I’ve never even heard of a-england nail polishes until a group of gorgeous, nail polish-crazy friends from Malaysia (the #evurl gang) began raving about them. When Beetrice asked me if I wanted to get some on the action too, I figured why not? I selected Dragon and Saint George, and today I’m going to show you Saint George.

Saint George – Bearer of a valiant & courageous heart, this fathomless teal reveals the strength of the brave knight’s convictions with his gleaming, fiery core.

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You know how blogs about blogging always say that content is king? They tell you that you need to create quality content and that great content will draw readers to your blog.

Often when I see bloggers write that, I feel like screaming the question – what the heck is this content you keep telling us about? What do you mean by quality content? Isn’t it annoying when they don’t tell you what that content is?

Gah!

What does creating quality content mean for beauty bloggers? Beauty blogs are somewhat synonymous to product review websites; it seems that that is what the world thinks it’s all we do. We review beauty products (purchased by us or provided by brands for consideration) on our blogs. Is that it? Is that the only content we can create for our blogs?

Au contraire mon amie!

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You know those “I-simply-can’t-be-arsed” days? Yeah I’m having one today. And on days like these, there are just some things I really cannot be bothered with. Yes, even on skincare.

Waking up on the wrong side of the bed, having to rush out of the house still feeling like poo, I just don’t have the time and energy to slap on my usual 5 layers of day lotions and potions that I normally do. And this is even before putting makeup on! I need a good multitasker and I need it pronto.

That’s when I have good multitasking skincare products on standby. One of them is Olay’s Complete Defence Daily UV Moisturising Lotion SPF30+, which I picked up from one of my grocery runs at Coles.

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