As I type this, my entire office is scented with roses – the new Rose Jardin Délice from L’Occitane to be more precise. It comes as no real surprise that I like this, surely – I love roses, and I also love pretty much everything that comes floating up from L’Occitane en Provence. This new…
I have been asked to post a “Face of the Day” – or “FOTD” as they appear to be called in the world of online beauty enthusiasts! So here it is – my “Face of the Day”. I tend to have the same face everyday, so I’m not quite sure how regularly I’ll be able…
At the beginning of December I flew to New York to shoot the new KMS California campaign (which is why I came home blonder, and with a fringe) and after the shoot finished, I got given a humungous bag of product. This is one of the nice ‘perks’ of being a model – when you…
I have been meaning to make the video below for ages, but I wanted to have a good play about with the Watercolours first, because they are somewhat of a foreign texture to me when it comes to blush. Hand me a cream blush or a powder, a ‘pot of rouge’ or a Nars Multiple…
Sorry to any of you who couldn’t think of anything less interesting than reading about a candle, but the fragrance of this one just did something a little odd to me. Now I know that I’ve harped on about this fragrance/memory phenomenon before, where you smell something and it triggers something off in your brain,…
**** UPDATE: sorry I’m late with this, I haven’t had a chance to do anything over the last two days! The winner, picked at random, is Alice Sykes who follows by email! Well done Alice, I have dropped you an email already! **** I have an excellent giveaway for you this week – I’m kind…
Avon’s new Moisture Seduction lipsticks launch today and they are quite unusual; lipcolours with ribbons of moisturising balm swirled through them. I have been trying mine out since way back in November, just as the weather was starting to turn very cold, and they really are nice and moisturising. What makes them different to the…
Note of warning to those who take product names literally: this Survival Kit will not help you in a Bear Grylls-typed situation (lost in the jungle, being chased by venomous snakes, with nothing but a crew of fifty, an off-road vehicle and a Hilton hotel to save you from the jaws of death) and neither…
Recommendation of the week: if you’re thinking about buying a Clarisonic, then I’d hold your horses and go for the new ‘Mia’ version that will be available from March 11th in Space NK. It’s utterly genius – smaller and lighter and it has a clever ‘magnetic’ charger rather than an annoying cradle. It’s also quite…
I can’t quite believe that we’re at the end of another month – time is racing by at the moment! Oh well. Another month, another Beauty Round-Up – a little low on skincare, bodycare and haircare in this video, I’m afraid. That’s not to say that I haven’t found any interesting and worthy hair, skin…
My latest eye cream love: Darphin’s Gel Lissant Défatigant Yeux. Sounds much more impressive in French, non? This is instantly cooling on application and contains Walnut extract and caffeine to ‘visibly reduce fine lines and revive the eye contour’. I have no idea what Walnut extract is supposed to do but I can tell you,…
Random stream of consciousness coming your way, take a deep breath: “What’s in my waste paper basket I wonder? I haven’t delved in there for at least three months. For all I know there could be things living in there! A family of mice, perhaps, or a small tramp. It’s a big bin, so a…
Cult Beauty have set up a pop-up shop in Selfridges and it’s open for the next five days! This is an amazing way for Cult Beauty fans to ‘browse the aisles’ in real life and see the Cult products first-hand. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Cult Beauty is an online beauty boutique with…
I was trying to tidy up my desk the other day. (I don’t know whether you’re familiar or not with the phrase trying to tidy, but generally this activity involves sitting very still, on a chair, in front of your computer, watching YouTube videos.) When I finally got round to actually tidying, I realised that…
I really like this product a lot, despite the fact that the general idea behind it is so fundamentally flawed as to be almost insane. The idea is – and stay with me here – that the applicator dispenses a moisturising eye cream using a cooling metal roller ball, which will refresh and hydrate tired…
You may be surprised to learn that I spend an inordinate amount of time in Pizza Express. Usually because I have a huge stack of vouchers to use up, but also because it’s an easy and cosy place to meet up with friends for lunch. And I do a lot of lunching. But before you…
If you have ever tried Urban Decay’s eyeliner pencils, you’ll know that they are incredible. Soft, creamy and vibrant, yet completely waterproof and smudge-proof. They apply so smoothly and softly, and you can blend them very easily for the first twenty seconds or so. After that though, they set so completely that it’s almost impossible…
This is a lovely light hand cream – perfect for use throughout the day when you want to apply it and get on with doing other things. This isn’t one to use for severely dry hands if you’re expecting a quick-fix – more of an on-the-go maintenance cream for keeping your hands soft and comfortable….