Your new homepage has arrived!

Pelactiv's new website is now LIVE!

Apart from it being AMAZINGLY FABTABULOUS, ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL & DOWNRIGHT SMASHING. It really does bring out the essence of the brand and targets both the professional and consumer world of beauty.

But, don't take my word for it. Check it out for yourself. Click any of the links below:

www.pelactiv.com.au

www.pelactiv.com.au


Over and out lovers,

Girl Next Door xoxo

What I am obsessing over right now.....!

Morning Winter Snow Bunnies,

Just a quick post this morning before I run and jump into the work playground that is my office right now (surrounded by pink and blue Pelactiv bags for Beauty Expo). Seriously. I can't move my chair without one gliding underneath it!

How divine is the below ad?


OK, so I am a LITTLE biast but the girl's at Women's Health agree with me too. If you want to check it out in all its glory, then grab a copy of the latest Women's Health and call 1800 655 745 for your nearest stockist.


OK plug over.

Stay warm,

Girl Next Door xoxo

Updates from the World of Beauty

Hi there Thought Fans,

Soooooo, I do this Weekly-News-Letter-type-thingy for work and I was thinking that you would probably benefit from it as well. Basically, I send out an email every Friday to the Pelactiv staffers and fill them in on what's going on in the Land Of Beauty - media wise. What's hot, what's not, what's going on sale, who's looking good, who's looking crap - you know all the important stuff.

This one is from last week. So may be a little outdated. But I will post the one I wrote today on Monday (just so you have to come back and visit moi again. Mhaaaa. Evil I know.). But, I do LOVE it when you visit.

Anyways have a looksie at what happened in Beautyland last week.

Sydney Hair Expo graced the shores of Darling Harbour over the long weekend. Hair Experts came from far and wide to see what this year’s installment of the popular expo had in store for them.

The Schwarzkopf Professional Hair Expo Hairdressing Award winners were announced across 13 categories on Monday, June 8. The longest running awards in the Australian Hair Industry, the Hair Expo awards are a pretty big deal for hairdresssers in Oz. And the winners are (insert drum roll here)…………………..

Australian Hairdresser of the Year: Caterina DiBiase, Heading Out Hair & Beauty, Melbourne
New Zealand Hairdresser of the Year: Adrian Barclay, Venom, Invercargill, NZ
Colour Technician of the Year: Jacen Ward, TONI&GUY, Paddington, NSW
Salon Team of the Year: Gary Latham, Wild Life Hair, Milsons Point, NSW
New Creative Force: Jason Fassbender, Parlour Hair, Malvern, SA
Session Hair Stylist of the Year: Benn Jae, Look Production & Management, Darlinghurst, NSW
Apprentice of the Year: Alexandra Kontos, Nischler, Hobart, TAS
Best New Salon Design: Cranium Hair, Manly, NSW
Best Photographic Collection: Caterina DiBiase, Heading Out Hair & Beauty, Fitzroy, VIC
Entrepreneur of the Year: Dennis Langford, TONI&GUY, Paddington, NSW
Excellence in Salon Marketing: TONI&GUY, Paddington, NSW
Excellence in Hairdressing Education, Registered Organisation: BIBA Academy, Fitzroy, VIC
Excellence in Hairdressing Education, Individual: Sharon Blain, The Art of Hair, Pennant Hills, NSW
Hall of Fame Inductee: Anthony and Susa Wynne-Hoelscher

Round of applause for those winners.

And, while we’re on hair, The-Wacky-Hair-Gizmo-That-We-Like-The-Concept-Of-But-Really-Don’t-Need-Award goes to…………. (can we get that drum roll again please?)

…………………………..Dario Controneo for launching MyCurl

Leading hair stylist Dario Controneo has launched the MyCurl, a curling utensil that works with hair straighteners to provide a range of wavy hairstyles. The MyCurl is Australian-made and has already been used on celebrities, i.e. Natalie Bassingthwaighte. “It’s a styler for the hair iron,” says Controneo. “It takes out the technique of creating wavy hair. There are four different characters each represent a different look you can achieve with the MyCurl and we will continue to launch a new character and style each month. “We started with sketches of a figure eight as that is the shape we needed to create the right curl. We then experimented with the bend of the ‘S’ – a tighter bend means a tighter curl. The strap though is a miracle worker, it was the hardest thing to do. Once we got the shape of the ‘S’, developing the strap took another year.” Really? A WHOLE YEAR to develop the strap….hhhmmmm. Cool concept but doesn’t the GHD already do good enough curls? PLUS! How random does it look?!

The Lob, it seems is the new ‘It’ Haircut as seen on Gwynie Paltrow (below).

Katie Holmes has also had a hair makeover (below).

Pretty darn smokin’ if you ask me. She’s looking much more like the Katie Holmes we all feel in love with - when she spent her nights climbing in and out of Dawson’s window wayyyy back in the day (Pre-I'm-married-to-a-scientology-psycho). Am still wondering why the costume department didn't make it compolsory that she WEAR A BRA. In every episode.

I just had to include this pic below….talk about YUM! But, actually this strapping young man, Tyson Ritter (he even has a hot name!) is the lead singer of ‘All American Rejects’, they sing that song, ‘When you see my face, Hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell’, yup, now you’re going to have that one in your head all day. Anyway, Ty has just been signed on to Hugo BOSS to promote their new men’s fragrance, BOSS in Motion White, set to hit our stores on the 26th of July 2009. The sexy scent features blood orange combined with cinnamon bark, saffron and black pepper as well as vetiver, which makes the scent smell very very hot. MMmmmmmm. Definitely one to put on the list for future boyf gifts. But, seriously, I think we all just need to stop what we’re doing and take in this ad that is very, VERY close to perfection.

Interesting piece of info # 48…I found this survey on the SMH site and below are the results after 133 people had voted:

Question: Are you spending less on beauty products during these hard economic times?
91 answered YES

AND

42 answered NO

Interesting….. especially for those of us who work in Skin Care. i.e me.

On that note I will leave you with the sounds of the rain and the 10 degree evening I am about to shimmy out into.

Peace Out,

Girl Next Door xoxo

Sorry about the no-posting of late. My bad! But I have NEWS!

So you know how I was going to take you into the lives (and mine as well) of my friends dating lives? Well it actually turns out that my friends (and myself) don't really want to kiss and tell. And I'm not sure if you guys warmed to my whole Sex & The City/The Hills-style blog. Am I right? I usually am.

It just so happens that I've taken a different direction into the media world and found myself smack-bang right in the middle of a very delightful skincare office.

The brand? Pelactiv.

The gig? PR & Marketing Manager.

The conclusion? Best. Job. Ever. After my gig at Girlfriend of course!

Any hoots, if you want to check out a more in-depth/celeb-style version of my movements click here.

I know you're DYING to know about the amazing products I am flogging so just press here. The site is at this very minute under construction but if you check back in the next few days you can see for yourself why I am so besotted with my new job! In the meantime, you can lust over the few products that are displayed on the 'Under Construction' page.

I'm thinking this blog is best suited to updating you on all things Pelactiv and beauty PR related from now on. It's a pretty fast-paced, fun and exciting industry to be involved in, but let me know. I need updates on your lives too! Leave me a comment bloggies.

Yours in mountains of cream cleansers,

Girl Next Door x

P.S Contrary to popular belief the girl in the pic is NOT moi.

In case you hadn't noticed....

...it's the New Year! Welcome to 2009 lovelies!

I hope the year has already brought some magic into your lives whether it be in your work life, home life - alright I'll just cut to the chase and tell you what I'm really interested in hearing about -your love life! Pashes, one night stands, seeing someone on and off, waiting for Him to text you, sending him a flirty text. I want to know ALL about it. And, as promised I have done somewhat of a re-vamp with my little blog that you have all come to know and love. But guess what? Now you're going to love it even more.

This year Thoughts will be doing her best to bring you more into the heads of those creatures we just can't live without - men! By bringing you into the real (very dramatic - real dramatic though not Home & Away/The Hills dramatic) lives of her and her close friends.

So without further ado........welcome to my first 2009 post of re-vamped Thoughts from your average girl next door!

Peace Out,

Girl Next Door xoxo

P.S If you have a boy dilemma or something you think needs explaining or you just want to tell me how great/not so great my blog is email Girl Next Door at thoughts@live.com.au

Sending out some pre-Christmas cheer as I wave buh-bye to Oz for a few weeks

I have to apologise for my lack of posts lately. But I have had a legitimate reason of why I haven’t been your blogging bestie for the past few weeks. I have been preparing myself to leave the country! Yep that trip I have been geeing up to you for the past ooh, 10 months now is finally just around the river bend. I leave on Monday morning to start one of the most amazing (and hectic) holidays of my life (so far).

The funny thing is I have always wondered why my mum (and anyone else for that matter) has gotten so stressed out before they leave to go overseas. The whole ‘I can’t wait to get on that plane’ thought is very true. Especially when you’re jetting off half way around the world by yourself. I have travelled by myself before on a plane and driven to many destinations on my lonesome but to have actually stepped foot in another country on my own, never happened. Ever.

You may be gasping at your screens right now and thinking, ‘How is it that at the ripe old age of 23 has she not done the whole ‘travelling thing’ on her own.’ To be completely honest with you, I have never felt the urge to do so. When all my friends were packing up their rooms and farewelling their parents for a year on the Canadian slopes or sipping a cappuccino and scoffing down a gelato in Rome I was getting up at the crack of dawn to travel to what made me very happy and content at that point in my life. My job. And as many of my regular readers would know that was of course my role at Girlfriend Magazine. It was by far the most fun and exciting job I have ever had and I feel so blessed that I had the chance to experience such a great job at such a young age. So many of the friendships I made at GF (I know) will be apart of my life forever. Phoebe, the then fashion assistant is travelling to New York with me and when we get back we’re moving out together! Talk about mean’t-to-be?! Not to mention all the people who I had the privilege of meeting along the way during my time at Girlfriend. You know who you are.

Anyway the point I’m trying to make is that when it comes to going overseas or even if you’re travelling locally any kind of break away from home is always good. It leaves room for the mind and spirit to awaken themselves. More so than if you’re just doing the same day-to-day-existing-as-a-person-in-your-little-sheltered-(and in my case Northern Beaches sheltered)-world. I know I’m going to get a shock when I step my Steve Madden sandals onto American soil - my friends have already warned me about getting pulled aside randomly when entering a U.S airport from another country and the security factor. But I am intrigued and very excited. It’s definately time for me to fly the nest and grow and flourish a little more.

On that note I want to wish all of you a safe and happy festive season. I really hope you all take the time you need to relax and catch up with the people that you love. I will try and check in with you over the break and upload some pictures for you to see what I’m up to. Thanks for reading this year. I have a lot planned for you in 2009. And you didn’t hear it from me but I am getting together some ideas for a bit of a re-vamp for Thoughts. I’ll be focusing more on relationships and sex and most importantly men and how they think compared to how we as women think. Ring any bells? I’m going to take Carrie Bradshaw’s lead and give you the info you need on boys/men and relationships – coz let’s face it, who doesn’t want to read about sex and hot men? Any topics you’d like to see me cover in particular, please email me at thoughts@live.com.au

Peace, love & jingle bells,

Girl Next Door xoxo

You know how I am friends with one of the coolest beauty ed's in Sydney?

Well, she has this site beautyeditor.com.au, you may heard of it? A very popular and highly commended site within the mag/beauty industry/beauty addicts around the world.

Guess what?! I just so happen to be her Reader of the Week, this week!

Excited much? Me too!

Check it out by clicking here.

Have a fab-tabulous weekend bloggettes!

Peace Out,

Girl Next Door xoxo