• Haircare & Colouring Systems,  How-to & Tutorials,  Tested by me (reviews & swatches)

    Avon Advance Techniques Sphere Brush – review and tutorial

    A microphone? You’re getting colder… no, you’re getting warmer: we all played with it in this way… I introduce you Avon Advance Techniques Sphere Brush, a hair styling tool with a fun and unusual shape that might leave people wondering. This brush adds volume, does hair set and, most of all, creates natural-looking waves. Avon’s Sphere Brush is a lightweight and easy-to-handle hair tool, which weighs just around 80 grams and it’s about 24 cm long; it has an anatomical and non-slippery handle. It’s black with fuchsia details and its material has a velvety texture. This brush has nylon bristles and its head is perforated allowing hot and cold air to…

  • Design & Lifestyle,  Latest Trends

    The Japanese Way to Snap Selfies

    “Different folks, different strokes” and this happens with the “selfie-mania” too. In Japan, where everything has a jolly twist, even taking a self-portrait with your smartphone becomes kawaii. Being cute and innocent is somewhat, somehow something normal and sensual.Gothic lolitas, Decora, maid cafés… if you’re familiar with these terms, then you know what I mean. Don’t surprise if in Japan people snap selfies like suffering from the worst toothache experience ever or showing off a funny duck face, so that the typical and overrated “Starbucks paper cup selfie” won’t be that foregone and boring anymore. Maybe you’re going to laugh but this instructional video and the following quick reportage on the road will explain…

  • Bath & Body Care,  Tips & Tricks

    How to Do a Pedicure at Home with Avon Foot Works

    Sun, heat and long days suggest that’s the right time to finally show our feet! Before showing off fashionable sandals and flip flops, we must take care of them (our feet again), even without the help of a professional aesthetician. With a spare afternoon and some specific products, like those from Avon Foot Works line I’ve been using since 2007, an at home pedicure is no longer a problem and becomes an effortless and enjoyable experience.  A DIY pedicure is a moment of pure relaxation that everyone, especially housewives, can afford: a quiet half an hour, a basin filled with warm water, a foot rasper or file and a hydrating…