Why nixing sugar in your system is not a diet
Above: Summer Rayne Oakes’s SugarDetoxMe: 100+ Recipes to Curb Cravings and Take Back Your Health, the result of a “sugar cleanse” she went on from 2014. To get people off sugar, Summer Rayne’s even created a programme to help others do the same. Below left: Summer Rayne Oakes. I never thought I could nix my […]
Fashion Cities Africa gives a snapshot of four cities on a varied, rich continent
The second largest continent on the planet is, logically, home to a massive number of fashion designers and movements, although out of Africa, there hasn’t been as much recognition of them till recently. Fashion Cities Africa, the book, inspired by the exhibition of the same name at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery that opens […]
It’s full circle for style.com: back to its origins in fashion retail
Top Earlier today, attempting to get into Style.com meant a virus warning—the only trace of this curiosity is in the web history. Above Style.com is back, with a note that it will be transforming into an e-tail site. If there’s one constant in fashion, it’s change. The other one, which we notice thanks to a […]
The Body Shop’s Fuji Green Tea range: satisfying at every level, from bath tea to cologne
Top The Body Shop’s Fuji Green Tea range. Above The pièce de résistance of the range: the bath tea. Below left The huge bargain of them all: an eau de cologne that’s comparable to something twice the price. The Body Shop’s latest Fuji Green Tea range, on sale in New Zealand from Monday, April 20, […]
Dove encourages women to see themselves as beautiful with new campaign; summit session announced
Dove wants to change the way women think about themselves with its new campaign, called Choose Beautiful. According to its 2010 research, 96 per cent of women do not choose the word beautiful to describe how they look. Its new five-minute film, shot in San Francisco, Shanghai, New Delhi, London and São Paulo, encourages women […]
Polaroid projection: originality in the digital age
In a modern context, we look to social media to promote us and to expand our visibility in the world. Images are posted and reposted, only to be reposted again. Even this blog is an attempt to promote what I want the world to see of myself, to reach more people than I see in […]
Lucire’s new web look: a change for the better
Top The new look for Lucire’s web edition home page. Deeper and cleaner than before. Since this screen shot was taken, we’ve made even more improvements. Leading a redesign is always exciting, especially when there are more quiet news days at this time of the year. If you’ve surfed through our home page, or […]
An explanation for the political ads on Lucire
New Zealand readers will be seeing a few advertisements around this site relating to the local body election in Wellington. And perhaps, thanks to programming not always being precise, a few more readers outside New Zealand will notice them, too, although we have targeted them for this country alone. I think it’s time to explain […]
