CosBeauty Magazine #83
CosBeauty is the #BeautyAddict's guide to lifestyle, health and beauty in Australia. In this issue: - Summer Skin SOS - Brush up on your tools the trade - Maekup Trends from the Autumn Runway - No-sweat body shaping - all your options
CosBeauty is the #BeautyAddict's guide to lifestyle, health and beauty in Australia.
In this issue:
- Summer Skin SOS
- Brush up on your tools the trade
- Maekup Trends from the Autumn Runway
- No-sweat body shaping - all your options
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A<br />
Stopover<br />
Hot<br />
Spot<br />
For many australians<br />
travelling to Europe, the<br />
traditional south-east Asian<br />
stopover has been replaced<br />
by a taste of the extravagant<br />
futuristic skylines of the Middle<br />
East – Dubai, Abu Dhabi and<br />
more recently Doha<br />
doha is the capital of Qatar, the gas-rich constitutional<br />
monarchy perched on a peninsula jutting 160kms into<br />
the Persian Gulf from the north-eastern border<br />
of Saudi Arabia.<br />
According to a series of 2017 international surveys,<br />
Qatar now boasts both the ‘highest per capita income’<br />
and ‘highest per capita Gross Domestic Product’ in the<br />
world (overtaking Luxembourg) – thanks to its status as<br />
the globe’s leading exporter of liquefied natural gas (it sits<br />
atop the world’s third largest natural gas reserves, after Iran<br />
and Russia).<br />
And Doha is the glitzy modern capital attracting<br />
international jet-setters in record numbers – especially<br />
following the continuing expansion of Qatar Airways’<br />
international networks, combined with Qatar’s rapid rise to<br />
prominence as both surprise choice as host for the 2022<br />
soccer World Cup and home of the mushrooming Al Jazeera<br />
media network.<br />
Downtown Doha offers an eclectic mix of modern in-yourface<br />
‘glass and steel’ skyscraper architecture, overlooking a<br />
traditional dhow harbor – the slow moving dhows are lateenrigged<br />
wooden boats, almost from a bygone era, with one or<br />
two masts and a triangular sail on a long yard (the spar from<br />
which sails are set) at an angle of 45° to the mast.<br />
In similar contrast, the historic ‘souqs’ (bustling outdoor<br />
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