A new blog series with all that you need for the Summer season. We’re talking skincare, glamour and ideal headscarf materials to keep you looking fab, collected and (most importantly) cool during this, or any summer for that matter! To kick off, we’re starting with a topic very near and dear to my heart – hijab! Just like choosing the perfect headwear for your day … Continue reading Summer Must-haves✨ (HIJAB GUIDE)
Previously on “A Young Woman Complains About Her Acne Story”… I’m kidding! Although some of it may sound like a classic telenovella, I swear everything is all true. All real. Now, where were we… So I started with a new range of skincare products. My sister had some pretty bad acne too, so my mom went and got us pharmaceutical-grade cream – and this just … Continue reading My frenemy Acne Vulgaris 2
The poem is written as a metaphor. I have PCOS, which does not allow me to menstruate every month as per normal, so this poem is a semi ode to that. I wrote this poem one night when I was feeling particularly saddened/upset about myself… All of the poems I’ve written thus far are in Afrikaans, because I feel the language is able to grasp … Continue reading #COLLAB: Ierse dame (Irish miss)
From puberty, oily skin and cysts to adult acne, natural medicine and many, many salty tears. Me and acne – we were just frikken meant to be… So, like many girls my first encounter with Acne Vulgaris was around Grade 7, I was thirteen or so at the time. And although I was an early bloomer, getting my period around age ten, my “struggles” with … Continue reading My frenemy Acne Vulgaris
It was like any other day, except on this day, I was having my first blind date. It seemed crazy at first when I signed up on an online dating site. That was where I met Han. His profile said pretty attractive things about him, like how he earned his first degree in Public relations and how he received numerous awards as an outstanding employee … Continue reading #COLLAB: The Blind Date
So as of recent I’ve tried to become more one-with-nature-esque. And it’s a sort of dream of mine to reach that level of hippieness; where my house can be self-sufficient on some level, growing and harvesting our own produce, relying on the sun for electricity and saving water. So we installed solar panels, water tanks to collect rain water, we cut down on our water usage … Continue reading I Tried An Eco-Friendly Cloth Pad! And It Was Weird!
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