I have just realised what my ‘most-used and repurchased’ beauty item is and it’s this: cotton wool. To be more specific, cotton wool pads. To be even more specific, cotton wool pads by Delon+, available from Costco. I apologise in advance if you have no access to Costco – these are pretty hard to get…
This exfoliating cleanser is absolutely gorgeous. It’s not a mechanical exfoliant – beads and broken shells (bits of gravel, broken crockery) etc – it uses fruit acids to remove dead skin cells. No chance of scratching the surface of the skin or causing redness and irritation. It’s a pearly cream-gel that spreads easily over the…
Hurrah, another Face of the Day! I look a bit like a cartoon thanks to my iPhone 4 and its “flash” that either lights things too much or fails to light up anything. I wanted to document this particular look for two reasons; firstly, you will notice that I am wearing purple eyeliner and mascara….
I had a reader (Pluto) ask me if I had tried the ‘Stimulating and firming beauty lift mask’ from Lierac and I hadn’t. Pluto was thinking of buying this mask instead of Sisley’s Express Flower Gel and I said that I would try and test it out so that I could compare the two and…
I decided to swatch the lipsticks and lip ‘gelées’ from Estée Lauder’s new Spring collection, which led to a rather interesting video – mostly because I was shocked at how easy the colours were to wear. They look quite scarily bright in the packaging, but are incredibly flattering on the lips. Even the Violet shade,…
It’s Valentine’s Day and I love you lot, so I’m giving away some gorgeous lipsticks. There will be five winners who will receive two lipsticks each, picked out by moi from the new Avon Moisture Seduction range! To enter, all you need to do is be a Google follower or email subscriber and leave a…
I did a quick round-up of a few Valentine-appropriate bits and pieces, including a few new launches. I always waffle on for about three years in these intros, so I’ll let the video do the talking this time! xx (I don’t normally put kisses, I know – it’s a nod to V-Day on Monday!) Nail…
It’s not so much the colour of this polish that I’m recommending here, but the formula and finish. It goes on so easily – really quickly and smoothly. You only need one coat if you’re not a perfectionist, so it’s great if you just want to get your nails looking groomed and then run out…
As with the previous tutorial, I’m guessing that the title is self-explanatory here, but just in case; the following is a video about how to trim your fringe. The professional way. Once again, Kenna from Kennaland talks us through step-by-step, and if you make it to the end, you’ll even see some out-takes. Which aren’t…
I love the smell of roses, so I did a video on it. It’s as simple as that, really. I left loads of stuff out, both by accident and necessarily, because it would have ended up taking three days to watch it. So there will be a sequel, do not fear. Or do fear, if…
I’m going into Valentine’s overdrive now, which I apologise for. Any excuse to talk about lush, luxurious products! This one missed the video, but would have been a brilliant addition; Brenda Anvari’s Valentine Box. It could be named the ‘Anytime Box’ because there’s nothing sickly sweet or flowery about the scent of these products –…
The Valentine’s Gift Guide has arrived – forward this link to whoever it is that’s going to be doing the gift-buying! Watch the video yourselves as well, obviously! It’s over on Ape to Gentleman… VALENTINE’S GIFT GUIDE: JUST GIVE THIS SENTENCE A LITTLE CLICK!
Sorry to do this to you people, but there’s another Chanel hit this week. I know that many of you have a problem with Chanel in that you are compelled beyond all sensibility and reason to buy everything and anything displaying the Double-C logo – and I feel your plight. I really do. But I’m…
Oops. This video has been sat around for…quite a while. As you can probably tell, it being entitled “Winter Skincare Tips” and not “Nearly Springtime Skincare Tips.” It’s a bit of a rambling one, this, but it looks at quite a few products that I haven’t yet written about here on A Model Recommends. So…
Just a quick one – I quite like this mascara. I got given a few ‘budget’ mascaras on a beauty shoot recently and I have been working my way through them. Most have ended up in the dreaded ‘Sin Bin’, but this particular one from Prestige Cosmetics has made the cut. It’s supposed to be…
Apologies for the massive headband in this video – it was all I could find. My fringe does my head in if I leave it down when I do my makeup, so I suffocate it underneath tight swaddling until it’s safe to let it out. I first saw this makeup collection a couple of months…
Finally my Swatch campaign has launched! I shot this with Rankin a couple of months ago, but at the time I couldn’t really say what I was shooting because it was all hush-hush. But here I am! Thanks to the eagle-eyed few who spotted it before me – and please do take a little photo…
I have problems with high heels. Which is unfortunate, considering that I’m a fashion model. I simply cannot walk (at all!) in heels that are too high, and sometimes on fashion shoots you can see me