Scenting my office this week: Jonathan Ward’s Santissima Amalfi Candle. I’m by no means a candle connoisseur and so I shall keep it brief and say this: it’s very potent. Even unlit, it is managing to overpower the various battling odours surrounding my desk, which include a banana skin that is festering in my bin,…
To become a model you must get an agent. Not just because that’s how you get to go on castings and book jobs, but for your safety and well-being. An agent acts as a ‘buffer’ between yourself and the client – if there’s a problem between you and a client, then the agency will be…
Er – irons have moved on a bit since 1998, haven’t they? I say 1998 because that was – honestly – the last time I picked up an iron. I must have been ironing something for my after-uni office job that I used to do. More on that another time. Anyway, since 1998 I have…
I spotted this on FeelUnique and thought that it was quite good – you can’t get Clarins ‘Gift with Purchase’ that often online. This is a 100ml Renew-Plus Body Serum and a 50ml Hand and Nail Treatment and a little ‘Vanity Purse’. Am I the only one who would prefer it if GWPs never included…
Apparently, people queued from 6am to get into the new Westfield Stratford City. 6AM! Why? I ask that question not because I think that Westfield isn’t worth queueing for, but because at 10.30am I waltzed straight in and up the escalator! I mean, it was busy – rammed – but not to bone-crushing proportions. Why you’d…
**UPDATE: the winner of this prize is “ANDREEA A” who has been contacted by email! Well done Andreea! xx** To celebrate their 125th Anniversary, Avon have recreated one of their first ever fragrances – Little Dot. Originally, in 1886 (!), Little Dot was a gift set of floral essences created by Avon’s founder, David H…
I have been whizzing through a few books recently as I have been sat on the tube quite a lot (which is when I get most of my reading done!) – I have just realised that ‘sat on the tube’ could sound quite odd/rude to some people, so I’ll quickly clarify that I mean The…
Prepare for a rant, because this angry person recommends… 1) Not ever upgrading Mac software unless it has been properly tested and glitches have been ironed-out. I’m talking about OSX Lion, which has rendered my £2000 iMac pretty much unusable. I’m going to have to wipe the whole thing clean and start again, re-do all…
I have just registered for my free limited edition Burberry Body fragrance sample – Burberry are giving 40,000 of them away! All you have to do is fill in your details on the Facebook Page here: Burberry Facebook The fragrance doesn’t actually launch until September 1st, so it’s a good way of trying before you…
Sorry to those of you who got a mix of old and new posts on yesterday’s email – there may well be an odd mix today, too, but after this is should be plain sailing! (And hopefully this will be the last boring admin post on the matter, too!) Emails will now be sent between…
Duh. I ran a little giveaway for The Forum users to win mini shampoos from Lavera, but it was only open to people with UK addresses… So how I was expecting to randomly pick 20 people from my list of registered forum users without knowing who was UK or not, I have no idea! Duhhhh….
Errrrr – LOOK WHAT CAME INTO MY INBOX LAST NIGHT! Just as I was contemplating how to write up my Educogym interim post (results after the first twelve days) this email literally pinged through and I couldn’t believe my eyes! Educogym are offering the twelve-day plan that I did for HALF PRICE! They were actually…
Those in the UK (and probably worldwide, I should think) will have seen coverage of the London riots on television, heard about them on the radio or read about them in the papers. I sincerely hope that all of you are safe and well. As an East-Londoner I’m pretty worried and stressed about the whole…
“Crikey! I haven’t done a Friday Flash Review for absolutely ages! Better make this a good one then…. What can I write about? Beautiful skin? Shiny hair? The newest, glossiest lipstick? Hmmm….. Bad breath! Let’s not go too far into the whole bad breath thing – it’s gross, we all get it now and again,…
It’s that time of year again – the Cosmo Blog Awards! I almost died of a heart-attack last year when somebody tweeted me to tell me that I was on the short-list, so it would be lovely to have that near-death feeling once more. (Joke!) Please can you all do me the biggest favour and give…
Excuse me if I get a little overexcited here, but this (above) is where I’m off to in the not-so-distant future. (I might even be there right now – it depends when I hit the ‘publish’ button!) Sun Rocks, Santorini, Greece. Only for three days, but still – amazing. I can’t bloody wait! It’s not…
“Hahaha! Just laughing out loud like a lunatic about my choice of photograph – doesn’t tell you much, does it? This is the new Mega Impact Eyeliner from Avon, all set to replace the wondrous Supershock Gel liner. In fact I have a sneaking suspicion that it has already replaced Supershock, so I do hope…
I have noticed that more often than not, eye creams don’t have an in-built SPF. I always find this rather confusing, as the skin around the eyes is thinner, more prone to damage and signs of ageing – surely if there was anywhere you’d want an SPF, it’d be here! I suppose that the majority of…