Hi all! Well, well, well!! Olympic fever is certainly running high – team GB had the most sensational weekend!! Of course ‘Queen’ Jessica Ennis took the gold in the Heptathlon on Saturday evening – and as you can imagine, my Olympic themed posts…
Category: Marketing
Are you the next Lisa Price? Mind Your Own Business Series: The Woman of Colour and the British Beauty Industry
Are you the next Lisa Price? The founder of the multimillion dollar beauty brand Carol’s Daughter? Or maybe you are the next Iman – creating a global cosmetics brand for the discerning woman of colour, be she Black, Asian or of a…
Product Review: @CoverFX – Part II: Mineral FX and Natural FX
Apologies again guys! This follow up post to my original Cover FX review is WAY overdue – I had planned to post it a few weeks ago, but a busy schedule combined with the Anita Bagwandas’ Sylist magazine article ‘event’…
The Changing Face of Beauty? My Response to Stylist Magazine’s Anita Bhagwandas’ article
It’s Stylist Wednesday!! The quality of the editorial is undisputed and last week’s issue was by no means an exception. The article that got Twitter ‘a-buzzing’ and that catapulted its author Anita Bhagwandas (Stylist’s Beauty Assistant and Guardian beauty blog…
M&S Model makes a welcome return
M&S (that is how us Brits affectionately refer to Marks and Spencer) is as British as fish and chips, tea and cricket and the gigantic retailer, that has over 700 stores across the nation, is an indelible part of the British high street.…
Afro-tising
I was browsing through the current issue of Marie Claire magazine and I came across the latest Marc Cain SS12 campaign ad. The model’s afro-esque hair style really caught my attention. The next day I travelled to central London and as I was…
Black and Blue
On the 27th February, the singer Elisabeth Welch (1904 -2003) was commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in south-west London. She is the second black women to have received this hounour (the first was Jamaican born nurse, Mary Seacole). Born…
GloCal Beauty – Jamaica on the Map
The leading Jamaican newspaper, the Jamaica Gleaner (of which I have fond memories, my mum used to order her copy from the local newsagents every week… back in the day!) announced earlier this week that four of the island’s most well-known women have been…