I found a set of photographs taken a week or so before I went to have Baby AMR - the above is completely unretouched (not that I ever retouch, but just to be clear!) and I haven't added any filters or even messed about with exposure or contrast. To be fair, the light...
Many of you will know that I make videos for the brilliant Beauty Recommended* channel - lots of you follow it and comment and ask questions, which is great. I very much enjoy the challenges I get set and creating my filmed responses to viewers' beauty questions, but...
I managed to film a video! That's something of a milestone for me, because although it has only been six weeks since Baby AMR arrived, I've felt a bit like my previous life was completely lost to me and I'd never again have the time to do anything other than sleep,...
I do rather like the new Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Sheer Colour Sticks; I never really got to grips with the chunkier NARS Multiples, but then I did buy the most ridiculously glimmery shades! NARS' Multiples were the first cream face-colour sticks I remember...
I think that Marni Rose is the absolute bee's knees and so I was very much looking forward to trying out Marni Spice. It didn't disappoint; it had the same sexy, musky kind of undertones that make Marni's other perfumes so pleasing. Sultry, come-hither kinds of...
My skin, post-pregnancy, is still not back to its robust self. Whereas once upon a time it could withstand the skincare equivalent of armageddon, surviving multiple applications of acid peel and manual exfoliations that required safety goggles, it now shrivels with...
Three luxurious body oils that each transported me, if I closed my eyes tightly, straight into the world's most peaceful and nice-smelling spa. I'm all about transporting myself places at the moment - tropical beaches, quiet, dimly lit rooms with comfortable beds......
*I'm so sorry: this post was supposed to go out weeks ago but I made an error with my scheduling. You may well have already seen the video, in which case I send my apologies, but if you haven't then hurrah for you! My five favourite nude lipsticks of the moment....
I had a little phase of being really into overnight face masks - I tried loads and loads of them and made notes in my diary and then totally forgot that I'd done any of it and left this post in drafts, to languish along with old restaurant reviews and posts on...
Since the end of February my beauty stash has been gradually whittled down from the twenty-three crates that I had stowed in my filming-stroke-storage room to one solitary toiletries bag, containing mostly trial samples and travel versions of my favourite products. I...
I'm developing an aversion to washing my face over the sink. I think it's because that (for the past few months) the sink has never been my sink, and I'm a bit tired of not being in my own house. It just never feels like the luxurious, relaxing experience that I want...
Some gorgeously fresh and uplifting summer smells; I've put these items into a special box that I'm travelling about with (alongside my amazing body oil from Aurelia) so that I can create beautiful little "scent environments" wherever I go. (I still have two house...