When I went to write this comparison post I realised that the Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum foundation didn't have its own page here on the website. A travesty! It's such a good little base - it behaves exactly how I want a foundation to behave, with a light and...
This was a find; the cream blush from the Rosie for Autograph range at M&S. I picked this out in a bit of a hurry, because Mr AMR was waiting for me in the car with the baby, but not before I'd quickly had a scribble with most of the eye pencils and lipsticks in...
The baby has started sleeping through the night. Hurrah, you might think, but no: I have developed, for the very first time in my life, a kind of strange almost-insomnia that sees me spend much of the night in quasi-dream-mode and the rest of it listening out for the...
I'm really into my little Bourjois cream blush at the moment; portable, easy to apply (just use fingertips) and with a smooth, velvety finish that looks natural and low-key. It lasts really well and the colour (shade 01, Nude Velvet) is just the right side of peachy....
I asked top makeup artist Caroline Barnes (you all know Caroline by now - if you don't then click back to our previous videos first) to sort out my brows. Pluck them, shape them, lift them and then, after the "sorting", do something a little more dramatic. Good...
If there's one makeup trend that has completely divided us beauty-obsessed people it's the trend for drawing brown stripes on our faces and then rubbing them in as though we're trying to remove stubborn patches of dirt. AKA "contouring". One of the problems with this...
I filmed this video before I discovered the Soap & Glory Glow All Out stick, which is very annoying, because it definitely would have been included. Especially as the Topshop one I show is no longer available. Also (multiple errors alert!) the Rosie for...
Oh! A subtle, sheeny, non-snail-trail kind of highlighting stick that won't cost you the earth? Here you go: Glow All Out from Soap & Glory is a highlighting cheek stick with the perfect kind of neutral shine. Not too silvery and obvious, not too warm and bronzey,...
Last week I had the pleasure of spending the day filming videos with mega-makeup artist extraordinaire, Caroline Barnes. Caroline works on the biggest A-listers and is an absolute mine of information when it comes to makeup tricks and tips - everything from plumping...
A slick of luxurious tinted balm on the lips seems to be my makeup "thing" at the moment. Perhaps because I look a bit tired and washed out au naturel, but also - and this is probably more to the point - because it makes me feel as though I've made a bit of an effort...
Now this is an exciting launch: Armani's Maestro Glow foundation - or, to trot out the full product name and description, Maestro Glow Nourishing Fusion Makeup Bi-Phase Elixir. Blimey. It's quite a tempting little mouthful though, isn't it? I particularly like the use...
It's possible I'm having something of a rekindled love affair with highlighters at the moment: pearlescent powders, cream illuminators, even obvious shimmers - anything, quite honestly, that will add some much-needed glow to my knackered face. I had forgotten how much...