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Blue Cactus makeover promotion has an $8,000 top prize

January 24, 2010/0.26

Check out this great promotion from Blue Cactus (in which we’re involved, too), where you can win an NZ$8,000 prize package, as explained by our fashion editor Samantha Hannah. If you have a friend who you’d love to makeover, you can nominate them for the Blue Cactus Hairdressing Ultimate Makeover, which includes NZ$1,950 of hair […]

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Behind the scenes with Sylvie van der Vaart on the BMW hair test

November 15, 2009/9.31

At the end of last month, we covered a publicity stunt from BMW, where former Miss Bundesliga Sylvie van der Vaart put two BMW 3er convertibles, separated by 20 years, the hair test. Sitting in a wind tunnel, van der Vaart, arguably Germany’s and the Netherlands’ most famous WAG, had her hair blown about severely […]

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Sylvie van der Vaart gives BMW the hair test

October 29, 2009/22.57

Former Miss Bundesliga and the Netherlands’ and Germany’s most famous WAG, Sylvie van der Vaart, puts the BMW convertible to the hair test in the company’s München wind tunnel. The full story is here on our website. You may also like Behind the scenes with Sylvie van der Vaart on the BMW hair test Lucire […]

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Wooden gown wins supreme World of Wearable Art Award

September 25, 2009/13.37

Alaskan David Walker has won the Supreme award at the Montana World of Wearable Art Awards (WOW), held Friday night at the TSB Bank Arena in Wellington, New Zealand.    Walker’s Lady of the Wood, which takes the silhouette of an eighteenth- to nineteenth-century ball gown, but is made of mahogany, lacewood, maple and cedar, […]

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Props to Balliage

September 9, 2009/10.22

I gave Balliage (22 Brandon Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand) a plug on telly a few years ago, and I think John Birnie and his team deserve another. This year, only Karen at Vanilla (also a fantastic salon) and various stylists at Balliage, principally Ahn-Tuan Dinh, have looked after my hair. Here are some of […]

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Twiggy’s 60th birthday exhibition hits London, September 19

July 8, 2009/13.48

Above: The iconic image of Twiggy, aged 16 and weighing 90 lb, photographed by Barry Lategan in 1966. It has been known that a book celebrating Twiggy’s 60th birthday, Twiggy: a Life in Photographs, will be published by the National Portrait Gallery this year, but only today has news emerged about the dates for an […]

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Icons Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett dead

June 25, 2009/22.47

TMZ was the first to report that pop star Michael Jackson had passed away after suffering cardiac arrest at his home. Presently, mainstream media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times are confirming the news, based on their sources.    Jackson’s death comes on the same day another icon, Farrah Fawcett, died after a long […]

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A Long Term Relationship with hair

June 16, 2009/13.01

Given the long hair trend is back in a big way, it was refreshing to learn of a new Clairol product especially geared to it. Herbal Essences Long Term Relationship has higher conditioning levels, which should guard against damage better. Not bad for a mass-market brand, with shampoo, conditioner and treatment mask. There’s a red […]

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Five days in New Zealand with Summer Rayne Oakes

June 11, 2009/10.14

It’s been a wonderful few days chilling out with our ed.-at-large, Summer Rayne Oakes, in Lucire’s home country of New Zealand to promote her book, Style, Naturally.    Summer Rayne was out this way to attend Greenfest in Brisbane, Queensland, and decided that she should venture to New Zealand to see us and to give […]

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From the A pillar to Verve

May 31, 2009/16.58

I know Lucire is not a car maga­zine, but I thought I should clarify my state­ments about the A-pillar area on the Peu­geot 308 SW being messy. At left is a photo­graph I took on my old cell illus­trating what I meant. Some people might like all these lines that go nowhere and every­where—I don’t. […]

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