It's Best Budget Beauty time again and who better to join me in my bargain-hunting exploits than the self-confessed dupe-obsessive Nadine Baggott? Nadine has decades of experience as a beauty editor and presenter and spends an unholy amount of time chasing down...
Well here's a makeup collection that feels decidedly spring-like; it's making me feel quite optimistic and invigorated about things, despite the fact that we're being battered by various storms and all still wearing tights. It's the Act IV collection by Estée Lauder,...
I raved about this wondrous shampoo and conditioner duo just after Christmas but - as usual - it has taken some time to edit my written review. Mind you, that's not a bad thing at all, because it's given me a chance to test Olaplex 4 & 5 (sounds like a virus) to...
After writing off my "daily essentials" makeup bag, thinking I had lost it at a hotel, I was excited to find that it was, in fact, stowed away right at the back of the glovebox in my car. Behind the owner's manual and the pile of old MOT certificates and the broken...
Yes, yes, how dreadfully selfless of me to give away my hallowed - hallowed I tell thee! - Space NK x Caroline Hirons beauty box. This luxury beauty box - with a product value totalling over £400 - sold out within hours and now you have a chance to win one. It's...
I am sandwiched between two lone male diners. Not in the biblical sense, obviously, they wouldn't be dining if they were sandwiching me (if that is even a term) and I'm not sure I'd refer to them as "lone" males if we were midway through performing some kind of...
I've made some quite significant changes to my skincare routine since Christmas and so I thought it might be time for an update. This wasn't the easiest update video to film, mostly because the issue of the hero product's price-tag was hanging over me like a spectre...
Not since Molton Brown's Geranium Nefertum have I spritzed a scent and really really liked it. I think that my nose has gone on strike, to a certain extent - it's not that it can't smell things, it just doesn't really get that excited anymore. Not much tickles my...
I did an Abercrombie & Fitch order last week because the knees had gone through on my favourite skinny jeans. To be quite honest with you, I'm no longer sure that superskinny jeans are really the best cut for me anymore, but they seem to be the only jeans made...
Well, life is hurtling along and Baby One (four and a half years old) asks for "quiet time" so that she can "write her thoughts in her diary" and Baby Number Two (three today!) has started sleeping in a big boy bed. Now listen; some of you might be thinking that three...
I finally caved in, after over ten years of owning an iPhone, and bought myself a protective case. Why the prolonged hesitation? I'll tell you why. I genuinely think that most phone cases are horrendous. They're like the tech version of Crocs. Plasticky, garish...
It normally takes me about two years to get around to writing up my hotel reviews (it's well over a year, I think, since I visited the Bedruthan in Cornwall and I still have the notes fresh in my mind, as though I visited yesterday!) but I'm trying to be more...