Get Ready With Me: Jimmy Choo Dinner

Get Ready With Me: Jimmy Choo Dinner

I had a (mostly) baby-free afternoon last week and so I thought I'd film myself getting ready for a Jimmy Choo 20th Anniversary dinner that I was attending. This sort of video is widely known as - rather unimaginatively, but we'll let that pass - a Get Ready With Me...

Haircuts, Homebase and Hinges…

Haircuts, Homebase and Hinges…

Starting the week with a new vlog. One with a ridiculous title - Haircuts and Butt Hinges - but I didn't have the energy to think of something better. I was so tired yesterday I barely had the energy to think of a title at all - the video was nearly just called...

Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer Review

Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer Review

My most-requested review of the year; not from readers, but from friends and family. Which is unusual, because most of my friends and family couldn't really give two hoots about beauty things! I suppose, though, that the Supersonic hair dryer from Dyson is far more...

Summer Makeup and Miscellaneous Ramblings

Summer Makeup and Miscellaneous Ramblings

Filming in my new office is not going well. Not at all. I can't really talk to Mr AMR about this as when the office was being designed (it's newly built and at the bottom of the garden) he asked me a million questions about whether such and such wall dimensions or...

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...

Family Life and France Twice

Family Life and France Twice

I flew back to France this week for a really lovely job. The 4am start wasn't so lovely, but the shoot itself was brilliant - my first proper bit of filming, with full hair and makeup and so on, since having the baby. The stylist shoehorned me into the smallest corset...

France: What I Wore, What I Packed

France: What I Wore, What I Packed

Bonus post! Here's what I packed in my new suitcase for my trip to France. (The first one. For the second I might well be taking my little carry-on case, so that wouldn't be an interesting video. It's only large enough to hold one pair of shoes, one book and one...

On My Bedside Table…

On My Bedside Table…

I wasn't going to do a post today, it being a Bank Holiday, but I couldn't resist another opportunity to bang on about bedtime and sleeping! Ha. Just a chatty little video, here, talking about the things I have on my bedside table. Enjoy - back to beauty tomorrow. A...

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...

Vlog: Cat Cuddling and Pictures from the Past

Vlog: Cat Cuddling and Pictures from the Past

In this vlog edition (edition? episode?) I go to 10 Downing Street, pluck my eyebrows and cuddle with my cat. It's a jam-packed one, I'm telling you. We actually had a bit of a scare with Mr Bear the cat at the weekend because he managed to escape into the field at...

The (Affordable) No Foundation Makeup Look

The (Affordable) No Foundation Makeup Look

I think that this has to be the most random video I've ever filmed. I just switched the camera on and waffled away and it was only because the eyeshadow palette I tested was so good that I added a proper intro to the start of the video and decided to make a go of...

My Cornwall Mini-Break…

My Cornwall Mini-Break…

Goodness, what an incredibly lazy post to begin the week with; but if I don't post this vlog up now I'll forget and then where will we be? Vlogless! A word which in English means without vlog and in Klingon means prepare for light speed. Vlogless. I had a wonderful...