Beauty Rebel

Summer is officially here and with that comes all the things we Aussies love: sunshine, gathering with family and friends in the beautiful outdoors, and travelling far and wide.  It can be tempting for our skincare to take a back seat while travelling and enjoying the outdoors (and perhaps that extra glass of bubbly!) but the simple act of sticking with your skincare rituals can help to counter the appearance of stress and also keep you grounded during busy periods. You might also want to introduce a few new products or skincare hacks depending on your environmental surroundings and lifestyle...

With 10-step routines, marketing spin lauding anti-ageing products, and an overwhelming amount of products in the market, it can be hard to sort fiction from fact when it comes to beauty. We love to tell it like it is (after all, our founder Sharon is known as a ‘truth speaker’ and the motto of our blog is sharing all the stuff the beauty industry doesn’t want you to know!) so here we debunk 5 common skincare and beauty myths to set the record straight. Myth 1. You need a specific type of cleanser  While it’s true that there are different...

Part 1. The privilege of ageing  Age is - let's face it - a construct. We know that depending on where in the world we live, we may hold very different views on ageing. But, when exposed constantly to unrealistic images, the more we tend to question our own image staring back at us in the mirror. How funny that when we’re kids we think of being in our 20s as unimaginable, and when we're a teenager we think of being in our 30's as ancient. Once we hit our 20's, being 40-something is heading for retirement and as we hit...

What do you think of when you hear the word marketing? When most people think about marketing, they might think of tactics like paid advertising via magazines, or television commercials, email marketing, or social media and influencer marketing. While the media landscape has changed over the years, brands typically follow a blueprint of how to 'successfully' market themselves in the modern landscape. And part of that, is never talking publicly about their marketing practices! We want to change that. We want to flip the script and explain our marketing strategy as it centers on empower women and men to feel...