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WIN: $100 Voucher with One Leaf

May 16, 2013 in Fashion, Featured, Meta, Style

I first met Kat Atkins, the effortlessly cools brains and brawn behind One Leaf Jewelry when I was completing my Education and Visual Arts degrees. We both lived on campus in the same dormitory. Kat was a bundle of energy, a total livewire, passionate about colour, nature, and she saw beauty in details. Little did I know she would become a designer of some of the most unique, inspired, beautiful and straight up COOL jewelry I’ve ever seen. I interviewed her to see what makes her tick. First of all, how did you come up with the name ‘One Leaf’? [...]

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Too Fat? Too Thin? The Great Weight Debate

May 6, 2013 in Body, Body Image, Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Style

With Fashion Week in full swing, there is a lot of focus in the media on body shapes, weight, and ultimately the impact this has on body image and eating disorders. Models are being criticised for being too thin, unhealthy role models etc. With the statistics of eating disorders on the rise, and “90 per cent of young people in Australia and around the world unhappy with their weight and shape” (The Daily Telegraph), I’m not surprised at this outrage and support to change modelling standards. Butterfly Foundation’s CEO Christine Morgan in an interview on the Today Show likened the fashion industry to “drug [...]

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Stay Young? No. Stay Happy.

April 30, 2013 in Body Image, Face, Gender, Health, People, Society, Style

When we are young, we often don’t think about the person we will be when we are 30 or 40. In fact, we don’t even think of ourselves reaching that age. It all seems to come back to the stigma attached to growing old. But, it doesn’t have to be such a bad thing. We often hear middle aged women talk about how young people should, ‘live while you have the chance’, or thinking aloud with, ‘I wish I was your age again.’ Why do they have such strong views on youth? It’s one of two things: the regret of [...]

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Fashion: My Plus Size Picks for Winter

April 24, 2013 in Fashion, Style

As the weather turns cooler, and the stores start their mid season sales, I bring to you my plus size fashion picks from ASOS Curve. I usually turn to ASOS this time of year, as they have their 70% off sale, and given that they’re in the UK, their cooler clothes are now in the sale. Score! ASOS has free shipping, and sizes in Curve range from 20-26. They have also started stocking Inspire items from UK store New Look, some of which goes up to 28 (which is awesome and I hope they keep doing it). Given that I’m [...]

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Real Beauty and My Ideal World

April 23, 2013 in Body, Body Image, Entertainment, Face, Gender, Health, Mental Health, People, Society, Style

Last week a Dove ad went viral and while Mandi has given her opinion, I wished to give mine. It features a forensic artist drawing a number of “real women” without seeing them – he draws by the women’s description. The women describe their perceived flaws rather than their best features. “Tell me about your chin?” the artist asks one woman. “It kind of protrudes a little when I smile”, she says. “Your jaw?” he asks another. “My mother told me I have a big jaw” she replies. After this first drawing session, the women are encouraged to spend time with [...]

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This Week: Heart Health, Anniversary & New Jeans

April 20, 2013 in Anecdotes, Comedy, Fashion, Food & Recipes, Health, Humour, Marriage, Nutrition, Stories, Style, Wedding

This week has been, and will continue to be, a busy one. After pulling on my jeans last Thursday morning only to discover they were ripped right in the crotch (stylish, no?) I began my search for the ‘right’ jeans. I had pretty specific ideas of what I wanted in this pair of jeans. They had to be tight, stretchy enough that I could move comfortably, long enough to scrunch a little at the ankle, dark blue in colour, super skinny and high waisted. Not a long list of requirements at all! It took 3 different shopping trips with the [...]

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This Week: How Animals Eat Their Food

April 13, 2013 in Fashion, Health, Home, Lifestyle, Meta, Style, Work

As you know, last week I was sick. I’m still on a restricted diet but I’m allowed solid food again (yay!) so Monday saw me attending work dizzy and weak, then Monday night I ate the best meal in the world and have felt heaps better since. I’m still not 100% and my stomach is probably only at about 70% alright, but I’m getting there! Here’s my week in pics: First meal after fasting for 3 days. Best meal ever.  My childhood dressing table (pictured in my childhood bedroom). My parents want it out of their house so they can make [...]

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Video: Dove’s Sneaky Action Against Photoshop

March 27, 2013 in Body, Body Image, Celebrity, Entertainment, Fashion, Health, Style, Technology

As part of the Dove “Real Beauty” campaign, they devised a clever way to sneak the message directly into the hands of those who can change our retouching culture. In case you can’t watch the video, Dove used a popular Photoshop plugin site to put up their free “Beautify” plugin that appeared to make the model’s skin glow. Instead what it did was undo all the photoshopping done to revert the image to the original and add the message “Don’t manipulate our image of real beauty”. What do you think of this campaign?

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Beauty: Best Natural Face Scrub

March 21, 2013 in Face, Food & Recipes, Lifestyle, Style

Today I’d like to share with you a face scrub I made up. The best one I’ve found – it’s natural, it’s cheap and it can actually be made from things you already have in your pantry. My skin is really sensitive. Like, touch it with mint body wash and be covered in red lumps and bumps for 2 weeks sensitive. So when I wanted a facial scrub I had to be careful about what I put on my face. In my time I’ve tried a few different face scrubs, everything from St Ives Apricot Scrub to Chanel Gommage Microperle [...]

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This Week: Something New

March 2, 2013 in Meta, Self

Thought I’d try something different this week and give a bit of a roundup, an update, on the week that was for me, for KiKi & Tea, and for the rest of the world. Let me know what you think. Thought I’d kick it off with my week in pics: The pics are (top down, left to right): An unfiltered picture of the view from my lounge room one morning. I looked up Sunday morning from Bella beside my head to see Lionel peering at her through the slats of my headboard. He then stuck his paw through, smacked her [...]

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