This article was originally intended for one of my journalistic projects. Earlier this year I was commissioned to write a brief analysis of the German beauty blogosphere; what it looks like, who the main players are and a description of the major trends and dynamics. Continue reading
Exhibition: “Berlin.Status [2]” at Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Künstlerhaus Bethanien is opening a new exhibition on 24th May 2013 which showcases the works of over 50 Berlin-based artists born between 1978 and 1984. Berlin.Status [2] takes a look at contemporary creative and artistic tendencies in the city – it’s a kind of follow-up exhibition to a similar show Bethanien organised last year, hence the [2] in the exhibition name. Continue reading
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Trade show: Global Art of Perfumery 2013
Global Art of Perfumery is coming to Berlin (yay!) – it’s a trade show for premium perfumes and cosmetics which used to take place in Düsseldorf. I visited Global Art in 2010 when I was in town for Beauty International – they had a rather impressive line-up of premium fragrance manufacturers and distributors. Continue reading
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Market: Voodoo Market in June 2013, Friedrichshain
Over the past few years I’ve come across quite a few Voodoo Market posters (it takes place every once in a while – twice a year or something like that?) It’s an arts/crafts/vintage/designer market, check it out here: http://voodoomarket.wordpress.com/. The next Voodoo Market (organised in cooperation with Hamburg-based Mädelsflohmarkt ) will take place on Saturday, 8th June 2013 from 1pm to 8pm at Urban Spree (another location I’ve been meaning to visit!) and I fully intend to go this time!
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Globe-M: “Agoraphobia” exhibition at Tanas gallery – article
Tanas gallery is opening a new exhibition soon: “Agoraphobia” takes a look at the multi-layered connections between collective public action and urban public spaces: www.tanasberlin.de/index.php?lang=en&nav=vorschau – it’s the opening exhibition for the 13th Turkish Biennal art show in Istanbul. Continue reading
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Asian colourants: Liese, Schwarzkopf & Beautylabo
I came back to Berlin from my travels in Asia with some 45 kilos of luggage. An additional 5 kilos (mainly face masks, teas and dried flowers, together with plastic Daiso odds and ends) are still in transit via surface mail from Singapore and should arrive in about two months or so. And about 15 kilos of the luggage consisted of cosmetics – including three really cool hair colourants which I bought in Thailand. Continue reading
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Retail notes from Bangkok: Niche beauty from Thailand
I just came back from a short trip to Bangkok where I did some sightseeing, met up with friends and ate as much papaya salad as I could. And of course I also went shopping! Bangkok has some jaw-dropping malls, like gigantic Centralworld (which includes the rather cool Zen department store – this is the store that was damaged by fire together with a part of Centralworld during the riots of 2010 and on my last trip to Bangkok, 2011, it was still being renovated). Continue reading
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Retail notes from Singapore: [Company Profile] The Daiso empire
Ever so slightly off topic (since Daiso’s not a Singaporean company) but what the heck, it’s my blog and I can write whatever I like!
So now you’ll be hearing about one of my favourite Asian retail chains ever: Japanese household goods discounter chain Daiso. I discovered Daiso during my first trip to Japan (well, my first trip to Japan as an adult) and immediately became a fan. Continue reading
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Retail notes from Singapore: 7-11 travel-sized C&T
The 7-11 convenience store chain over here has introduced a very attractive way of presenting travel sized cosmetics – slim towers of small cardboard boxes filled with cosmetics from a wide range of brands. Continue reading
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Retail notes from Singapore: Masked beauty
One of my favourite Asian product categories is face masks and more precisely, foldable cloth masks. It is by far the popular mask format over here and virtually all the brands on sale are from Taiwan, Korea or Japan. Continue reading
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TRENDS. TRAVELS. AND BERLIN 