John Ibrahim gets a makeover from 7-year-old daughter Eliana

He’s the self-styled King of the Cross, but when John Ibrahim’s little princess suggested a makeover, how could he refuse? See his seven-year-old daughter’s handiwork here.

It seems John Ibrahim’s daughter, Eliana, has her father wrapped around her little finger.

The young Ibrahim convinced her dad his image needed softening, and took to his fingernails with a light-blue nail polish.

John Ibrahim’s daughter gave the King of the Cross a bold new look.

Bruno Bouchet, manager of Ibrahim’s good mate Kyle Sandilands, snapped the seven-year-old’s handiwork.

Meanwhile, work is well under way on the miniseries Last King Of the Cross, based on Ibrahim’s best-selling book.

SEIBOLD SETTLES

Former Brisbane Broncos coach Anthony Seibold wasn’t so lucky timing the lockdowns.

He is seemingly intent on resuming his coaching career in Sydney, spending $2.5 million on a North Curl Curl home late last year.

Former Brisbane Broncos coach Anthony Seibold bought a northern beaches home late last year. Picture: Getty Images

Seibold had sold his former Brisbane home for $2.3 million in October, only 18 months after buying it for $1.9 million when he took the helm of the Broncos after being sacked by the Rabbitohs.

Seibold recently picked up a role in rugby union, working under England coach Eddie Jones on video analysis.

The locked-down northern beaches has seen some pricey settlements, with estate agents anticipating buyers will flock to the peninsula once it opens up from Saturday.

Lisa Keighery’s Palm Beach home sold for $16 million.

This week saw the settlement of one of the biggest 2020 sales when the Palm Beach home of Lisa Keighery, widow of fashion designer Mark Keighery, settled at its bullish $16 million.

The mystery buyer was recently retired Servcorp chairman Bruce Corlett and his wife Annie. Corlett had previously served as a director of prominent companies, including the insurer FAI, Ariadne, Stockland and Industrial Equity Limited.

The Iluka Rd, Snapperman Beach beachfront home was bought by Keighery for $7,555,000 in 2007, a year before her husband died.

CAT’S EYE ALL IN THE THREAD

Like boob jobs, butt injections and Botox, Sydney is not immune to Hollywood’s cosmetic trends and the latest “foxy eye” is no exception.

In recent years, young members of LA’s elite have come here flaunting angled eyes and brows resembling a cat’s peeper, that has been labelled the foxy eye.

During a Foxy Eye Threadlift at The Manse. Picture: Supplied

Founder of Paddington’s The Manse Clinic, Dr Naomi McCullum, said she had seen demand for the look increase exponentially this year.

The procedure she recommends and credits for the look is the “Foxy Eye Threadlift”, a gruesome procedure that pulls the side of the face upward.

“The foxy eye thread procedure is where a thread (like a long suture) is inserted under the skin between the forehead or temple and the eyebrow and used to lift the tail of the brow or the side of the eye to create a cat-eye shape,” Dr McCullum said.

“I first performed outer brow thread lifts around 2013, with not too many patients at that time, only the more hardcore and innovator-type patients were interested back then.”

Model Bella Hadid has the cat’s eye look so many want. Picture: Getty Images

Celebrities including Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Ariana Grande have each debuted their angled eyed look, although Confidential is not insinuating they have had this procedure. However Dr McCullum said due to over-the-top editing endemic on Instagram, people often have false expectations of what the look is.

“Bella Hadid is the one everyone talks about, but it’s tough to comment on Photoshopped images we see online,” she said.

A WOODCUT ABOVE

Top Sydney restaurateurs Sunny and Ross Lusted predict a more casual fine-dining culture as Australians adapt to the new COVID normal.

The couple this month opened their latest food venture, Woodcut, at the new Crown Towers complex at Barangaroo.

“Fine dining has evolved and is more relaxed,” Sunny Lusted told Confidential.

“People have understood that there is no need for a tablecloth, for example. Let’s have a really beautiful wood or polished marble table instead. They are things that take a lot of consideration and give layers and texture, but not necessarily formality.”

Husband-and-wife team Ross and Sunny Lusted at their new restaurant, Woodcut. Picture: Justin Lloyd

The couple are one of Sydney’s most respected foodie duos, having previously run the hugely successful The Bridge Room until it closed in 2019.

“Woodcut is a fine-dining restaurant in the sense that it is a beautiful space to come to, but we don’t see ourselves as fine dining — we are inclusive to everyone,” Ross Lusted explained. “The produce is very good, the service is great — so that, for me, is what fine dining is. But we are more relaxed.”

Relaxed does not mean gym shorts or tank tops, but dressing for comfort.

Through COVID, Australians have embraced cooking at home more than ever. But as restrictions ease, they’re now looking for more relaxed experiences at restaurants.

“You want to go and have fun, you want the buzz of the room, you want people watching, you want great service,” Sunny said.

“You want all of these things, and food is one of those elements that is very important. All of those things are actually what makes the restaurant experience exciting and what makes a great night out.

“For us, we wanted to have all of the elements deeply considered — but we didn’t want to have the formality of it.

“We want people to feel like they can be really relaxed, having fun, feeling the buzz and the energy. This is the feedback we’ve been getting.”