Clean Up Crew – Keep your Home Clean in 2021

Keeping your home clean and tidy is hard work, let’s not beat around the bush, but it doesn’t have to be a horrible chore that makes you want to run and hide.

Today, I wanted to share a couple of tricks I’ve picked up along the way that have changed the way I think about cleaning – dare I say it, I actually enjoy cleaning my house! So, hopefully if you’re not feeling it, I can help to inspire you.

Because at the end of the day, no matter how stylish your home, a clean home is so much better!

Celebrating Cucumbers Today

Today is a rather unusual day to celebrate, but it’s a good one! It’s Hendrick’s World Cucumber Day. And in honour of this day, I’m sharing a few unusual cucumber growing tips from Hendrick’s Gin, who conducted a very different kind of experiment, which revealed cucumbers to be highly sensitive to sound, scent and touch! So, if you want to grow the most glorious cucumbers for your G&T’s, then you may want to crank up your playlist, make better choices on what other plants you plant them with and start swaddling those glorious greens. Sound kinda crazy – you ain’t seen nothing yet…

Combat Winter Hair Static

I wont lie! I’m not loving my hair in Jozi winters! The colder it gets, the warmer I dress, the more my hair stands up like the bride of Frankenstein! I’ve searched high and low and done “everything” to try keep the frizz down and for the first couple of weeks, nothing worked! But I kept searching, and I have finally found my fix! It’s a combination of a few things, but this combo really works. It’s really dry in Jozi, and the dryness doesn’t help with my hair. When I first moved here, Chantelle, AKA Not Another Poppie suggested that I “just get a humidifier” and not wait, since it was needed in Jozi. It took me a while, but I eventually got one, and it’s really made a difference in my hair (and my skin for that matter). I’ve only had it a for a few days, but it’s a great little helper. After I wash my hair, I add a little bit of Moroccanoil to it while it’s damp. Then, I use a little bit more to smooth down the ends after I’ve dried and ironed it. Don’t laugh! This step is probably the game changer that made all the difference.…

5 Easy Tips to Paint Your Nails Like a Pro!

I like nail-polish! No wait, I am obsessed with nail-polish and I am obsessed with changing my nails up, but what I am really not obsessed with, is how blah my nails look when I paint them myself. Whenever Jo-D does my nails, she does such an amazing job and I always loooove them! Me, I have a tendency to paint over my cuticles and just can’t get it right! Now, this is something I have seen a lot of – so I definitely don’t feel alone. But becuase I want perfect paws, like a pro, I asked Jo-D for some help. And, becuase my bloggy is all about sharing the fabulousness, I’ve got Jo-D’s tips and tricks to painting the perfect manicure right here on StyleScooop! Turns out, it’s actually pretty easy! And all it really requires is paying attention and following the correct pre and post nail painting steps. Check out step 4 for the big one! This one makes all the difference! Paint away pretties… 1. Only use quality products Jo-D says “cheap nasties will stain your nails, and leave you with chipped fingertips in no time“. Personally, since I’ve reviewed hundreds of brands of nail polish, I definitely agree with Jo-D. The ones I think are worth investing in are…

How to Hang Your Jeans

Finding your jeans in your closet can be quite frustrating! I used to store mine, folded on top of one another on a shelf, and I could never find which pair I was looking for! In fact, I hardly knew what jeans I had! After re-arranging my Closet Room (here’s what it looked like before – I still need to do that post on the updated layout by the way), I managed to squeeze in a bit more hanging space, so I decided to dedicate a rail (well half a rail) to storing my jeans. I now hang all my jeans in a way that I can see them properly! Not only the colour, but the cut, style, and most importantly for me, the leg. I am a jeans person, so I love my skinnies, bootlegs and boyfriend jeans. Hanging and displaying them like this has made a huge difference in helping me find “just the right pair”. I have three basic hanging methods, all using wooden hangers. I mostly hang my jeans by slipping the back belt loops onto the sides of the hanger. This works for most of my Demi-Curve Levi’s jeans becuase they are low waisted and have enough “room”…

Beautiful Shoe Storage Idea You Could DIY

It took me a while to get onto the whole “pinning” bandwagon, but I’m absolutely hooked! It’s amazing how many great ideas you can find on Pinterest ! Take for example this awesome shoe storage solution made from empty wine crates! The Roomblr is responsible for this genius idea and when I saw it, I just had to share. At the moment all my shoes are stored in shoe rails in my closet room, which is great, but I still think that displaying heels on shelves shows off the full prettiness of shoe. Unfortunately I’m not much of a wine drinker, so I have no clue where to get empty crates, but hey, StyleScoop is all about sharing ideas and inspiration, so if you can get your hands on some, go for it! After seeing this Pinsperation, I found something similar that would probably work just as well (if not better) at The Homemakers Expo this weekend. Pine cubes with different designs. These could be stacked on top of, and next to each other to create a shoe library. As much as I love my closet slash dressing room, I’m getting tired of it being so “racky; so one of…

Cute & Clever Storage

I’m a little OTT when it comes to storing and organizing stuff. You’ll know this if you’ve seen my closet room, my makeup storage ideas (here and here) or how I store my bling rings so that I can find and see them. The only thing that was a little out of control, was my hair accessories. They were all over the place, and like most of you I’m sure, I was buying more and more. That was until I got this awesome little storage bag from the fab peeps over at SassDiva as a Women’s Day gift earlier in August. It was packed with all sorts of Diva goodies, including some lovely pastel nail polishes, fun coloured hair bands, retro earrings, studs, a gorgeous gold collar and some other fun things like a manicure set and girly earphones, all of which are available from SassDiva. When I saw how this cute and clever gift came packed, I thought it would be the perfect way to store my hair accessories. Take a look… It’s got loads of little zipper compartments, which makes storing and seeing your stuff awesome. Plus, it’s got a little hanger so you can hang it in your wardrobe or behind your…

Smart, easy ways to store your makeup

Makeup is one of those things you want to be able to find quickly and easily. You don’t want to spend an hour looking for your favourite lip gloss or digging through messy drawers to find your fave mascara to finish off a simple look, so what do you do? Today, I’m going to share some smart, easy and very do-able ways to store your makeup so that you can access your stash in no time flat. How to store eye shadows and powders When storing eye shadows and powders, you want to be able to see what you’ve got at one quick glance. I find the best way store these is to lie them flat so you can see the colour pots. These little guys are amazeballs! You can store your makeup how ever you want, by colour, by looks or how I have, by brand. I got these drawers from Builders Warehouse (how fabulous – not) but they are the best! I’ve seen them at Game too, and CNA have smaller ones so go check it out. The drawers hold a surprisingly large number of eye shadow and blusher pots and I’ve still got space for more, more,…

DIY Post – How to Make Your Own Closet Room

After posting my Closet Room the other day I got so many requests from you guys asking where I got the wardrobes and how to set them up etc.  Believe it or not these babies came from Mr Price Home and at only R899 a piece. I’ve got four of them that we joined together to create my Closet Room. Here’s how you can get your own… CLOSET IN A BOX Each one of the wardrobes come in a box that you assemble yourself. It’s fairly easy to get the wardrobe up yourself, but its great if you have some help. I’m glad my hubby helped me put my wardrobes up as he came up with the idea to join the two together, making them look like a single unit. You can place the shelves wherever you want, they don’t have to be exactly as the instruction. You will however need a bottom shelf for support and one fairly close to the top to keep it supported throughout. The only thing you wont be able to to do, is if you’re going to join the wardrobes you wont be able to have all the shelves aligned in the same position.…

My Closet Room

Since moving into our new place, I’ve been obsessing over a lot of new and exciting things. One of these being my all new, all fabulous and all mine CLOSET ROOM! If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen some of the pics and know all about my closet room ramblings, so I thought I’d share it with you now that it’s almost done. Before I get into it, I just want to say that I’m not posting this room to brag or show off what I’ve got. I just want to give my readers some ideas, as many of you are able to do this in your own home. For others, you may pick up some great tips to help organize your space and make it easier for you to find and store your clothing and accessories. I’ve been collecting my stuff for years and hold onto absolutely everything. I’m a bit of a hoarder, which can often suck, but in the case of creating a room like this, is quite a bonus. I also take really good care of my stuff, so it tends to last me quite a bit. Ok, nuff rambling, lets see the closet!…

The Fearless Fashionista’s Fragrance Display

So where do you keep your fragrances? I like to store mine in the most unlikely places in my closet room… under my hats, next to my books, with hand bags, with shoes and where ever else  a fragrance would not normally be…

Oh closet where art thou!?

I can only dream of having a mammoth walk in closet, with endless rows of designer clothes and a sea of red soles. Just so I have a frame of reference for when this actually happens, I took a peek into some of our favourite celebrities’ closets. Khloe Kardashian Odom, has a love affair with Christian Louboutin (and so do we all). Her shoe collection is enviable – it’s colour co-ordinated, and this girl is all leopard print and bling! Rock-glam queen Fergie’s walk in closest is also organised by category and colour, and hubbie Josh Duhamel nick-named it ‘Fergieland’. Josh has his own closet of course. Eva Longoria’s closet over a hundred square foot, but it’s not all designer. Eva insists she dresses for comfort – she has over fifty pairs of jeans, and more than one pair of Uggs. Nicky Hilton’s shoe collection is off limits to family and friends, since well, she has rather large feet (size ten and a half!). She organises her clothes by designer, and since the fashion heiress is bffs with most designers, they often invite her into their showrooms to take whatever she likes *sigh*.   And leave it to the diva…