Award for the most unlikely makeup hero of the year, so far, goes to Chanel's new Baume Essentiel. The transparent version. (There are two.) This is one of the most low-key radiance balms you'll ever find; it's so subtle - Chanel's word is discreet, which I love -...
I've just risked life and limb careering up the stairs to get this review out to you; such is my dedication to the beauty cause that as soon as I saw the Japanfusion Supreme Cream back in stock, I dropped my knitting (aka browsing the Rightmove app) and scurried to my...
Something almost happened to me last week that made me think quite differently about those dreadful hospital stories you hear about foreign objects ending up in places they were never meant to be. (When I say "ending up" I mean inserted and when I say "places they...
I like to throw out a little video of myself now and then, otherwise you're all left to construct a mental image of me from the mad things that I write about like gussets and too-small boilersuits and the restraining order that Tom Hardy took out against me. I'm not...
Well here's a little something that gets my gadget-geek side a bit overexcited; La Roche-Posay have just launched an incredibly useful piece of tech called My Skin Track UV. It's a wearable sensor that measures your exposure to UV, pollution, pollen and humidity and...
I fear I'm late to the party with the boilersuit trend. Praise be, frankly, because they all look dreadful on me. I can't see what all the fuss is about - even when they don't look outrageously unflattering they still make a lot of people look like a Super Mario...
I always have such good intentions for this monthly life update post (in fact even writing the first part of this sentence seems very deja vu), but however hard I try to do things in advance I always end up compiling it at the nth hour on the 3rd day of the month. (It...
Finding properly pretty bed linen is not the easiest of tasks, especially for children's rooms. Because a lot of the time "pretty" means cartoon fairies and a very sickly sort of princess pink, when what you actually want is Liberty print and the sorts of teeny tiny...
Elemis have launched two new moisturisers into their Peptide 24/7 range; a clever, multi-tasking day cream - Peptide4 Adaptive Day Cream* - and an overnight mask called the Plumping Pillow Facial*, which must be one of the most inviting product names I've ever seen....
Rejoice, rejoice, the Emanuelle dress from Hush is - I can declare - the perfect garment for eating in. And I don't mean any old eating, obviously; eating is rarely an act that's impeded by your clothing. You can eat in virtually anything, really, except for a...
Well, Molton Brown's new Geranium Nefertum range is a bit of a surprise. I can't remember the last time I needed to try a fragrance on Mr AMR with such immediacy - I actually sprinted down the stairs to spritz him. He thought I'd won the lottery such was the...
I really need to crack on with my foundation reviews because I have a serious backlog. I get a bit stuck, sometimes, because I try to go into too much detail and then I start comparing one foundation with another and then I set myself the task of wearing one on one...