Be afraid, be so very, very afraid. "My Mum Says", aka Christine my Mum (see here for some posts she has written for me) has started up a no-holds-barred beauty blog in which she documents her discoveries and disappointments. It's quite possible that my mother is some...

Many thanks to @Kimanjj on Twitter who spotted me much larger than life on Clapham High Street. Yes, this is me, bashing up a piano with a skirting board. I'd just like to point out that it's not as easy as it looks, especially whilst balancing on one leg, wearing...

I'm a big fan of all these 'no makeup' makeup formulas that keep coming out - they just seem to keep getting better. Sheerer, more glowy, more natural... I have been using Murad's new 'dewy finish' skin perfecting primer in place of any tinted moisturiser or...

I have recently made a quite frankly lifechanging discovery. Porridge Oats in a sachet. Porridge has been one of my breakfasts 'of choice' for the past few years, but I had always made it in a saucepan, standing stirring the milk and oats for what seemed like an...

A few weeks ago I went to the Belstaff sample sale and picked myself up a couple of bargains! Firstly, a skirt, but I'll tell you about that when I've managed to actually get the blasted thing over my hips. (Yes, one of those optimistic purchases!) The real gem,...

This week's Friday Flash Review is brought to you from Sicksville, Nausea City. "OK, I'm going to let you into a little secret. Something that I've done that was all rather silly but couldn't be helped. I mean literally couldn't be helped. If someone had put me in a...

This is highly topical, what with thousands of utterly barmy people traipsing off to sit in fields covered in mud; some festival and camping recommendations. Recommendation number one would actually be: Hire a Winnebago, but failing that, some beauty advice is the...

ARGH!! This was my face today (minus the boxing-glove border) when I found out that A Model Recommends had crashed. Unfortunately, there's a possibility that it had something to do with the set-up of The Forum and so The Forum had to be put to death. I am going to try...

I have spent the weekend trying to imagine that I'm somewhere far hotter and dryer than I actually am. Spritzing myself with l'Occitane's 'Calanques' fragrance (last year's but I treasure it as it smells like the beach) and wallowing in a bath that was 80% dead sea...

  I came across this little beauty of a cleanser recently whilst researching products for sensitive skin and then took it away on my camping trip. Oh, sorry? Did I not mention that I went camping? That I. Went camping? Funny that. Must be the trauma - you know,...

This is my "outfit of the day from last week" - I haven't done one of these little posts in ages, and I was, for once, not wearing my pyjama or tracksuit bottoms, so I thought I'd record the momentous event for posterity. So here you have me in two different (very...

After my little post on hair removal last month (or was it the month before) I set about trying out a few new things. The first was an epilator, but more on that in a separate post because I need to work up the courage to give it a second try! The second thing was...