Category Archives: beauty

my new scent: bal d’afrique from byredo

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For two days, the box with my new scent from Byredo stood unopened on my desk. I just couldn’t bring myself to break the beautiful seal on the packaging. Coincidentally it was my birthday on Saturday, otherwise the perfume bottle would probably still be wrapped. The box alone is a present. Today I saw that [...]

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la gamine

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This is the haircut every woman has in mind when she picks up the courage to walk into a hairdresser to say: Make me look like Jean Seberg in „Breathless”, please. I know it’s the look I wanted when I wore my hair short. Except that my friend Nora pulls the style off in a [...]

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timeless beauty

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My birthday is coming up very soon. Okay, tomorrow. I made a crack in the dinner invitation about the fact that I will then be the same age as George Clooney was when it all started happening for him. I don’t know what Clooney’s beauty routine looks like. He so rarely invites me around his [...]

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pumped up kicks

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Of course, rather than sit here and write about running, I could actually be outside – running. Yeah, except the weather is kinda bad, I’m kinda tired, plus I just finished painting my nails and putting on trainers would ruin the pedicure. I wonder what came first: my decision to start running? Or my excuses [...]

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danish beauty

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If I ever open a shop for Danish products, I’d definitely stock tebirkes, flødeboller, Frandsen lamps – and Matas. Matas is a Danish drugstore chain with its own brand of skincare, which is so good it ought to be world-famous and is also the reason my luggage on the return flight usually gets tagged “heavy”. [...]

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