MOR Cosmetics.

MOR Cosmetics is the brainchild of Australian designers, Dianna Burmas and Deon St.Mor. Thanks to their combined experiences in visual merchandising and industrial design, as well as a shared love for travel, food and the arts a brand was launched. MOR, meaning peacock in Hindi, is as luxurious to look at as it is to use.

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Reckon Onesies.

I’m nowhere close to having a baby, but sometimes a girl just sees something that can make her ovaries ache the slightest bit. Like these hip and cool onesies from Reckon.

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Red Ruby Rose Clutches.

The clutches at Red Ruby Rose are some of the hottest I’ve seen. Rowena, the designer behind the shop, crafts them as an outlet to her ever-increasingly digital day job. She even creates some of the fabrics using her own photography and collage techniques. All of the colors and patterns are incredibly varied, so you’re sure to find something that catches your eye. I found about ten on the first page alone!

:: via Rare Bird Finds

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Karpati.


Australian-made Karpati nail polishes are free from toluene, formaldehyde and dibutyl phthalate which is great because they’re all unnecessary and potentially harmful chemicals.

But what I would buy this polish for is the bottle design alone. It’s super functional by slipping over two fingers, eliminating the need for a surface to set the bottle on. I’ve spilled more than my share of nail polish and ruined countless things in the process and this is such a simple, effective design solution. (Although it irks me that the image has dark red being painted onto orangey-red nails, which is odd and inconsistent… is that strange?)

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Glasses Shop.

The last pair of glasses I bought was waaay back in 2001. They’re a sweet black cat-eyed pair from Nicole Miller and I’ve replaced the lenses probably three times since then. I love wearing my glasses at least three days of the week and they’re in rotation with a pair from Calvin Klein and another from Nautica. But who am I kidding, glasses are freakin’ expensive and I can’t afford to drop a couple hundred every time I want an updated look!

Luckily, I now have greedy girl to thank for introducing me to Glasses Shop. It’s online which is way better than a trip to the eye doc’s and even more importantly it’s cheap. I just called my optometrist and asked them to release my prescription and after a little bit of paperwork (boring legal stuff) I had it in my hot little hands! Now I’m on the hunt for a new pair of glasses. Right now these two are in the running…

{left: Juliana; right: Priscilla}

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