Hello spring, it’s good to see you! I’m glad that the winter hasn’t been too cold and now that we’ve transitioned to spring, I’m keeping my fingers tightly crossed that hay fever doesn’t kick me in the behind like it always does. One thing about spring is that it’s a good reminder for me to [...]

I love chatting about skincare to anyone who would listen and when I’m given the opportunity to pick the brains of an expert, I bring out my brain-picking arsenal of questions :P. I recently had the pleasure of doing an email interview with Emma Hobson from the International Dermal Institute (IDI). The IDI is a [...]

© Mart1n Sigh … beauty regrets. I sure have them. You know all those little secret behaviours we engage in, the things we shouldn’t do but still did anyway? Or perhaps it’s something we don’t even know is bad for us yet still indulge in? For example, let’s talk about bright blue matte eyeshadow. I [...]

When I write about sunscreens, often the feedback I get is that people do use sunscreen on their face but they tend to “forget” the body. I had a chat with my mum, mother-in-law and aunties about the use of sunscreen when I was back in Malaysia last month (I’m on a shove-sunscreen-down-your-throat crusade, I [...]