Jul 11, 2021Fast vs Slow Fashion“Buy less, choose well, make it last.” — Vivienne Westwood Are you a fast or slow fashion kinda gal? No judgment either way. In the last few years, we as consumers are beginning to awaken to the harsh realities of fast fashion and thankfully we seem to be making a…Vintage5 min read
Jul 9, 2021Styling A Boho Luxe Sacred Space — A Complete GuideOur house is old. I mean really old. Salmon coloured tiles adorn the bottom half of the house’s exterior (like it’s wearing a skirt or something??), the colour palette is a mixture of browns and yellows, and don’t even get me started on the decor of our bathrooms. Screams 1970’s. …Boho5 min read
Feb 13, 2021Dressing For Your Body ShapeSo many clothes, yet nothing to wear. You throw another ill-fitting garment to the ground and gaze around you at your bedroom floor, littered with clothes that are either: Impossible to pair with anything else in your wardrobe; Ill-fitting, making you think: “Ugh” instead of “Yeah!” Dated! Sound familiar? What…Style6 min read
Published in P.S. I Love You·Sep 13, 2019Confessions of a CheaterI noticed him as soon as he wandered into the shop. He wore distressed, ash-blue jeans and a bomber jacket to shield him from the icy bite in the morning air. He seemed older than me, with a septum piercing and what I thought was a full sleeve tattoo. …Fiction6 min read
Published in Thoughts And Ideas·Jun 6, 2018Nobody gets everything they want, do they?The two, tiny, pink lines appeared almost immediately after I peed on it. I didn’t even need to wait the suggested three minutes for the pee to develop as it instructed. Not that I could read the instructions, because they were written entirely in Greek, but I had taken a…Pregnancy3 min read
Published in Thoughts And Ideas·Jan 24, 2018Huff Post just spat in the faces of all those who made it what it is today.“You have one new email from the Huff Post Blog Team” — my phone read. I’d been refreshing my emails, over and over again, waiting on a reply to come through about my newly ordered wedding shoes. Not the email I was waiting for but, intrigued, I immediately clicked to…Life Lessons5 min read
Published in Thoughts And Ideas·Jan 18, 2018Oprah Winfrey credits her success to this one thing we all haveI still hadn’t heard a word back from the casting agency about the movie role I’d gone for, months prior, and I was convinced it was because I was fat. In fact, it had to be that. Otherwise, I was perfect for the role. …Motivational4 min read
Oct 28, 20176 Psychological tactics to use when crafting your next social media postGot a (business) social media account that’s not getting much attention from your followers? The geniuses at ‘Sumo’ reckon that the secret to ‘getting it right’ with your Facebook and Instagram posts lies in knowing these six tips about the human psyche. Let’s jump straight in (because Lorrrrrd knows you…Social Media5 min read
Published in Thoughts And Ideas·Aug 15, 2017I read “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” so you don’t have to. Here’s the cliff’s notesFor anyone who is currently in a relationship, or has had one fail miserably, how accurate do you find the assumptions made about the sexes in this best seller: Men are from Mars, Women Are From Venus — Together Forever? First, let’s take a trip back to ‘caveman’ days Mr Gray (writer man) says that to understand the fundamental…Feminism5 min read
Published in Femme Fatale·Jul 19, 2017It’s 2017 and I can now get into a taxi guaranteed to be driven by a womanYou know what’s really rare down here in ‘Straya’ (Australia)? Sliding into the back seat of a taxi or an Uber and being greeted by the smiling face of a female driver. *This article was originally written and published on Femme Heroine* In fact, I can only recall the one…Uber5 min read
