse to obsess about the finer points of glamour, of etiquette, of, in fact, anything awe-inspiring and delicious, which prettily overrides the strict necessities […]

Seeing Red

Seeing Red

Cherry red is adding a powerful punch to our wardrobes this sartorial season, most popularly paired with more muted tones of warm beige and deep whisky browns that are tiptoeing into consumer consciousness for 2019.     Cherry red is a “full-bodied” colour, which Vogue describes as ideal to enhance velvet, tulle […]

Jouvence

‘Eco-Glamour’ comes to Christchurch: Jouvence Beauty Institute

As the country’s longest standing professional Beauty Therapy Institute, Jouvence continues to offer results to its regular client base and a commitment to customer care that the spa is famously well known for.     The institute provides classical and contemporary treatments, with new additions to its extensive range, such as a […]

Salon Parlour

The Perfect Parlour: Salon Parlour

That owners of Salon Parlour, Susie Chisnall and Becs Taulango are committed to incorporating sustainable ideals to their hair, beauty and nails emporium is immediately apparent as you walk through the door of the striking space, located on the corner of Cranford and Westminster Streets.     Polished concrete floors enhance the […]

Sustainable Beauty

Sustainable Beauty

When it comes to beauty products, here’s the bottom line: care for the environment and end up caring optimally for yourself on the side.     That’s the message from the results of research. Studies into problematic ingredients in personal care and cosmetic products have found that we should be avoiding those […]

Beauty Bites

Beauty Bites: Bite-sized fashion and beauty

Bite-sized fashion and beauty news capturing all the things you need to know.     Chase the Rainbow Hannah McKeich is a Kiwi woman who is taking the beauty industry by storm. After becoming pregnant at 17, bouts of homelessness and severe struggles with mental illness, she has captured the heart of […]

50 Shades of Beige

50 Shades of Beige

Beige has long been the ‘Plain Jane’ of the fashion world, but this year designers are injecting a sexier edge into this shy shade.     While the Oxford Dictionary defines beige as a “pale, sandy fawn”, the bare facts on beige are that the fashionable lines are increasingly being blurred between […]