The Easiest Smokey Eye Ever…

The Easiest Smokey Eye Ever…

In this video I show you the easiest smokey eye ever. I realise that's quite a claim, but I honestly can't see how an eye look could be any simpler than this: you draw on the eye crayon (it even uses a crayon, for Pete's sake!) and then smudge it out with a brush. It...

Les Sahariennes: The Ultimate Bronzer Just Got Better

Les Sahariennes: The Ultimate Bronzer Just Got Better

I love the existing YSL Les Sahariennes Bronzing Stones bronzers in their sleek compacts, but this new collector's palette is just something else! You may have missed last year's post on Les Sahariennes and so I'll do a brief recap: the YSL Bronzing Stones are powder...

Shirt Dress and Lipstick: A Quick Summer Update

Shirt Dress and Lipstick: A Quick Summer Update

I've had lots of incredibly kind comments about the dress I was wearing in my May Favourites video and I must admit to feeling quite bolstered by them. It's not that easy to find nice things to wear when you're breastfeeding, and that hurdle, coupled with your typical...

Five Foolproof Bronzers for Fair Skin

Five Foolproof Bronzers for Fair Skin

  My last post (for now!) on fair/foolproof/hint-of-sun bronzers. I realise that I'm at the risk of boring to tears anyone who doesn't need, want or suit them, but at the same time I've been trying to work systematically through my beauty backlog and Subtle...

What a Difference a Lip Line Makes…

What a Difference a Lip Line Makes…

A while ago (it may have been last year, or even the year before that), I mentioned that I had been comparing recent and old photographs of myself and trying - in a highly scientific and objective manner - to identify which changes to my face were the most ageing....

New: Benefit Hoola Lite Bronzer

New: Benefit Hoola Lite Bronzer

Benefit have launched a new version of their hugely popular Hoola bronzer: Hoola Lite. This is the first time that they've properly strayed away from their bestselling bronzer shade, offering up a slightly lighter alternative for those with fairer skin. Or, I suppose,...

The Ordinary Colours: Serum and Coverage Foundation Review

The Ordinary Colours: Serum and Coverage Foundation Review

Another foundation review for you. (Ambassador, you're really spoiling us, etc.) It's actually two foundation reviews in one; the Coverage Foundation and the Serum Foundation, both from Deciem brand The Ordinary. The Ordinary launched last year to a hugely positive...

Armani Power Fabric Foundation Review

Armani Power Fabric Foundation Review

I've been testing out Armani's Power Fabric foundation - very thoroughly, as it happens, because I've been trying to film quite a bit of content for Youtube and so I've needed a fuller base. As you know, I'm not the greatest lover of high coverage, longwear...

Tom Ford Soleil: Summer Makeup Decadence

Tom Ford Soleil: Summer Makeup Decadence

Brace yourselves for some serious makeup lust: the Soleil collection from Tom Ford has landed. Look at those compacts! So chic. And because I'm on a bit of a bronzer run this week, I thought I'd test out the Ultimate Bronzer. It's pleasingly oversized - just calling...

Bourjois Mat Illusion Bronzer

Bourjois Mat Illusion Bronzer

I said in my Summer Essentials post that I'd review the Mat Illusion bronzer from Bourjois and so here it is in all its glory. It really is lovely. Completely free of any shimmer or pearlescence, it blends beautifully into the skin and leaves it looking realistically...

Some Sunshine Essentials…

Some Sunshine Essentials…

Trying to schedule a post around when you think it might be sunny is almost impossible in this country, so I'm assuming that it will be raining as you read this. If it does happen to be raining, then look upon the post as a sort of "teaser" for any upcoming warm...

Shopping the Stash: Old Makeup Favourites

Shopping the Stash: Old Makeup Favourites

My lovely sister-in-law came to visit me over the Easter weekend and, as she's a true makeup junkie, I decided to have a delve into my various storage boxes and drawers and offload some of my unused cosmetics. (Note that I say unused and not unwanted: I want...