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9th May 2013

Complexion vs. colour, with Guerlain Terracotta 4 Seasons Bronzer Hover over products for details £48 Guerlain Terracotta 4 Seasons Bronzer in Nude 0 £37.76 Guerlain Parure de Lumiere fluid foundation £24.12 Guerlain Rouge Shine Automatique Lipstick £21 Guerlain Clis D’Enfer Maxilash Mascara £38 Guerlain Kabuki Brush Wearing: Top & skirt – Zara. Guerlain Terracotta 4 Seasons bronzer. Terracotta Kabuki brush. Parure de Lumiere fluid foundation. Clis d’Enfer Maxi Lash Mascara. Rouge Shine Automatique Lipstick. Photos with help from Kit! It’s hard to explain – especially how the sun is increasingly sexy (and it knows it) by day – that tanning is on the last of my beauty to-do list this summer. It seems ungrateful, doesn’t it, like declaring a water-diet while your mother pulls out a lasagna from the oven. I’m pretty sure you have/are that one friend from the Far East, who will walk in the shade and always carry a sun [...]

Tags Guerlain, Guerlain Terracotta 4 Seasons, Zara

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The third question

2nd April 2013

Dress – Zara. Shoes – Kurt Geiger. Belt – Vintage LV. Coat – Zara Thank you Kittykat for helping with the photos! It happened a few weeks back when I was Whatsapping with my mother (who by the way is getting scarily confident with her phone, she types so fast I’m scared she may actually be 14 years old) (sometimes she talks to me ONLY in emoticons), I was whining about eczema and that I caved into using cortisone cream, which is when she dropped the doozy. Now, I’d been waiting for this day since returning from the honeymoon back in 2011, for the the third burning question in the tigermum series – ‘So what about that grandchild?‘ – to drop. I beat her to the punch by answering the first two (‘You are going to uni, right?‘ and then ‘Why haven’t you found a job already‘) with swift efficiency, so in [...]

Tags Flower by Kenzo, Kurt Geiger, LV, Zara

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Slap it on

24th October 2012

Crème de la Mer, the Moisturizing Soft Cream Vest & Top – Day Birger et Mikkelsen. Khaki jeans – Henry Holland x Debenhams. Wedges – Kurt Geiger Montpellier. Tropical-print blazer – Maarten van der horst for Topshop. I grew up to the sound of slapping – my mother slapping serums and lotions into her face every morning and evening, that is – nothing at all to do with being a tiger-mum, oh nooo. (Come back after midnight and I’ll share some gory details of me growing up a Korean kid with absolutely no talent for maths) We kept the dressing table in my room even before I had my first acne, but the light was always good in the morning and for years I’d jolt awake to wild noises of my mother’s extensive skincare routine… and in a couple of years once I’d grown a pair of boobs it’d become [...]

Tags Creme de la Mer, Day Birger et Mikkelsen, Henry Holland x Debenhams, Kurt Geiger, La Mer, Topshop

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A visit to Dotty-san

6th September 2012

Red and white (high in opacity – mine is from Essie) are basically the only two colours you’ll need to rock this party but it might be fun to add a bit of LV flair and accent with a yellow, green or black. Otherwise the usual – top & base coat, toothpick or pin, scrap bit of paper to use as palette (best if laminated paper)

Tags Louis Vuitton, Selfridges, Yayoi Kysama

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