I messed up with this video and managed to post it under the Budget Beauty Buys piece last week! That's because my brain is like a sieve at the moment. If I'm not writing about "Unreliable Narrators" then I'm just not properly paying attention, I'm afraid. Anyway, my...
I thought that this wonderful compact was a limited edition, but I spotted it in stock on Boots.com recently so I thought I'd revisit it. The Golden Alligator Compact is so, so chic; I purchased it on looks alone. The translucent powder inside is perfectly good and...
I have absolutely no quibbles with this concealer - I think that it's fabulous. Oh, hold on, I've thought of a quibble: the name. Why on earth is it called "No Concealer Concealer"? That makes no sense. It's very much a concealer - it should, if anything, be...
Today Boots No7 launch their Foundation Match Made Service. I know that many of you will be groaning with horror at the idea of yet another overbearing sales assistant applying stripes of different foundations to your jawline, but stay with me on this one. The match...
I couldn't look less wild here, could I? It's astounding. I look a bit like one of those comedy secretary virgins in the movies - the one who always gets the guy at the end because it turns out that underneath the staid exterior is a vixen clawing to get out! Or...
It's been a long while since I did a budget video. I was inspired to make this one because I have been judging products for the Zest Beauty Awards and there were some absolute gems from the high-street and budget brands. This is the first of two videos - the next one...
It would be unfair of me not to give this highly affordable little mascara its own post. I have used it so much in recent videos and so I feel a bit like I'm going over old ground, but if I don't give L'Oreal's False Lash Telescopic Mascara a dedicated post then it...
Some of you may have seen me appearing here there and everywhere in a little Youtube commercial for YSL's Teinte Touche Éclat. I've got the full-length version of my "section" embedded below should you want to watch it! Did anyone try the foundation when they were...
This palette from Estée Lauder really is rather great. I wouldn't go so far as to say ingenious, because it's a palette at the end of the day - a palette with little removable compacts. Handy, but it wouldn't blow their socks off on Dragons' Den. The great thing about...
Oh, Golden Jungle Palette: you thing of absolute beauty. So heavy, so luxe, so brilliantly designed with your little silver door to protect the lipgloss! (See also the Dior Blue Tie Evening Essentials for snazzy trapdoor action.) And your shades! So wearable, so...
Wow. This is a bit eighties, isn't it? It's actually the exact look that I did for the Eye Makeup video last week, so you can see how I created it here, but it looks very different in this weird lighting. My eyebrows are almost disappearing! Do you know what, though,...
Wow. I really do get an "E" for effort with today's photography don't I? Look at the state of my desk behind! Sometimes I don't know how I manage to get any actual work done - I spend quite a lot of my time moving things about so that I can actually fit the mouse mat...