I have to have Invisalign and to say that I’m not massively keen would be an understatement. I’m viewing it as a necessary evil and in this post I wanted to outline a few things about the whole process that I’m not too enthusiastic about. But first, some backstory: A few years ago I was…
I don’t think I’ve ever properly suffered with anxiety – stress is more my thing, though I’m sure the two are somehow linked – but the current coronavirus situation is enough to make anyone as tense and panic-ridden as a hedgehog on a highway. So there are a few things that I’ve started doing, almost…
I interrupt the gift guide frenzy to bring you some videos that have somehow slipped the net, here on A Model Recommends. Firstly, this house update and then – perhaps tomorrow if I get a move on – a rambling makeup try-on with a fancy new red lipstick and a chat about Gold Digger. Please tell me…
I must admit that the title sounds slightly click-baity, but I filmed my latest house update when I was still waiting for the big glass doors to arrive and all building work had come to a total halt – it felt very appropriate. Like that bit in Grand Designs when everything goes wrong and they film…
Good God, this is my lowest innuendo-based titling moment yet. I’m afraid that titles have never been my strong point – perhaps I should hire someone who writes catchy titles for a living. Someone with a good grasp of popular key words and most-searched categories and all that kind of jazz – someone who could…
Question: is a part of a building still called an extension if there was something there before it? I’ve been mulling this over because I’ve been automatically referring to our new dining room as an extension but is it? We’ve demolished one thing (a weird, shoddily-constructed annexe) and we’re building something bigger and completely different in…
Here’s a “home haul” video, which I believe is the correct down-with-the-kids-speak for Things I’ve Been Buying For The House. Which could also be called Ruth’s Neverending Stream of Parcel Deliveries, or even Ruth’s Husband’s Ultimate Source of Discontent, because he has to endure the incessant ringing of the doorbell and the cardboard boxes everywhere and me…
I like to throw out a little video of myself now and then, otherwise you’re all left to construct a mental image of me from the mad things that I write about like gussets and too-small boilersuits and the restraining order that Tom Hardy took out against me. I’m not sure I give the most…
This video will honestly either make you want to dry heave into a paper bag or fill you with utter joy; it’s ever so slightly sentimental andI use my “mummy voice”. You have been warned. I went to Lapland on a press trip recently and wanted to film something for Ted and Angelica to show…
Here’s a visual delight for you; over 15 minutes of beauty confessional from Yours Truly. I talk about the Ten Year Challenge that took over Instagram and how I feel about my skin now that I’m 38, all via a chat about smoking and cosmetic surgery. So if you’ve ever wondered whether I have Botox or how…
There’s going to be a follow-up video to this video, and it’s going to be called Should I Move To The Country? Because I fear that I might have made moving to the country seem like a no-brainer decision in my latest Day In The Life; I feed the chickens as the sun comes up, walk the dog…
A brand new vlog to start a brand new year and there’s a brand new bag thrown in for good measure. Not literally “thrown” because it’s a lovely bag and deserves a bit of respect (also the chain on it weighs a tonne and would probably make a dent in the floor as it landed)…
The one you’ve all (maybe) been waiting for – the house tour. OK, so it’s not a room-by-room reveal of the whole place, MTV Cribs style, but it’s as much of a house peek as you’re probably going to get. You can always see bits and pieces of the inside of my home on Instagram stories, but this…
I went away for six whole nights (I went for the days too, obviously, otherwise it would have been a logistical nightmare) and I took my little vlogging camera with me to document the trip. I’ve called the resulting video – wait for this, because it’s an absolute triumph of creativity and took all evening…
I’ve been in Paris – can you tell? Give me twenty-four hours in France and I start coming out with all of the bad franglais. Actually (and I’m very proud of this) I always get lots of compliments about my very authentic French accent whenever I’m in Paris. Unfortunately I only know one sentence – the…
(links marked * are affiliate links, for more info see disclaimer below post) Well it looks as though we have ourselves a new beauty series; I uploaded a Youtube video about supermarket beauty on Sunday night and it was an instant hit. It was a video I had been meaning to do for a while…
My latest video has quite the dramatic title: Things Have Got To Change. It started off as a video about diet and exercise and the fact that I have a terrible diet and don’t do any exercise, but then I went off on a tangent and it became a video about all of the things I…
I was reading through some old diaries the other week (actually looking for some photos of my Dad, but that’s another matter) and I started to read through a few of my entries. I used to keep a daily journal – it was part of the preparation for my Masters degree – and I so…