Every so often, you discover something that none of your other friends have discovered and you think “Ha! I’m one up on you! You might have a hotter girlfriend and a better car…but I’ve found the Holy Grail!” (Very vain, superficial and shallow)

And this is what I was thinking as soon as I arrived at Shelley Point Hotel and Spa for my little rendezvous…um…albeit by myself…maybe.

As the car rolled in I caught this view:

It’s quite phenomenal. The hotel is a stunner, there is a golf course, conferencing rooms for the executives, a stunning pool to cool off and sunrises and sunsets to die for. The facilities really are endless, from the spa, hair salon, gym, to the Pro Shop and anything else you would ever need. Situated about an hour and a half from Cape Town, it’s an idela respite when you don’t have hours and hours to travel and get out of the city. It’s your ideal weekend break and makes the perfect option for executives wanting to host a conference, while in between everyone can book into the spa or play a round of golf.

It’s remote location gives you that feeling of being far from home, but the journey is not that far at all. Pump some Green Day, Snoop Dogg, Elton John — whatever — on your iPod and roll through.

It’s the basic premise of my life, just cruising. Get bored — go to a hotel! Get bored — write! Get bored — think of cool new ideas!

View from my room — ha ha!

The Shelley Point Hotel, Country Club and Spa takes you back to your old holiday dreams of the sun rising and the golf course laying itself out before you as the buffet breakfast is presented to your delight. That crisp morning air courtesy of that thing called the ocean, the dew drops rolling off the grass, and the pool glistening in face of the sunrise. A quietness descends over you as you realise that there is nothing to worry about here, except for taking relaxation to a maximum level of extreme!It’s not hard really when you see the view, and take full advantage of the facilities. The view from the breakfast table feels like some stupid sort of wild, excessive dream, until you realise…wait…hang on a second…this is my life! I’ll show you three views from my breakfast table, all of them fairly average.

My favourite thing by far is renting out the golf cart and cruising around the course at high speed! Even though we all drive cars, there is something that brings your youth back when driving a golf cart. Maybe it’s that wind on the hair feeling, or that feeling that you’re driving something that feels like a toy, but I recommend gold cart driving to all those wanting to recapture their youth.

And even if this doesn’t work, your youth awaits you at the Shelley Point Spa. Pamper yourself and wash away the years, wash away that work stress and tension and surround yourself by the dream, immerse yourself in happiness. This is one place where time stands still and dreams are crafted.

It’s like that rejuvenation for the soul that all these people keep talking about, and sometimes you don’t know it until you’ve found it, and incidentally, I found it at The Shelley Point Hotel, Country Club and Spa. I came out there looking like I was 24 years old! The pool alone takes at least 10 years off your age. Seriously, just look:

My stay was brief, but I’ll be back. I’ll write my memoirs there!

But seriously, for anyone wanting some EXTREME relaxation, a spa day or weekend, time out to collect themselves and refresh, or for businesses wanting conferencing with a difference or product launch options, then Shelley Point Hotel, Country Club and Spa is your ticket to freedom and your ticket to live the dream just like we do. So I know you’ll love it.

Click HERE to check out more on the website.

Thanks to everyone involved, great success!

Sean Lloyd

Editor 

And if you don’t, then you know what to do.

Completely lost? Click HERE for the video.

Sean Lloyd

Editor

You know how when a mate of yours starts claiming that his new bird offers the best sex he’s ever had, and you know he’s just saying this to make up for the fact that she is no oil painting?

Well that has nothing to do with this review! AWESOME!

So this story is a complicated one, well not really, but I’d like to think so to give it more depth. Anyway I had been using some or other Enchantrix Organic Shaving Gel for a while and wasn’t really enjoying it. It didn’t lather nicely and wasn’t really the best for creating a slick, soft surface on which to shave. I’d avoid the Enchantrix Shaving Gel. Not so good. Not recommended.

So I was then walking through Cavendish Square when like a bulimic kid, I knew something was up. I felt a feeling. This feeling drew me straight into The Body Shop. I had about two inches growth (No silly!) on my face…the result of about three weeks of not shaving. And I knew that I needed to have a shave and that I didn’t want to use my old shaving gel.

So I nipped into The Body Shop and picked up their Maca Root Shave Cream, and I’m honestly the happiest man in the world! You know your life is not all it’s cracked up to be when you get excited about buying new shave cream! FML!

The Body Shop for Men Maca Root Shave Cream (Short name) is just that…a cream and not a flimsy gel or foam. It’s extremely moisturising and I can honestly claim to never have used such an awesome shaving cream. It’s ingredients include maca root and creatine to firm and soothe the skin, Brazil nut oil to moisturise and soften the skin and beard and aloe vera gel to soothe, hydrate and moisturise. It is quite a rich cream, but you have never used anything like this in your life. I use the Mach3 Turbo, or whatever the battery operated one is, and this is probably the closest and smoothest shave I have ever had. What’s more, the intense moisturising properties of the shave cream mean that there is no irritation at all, and it’s much easiet to shave because of the slick surface created.

Cream me up Scotty (Sounded funnier at 2am this morning after 91)

For shaving it can ge a good idea to use a face scrub beforehand, so for the Body Shop For Men Maca Root Face Scrub, click HERE. Follow it off with an aftershave balm (HERE), and you’re ready to rock!

I don’t quite know what more I can say about this shave cream. It’s simply the best I have ever used.

R80 at The Body Shop. Get a Body Shop card and save 10%, so to Body Shop members, you only pay R72. Honestly guys, this is the shaving cream you’ve been looking for. Go get it, you won’t be disappointed. I think you’ll be thrilled!

Sean Lloyd

Editor 

I just received a message about a fabulous competition that O on Kloof Boutique Hotel in Bantry Bay are having, via All4Women.co.za (Have a squizz at that link ladies. Did I just say squizz? Whoopsie daisies!). I’ve been to O on Kloof before and met the owner, Olaf, who is a seriously cool dude. His attention to detail and eye for the finer things in life clearly lays itself out before you from the moment you step into O on Kloof, and it offers that personal service and attention to detail that you just won’t find in a chain hotel. Olaf runs a very slick operation. So much so, that in 2008 it was awarded “One of the top 101 hotels in the world” by Tatler magazine.

Yes, Tatler Magazine where Kitty spencer was on the cover (Click HERE for that pearler)

O on Kloof — Live the dream, avoid the recession

The competition allows you to win a nights stay for two to O on Kloof in Bantry Bay, where you will reside in one of the finely tailored suites. It also includes an African Body Butter massage in the new spa. When I was there the spa was only being built, but it’s a stunning addition to O on Kloof.

I think the credentials of O on Kloof speak for themselves, so ladies, if you want to take your man to one of Cape Town’s finest hotels and be treated to a decadent body butter massage, then you’re going to need to click HERE.

And click HERE for the official O on Kloof website.

While you’re at it, join the Facebook group HERE to take advantage of the special offers that they run, and to keep up to date on the latest developments at O on Kloof.

Sean Lloyd

Editor 

This is old news, I know, and it’s especially old to you celebrity whores (ME!) But I thought it pertinent to mention in this script that Brad Pitt teamed up with Kiehls to make an aloe vera biodegradable body wash. I must say, it looks really good with nice, clean, old school packaging.

It reminds me of my plan to start my own range of mens grooming products. I’m serious, I’ve actually been considering launching a range for men because I’m such a stickler when it comes to the products I use. I only use the best. So my range will be all local South African made products, all only natural and pure ingredients, and a portion of the profit goes to charity. The whole aim is to support local trades, keep money in South Africa and also help out those less advantaged at the same time. And also to introduce a natural mens range that is packaged in a funky, yet old school, recyclable packaging that men are confident to buy. Like Baxter of California, modern with an old twist.I’ll work more on it.

SO…

We were talking about the horse race. On the track. Betting. No?

Sean Lloyd portraying Brad Pitt

Oh, Brad Pitt. Yeah, so Brad teamed up with Kiehls to make this delectable body wash. It’s basically so chicks can say that Brad is rubbing on them. Or they’re showering with Brad Pitt. And it’s a pump action bottle, so chicks can say they’re pumping Brad Pitt. There are a multitude of ridiculous sexual things you can do with this. I’ll stop now.

100% of the Kielhs bodywash go to JPF Eco Systems which is Brad’s own charity. The product and the packaging are apparently biodegradable. It looks like a good product, who’s shipping me some? That would totally flip it’s carbon footprint on its tits, but anyway.

So yeah this post will probably just randomly end.

Randomly end.

Kiehls photo via Vogue.com

Sean Lloyd

Editor 

I’ve always been attracted to a sort of movie star/rock star / outlaw writer way of life for some reason. Something about hotels, being on the road, wearing jeans and a white t-shirt and blazing across the land, writing, being by myself and coming up with crazy ideas just seems to appeal to me. Pin me down for too long and without anything funny and you might just kill me. It’s often in times of great solitude where you find your greatest inspiration. I think that’s why you might find writers hunched over their keyboards until the early hours of the morning.

It’s that solitude that creative types use to gather all the information of the day, and compose it into whatever art form they practice. Musicians might write a song in a hotel room, just jamming on a hangover as the sun rises and the ocean breeze rolls in. A DJ might mix a track at 2am in his studio apartment. A painter might carve out his finest work while alone in the mountains.

A writer might need that time alone in a cabin in the Swiss Alps to compose the words that will make him famous.

For me, I tend to just need time away from everything, just to be by myself, alone. I need it to gather myself and refresh. There is something, I don’t know how to say this, but ‘romantic’ in the non sexual way? There’s something like that that you get from staying in a hotel room. With nothing but your thoughts, it’s a great time to think and collect yourself. And so I found myself in the Shelley Point Hotel and Spa on the weekend just to get away and relax. Lock me in a hotel room by myself for a while and it’s bound to happen that I will start doing stupid stuff. I even put together a little photo gallery! This will further dispel the CONSTANT rumours that all I do is lead a glamorous life of excess. There is actually a softer, quieter, more sensitive side to me. I’m serious! I’m not always surrounded by the SLXS Entourage. Sometimes I’m the lone wolf. So let’s take a further, more personal look into the life of an outlaw. These are just a few photos, loads more to come in the week, and a little bit more about Shelley Point Hotel and what it offers:

Shattered

Good to know!

My TV room, quite a vibe

Catching a dos! On my chair…

My view from the breakfast table…Not the worst! (And still no one in sight)

If I could permanently live in a hotel room I would. You cruise down to the bar at night, listen to music, smoke a cigar …chat to the crowd. It’s got such an old school movie star feel to it. Frank Sinatra playing.

Beautiful!

Sean Lloyd

Editor

OH NO!

Please enjoy more from the ANC Youth League website. There is a link entitled “Entertainment”, then further links as follows:

Mzanzi gigs

Buy music

Music videos

Photo’s

Book a DJ

Quite useful

Now oddly enough, NONE of these links have any more information. You can open the PDF on ‘book a dj’ and it opens up to a blank page with “Book a DJ” written on it. Amazing.

Crisis in my life!

Sean Lloyd

Editor 

This is honestly one of the defining moments of your life. If you’re sitting in your office right now, look around. Take it all in. Look at Lisa from accounts. Take note of any cleavage. Notice Jim standing at the water cooler, hung over. Your life is about to change.

The ANC Youth League are your regular bunch of Einsteins it appears. If you go onto their website, they have a little poll going.

Again, take in your surroundings. Breath in. Call your folks, tell them you love them. Your life is about to change.

They have a poll. It reads as such:

I voted for the ANC and my age is:

Yes

No

18-30

30-40

OH. MY. SHATTERED. NERVES.

You probably think I’m joking, right? Screenshot.

Surely not

I know this seems surreal, and I’m also trying to get over it. I don’t think I’ll recover from this. I can’t. Life is obsolete. I’m going back to lock myself up in that hotel room. I’ll never come out.

This world is all too much.

Thanks M.G

Sean Lloyd

Editor 

I was taking a stroll through Cavendish Square the other weekend to see if I could spot any hot Herschel school girls, when there was this harmonious that just rolled through Cavendish. And to be honest, they’re just so good! Quite a vibe.

So anyway CODA are playing a free concert (To those affected by the recession) at Wembley Square in Gardens, Cape Town on Thursday 21 May 2009. That is this Thursday. It’s from 6pm, with the actual concert taking place at 6:30pm. You can either book a seat at on of the restaurants (Click HERE) or just cruise along and watch the show, because there is plenty of standing room.

It would be better to sit down though, God, the show is free, don’t be a total plebb and not even get a table!

Come now!

Sean Lloyd

Editor 

In another sign that we might in fact be in a recession, O’Shea properties have shut their doors. That’s right, O’Shea properties have closed down. Closed down have O’Shea properties.

It’s a pity O’Shea have closed down, really. I met Patrick O’Shea, the CEO, a couple of months ago whilst I was mincing my way through Greenways Hotel in Cape Town. I remember drinking about a bottle or three of wine that night, wow, pretty hammered. He was quite a cool cat though, drove THE SICKEST Aston!

O’Shea properties had a shop just outside of Cavendish, adjacent from Boardmans. So if you’re starting a business now, don’t go into property or cars, that would be a blunder!

Get into sex, drugs and alcohol.

Sean Lloyd

Editor

I was just busy de-fragmenting my hard drive when I came upon this website, that I once used to figure out how much beer I could drink.

Naturally, I wanted to know how much sex I could have.

WolframAlpha isn’t sure what to do with your input ha ha ha!

And naturally, the nerds don’t know the answer to that! It must be infinity, or something like that. Also enjoy at the bottom of that page, “Are you an expert on this topic?”

Alright!

Check out that weird website here, it’s called WolframAlpha — Computational Knowledge Engine.

If you’re a nerd, right know you’re probably sporting a hard on or at least a semi.

Thanks M.G

Sean Lloyd

Editor 

Sean Lloyd

Editor 

Other than being the best pound for pound boxer when he was fighting (Well he’s coming out of retirement to fight again), Floyd Mayweather Jr also seems to be the best pound for pound fighter in the epic battle against the recession.

I dig the way Floyd rolls. He’d dig Cape Town.
Those vulgar displays of wealth get my stamp of approval. I love it!

Sean Lloyd

Editor 

There are the usual grooming essentials like face washes and creams, but two other things that every man should own are a decent pair of tweezers and some good nail clippers.

When you’re fingerbanging on the dance floor at dinner with the lady, you don’t want a nasty set of nails to show. Keep them clean and trimmed, like I do, with my Mr Grooming nail clippers. They’re great quality and trim your nails with a nice sharp cut, none of that Christmas cracker nail clipper rubbish.

The Mr Grooming nail clippers are R40 at Clicks in Cape Town.

Then tweezers, because NO ONE should EVER sport a unibrow/monobrow! I’m not even going to post a picture here of the uni, it makes this website look dirty. But we all know what it looks like. Crisis in my life, some chicks even sport them! Albeit in the seedier areas of the world, but you know, but it’s still on this earth.

Tweezers are dirt cheap, Mine were R6 or R7 at Clicks in Cape Town.

So that’s it, two things to buy today if you don’t already own them.

Come on guys, the chicks are waxing, the least you can do is look neat! Imagine George was back in power?

EXACTLY.

Get some nail clippers and tweezers, otherwise karma might bash you back by making George a reality again.

Sean Lloyd

Editor

I’ve literally just had the time of my life watching American Psycho, what a laugh! Patrick Bateman is so cooked it’s hilarious. Anyway, I was quite intrigued by his skincare routine, so I thought we could put something similar together using Mantality.co.za

Look awesome…today!

So you want the American Psycho facial treatment? Ok!

Let’s see if we can find the products!

So this is how the script goes:

In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub.

Then I apply an herb mint facial mask which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine.

I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your skin out and makes you look older. Then moisturiser, then an anti ageing eye balm, followed by a final moisturising protective lotion.

Alrighty, let’s get the gel cleanser:

American Crew Tea Tree Body Wash

Packed with a blend of herbs and natural oils, Tea Tree body wash throughly cleans and replenishes skins natural moisture. It contains nettle extract which is a source of vitamins A+D, Allantoin to stimulate the growth of healthy tissues, aloe leaf extract which is a great skin soother, Vitamin A Palmitate to promote healthy skin and Vitamin E Acetate to fight free radicals and improve the skins softness.

Buy American Crew Tea Tree Shower Gel HERE.

Now for a body scrub, not honey almond, but a good body scrub:

Nickel Super Clean Body Scrub

This gel scrub contains jojoba beads to strip dead cells and smooth out rough areas. Then included is a pistachio extract to bring softness and elasticity back to the skin.

Buy Nickel Super Clean Body Scrub HERE.

Now the exfoliating gel scrub for the face:

Nickel Super Clean Face

This is an exfoliating scrubbing gel to eliminate impurities, deep cleanse pores and purify the skin, leaving you looking brand new.

Buy Nickel Super Clean Face HERE.

Now the herb mint peel off facial mask

Nickel Peel Off Mask

This mask is applied and left to dry, forming a flexible film which you simply peel off. This film captures dead skin cells and surface impurities. There is also an extract of Indian Chestnut to promote micro circulation and drain toxins, leaving you looking young again!

Buy Nickel Peel Off Mask HERE.

An after shave lotion with little or no alcohol.

Nickel After Shave Balm

This fresh and light gel instantly soothes and calms your skin. The glycerine and allantoin moisturises the skin and protects those tiny cuts left by your 30 bladed razor. It also won’t dry your skin out like Old Spice did to your dad!

Buy Nickel After Shave Balm HERE.

Moisturiser:

For light skin:

Nickel Moisturizer Light

Contains a blend of vitamin E and B5, zinc manganese, cobalt and copper to have you looking like a million bucks in no time. Say goodbye to red skin, tightness and irritation.

Buy Nickel Light Moisturizer HERE.

For dark skin:

Nickel Moisturizer Dark

Darker skin can tend to be shiny and blotchy, which is where this moisturiser comes into play. It eliminates shine while softening with it’s grease free formula. Fruit acids from sugar cane, citrus, apple and green tea extracts smooth and purify the surface of the skin. And…success!

Buy Nickel Dark Moisturizer HERE.

An anti ageing eye balm

Nickel Eye Contour Lift

This reduces the appearance of bags under your eyes, or suitcases in the case of heavy boozers. Wheat and soya proteins firm up that limp skin. This will tighten, smooth and moisturise, so once again, the worlds view on you will be an awesome one!

Buy Nickel Eye Gel HERE.

A final, moisturizing protective balm

Nickel Anti-Ageing Wrinkle Equaliser

An anti wrinkle, firming and repairing high performance cream, to tackle those ageing problems of yours. Look like you’re in high school, just remember to pull in that stomach!

Buy Nickel Silicon Valley Wrinkle Equalizer HERE.

And there we have it, the American Psycho Facial Treatment, live more like Patrick Bateman, live more like Christian Bale, hell, live more like me! We’re going for perfectionist here people. Just don’t go killing anyone.

That’s messed up.

Sean Lloyd

Editor