Here's one for those of you who wanted a more affordable take on the "floral noir" trend; a delightfully frippy little number that's almost more lingerie than it is clothing, thanks to the pretty lace trim and tie-front. Obviously it must be balanced out with black...
I went away for six whole nights (I went for the days too, obviously, otherwise it would have been a logistical nightmare) and I took my little vlogging camera with me to document the trip. I've called the resulting video - wait for this, because it's an absolute...
Where have I been? You might well ask. Just the small matter of a lopped-off wisdom tooth and a sewn-over gum. Who would have thought that such a small area of the body could cause such widespread havoc? I swear I can feel the throbbing in my toes during the hour that...
(links marked * are affiliate links, for more info see disclaimer below post) It's picture-heavy, this post, but I did risk life and limb standing in the middle of the road for the photos, so I'm including as many as self-respect will allow. To be entirely honest,...
I've made the dire mistake, numerous times this year alone, of using the free shampoo and conditioner provided by whatever hotel I've happened to be staying in. Now I hate to generalise about hotel shampoos and conditioners (especially as I'm later going to present a...
I first bought Bioderma's Sensibio Eye Contour Gel a few years ago in Paris; I had forgotten to pack my beloved Pai Echium Eye Cream and so I hot-footed it to the nearest Pharmacie to find something similar. I was in Paris for a cosmetics shoot and my call sheet...
I'm having one of those evenings when I feel as though I'm most definitely losing at the whole parenthood game. The tedious bedtime battles continue and the longer the battle goes on for, the more wound up I get. Honestly, it's like being a negotiator in one of those...
I've been in Paris - can you tell? Give me twenty-four hours in France and I start coming out with all of the bad franglais. Actually (and I'm very proud of this) I always get lots of compliments about my very authentic French accent whenever I'm in Paris....
The supermarket beauty series continues; this time I trawled the aisles at ASDA to find the best skincare, makeup and haircare morsels. There wasn't so much choice in the way of niche beauty at ASDA but - and this takes us tailspinning into an entirely new and...
Something happened on our family trip to Cornwall, back in May: I almost died. Now some people will say I'm being melodramatic about things and that I wasn't anywhere close to death and that also I shouldn't make light of death, or near-death, and to those people I...
(links marked * are affiliate links, for more info see disclaimer below post) My eyes don't particularly like it when I wear a lot of makeup. Killjoys! They've always been a bit whiney and sensitive when it comes to being caked in powder shadows, rimmed in kohl pencil...
What I'd give for a transcript of Lily Pebble's and Anna Newton's latest At Home With podcast. They came to my house in Somerset along with (my wife from a different life) Caroline Hirons and things got slightly out of hand. Not only did I somehow invent the term...