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JANUARY 2018
www.cosmopolitan.co.za
CONTENTS
JA N UA RY 2018
In Every Issue
6
10
117
128
From the Editor
COSMO Confessions
Stockists
COSMO Quiz: What’s
Your First-Date Style?
ON THE COVER
54 ‘I Went to Rehab
for Social Media
Addiction’
Is this integral
part of our daily life
actually damaging it?
92 Self-Love Is Bae
There’s pampering,
and then there’s
pampering…
100 The Jobs You Never
Knew Existed
Don’t panic if
your career path
doesn’t match a
traditional trajectory
114 Baller Holidays
on a Budget
Fly to these
seven destinations
for under R10 000
122 Bedside Astrologer
Your life and love
40
forecast for 2018
YOU
CAN WIN!
LADY OF
ATHLEISURE
A BOOK, A MOVIE, AN ACTIVEWEAR LINE…
107
One of 10 footwear
WHERE DOES KATE HUDSON FIND THE TIME? hampers from
FitFlop
S CULTURE
CRUSH
13 My Cultured Life
What’s hot in Kim
Jayde Robinson’s
FASHION
31
58
Hit Refresh
Channel your
inner slayer
for under R500
Weekend Goals
world RN Hang out in super-
14 Think These cool casuals
Guys Are Hot? 64 Cruise Control
Check out some of Sail through summer
our 2018 Sexiest in resortwear that’s
SA Men finalists! on point
16 Best January
Ever!
What to do, read, FEATURES
76
watch and listen
to this month 46 #MeToo:
18 Love It, Scan It, Why We Need
Shop It Now! to Claim Back
19 Are New Year’s Consent
Resolutions a The time to discuss
Waste of Time? consent is now
LOVE LUST LIFE
Two women share 52 Lobola 86 #AskAGynae
their opinion Is it an important Our gynae gurus
tradition – or are here to answer
outdated and 91 Sexcessories 111 Shake It!
BEAUTY
your questions
anti-feminist? They’re the new Milkshake recipes
88 The Stress
cult must-buy to chill you out
Solution
21 COSMO’s Best 94 Why Do We this summer
BODY
You Haven’t
Budget Buys Love Being 118 Rich-Girl Style
Thought of
– Under R300 Submissive in for under R2 000
It’s the smart
You don’t have 83 What Sup? the Bedroom? Update your living
way to deal with
to spend big to It’s time for #GirlBoss at space without
everyday pressure
get big results designer drugs, work vs sweet melting your
76 Beauty Hacks darling… kitten at play credit card
Shop in your
home for ways to
84 Super Moves
A model trainer’s
CAREER 96 Sex Q&A
No-BS responses
121 5 of the Best
Budget Drives
& CASH
AT T I M E O F G O I N G T O P R E S S P R I C E S A R E R E C O M M E N D E D R E TA I L P R I C E S
look great without fitness plan to whip to Qs you can only All for under
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99 Mail Bonding
Why you should
103
ditch ego-mail
‘Don’t Let Your MAKE 2018
AMAZING!
O U R C OV E R S TA R: Age Deter You’
K AT E H U D S O N
Career lessons
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Kate
JANUARY 2018
Work It! Photography Max Abadian Fashion
10 JOBS
Hudson
Her Secrets to Aya Kanai Hair David Babaii/Lowe&Co from a local
HOW TO ENSURE YOUR GOALS
YOU NEVER Being Fit AF
KNEW Makeup Debra Ferullo Manicure Ashlie entrepreneur
EXISTED
Johnson/The Wall Group Production
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SPECIAL
First Shot Productions
Re-create her look with Inglot cosmetics
104 Is It Possible ACTUALLY MATERIALISE THIS YEAR
Your Year in
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The Big
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Her earrings Tacori Her necklace Tara Hirshberg Her rings Jessica Biales financially fit
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so give me all the
chocolate. In fact, I’ll have
all the ice cream too, thanks.
4 Meet the man of my dreams.
Concentrate on me, practise self-
1
care and give zero f**ks about the THE COSMO CRUISE
elusive Jason Momoa lookalike. The COSMO team sailed to
Mozambique on MSC Sinfonia
(We’ll meet one day.) to shoot the main fashion editorial
5 Run a marathon. I will not beat with Ashleigh Herman and Nabeelah
myself up about the fact that I haven’t Staggie. Turn to page 64 to see it!
exercised since 2016. I might go for
2
a walk or two – slowly does it. WIN A YEAR
6 Up my Instagram game. I’m never OF FRAGRANCE
We’ve got 12
going to have a feed that looks like luxury perfumes to
a day in the life of Olivia Palermo, give away, including
so let me stop trying now. Issey Miyake, Zadig
7 Take control. I commit to stop & Voltaire and Elie
Saab. To enter, dial
stressing about stuff I have no control *120*515# and
over. Goodbye micro-management! enter the keyword
8 Stop procrastinating. I’m a master FRAGRANCE, then
at putting things off. It’s the way I am, follow the prompts.
Do You,
and I’m okay with that. It will all get Standard rates apply.*
done in the end.
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borderline rude set of goals we put
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oor old January gets a rough deal. on ourselves. (Although if you turn your phone, click on the
It reminds me of the overachiever to page 19, you’ll find that some of menu, select QR Code,
with the smack-me face. You know my colleagues disagree with me.) SCAN VIA
scan – and watch!
the one: far too enthusiastic, far Now I challenge you to set some
too ambitious, far too smug about of your own anti-resolutions.
C O M P E T I T I O N R U L E S O N PA G E 1 1 7 * C O M P E T I T I O N C LO S E S O N 2 1 J A N UA R Y 2 0 1 8
it. Besides the fact that we’re all miserably You could even write them
P H O T O G R A P H Y N I Q U I TA B E N T O, K AT I N K A B E S T E R / H E R O C R E AT I V E M A N A G E M E N T
broke, with those three dreaded words down in the diary we’ve
4
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like a big ugly cloud, the thing I hate issue – but don’t forget SA MEN 2018
most about January is the pressure to tweet me your one- What could be
we pile on ourselves. So this year, I’m liners @HollyMeadowsSA, better than hot
saying ditch the unrealistic goals and and I’ll RT my faves. men, half-naked
do you, not new. Instead of making a – with puppies?
check list of things you vow to be better Nothing. Vote
at, start 2018 with some anti-resolutions. for your favourite
Here are mine: man candy now at
1 Say yes to everything. Stop over- Cosmopolitan.co.za
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I had the biggest crush
on, and I wore a very tight,
very short dress. It was so
tight, it gave me a huge
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I got up from my seat,
my dress lifted sideways,
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‘Last summer, I went to the
beach and wanted to show
off with a back handspring. At
some point, my tampon string
came out of my bikini. During
my “performance”, someone
yelled, “I think you have
some toilet paper in your bikini ‘The morning after a night of clubbing,
bottom.” I told them it was just my boyfriend was dropping me off at
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to prove it, and it turns out that an appointment at the car dealership
it was actually my tampon…’ where he worked and he was late, so
-JESSICA, 17
he turned around and drove straight
there. I had makeup smeared all over
‘ONE NIGHT, MY GIRLS AND my face and was still in my clothes from
I WERE OUT AND HANGING the night before – a minidress and heels.
WITH SOME OLDER GUYS He told me to take off my heels so it
WHO WERE SO HOT. AT THE END would look less like a walk of shame.
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OF THE NIGHT, WE TOOK A SHOT I put my shoes in a plastic bag and
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2
these earrings by
local label Lichen &
Leaf? We die. R400
at Lichen & Leaf
Frame your
face in rose
shades with
Vogue sunnies.
3
R1 139 at Zando
4
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The next Fifty Shades
This beach movie drops in Feb. While
SCAN VIA ball is a great you wait, treat yo’self to
prop for any the Fifty Shades Of Grey
Insta snap. We Aim To Please Clitoral
R199 at Vibrator. R349 at Désir
Superbalist
56
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Clip this striking
P H O T O G R A P H Y I S T O C K P H O T O. C O M P R I C E S C O R R E C T AT T I M E O F G O I N G T O P R E S S
accessory onto
your current
handbag. Love!
R1 550 at Okapi
SCAN VIA
MAC’s Retro Matte
Liquid Lipcolour
in Feels So Grand SCAN VIA
is just beyond. Add sunshine to your feet
R300 at MAC with these yellow babies.
R800 at Espadril
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