Ok so…skin needling. To some it might sound downright terrifying – skin being poked with tiny needles…ahmm come again? Ok so all jokes aside there has been a lot of buzz circulating around skin needling or micro needling – especially since Covid hit and we all had to look after our skin from home there has also been a huge rise in Derma rolling devices. So, what exactly is dermarolling and is it different from skin needling? We had a chat to our beauty salon supplier friends over at The Global Beauty Group to break down the differences and get the low down on all things skin needle re ..read more

 Back pain, shoulder pain, forearm pain, leg pain... you name it! It's the joy of having a new baby, my entire body started to ache after 4 weeks of holding my big bubba. I stayed up in the middle of the night googling two things; night nannies and a massage during the first few weeks. Having a fussy newborn baby who is pretty much exclusively breastfed made leaving the house for hours at a time fairly difficult. Little Miss can't stay in one position for too long. When she was 9 weeks old and fairly well behaved, her weight had more than doubled. My poor arms, legs and back! I asked my ..read more

This was quite a sensitive topic for me for quite a while. My husband and I never really wanted to get married but we were both agreeable on having a child out of wedlock. You can imagine my parent's reaction when I first announced this news. Without the financial burden of a wedding we can utilise the wedding funds to purchase baby essentials. It took a while for them to come to terms, they eventually did. As always nothing went to plan, we ended up getting married and tried to kids after.  We started trying. Every 2-3 days they said. Keep your legs up and do a head stand they sai ..read more

  Being pregnant is a life changing experience, I found I had to modify a lot of things in my life for this exciting time. Changes to my clothing, diet, activities and skincare routine were all necessary and this included modifying my skincare routine. After a phenomenal amount of research to learn more about what skincare products are safe to use during my 9 month journey, my skincare routine is now carefully curated. Luckily, I have been able to continue my AM and PM routine with a slight tweak of some of the products and ingredients I usually use.   Cleansing ..read more

So, winter can be tough for many reasons, especially when it comes to our skin. Whether you are a fan of winter or not, even those who do prefer the cooler months cannot deny that winter can be super tough on our skin, taking a toll on our poor faces. The harsher elements, freezing temperatures, blistering winds and in-door heating can inflict all sorts of unwanted and tricky to deal with skin conditions. I’ve collated some of my favorite must-have skincare ingredients to help your skin survive and stay happy throughout the colder months. Hydrating Serum Our skin struggles to retain moist ..read more

  Ere Perez Oat Milk Foundation $50AUD I have two shades, Honey and Malt. Honey was a lot lighter than expected, Malt suited my NC25 tone better, I probably can go up to Chai. I now use Honey for under eye concealing which works quite well. I found the colour matching to be slightly difficult because just by looking at the shades online, I'd be a Honey. However when Honey is rubbed in, it's lighter than expected. Malt works well, especially during winter. I found the texture to be easy to spread either with fingers or brush. It's fairly creamy. I personally prefer to use a brush beca ..read more

 We all have regrets or things we wish we knew 10 years ago, some lessons we can only learn in retrospect. The following is a list I’ve compiled along the way of some beauty lessons that were learnt through good old-fashioned trial and error. Some are permanent, some not so much. Others are never too late to start implementing 1. Put down the tweezers. My poor eyebrows never and I mean never recovered from the late 90’s early aughties trend of barely-there pencil-thin eyebrows. I blame my mum for letting me pluck them in the first place. 2. That tattoo does not look as good as you thi ..read more

Come again? News to me…I don’t know about you beauty junkies but I’ve been hearing the term “Super hair removal”  or SHR floating around…and it peaked my interest. Afterall, isn’t all laser hair removal the same? No, apparently not. Which kinda makes sense…have any of you ever had a series of laser hair removal sessions only for nothing to happen? Correction, something did happen – the damn hair grew back!  So, this got me thinking…what is the best type of laser hair removal?  Afterall, laser hair removal machines came on t ..read more

Oil Garden's 3in1 Diffuser $39.99 works as a humidifier, air purifier and night light. Uses ultrasonic technology with a run time of approximately 5 hours. Oil Garden also have a range of essential oils for your diffuser, from Baby Sleep to Headache Ease blends, from $13.99.  Purchase here The Beauty Chef and I go back to 2017, when I was first introduced to the brand. I reviewed their Hydration Inner Beauty Boost. The Beauty Chef have grown exponentially since 2017 my top pick for the ultimate Christmas gift is their Beauty and Balance Kit. You get it all, their infamous Glow po ..read more

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lily (@lilynotlouise) on Oct 14, 2020 at 1:58am PDT 1. REUSABLE PADS AND PERIOD UNDERPANTS Reusable menstrual products can take some getting use to. You really have to ease into it, I started off with a regular flow reusable underwear from Love Luna, followed by a heavy flow ModiBodi underwear. Eventually you become accustomed to the process of  washing your own blood. Recently, I started to use reusable pads, there are pros and cons to reusable pads; the major pro other than it being reusable is that it's odourless. And the cons ..read more