A quick and easy little makeup tutorial video here; it’s what I did for the day I went to the polo. This is definitely the LAST polo post! Promise. As usual, the By Terry base is just flawless and glowy, and the Givenchy Mono Shadow paired with the Dior 3 Couleurs Smoky gives a nice,…
Gorgeous Lancome lippies. Shades, from left to right: 159B, 146B, 200B and 340B. The three to the right are my favourites from the entire range, but there are loads of shades including quite a bonkers purple! I do envy anyone brave (or crazy) enough to wear purple on their lips. I have enough of a…
Another “old-school” glamour photo for you before the full-length video comes out. (The first one posted last week and featured YSL and Polaroid.) This time I’m in Lancome’s Miss Coquelicot and Jimmy Choo’s Justine Sunglasses. I managed to smudge the lipstick as I was filming, so it’s a bit “hazy” down one side – ever…
A little taster of a video that’s going to be winging its way to you quite soon – it’s all about old-school glamour! In this photograph I am wearing the utterly marvellous YSL Rouge Pur Couture Glossy Stain in shade 20 and a pair of Polaroid Donna sunglasses. For some reason I feel a LOT braver…
NARS new tinted moisturiser has shot right to the very top of my ‘favourites’ list. I adore it. It gives the fresh and dewy finish that I love so much, but it’s not heavy or greasy. It applies reasonably well on cleansed skin (usually I’d apply moisturiser before tinted moisturiser, but with this one I…
I have been harping on about this makeup “base” to virtually anyone who will listen. It’s actually called (stay with me here) Chanel Soleil Tan de Chanel Bronze Universel Embellisseur Effet Halé, or Bronzing Makeup Base, but if you ask me (and I’m going to tell you anyway) it should be called Chanel Perfect Tan…
A teaser for you. I sent this photo out on Instagram the other day and thought that I had better follow up with at least a brief description of what’s in the picture! These are my favourite things of the week – all of them fragrant and uplifting and beautiful. I’ll definitely be reviewing them…
Flash Giveaway alert! Cult Beauty are giving away a free Fibrewig LX mascara with every order over £40. This is a 48 hour offer and it expires tomorrow night at midnight! The Fibrewig mascara is most definitely deserving of its “cult” status – it’s amazingly long-wearing but simple to remove. I have the volumizing version…
I’m back from LA – hurrah! I’m busy collating pictures and video so that I can tell you about my trip, so all of that will be coming to you very soon. In the meantime, I’ve just realised that I posted a very nice makeup video before jetting off, but I didn’t ever embed it…
I originally filmed this video in March 2011, but I had to take it down because of issues with the intro. I was annoyed because it had been my most viewed video EVER, but when I was in LA I found the original video file in my MacBook backup folder! So here it is, re-edited…
I love the retro feel of this little Givenchy pot. The lid looks sleek, but the bright blue plastic is very eighties, especially with the pink balm inside! As usual, when I first used this I ploughed ahead and slapped it on without reading what it was supposed to do. I had really sore lips,…
I do love makeup with a sense of humour. I have just spent an ungodly amount of time making the lumberjack man on this Urban Decay Pocket Rocket take his clothes off and put them back on again. Shame on me – I’m old enough to know better. Now you see him as a normal…
I made this video last week and thought you might like it. I just filmed myself silently doing my makeup ready for a different video (the Best of Spring Makeup video) and then decided that I quite liked the way it looked. I was going to keep it silent and just add subtitles, but then…
I hereby declare, by the state laws of A Model Recommends, that nobody in possession of the RMK 15th Anniversary Cheek Palette may take a brush to it. It’s far too pretty. The palette must be kept in its original condition and taken out once every year to be cooed over. Announcement Over. (Palette shown…
Before you go getting all over-excited, this palette is a Travel Retail edition which means that you can only get it at the airport! I’m posting it up because I know that lots of you travel quite frequently – and there’s nothing like killing time in the Duty Free beauty area, is there? The “Limited…
Topshop asked me to talk about my favourite product from their range. I have to admit that I was torn between this highlighter and the cream blush in Neon Rose! Here I am on the Topshop website giving my little makeup tip: If you’re tired of the pearly, silvery highlighters then this one has a…
Sunday Tittle Tattle (noun?): everything from the week that I have forgotten to post about, in easy brunch-sized chunks… 1) Happy Easter everyone! If you’d like to be ever so slightly put-off from eating your chocolate egg then do read the other post for today! You can thank me later, hee hee hee. 2) I…
Omorovicza are offering A Model Recommends readers 20% off three of their luxury SPF Skin Enhancers. You’ve seen reviews for the Complexion Brightener (SPF20) and the Complexion Enhancer (SPF15) – if you haven’t, then just click on the links and have a read! Both are brilliant – I use the Complexion Enhancer on a…