Lady Melbourne

Tweet‘Scent is so primal it is what drives us and whether we realise, we are searching for scents all the time. The primal urge is linked to our emotions.’ As we sat down over a cup of tea served in the most delightful art deco tea cups, director and perfumer of Fleurage Emma Leah tells [...]

Tweet For quite a while now, I’ve been meaning to try a manicure a la Dita Von Teese with reverse tips, or over stated cuticles depending on how you look at it. I figured the easiest way was to paint fake ones and stick them on, so that’s what I did! I trundled down to [...]

Tweet I don’t fit a lot of beauty into the blog, but not because I’m not obsessed with it, mainly because I don’t have time and it’s not the focus.However, I do get asked all the time what I use on my skin, so I thought it was high time I did a comprehensive post [...]

Tweet So maybe I was running late today because I slept in, and maybe it was because I was finishing my manicure. Rubbish excuses both of them, so to distract the party I was meeting I just waved my hands in their faces like mad woman. But you know it worked(for 5 minutes), and they [...]

Tweet So Australian Vogue this month tells us to try out the new Max Factor felt tip liquid eye liner. I love winged eyeliner as much as the next girl, but tend to stick to my Chanel pencil. Anyhow, I went to three Priceline stores to find it but it was sold out, clearly I’m [...]

Tweet That I’ve been wearing black and white for a week now? No? Not even a twitter?I thought I’d gotten away with it until Mama phoned and pointed out to me that a girl ought to wear a bit of colour now and then and for heavens sake will I put on some lipstick.She has [...]

Tweet I don’t write a lot about beauty, but I discovered this at a boutique art and craft market today that I really felt I had to show you some pictures, if anything for the colours.Vivien was the consultant who kindly spent a lot of time with me blending a custom powder specifically for my [...]