I have been using this facial wash for over a week now, and I can’t believe that I have only just found out about it. It’s pretty dear for a facewash (£27.60) which is probably why I have ignored it in the past, but this month you get a free full-sized Balancing Lavender Toner with…
I’m going to be writing about Becca cosmetics quite a lot in the near future – it’s a brand that gets used so often on me at shoots and I have a few firm favourites of my own that I want to share with you too. It might take me a week or two to…
I hadn’t ever tried anything from VIE before this Skin Sparkle set. I do have products that are waiting to be tried, but there is something about the packaging that I find generally quite underwhelming. Maybe it’s the lids on the tubes, I’m just not sure – because the styling is very clean and minimalist…
Try getting these babies through airport security! They look pretty scary as far as ‘things you put near to your eyes’ go, and I was slightly scared about trying them out. Newsflash: they’re brilliant! I think that I may actually prefer using this type of ‘precision’ tool to the usual flat-ended tweezers! I’m quite good…
A couple of weeks ago (it may have been the day after New Year’s day, when I went on a fever-induced online shopping spree) I signed up to ASOS Premier. Now normally when a shopping site ‘prompts’ me to sign up for some kind of extra service, I click ‘cancel’ without even reading the details,…
Maybelline’s Instant Anti-Age ‘The Eraser’ foundation launches at FeelUnique.com tomorrow and a sample of it landed on my desk this morning for me to try. (It didn’t literally land on my desk, because that would be plain weird. How would the post-lady (Dawn!) be able to throw the package in such a way that it…
I bought a Maje tee in the Selfridges sale and it was such a good purchase. I’m not usually big on prints, but I make an exception for a touch of plaid or a bit of leopard! This T-shirt is 100% modal and drapes really nicely, but I mainly bought it because it looks a…
OK, listen up people. Those of you who have been paying attention throughout my many videos will know that I had a favourite concealer, and that the favourite concealer was none other than Estée Lauder’s Double Wear Stay-in-Place. If you weren’t aware that this was my most-used makeup product, then consider yourselves now fully aware…
Sorry, I couldn’t think of a more interesting title! I was having a rummage through my makeup box last week – the box of things that have ‘yet to be tried’, which is overwhelmingly huge – and I found a little selection of pink lippies that I had been meaning to play with for a…
I first discovered Pro-Collagen about five years ago whilst killing time in House of Fraser. I often have lots of time to kill in town (by town I mean the West-End and Oxford Street) because castings are rarely scheduled in a neat, coherent order. There always seems to be an hour’s gap here, or two…
Let’s talk illness. Because ‘flu’ is such an overused word, isn’t it? Everyone says that they have flu over the Christmas break, but I reckon that only about one tenth of those people actually have proper flu. There’s a modern term for non-flu Flu, of course, and that’s Man Flu. What an excellent term! My…
I don’t often write about soap. In fact, have I ever written about soap before? I’m not sure that I have! There’s a reason for this: soap is the cleansing agent of the devil. It instantly makes your skin feel dry and shrivelled-up, and if you use it on your body parts it makes them…
I have to apologise for the fact that my head isn’t properly screwed on at the moment. I keep forgetting things – I think that it could be an age thing. I hope not, because I’m only going to get older, unless someone invents some kind of Time Reversing machine and turns me into Benjamin…
The New Year installment of my Ape to Gentleman column is finally here; you can read it by clicking the link below. If you don’t know Ape to Gentleman, then have a little browse – it’s an excellent resource for choosing grooming products for the man/men in your life. (By ‘men’ I don’t suggest that…
Excuse the rude-ish hand gesture here – I’m putting lip-gloss on, not giving you all the finger! My third and final video shot in my New York Hotel – this time it’s makeup, and rather heavy on the old Urban Decay products. I say ‘old’, but in actual fact many of them aren’t out yet…
Just a little bargain I picked up at LHR Terminal 5 – the Lengthen and Define set from Clinique. I was actually only after a new Quickliner because I had forgotten my black eyeliner, but I can’t resist any kind of discount when it’s laid out in front of me (which is why I have…
Slightly off-the-wall discovery of the week; Tokyo-based fragrance brand, “retaW”. Cool packaging, interesting fragrance concepts and tongue-in-cheek names such as ‘Clooney’ and ‘Neneh’. ‘Neneh’ is a Cherry-based scent. Neneh Cherry. Geddit? ‘Neneh’ (the fragrance, not the woman) is extremely sweet – it smells like Love Hearts. I’d go so far as to say it’s the…
If you follow me on Twitter (@modelrecommends) then you’ll have seen me get extremely excited last night over something called “Boots Treat Street”. I went on about it for quite a while, and probably bored some of you to death, but it was just far too much of a revelation to stay quiet about. A…