Let the Good Times Roll
Sorisha launches latest in skin range
Sorisha Naidoo gets ready to hand out champagne at the launch of her new skin-brightening product earlier this week.
IN her continuing quest for all things bright and beautiful, actress Sorisha Naidoo launched her latest aesthetic “miracle” at the posh Oyster Box hotel in Durban on Thursday night.
Naidoo — clad in a green Paco Rabanne armour-style dress (pewter mini-discs with Swarovski crystals on stretch black net), with chiffon inners covering her arms and Christian Louboutin peep-toe boots — arrived an hour after a crowd of socialites and hair and beauty therapists had debated the effects of the newly launched skinbrightening and anti-ageing Crystal Tomato health supplement.
She launched straight into formalities, explaining the delay was owing to Generations actress Sophie Ndaba’s non-arrival after a freakish hailstorm in Gauteng. The actress was to have been the evening’s master of ceremonies.
Sandton-based Botox guru Alastair Clark gave a 20-slide science lesson on why and how one tablet a day could lead to youthful, fairer and healthier skin before Naidoo ended formalities.
Naidoo’s husband, Vivian, had just returned from the US, where he lived out a scene from one of his favourite films, Pretty Woman, by booking himself into the penthouse suite of the Beverly Wilshire and watching the movie. He had a kerchief to match her dress, and crystal-studded Louis Vuitton shoes.
The guests helped themselves to (not very exciting) canapés and lapped up the sweets, including sugar cones with scoops of ice cream.
Bottles of Moët and a glass-domed butter dish containing a chocolate truffle in the shape of the Crystal Tomato were the evening’s take-home gift.
Perhaps I should suggest a crystal toe cream to Naidoo, judging by the number of stiletto-heeled women complaining about their digits and cocktail functions. The things women endure. EARLIER in the evening, hospitality stakeholders, business people and socialites celebrated the Three Cities 25th anniversary at the Dish restaurant at the Royal Palm Hotel in Gateway.
It was one of those laid-back occasions with a Michael Bublé-type singer creating some great background music for a fun and pre-festive season party. The formalities were quick, with a word from chief executive Mike Lambert. Among the guests was songbird Patricia Lewis (who once dated David Hasselhoff and starred in a questionable German erotic film). THE day before, there was glamour aplenty thanks to short-film producer Shahrina Ramphaul, who turned heads with her Zahara sequin fishtail gown at the premiere of her film, Zara , at Durban’s Suncoast Cine Centre.
It is a watchable, 40-minute, lowbudget film directed by Pietermaritzburg-based Preshanthan Moodley. Zara is aimed at creating awareness of gender violence and was released to coincide with the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign.
Ramphaul told the guests she was good friends with Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema, explaining why national command team member and KwaZulu-Natal convener Sipho Mbatha was allowed a platform before the screening.