It has been a while since I mentioned Love+Art, which is quite shocking considering that I use a number of their products on an almost daily basis! If you have been with me since “the beginning” then you may remember reading about the wonderful floral waters that Love+Art produce – if you missed that particular…

I’ll admit right here and right now that I’m not particularly good at doing my nails. I don’t have the time or the inclination to sit about waiting for polish to dry and so I often end up smudging my wet varnish, or carrying on with my daily tasks regardless so that I end up…

I feel as though I may be slightly late to the party with these tweezers – how have I only just discovered them? They are amazing for travelling, when lighting in hotel rooms can often be so bad that it’s impossible to do any tweezing! The best place to tweez eyebrows used to be in…

Despite the fact that I find the picture on the packaging – quite frankly – disturbing, I really like this masque a lot. Montagne Jeunesse products remind me, for some reason, of being a teenager. Probably because they look exactly like the products that I did use as a teenager – those sachets of face…

OK, a bit of an indulgence this one. Mostly because it’s a powder puff, and I have never really seen the point of powder puffs – applying powder to the body just seems so old-fashioned…so…pointless. I mean, I can see the point of applying talc to those “hard to reach” places that perhaps get a…

Aveda’s lip balm is very aptly named, as it is actually saving my lips here in New York! It’s bitterly cold when the wind blows and it leaves your face feeling completely zapped of any moisture, but I have been keeping Aveda’s Lip Saver in my pocket and reapplying when needed. To be quite accurate,…

I am absolutely loving e.l.f.’s shimmery eyeliners at the moment – they are a permanent fixture in my makeup bag. They’re not shimmery in a brash, glittery way, they just look slightly metallic which makes for a soft, easy-to-wear daytime eye. Gunmetal is a brilliant alternative to black for a sexy, sultry eye; especially if…

I first spotted Filorga on a trip to Paris. It’s a popular Pharmacie brand and the latest one to have crossed the Channel over to the British shelves. The Laboratoires Filorga have spent decades researching biological products that would have potent anti-ageing effects; their treatments are medical – think dermal fillers and glycolic facial peels…

This has been one of my staple products for some time now, ever since a makeup artist used it on my skin at the end of a shoot. My skin had felt a bit sore – it was a beauty shoot and we had done about five or six different makeup changes! – and I…

I just broke the second rule of Flight Club: “No Sneaky Napping”. And I had been doing so well! The first night here in New York City, I made sure that  I stayed awake until 10pm (3am GMT!) so that I immediately got into the new time zone. But today, I finished work early and…

How’s the Christmas shopping going? Started it yet? My festive buying usually happens one of two ways; either I buy everything online in plenty of time (Christmas 2007 and 2008) or I leave it until Christmas Eve (2009) and stand in Boots, crying. The problem is, I’m quite a picky buyer, and I like to…

Do you remember me raving about Brenda Anvari’s Intensive Face Balm? Read here if not. It was like ten thousand oranges squished into a glass jar – orange juice for the face. Wonderful. My only wish for that particular balm was that it would come in a bigger pot so that I could baste my…

As this publishes onto the world-wide-web, I am in an aeroplane somewhere over the Atlantic, on my speedy way to New York City. I am in NYC shooting a hair campaign for KMS and it is all rather last-minute because I only actually cast for the job last Thursday! Things often happen in this manner…

My most sincere apologies, for once again I have neglected to tell you about a favourite beauty staple. I have been using Bioderma cleanser for years and – when I have it  – I use it pretty much daily. The reason that I haven’t mentioned this before is because for the last four months I…

Here I am with my monthly Round-Up – once again, just in the nick of time! It’s very annoying that by the time I get to the end of the month, I’ve totally forgotten about most of the interesting/amazing/unusual things that I’ve found in the first couple of weeks. Next month I am going to…

As you should all know, by now, I love samples. Miniatures, sachets, testers, tiny tubs and tubes and bottles – I have tonnes of them. Quite literally – a few months ago, I had to tip out a whole drawer of my dresser and ‘decant’ my samples lovingly into individual containers, marked for ‘face’, ‘body’,…

To celebrate the launch of the seventh Mr & Mrs Smith Hotel Collection book which covers South-East Asia, I have FIVE to give away! The Smith books are beautiful, full of amazing photographs and well-written reviews. They make for compulsive reading for people like me who sit and daydream about holidays (I like to call this…

Abondance de Cacao is part of  L’Oreal Professional’s new “Serie Nature” range. There’s a shampoo (which is stated as being Paraben and Silicon free) and a treatment masque, and both have been formulated for fine hair. You may struggle to believe that I could have any imperfections, but I do, in fact, have quite fine…