MUST HAVES: Guide to Perfectly Primping for the Holiday Season

Trina Turk's Braden Vest with simple white t-shirt from The Gap and Kooba bag

So I don’t know about you — but the holiday season can be rather stressful.

It’s fun, and my favourite time of the year, but seriously?

All the preparations, all the “I don’t know what to wear,” “Crap, I already wore that,” “My head hurts,” “My mascara isn’t going on straight,” “Manicure. Like. Right. Now.” “I broke a nail,” “Who plans a holiday happy hour at 5 p.m.? Some of us work,” “Ugh, they will be there? I don’t want to go anymore, must I?” — Yes, all of that. We’ve all been there. Done. That.

Now here’s how to amend the feelings… just a tad.

From moi to você, a guide of must own items to transition from winter to spring to summer to autumn and back again, setting the right moods and surviving aside from ample amount of Advil and other things…

Enjoy :) [Read more...]

#MusicMonday Skank – “Sutilmente” #ska

Copyright © 2010 Sasha H. Muradali. All Rights Reserved.

A little softer, and a bit more subtle (considering it’s namesake), I love “Sutilmente.”

It was the second single from the album “Estandarte” and the totally amazing video features members of the band as well as others, singing and dancing in a studio. They are all wearing bright colours and forming different shapes. [Read more...]

MARKETING ANALYSIS: K’naan, Coca-Cola’s Genius & the Song That Took Over the World, Wavin’ Flag

A week before it’s release date on May 7, 2010, I had heard Shakira’s anthem of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, “Waka Waka (It’s Time for Africa)” and I was obsessed.

I tweeted about it, I Facebooked it and I told everyone how I couldn’t stop singing it in my status on GChat. Around that time, a great PR connection named Casey, who happens to live (and is from) in South Africa, told me, while Shakira’s song was awesome, I was missing out.

“What? Why?” – I wanted to know.

“Because,” he told me, “we like ‘Wavin’ Flag.’”

It’s the anthem about ‘celebrating life‘ he had said; a people song.

Me? Social media and world music lover not knowing what this was? How? I am addicted to world news and culture.

Stunned and utterly confused, I went onto YouTube and my eyes opened to, what I now consider to be, one of the greatest songs I’ve [Read more...]

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