Over the years I have been given and collected a lot of charms, some strung on various bracelets, some lying loose and lonely in dusty pouches in a drawer in my dressing table.
I’ve been meaning to go through them all with a view to soldering the ones I love most on to on my own charm bracelet but until recently, have never got round to it. Read More
Singapore Tatler’s Fashion Hall of Fame is strictly reserved for expensive and wonderfully outrageous dressers. I am sadly neither. This year’s party for the annual inauguration into the esoteric school of dressing was on Monday night at the Pan Pacific Hotel and – among other things – provided spectacular people watching. Read More
My hair looks terrible at the moment. I choose to blame this turn of events entirely on the humidity (nothing to do with the highlights then). Blow dries may fix things temporarily – at Ghim Moh market they cost me just $16 (£8) which is not even guilt-inducing – but to stop looking like a frizz-head for longer, my latest find that actually seems to work is Burt’s Bees Avocado Butter Pre-Shampoo. Slap it onto wet hair and do something for about 15 minutes before washing it as normal. Read More
As one of my more geli (if that word makes no sense to you, read it as squeamish) friends said to me when I was bemoaning the lack of vintage dress shops here in Singapore, “Darling, I just don’t like to buy anything that someone might have sweated in or died in.” I know what she’s saying; I just never think too hard about it. There is also the rather more obvious solution of giving everything you buy that’s been worn before (and not by you) a jolly good wash. Read More
You’d be forgiven for thinking this picture was taken on a beach. Tanjong beach in Sentosa maybe. Nope, this was taken yesterday at Raffles Place which has been transformed in to an old fashioned playground complete with roundabout, swing seats, seesaws and picnic tables. Read More
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