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Today’s Shanghai Beauty Buys

September 21, 2012.Reading time 7 minutes.

I need to wash my hair. It has started launching its familiar passive aggressive attacks that let me know it needs attention, such as falling out (don’t be alarmed we go through this all the time). I need to wash my hair in China. So I need to buy some shampoo (and conditioner etc.) In […]

In which Kathryn and Jenny get their nails done at a Chinese salon, speaking only 2 words of Mandarin between them.

September 20, 2012.Reading time 8 minutes.

When you’re in a new city and you don’t speak the language, little advances become huge successes. Today, my roommate and I successfully got our nails done in Shanghai and it seems like a TRIUMPH. My roommate Jennifer and I had been saying we needed to find somewhere to get our nails done for a […]