My Three Favourite Sunscreens

My Three Favourite Sunscreens

Struggling to find a sunscreen that doesn't make you want to claw your own face off with one of those plastic spaghetti spoons? My three current favourites might give you some inspiration. They're all virtually undetectable on the skin with pleasant, lightweight...

5 Beauty Favourites: April 2020

5 Beauty Favourites: April 2020

My five beauty favourites for the month of April - I've gone back to them again and again, enjoyed using them all and will be sad when they finally run out. Although if they're anything like my Medik-8 R-Retinoate I could be waiting a long time, because I just can't...

The Luxury Bespoke Bath Soak – For 50p

The Luxury Bespoke Bath Soak – For 50p

There's no big mystery to this post and it's not rocket science - just simple mathematics and a couple of excellent, unfussy ingredients. I'm going to tell you how I make the most luxurious and effective bath soak for about fifty pence a go; a bath soak that genuinely...

My Best Supermarket Skincare Buys

My Best Supermarket Skincare Buys

Brilliant skincare buys that you can pick up in the supermarket. I won't dilly-dally about today with silly introductions and off piste distractions because I have limited time: I just hoovered up a load of moths with the Dyson and I don't want them flying back out of...

5 Beauty Favourites: March 2020

5 Beauty Favourites: March 2020

It seems a weird time to be filming a beauty favourites video, but what I thought would be even weirder would be for me to have made a big song and a dance last month about my favourites being back in town and then never doing another one! I even made that...

5 Beauty Favourites: February 2020

5 Beauty Favourites: February 2020

I just can't seem to keep away from favourites videos. I stop doing them and then I start again, always returning to make just one more. I stop because I think that they're generally a bit formulaic, but then, a few months down the line, I start to miss making them. I...

Testing Retinol With My Mum – Age 39 v Age 69! | AD

Testing Retinol With My Mum – Age 39 v Age 69! | AD

Well this is a very joyous revisit; I've reviewed Murad's brilliant Retinol Youth Renewal range before, but they've reformulated and relaunched it and it's now even more of a find. I say find, but this skincare trio (there's a serum, an eye serum and a sumptuous night...

Haircare Review: Davines OI Oil

Haircare Review: Davines OI Oil

I always feel like a right berk recommending this to people when I can't pronounce the name properly - I mean, how on earth do you say OI Oil without looking as though you're doing an extreme facial yoga move? - but recommend it I do. A lot. Because, despite trying...

Best Budget Beauty Under £20 – with Nadine Baggott

Best Budget Beauty Under £20 – with Nadine Baggott

It's Best Budget Beauty time again and who better to join me in my bargain-hunting exploits than the self-confessed dupe-obsessive Nadine Baggott? Nadine has decades of experience as a beauty editor and presenter and spends an unholy amount of time chasing down...

Makeup Collection: Act IV by Danielle Lauder | AD

Makeup Collection: Act IV by Danielle Lauder | AD

Well here's a makeup collection that feels decidedly spring-like; it's making me feel quite optimistic and invigorated about things, despite the fact that we're being battered by various storms and all still wearing tights. It's the Act IV collection by Estée Lauder,...

Haircare Review: Olaplex Bond Maintenance 4 & 5

Haircare Review: Olaplex Bond Maintenance 4 & 5

I raved about this wondrous shampoo and conditioner duo just after Christmas but - as usual - it has taken some time to edit my written review. Mind you, that's not a bad thing at all, because it's given me a chance to test Olaplex 4 & 5 (sounds like a virus) to...

What’s In My Makeup Bag? The Time Capsule

What’s In My Makeup Bag? The Time Capsule

After writing off my "daily essentials" makeup bag, thinking I had lost it at a hotel, I was excited to find that it was, in fact, stowed away right at the back of the glovebox in my car. Behind the owner's manual and the pile of old MOT certificates and the broken...