Scarves – how to wear the latest fashions

While it’s not winter yet, autumn fashion is definitely in full swing. One of the best accessories (after bags and shoes, of course) is the simple scarf. South Africans are known for wearing scarves all year round and you will often see a person wearing a light, breezy scarf with a t-shirt. Whether

Harness the hair trends of 2012

The best hair trends of 2011 are being reworked and tweaked for the 2012 spring season and the name of the number one trend is “iconic revival”. Most of the hairstyles that are coming off the runways and magazine pages are modernistic and evolutionary, while still remaining traditional and classic.

The myth of the fat burning zone

Does this sound familiar: you regularly do cardio classes at the gym – you katabox, step and zumba, work up a sweat and go home. You spend hours on the elliptical glider – you’re not really sweating, but you’re exercising, so you should be losing weight, right? Not necessarily.A lot of us ladies foc

Eskom warns of blackouts

South Africa’s national electricity supplier, Eskom, has released a press statement warning of a high risk of rolling blackouts in the near future. The parastatel maintains that it is doing all that it can to prevent such blackouts and supply problems from occurring.

Going green and losing weight

For many people, going green isn’t a once-off decision – it’s a gradual process that takes time and commitment. Healthy weight control and health have always been important to people, but recently a higher emphasis has been placed on green living

Valentine’s Day macarons

Instead of buying teddy bears and cards, make your own Valentine’s Day macarons this year. You can’t go wrong with macarons – it’s the new cupcake. Besides the sudden popularity of this baked good, everyone knows that a personalised, thoughtful, homemade Valentine’s Day gift is much better than buyi

Make it a fashionable February

Seeing as we’re (finally) starting to get over the massive expenditures of the December holiday, we thought it would be a good idea to fill everyone in on some of the new up and coming fashion trends to invest in.