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Plants offer organic active ingredients for our skin and hair care when grown under optimal conditions, including the soil condition, local environment, how the plant is harvested, processed and manufactured.  But how do you know if your skin care and hair care ingredients truly offer the actives they claim, or if they are counterfeit?

In this weeks newsletter I outline how you can determine your sin type, and define sensitive and mature skin conditions.

Organic makeup and mineral makeup in some ways are the same. Both are made from ingredients that are naturally occurring. Organic makeup is made using plants from organic sources.  Mineral makeup is made from rocks that are by definition inorganic.

Certified Organic is often confused with chemical free, or plants and food that have been grown without pesticides and herbicides.  It is much more than that, and extends beyond how a plant is grown or how food tastes. It is a guarantee that a product meets my personal hopes of ecological sustainability and child labour free.

After recently winning the Vegans Choice award I have been asked why this is important to me.  In this week's newsletter I talk through vegan versus cruelty-free, and vegan versus natural, and help explain why all these aspects of the beauty industry are important to me.

Smoky eyes are still a trend, but this season they are softer and subtle. In this weeks newsletter I demo this look using  earthy natural tones.

In this weeks newsletter I talk through a few common ingredients that can cause eye and lash irritation, and tips to achieve gorgeous lashes.

This week's tutorial is inspired by the beautiful Emma Stone. Emma has a hooded eye, meaning you can't see her movable eyelid when her eyes are open. Colour is placed along and above the socket line, and brows are on-point! The effect is glamorous and powerful! 

I love eucalyptus oil … in small amounts it's great for my pimple prone skin, and Mandy adds a quarter of a cap to her washing to remove stinky tee...

Having an itchy scalp is not always caused by dandruff, and can be easily avoided.  In this weeks newsletter I talk about the difference between the two.

Due to several requests this week's newsletter is a re-share of my top 12 makeup tips for over 60.  As we get older our skin takes on a thinner, pa...

Heading out for a big day?  A few simple steps the night before and that morning can help your makeup look fresh and fabulous all day long, and into the night too.