August Favourites / Market Research

August Favourites / Market Research

The August Favourites are in - but I have a burning question before you start devouring the various little beauty morsels I've prepared. It concerns video "thumbnails" (those little pictures that appear along with the title so that you know vaguely what you're about...

July Favourites

July Favourites

July favourites, including a response to some of the comments on my Best Budget Foundations video and one new product that I just don't get. I don't usually include dislikes in my favourites videos (mainly because they are supposed to be about things I love) but this...

June Favourites: Books and Beauty

June Favourites: Books and Beauty

Beauty favourites were a bit thin on the ground, last month, but I did do quite a bit of reading so I've shared this video between reading recommendations and beautifying tips. The Anne Tyler book (here) is just a beautifully gentle, slow-paced novel, examining the...

May Favourites

May Favourites

It has been a month of disappointments, beauty-wise; face creams that didn't cut the mustard, shampoos that ended up in the charity pile and a weird waterproof-mascara-remover that looked like an actual mascara (you brush it on from root to tip and leave the oils to...

April Favourites

April Favourites

There are perhaps a couple of familiar things in this month's favourites video; the l'Oreal Revitalift SPF25 is a new discovery and the review very recent, so probably still fresh in your minds, and the Hylamide Glow, a liquid face serum that imparts the most gradual...

March Favourites

March Favourites

I think I lost the plot a bit in this video: I start talking about the love I have for my tumble dryer. More specifically, the love I have for emptying out the water drawer (it's a condenser dryer) and removing the fluff from the fluff-catcher. I get a sort of calm...

February Favourites

February Favourites

I begin this month's favourites with my most-hated things - slightly unorthodox, but I found it rather cathartic. So much so that I may even do a whole video of hated things. I could make it a regular feature! But on to the positive items; two "man" things, two...

January Favourites 2016

January Favourites 2016

Thanks so much for your feedback on the monthly favourites videos; I have mixed things up a bit, and there will now be a mish-mash of different things included, not just beauty. You can probably expect to see at least one book included per month, and maybe a...

December Beauty Favourites

December Beauty Favourites

The last favourites video of the year. I'm actually thinking of changing things up a bit for 2016 and introducing a new video to replace the favourites, but wanted to get your opinion first. Do you like monthly favourites posts? I sometimes think that they just end up...

November Beauty Favourites

November Beauty Favourites

November Beauty Favourites - early, for the very first time! I have to get cracking on the Christmas Gift Guides so I thought I'd do my favourites before they got forgotten. There's a nice little skincare mix, a couple of great makeup products and a really creepy book...

Video: October Beauty Favourites

Video: October Beauty Favourites

This month's beauty favourites - and a book. You already know about the book - Career of Evil - because I wrote about it on Sunday, but it was worth an extra mention because I'm now 60% of the way through and it's brilliant. Very dark and disturbing, but a proper...

September Favourites

September Favourites

Yesterday I brought you "September Empties": today, September Favourites. Never say that I lack imagination. Tomorrow is October (I think?) so maybe there'll be a change of theme. Ha! Some corkers in this video, though, including the brilliant new mascara discovery...