I bought a Maje tee in the Selfridges sale and it was such a good purchase. I’m not usually big on prints, but I make an exception for a touch of plaid or a bit of leopard! This T-shirt is 100% modal and drapes really nicely, but I mainly bought it because it looks a…
OK, listen up people. Those of you who have been paying attention throughout my many videos will know that I had a favourite concealer, and that the favourite concealer was none other than Estée Lauder’s Double Wear Stay-in-Place. If you weren’t aware that this was my most-used makeup product, then consider yourselves now fully aware…
Sorry, I couldn’t think of a more interesting title! I was having a rummage through my makeup box last week – the box of things that have ‘yet to be tried’, which is overwhelmingly huge – and I found a little selection of pink lippies that I had been meaning to play with for a…
I first discovered Pro-Collagen about five years ago whilst killing time in House of Fraser. I often have lots of time to kill in town (by town I mean the West-End and Oxford Street) because castings are rarely scheduled in a neat, coherent order. There always seems to be an hour’s gap here, or two…
Let’s talk illness. Because ‘flu’ is such an overused word, isn’t it? Everyone says that they have flu over the Christmas break, but I reckon that only about one tenth of those people actually have proper flu. There’s a modern term for non-flu Flu, of course, and that’s Man Flu. What an excellent term! My…
I don’t often write about soap. In fact, have I ever written about soap before? I’m not sure that I have! There’s a reason for this: soap is the cleansing agent of the devil. It instantly makes your skin feel dry and shrivelled-up, and if you use it on your body parts it makes them…
I have to apologise for the fact that my head isn’t properly screwed on at the moment. I keep forgetting things – I think that it could be an age thing. I hope not, because I’m only going to get older, unless someone invents some kind of Time Reversing machine and turns me into Benjamin…
The New Year installment of my Ape to Gentleman column is finally here; you can read it by clicking the link below. If you don’t know Ape to Gentleman, then have a little browse – it’s an excellent resource for choosing grooming products for the man/men in your life. (By ‘men’ I don’t suggest that…
Excuse the rude-ish hand gesture here – I’m putting lip-gloss on, not giving you all the finger! My third and final video shot in my New York Hotel – this time it’s makeup, and rather heavy on the old Urban Decay products. I say ‘old’, but in actual fact many of them aren’t out yet…
Just a little bargain I picked up at LHR Terminal 5 – the Lengthen and Define set from Clinique. I was actually only after a new Quickliner because I had forgotten my black eyeliner, but I can’t resist any kind of discount when it’s laid out in front of me (which is why I have…
Slightly off-the-wall discovery of the week; Tokyo-based fragrance brand, “retaW”. Cool packaging, interesting fragrance concepts and tongue-in-cheek names such as ‘Clooney’ and ‘Neneh’. ‘Neneh’ is a Cherry-based scent. Neneh Cherry. Geddit? ‘Neneh’ (the fragrance, not the woman) is extremely sweet – it smells like Love Hearts. I’d go so far as to say it’s the…
If you follow me on Twitter (@modelrecommends) then you’ll have seen me get extremely excited last night over something called “Boots Treat Street”. I went on about it for quite a while, and probably bored some of you to death, but it was just far too much of a revelation to stay quiet about. A…
I’m having a lazy day on A Model Recommends today, because yesterday I inadvertently posted three things instead of the one that I was planning to. So yesterday, you lucky lot got yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s. Today’s post is now a mish-mash of chit-chat and general news. Yesterday I had a brilliant day shooting an…
I had been saving this little beauty for when the weather turned very, very cold – and then the weather did turn very, very cold but I didn’t have enough time to do a write-up. Christmas Gift Guides took over my life. Now that life is vaguely back to normal (except that I’m writing this…
Take a good look at the picture above. What you see before you is a set of instructions. A set of instructions, Dear Readers, telling me how to get to a room on the second floor of a building. Now excuse me if I sound a little ungrateful here, but WHO AN EARTH NEEDS INSTRUCTIONS…
Another video (the second of three) recorded at the Hudson Hotel in NYC. I think this might be the video that manages to discourage any potential Hudson-stayer, because (as you will no doubt hear) it was the noisiest hotel that I have ever stayed in. And I’ve stayed in a lot. Oh well, ho-hum. I…
I filmed the video for this post way back in early November and then promptly forgot about it. That does happen sometimes, especially if I’ve been doing a lot of filming at once, but I can’t actually quite believe that I forgot to publish this one, because it took me ages to make. The video…
I have a bit of a thing for Tom Ford. Not for the man himself, as in “I like to break in to his house and watch him sleep”, but for what he does. For his very definite sense of style and design that runs not only through his fashion designs, but into his advertising…