The second instalment of my "beauty reviews" - I do hope that this will become a regular feature. It's useful, I think, to see products being applied - obviously you can't feel the texture yourself, but you get a good idea of how a foundation blends, or how pigmented...
Some of the Youtube-phobes amongst you might actually like this video; it's really short and I don't speak! I'm planning on doing a few more music-only videos, mostly because it's a relief not to have to sit there listening to the sound of my own voice for hours on...
My March beauty favourites video has just gone live and it comes with a big apology: I completely and utterly forgot to do a February one! The perfectionist side of my brain is begging me to film it retrospectively so that I have a "full house", but the time-poor,...
Sorry for that quite horrid bit of alliteration in the post title; I'm writing this at just before one in the morning and, after a certain time, my brain switches into Standby Mode. I start thinking in clichés and overusing semicolons; I have to fight my own fingers...
I was very much in two minds as to whether I was going to post up my "Brit Awards" makeup look - there's something about it that irks me. I think partly the lighting - I like filming in natural daylight so much more - but it could be, as I mentioned a week or so ago,...
I didn't have a clue what to call this makeup look, so I went with something yawn-inducingly generic. Sorry. But I do love this little routine I've got going with the slightly sultry, metallic eye and the pretty flush of pink on the cheeks. And I absolutely can't get...
Yes, I know: "partying" used as a verb. As bad as "holidaying", in my books - where do you holiday? - but still. I wore it emblazoned across my chest on a Milly NY t-shirt: "Sorry for Partying". I wish I had time to "party" - the most I've managed recently was a...
I think that this spotted blouse from Oasis is probably one of the best things I'll buy this spring. (I know it's not actually spring yet, but fashion works in mysterious (stupid) ways, forcing us to buy bikinis when it's snowing and so on and so forth.) But anyway,...
What do you think of Valentine's Day? I'm not so keen. In our eleven years together, I don't think that Mr AMR and I have ever been out on Valentine's night - it brings up dreaded images of restaurants filled with heart-shaped balloons, "special romance" menus atop...
Ah, here we are again. Monthly favourites. Apologies in advance; I have been on a bit of a beauty "hiatus" this month, partly because I spent the first two weeks of it watching The Good Wife and partly because I still haven't properly sorted out my beauty room. I...
The video below shows an enthusiastic attempt to de-clutter my ridiculously full makeup bag. There were seven foundations in there! Five concealers! Twelve eyeshadow brushes! I wanted a streamlined version with just a few favourite products that I love and can rely on...
This month's beauty favourites are unseasonably bronzey and glowy, I'm afraid; I filmed them when I was in Dubai, with the sun streaming in through my hotel window. I'm certain that my picks would have been different had I filmed in my chilly, makeshift beauty room at...