✨CONCOURS ✨ Je suis ravie de vous annoncer qu’avec Clémentine de @mikan_bags , nous nous sommes associées pour vous faire gagner une de ses mignonnes petites pochettes rondes 🥰 Le ou la gagnant.e pourra même choisir le tissu qui ornera sa pochette 😳❣️ (et croyez-moi, la sélection de Clémentine est incroyable, ils sont tous plus beaux les uns que les autres !) Personnellement j’ai craqué pour une pochette à l’effigie du Gion Matsuri, vous avez sûrement reconnu un des chars de ce festival que j’affectionne tant. Je l’adore 😍 Clémentine est une artiste française basée à Miyazaki, au sud du Japon. Elle donne une nouvelle vie aux kimonos usés par le temps, en les transformant en sacs 👘♻️ Je suis très admirative de son travail et de sa marque @mikan_bags 👏🏻✨ Pour participer : 1- Suivre @mikan_bags et @laura_kyoto sur instagram 2- Laisser un commentaire sous mon post ou sous celui de Clémentine pour signaler votre participation (1 commentaire =1 participation, vous pouvez participez autant de fois que vous le souhaitez !) 3- Partager en story votre photo préférée de chaque de compte (n’oubliez pas de nous identifier pour qu’on puisse les voir !) Le concours prendra fin dimanche prochain, le 15 août. Le tirage au sort se fera par Clémentine, rendez-vous en story pour le résultat ! Merci et bonne chance 🙏🏻🍀✨ ・ ・・ ・・・

All this week i have read indignant writeups about the film “Cuties” (Mignonnes) on my timeline. Apparently it’s being shown on Netflix and the film has incited many an angry response. As a parent, i was concerned too but as a logical person i decided to wait for an explanation. Here it finally is and i am so glad i waited for it before exploding into a tirade. The truth is, sex and sexuality is taboo in our culture. It shocks people into extreme reactions on either side of the spectrum. Yet, how many of us acknowledge the truth or reality that 11 year old girls struggle with this on a daily basis? I know how confused i was at the age of 10 when puberty hit early. I was confused because i had no one to talk to about it. Everything was taboo and to be swept or kept hidden under the carpet. And we are talking about growing up in an era when there was no social media. Now, our children grow up with social media in their face on a daily basis. Girls do see women sexualising themselves on social media in order to be accepted. How much more confusing can the world get for our pre- teens and teens when here we are as parents telling them they are pearls best kept hidden away yet they are confronted with a different reality in magazines and on social media? I have four children. One is already a pre-teen. Even the birds and bees talk is uncomfortable in our culture. I’m glad i did it and i’m glad i had books to help him through the changes going on with his and his friends’ bodies. Yet my eldest also sees shocking videos of young girls twerking and dancing sexily on social media- namely TikTok. I also have a little girl who will grow up and need to be guided through a confusing period in her life. It scares me what her reality will be like when her time comes. As a parent, i will have to walk the careful thin ice between taboo and reality. As it is, i am already having conversations with mums about how worrying it is seeing pre teens and teens on TikTok doing sexy dances to CardiB’s new song. I even froze when walked in on Ellie mouthing the lyrics to it. Lucky for me her brothers taught her the “halal” version. Can i do so? Only time will tell.

'they're so cute!' At least that's what I think the girl on the box is saying 😁 If you like #handcream & in particular L'Occitane hand cream, you won't want to miss this limited edition set illustrated by Parisian artist Soledad Bravi, whose whimsical drawings of a young girl feature in #Elle magazine. Soledad has provided illustrations on 4 bestselling #loccitane hand cream inspired by the different seasons of a year - Cherry Blossom, Verbena, Almond and Shea. There are 2 limited edition sets available here in Malaysia. A mini set (10ml) comes in a pouch with a nail file (RM71) and the set featured (30ml) comes in a metal box (RM156). Available at L'Occitane stores while stocks last! Let me know if you pick one up. You can't deny elles sont trop mignonnes! 😁🗼