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summer beauty: self tan

By Marlene | Published: 26. June 2013
Asked in an interview what quality he'd most like to change about himself, the comedian Conan O'Brien once said: „My inability to tan”. I laughed out loud when I read it. Then I reached for my bottle of self tan lotion. You see, I don't tan either. Rather, I collect freckles between June and August, mostly on my face and arms. My legs, however, stay [...]

summer beauty: lipsticks

By Marlene | Published: 24. June 2013
After I shared my summer essentials last week, I started wondering about my state of mind. Bikini: black. T-shirt: white. Sandals: grey. And I didn't even show you my favourite dress (black), jeans (white) and shirt (take a wild guess). Did I lose my color perception in the long winter? If I had, I wouldn't have fallen so madly for my new suede shopper in [...]

my new scent: bal d’afrique from byredo

By Marlene | Published: 22. May 2013
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 Garance Doré did a whole series of pictures about [...]

la gamine

By Marlene | Published: 20. May 2013
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 way I never quite mastered. She's not from Paris, but she might as well be. Her [...]
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timeless beauty

By Marlene | Published: 17. May 2013
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 house to snoop around the bathroom. I imagine it involves slapping [...]