Archive for December, 2008

Love Wellington and love Linden Leaves

December 9th, 2008

You probably know that as well as writing Pretty Pretty Pretty with me, Jo also edits The Wellingtonista and that right now they’ve got voting open for the Third Annual Wellingtonista Awards. Amongst the nominees for ‘Best Apparel‘ are some of our favourite stores Swonderful and Madame Fancy Pants, so we want to make sure that you know about them, and that you vote.

Soap on a ropeIf you come along to the TAWAs award night, you’ll go into the draw to win a gorgeous prize pack from Linden Leaves but if you can’t make it on the night, or if you simply can’t wait to try their lovely stuff, we have a Pure Man Soap on a Rope to give away. I think the soap smells like rosemary, strangely enough given that’s one of its main ingredients, while Jo goes to far as to say “If I wasn’t happy being a crazy cat lady, I might be tempted to leave this soap under my pillow so that I could imagine that there was a gorgeous-smelling man sleeping next to me at night, But I’m not that lame, honest!”

If you wanna win the soap, just tell us what your favourite nominee in the TAWAs is before voting closes next Tuesday, and we’ll draw it with the randomiser.

Your chance to shine like a black opal

December 9th, 2008

Michael Jackson may have sang that it doesn’t matter if you’re black or white, but when it comes to makeup, it does actually make a difference, and I’m suprised he doesn’t know that. That’s why it’s awesome that Black Opal is available in New Zealand.

Black Opal is a brand of cosmetics and skincare from New York, made exclusively for women and men of colour. All cosmetics are richly pigmented and technologically advanced to enhance and beautify brown skin.

Black Opal has been used in the Miss Indianz 2008 Beauty Contest, as well as the Miss Asia Pacific 2007 and Miss Africa NZ 2007/06, and now it can be used on you too!

Thanks to the lovely people of Amaka Beauty, we have two vouchers for a makeover worth $80 and a lipstick worth $20 you can select at the makeover to give away. The makeovers are available at Life Pharmacy Manukau, Life Pharmacy St Lukes Metro and Unichem West City Pharmacy (There are other stockists but not who are doing the makeovers, so sorry, non Auckland readers! We’ll have something for you soon), and if you want to win, all you gotta do is leave us a comment and we’ll draw two winners next Tuesday with the help of the randomiser. Hurray!

Awesome zombie pics

December 9th, 2008

This from io9.com (click here to see more awesome pics).

After we get the zombie outbreak under control, the undead will become contributing members of society, even getting work as fashion models. Fumie Sasabuchi adds drawings of exposed bones and organs to models in high fashion magazines, transforming traditional symbols of beauty into the walking dead.

Sasabuchi takes pages from fashion magazines and uses ballpoint pens and colored pencils to draw over the images. These pictures integrate images of death and decay to explore Western taboos toward death, and create a different idea of beauty.

Announcing the Aqua winner…

December 1st, 2008

We asked you to pick us up, and some of you tried, and some of you repeated very amusing lines that’d been used on you or that you’d use, but we had one clear winner who scraped in at the last moment who’ll be receiving some delicious Delicious in the mail.

Congratulations, Miss Heather. How you doin?