I am quite in love with this little product from Laboratoire Remède. It’s just so bloody useful! Now that I have been using it for a while, I can’t quite work out what I did before I had it! It’s a totally light-weight SPF that has just the tiniest hint of colour in it –…
I have had my eyelashes re-done by Flutter! This time, I didn’t even have to leave the comfort of my own home because lash-expert Nicky came and did them in my living room. She brought a folding bed/table with her and a strong lamp which (as you will see in the video) makes it all…
Here’s what I took to Paris with me in my makeup bag – quite a few new products this time, including brushes and blushes by Daniel Sandler, iRejuvenate treatment, Le Metier de Beauté Blonzer (not a typo) and my new tweezers from La-Tweez! Of the many new items, only the best will make it into…
UPDATE: The winner is Aimée Mollaghan! Well done – send over your address and the prize shall be yours! I am super-excited that I have one of these Deep Cleansing masks to give away! If you want to read my rave-review about it, then click here – if you already know about it and can’t…
One of my favourite moisturisers in the past few months has been the Aromatherapy Associates Orange Flower Mattifying Moisturiser. It feels so rich and nourishing upon application that you’d never believe that it could mattify anything – it doesn’t feel greasy, as such, it’s just that it doesn’t feel ‘gel-like’ or light, which seems to…
I have been so impressed with this haircare from Evolve – it’s SLS-free yet foams very nicely, it smells good enough to eat and it leaves my hair really shiny. I love the fact that this formula is a detoxifying one – it removes product build-up and general gunk that makes hair seem dull, yet…
I’m so used to travelling to places by myself that I now feel slightly odd when I’m not alone! Does that sound weird? I don’t actually like travelling alone all that much – once I’ve got past the novelty of being away and being able to do exactly as I please, I often just feel…
I can’t run in heels to save my blinking life, but I do love the Running in Heels website – it’s full of great articles and posts, and now, a splendid Q&A with yours truly! Pop on over there and have a look here – Running in Heels – I very much enjoyed being questioned, as…
There are some things in life that you simply don’t realise you need until you have them. My house if full of them. Colour coded chopping boards. Electronic pepper mills. Pillows with in-built radio speakers, a floating bath duck that plays music, a toothbrush that beeps when you brush too hard, a hairbrush that talks…
My BlackSmith membership from Mr & Mrs Smith is quite possibly the most useful membership card that I have ever owned.If you’re not familiar with Mr & Mrs Smith, then let me introduce you; it’s a luxury and boutique hotel website with a handpicked selection of properties around the world, each and every hotel having been…
This is me, asleep in the middle of Selfridges beauty hall. Not really! I’m just showing of my beautiful eye makeup created by Chelsea, the Texas-based Makeup Maestro who took me on a tour of the new Le Metier de Beauté counter in Selfridges last week. After my introduction to the range (I had heard…
Out of all my beauty products, Liz Earle’s Cleanse and Polish is the one that I use most often. There. I said it. Now: I can sense mutiny in the ranks – there are screams of “WHAT? She tells us this now after six months of loyal readership? What the devil is the girl playing…
I can’t quite get over how much I love this body wash. It ticks every single box – natural, gorgeous-smelling, effective, cheap, gentle. If it was packaged in a sleek glass bottle, this body wash could retail for £20 upwards as a luxury product, but it’s not; it’s in a fully recyclable plastic bottle and…
Apologies, people; this was written over two weeks ago when I was – you’ve guessed it – in Glasgow. I’m keeping it in the present tense because I like the immediacy of it all, but I just thought that I’d come clean and make it clear that I’m not currently in Glasgow in my hotel…
Yes, it’s the end of the month again, which means that you get to see another “Beauty Round-Up”! I’ve managed to actually publish my October video in October, which is quite an accomplishment for me, let me tell you. I hope that you like it – as you will see, I made a massive effort…
Here’s a funky little video that I made when I was experimenting with my Cover FX products. Apologies in advance for the terrible music, Youtube wouldn’t let me use my first choice and so I swapped it for the best thing I could find. In the video I create a nice flawless base with a…
I had the wonderful opportunity today of meeting Aaron de May, Lancôme’s Global Makeup Director. He was in London Selfridges to launch the L’Wren Scott collection for Christmas 2010, but on an extremely tight schedule and so he managed to pack about one thousand makeup tips and ideas into a twenty minute session! Talking to…
Check this out! (Sorry to sound like an excited pre-teen, but this is a jolly good prize!) A totally gorgeous gift set containing the most luxurious items from l’Occitane’s new Fleur Cherie range, it contains a full-sized Eau de Toilette, the beautiful Lip Jewel Palette, Radiance Powder Pearls for the face and a cute Fleur…