Fairlady

FAIRLADY is a modern, glossy grown-up magazine that offers great stories and inspired solutions to the busy South African woman.

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THIS MONTH’S FABULOUS PRIZE • A Juicy Couture Viva La Juicy Rosé gift set worth R1700!

STUFF WE LOVE this month • We’re either out and about or hunkered down indoors catching up on our TV watching this time of the year. Or, if you can’t decide, follow Liza’s lead and combine the two with an open-air movie!

Getting away from it all

NATURAL SELECTION • These local skincare brands are all about organic ingredients, a back-to-basics approach and tapping into the power of nature. From nourishing marula oil to Kalahari melon, Africa delivered the goods, and then some.

Coming up roses • She starred opposite Heath Ledger as a teen, made a movie with Oprah last year and recently started a female-run production company. Comedy breakthrough star Rose Byrne truly is having the last laugh.

Rose on…

THE BEST OF 2019 • It’s been a tough year for all of us – fortunately, also a year that has yielded some gems in terms of what we hold dear: books, music, food, beauty, travel… We asked some of our favourite people to look back at 2019 and share their highlights.

THE MOVIE OF THE YEAR

THE PODCAST THAT GOT ME THINKING

WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT • Not even the hordes of tourists or the bewildering maze of streets can dull the charm of Italy’s most impractical city.

TIPS

THE FUTURE IS MOST DEFINITELY FEMALE • From being the voice against climate change to a game developer helping others understand mental illness and sexual abuse, these five young women prove that no matter your age, you can make a difference.

THE MAGIC MUSHROOM MIND SHIFT • Could magic mushrooms be a long-term solution to crippling addictions and mood disorders like depression and PTSD? Clinical trials abroad have been showing that a few psychedelic trips may be able to ‘reboot’ the brain, changing set patterns of thinking. Science writer Leonie Joubert tells us why South Africa needs to make a mind shift about psychedelic-assisted therapy.

BUT WHAT IF…

Your brain on psilocybin

5 SMART APPS to help YOU SAVE • Apps make life more convenient and save you time. Now they are also helping you track your expenditure, save money and even make a bit extra – all from the comfort of your cellphone.

Why I live with my PARENTS • After a certain age, living with your parents can be seen as… problematic. Failure to launch, they call it. Or, if you moved out and had to come back home, a boomeranger. But more adults are sharing a home with their parents because it’s mutually beneficial. Four professionals told us why it makes sense for them.

Spiked You may think drink spiking is something that happens only in dodgy nightclubs. • But these days it’s going on in seemingly harmless places like house parties and upmarket restaurants. And the perpetrators aren’t hooded figures skulking in shadowy corners – they are friendly faces with malicious intent, sometimes armed with nothing more than a bottle of eye drops.

Tips to avoid your drink being spiked

Left & found • About 3 500 children survive abandonment every year in South Africa, say the experts. And some, like Cassandra and Thandiwe, both now in their 20s, survive and thrive.

(HAY) fever pitch • You know the symptoms of allergies well enough. What you may not know is the impact that environmental allergens have on your sleep, cognitive ability and general wellbeing. Here’s why the condition is nothing to sniff at and how to get it under control.

CLIMATE CHANGE AS A CULPRIT

HEALTHY living • Raw versus cooked veggies, why your calves...