Makeup how-to: foundation 101
LIKE the way an artist prepares his canvas, the secret to looking a million bucks is getting your foundation right. Beauty columnist Roseanne Tang takes you through the process step-by-step, from choosing the right colour for your skin to achieving that natural, flawless finish.
Pretty face
GETTING your makeup right every time comes from oodles of practice. After all, everyone has to start somewhere. Find out how Meld beauty columnist Roseanne Tang got started in this business of being beautiful.
Old Town Kopitam Mamak, QV
THE newest eatery at QV has been doing a rip-roaring trade since it opened this year, the combination of an extensive menu offering a taste of home, and location, location, location.
Plastic could once again be fantastic
PLASTIC was the invention of a generation – a modern marvel that transformed the way we live. But with the earth warming, businesses like bottled water company Cool Change have found ways to become greener.
Making a difference
MELBOURNE University student Winston Chua joins Engineers Without Borders, and discovers changing the world isn’t so impossible after all.
For the love of chocolate – Lindt Chocolat Café (Review)
IT’S official – chocolate culture has infected Melbourne in a big way. Koko Black, Max Brenner and San Churro franchises and gourmet chocolates galore continuously compete for our affection … but does the new Lindt Chocolat Café match up?
The Australian Football League
FROM its origins as a Saturday afternoon hobby to keep cricketers fit, football has become a game that dominates Australian winters. More than 6.5 million people attended AFL games last year. THOMAS CONNELL tells us why the game has captured the hearts and minds of Australians, and how you can get in on a piece of the action.
Breakfast bids at Auction Rooms
THE former W.B. Ellis Auction Rooms in North Melbourne is now an inviting café replete with pleasing detail. And best of all, there are tables enough so you won’t feel guilty about lingering for post-prandial banter after your plates, licked clean, are cleared.
Playing with food: MyCUBE Café on Lygon St
IF THE giant chessboard outside MyCUBE Café hasn’t drawn you into the house of fun yet, we suggest you make your move in. It deals a mean hand in more ways than one.
Bean there, done that
WE’VE all dreamt of running our own joint one day. But how easy is it to set up shop in a city so dotted with cafés? E-Gene Soh lives the dream, and tells us what it’s like, when it comes down to the grind.
Stop and stare
AN INNER city rock climbing gym has given the phrase hanging out a whole new meaning, as GREGORY TAN finds out.
One visit and you’ll be hooked
FORGET the typical café cool of inner suburbs such as Fitzroy or Brunswick. Footscray was once derided, with a bad reputation for drug dealing and gang violence. But it is now increasingly visited by locals in the know.
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