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PANCAKES GO ‘POLLOCK’

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Happy Pancake Day, everyone!

Pancake Day (or Shrove Tuesday) marks the last day before Lent – and is typically a licence to have an almighty pig out, eating up all trace of temptation before you give up cake, bread, sweets, wine – whatever your favourite poison is – when the fasting season begins.  (It’s going to be a long, chocolatey day at HQ.)

To get the pancake party started, we divided into teams and put our creative powers to the test with a DECORATING CONTEST! (Click here to cast your vote)

It was icing at dawn.

While the Design & Cosmetics teams were hotly tipped to produce masterworks of sugar, flour & artificial colouring, Team Digital came up with two impressively on-theme (if a little abstract) pieces (bonus points for correct use of the ™, by the way).

Things got competitive, icing was stolen, voices were raised (in the case of PR Gwen, to a pitch only dogs can hear), and not a single pancake was eaten! It was a case of all eyes on the prize – and with no-one willing to take a chomp out of their artistic efforts, the HQ boardroom has been temporarily transformed into an edible gallery.

So vote now! And to the victors, the spoils! (aka ‘the box of chocolates’)

IT’S FEBRUARY FALL-OFF-THE-WAGON WEEK!

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Happy failure to you! It’s the third week of February, and by now, allegedly, 80% of us have given up on our New Year’s resolutions.

That’s according to studies quoted by UK’s Stylist Magazine (with a particularly floppy-willed 23% dropping out in the first week of January!).

So how have we fared at Soap & Glory HQ?

The Bring Lunch To Workers are going strong.
The Moan Lessers are on track, despite some shaky moments (helped enormously by a mildish winter and the fact that it’s – er – only a month or so into the year).
The Sleep Morers have failed miserably.
The Get Fitters have waned by half.
And The Don’t Eat Cakers have staged an ALL OUT REVOLT in favour of ‘a little of what you fancy does you good’! (Special mention to James’ ginger and coffee cake for helping them realise that sniffing The Breakfast Scrub – however amazing – just doesn’t cut it as a substitute, or go nearly as well with tea).

Which is not to say that profound and lasting change isn’t possible. Just that, when DECIDING to do something conflicts with WANTING to do it (and that thing includes abstaining from home-made deliciousness), odds are you’re going to succumb to ‘Sod this’!

How are you holding up?

DO NOT EAT THE PRODUCTS.

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That’s not something we ordinarily have to point out in staff training, but in Sephora Singapore’s case, we had to step in after reports that certain team members had taken a liking to the taste of The Breakfast Scrub.

(Note to self: while Butter Yourself smells delectable, it is not nice when licked.)

Frenchie, our intrepid International Marketing Manager, has just returned from a whirlwind week introducing our new Fruitigo bath & body range to Singapore & Malaysia.

(Her strategy? Swiping prototypes of the Fruitigo fragrance from NPD & delivering well-timed spritzes to draw the gathering press away from other brands. Like bees to honey, she says. The woman is BRILLIANT.)

The range was such a hit that Sephora staff in Kuala Lumpur formed an instant queue for the bathrooms so they could try out Foam Call THERE AND THEN.

Frenchie's Big Tour

 

But it wasn’t all work, work, work. (Not that it’s ever much of a trial.) Read more…

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