The Tom Ford Private Blend Lip Color; just look at it. Beautifully crafted packaging, luxurious gold finishing, and that lipstick inside – the perfect creamy nude. I have been road-testing ‘Blush Nude’, which is the second lightest shade in the Private Blend range. It’s pretty much the perfect nude shade; it’s light enough to be…
Oh my oh my oh my. It is really not often that something lands upon my desk that I fall in love with as much as this. I’m going to start off by telling you the price, which I normally wouldn’t do, but in this case I do so without a single shred of embarrassment,…
General opinion on cleansing waters is divided. There are those that love them, and those that think spending money on ‘what comes out of the tap’ is completely idiotic. Personally, I love them. They are the ultimate in lazy cleansing – I suppose the only improvement would be if you could ‘spray’ them on and…
Let’s talk about eyelash curlers. How many of you, truthfully, have bought a cheap, spindly, flimsy pair of eyelash curlers? I see a lot of hands creeping up in the audience…nearly all of you! You, Madam – how much did you spend on your curlers? “Two pounds fifty.” Two pounds fifty? Are you mad Madam?…
I don’t know whether or not you’ve noticed this yet, but I love cosmetics made with Rose. Love. I don’t know whether or not the scent triggers off early memories for me or something, but I just adore the smell. And it’s not just the scent that gets me; it’s the effect that rose has…
Thanks SO much to everyone who entered the Liz Earle Haircare Prize Draw! Hopefully you all had a little look around their site when you clicked through; I’ll be posting more about Liz Earle in the near future, but for now I’ll just say that everything is natural, gentle but really effective! So, here we…
The video below shows how I have been dealing with oily skin over the last couple of weeks. I tend to get oiliness for one week of the month – more if I have been testing a load of rich, heavy products – and I try to adapt my skincare regime to deal with the…
Thanks so much to everyone who entered the l’Occitane Prize Draw – I can reveal that the winner (as chosen by RANDOM.ORG) is Nicole Vargas! Well done Nicole – please get in touch with your details and the lovely serum and eye treatment will be in the post! (There’s an email contact form in the…
I’d like to make it clear that this is not my bathroom, just in case you didn’t read the title properly. This is the bathroom of my room at the Radisson Blu in Birmingham, where I have been staying whilst presenting shows at Style Birmingham. If this was my bathroom, there would no doubt be…
Chanel has rather thrown a spanner in the works of my ‘hunt for a new tinted moisturiser’. I had thought, possibly rather naively, that I would go on hunting for the perfect formula until I had exhausted testing out every single brand; relentlessly applying, reapplying, jogging on treadmills, battling through the wind and rain to…
I have used Caudalie products ever since I first started modelling. A friend, who also happened to be a booker at a top Paris agency, left her Caudalie foaming cleanser at my house and I forgot to return it (sorry!) and ever since then, I’ve been hooked! I find the products to be very gentle,…
This is one post where you really have to watch the video to fully appreciate the transformation. I give myself five minutes (a little longer due to the practicalities of filming) to change myself from a hungover wreck to something presentable enough to attend a casting. I’ll be absolutely honest here: this is not me…
I’ve never been great at doing my eyes – although I do tend to set my standards rather high, comparing my skills to those of the makeup artists who work on me day after day! When they effortlessly create a fierce smokey eye, or an incredible metallic lid, I just watch (through the other eye,…
I’m a very lazy dresser. I don’t know whether or not I’ve mentioned that before, but I am. Even if I’m going to a really important casting, I can’t be arsed faffing around with skirts that ride up, tops that fall down and a load of jangly accessories that catch on your clothes and are…
Last week, my trusted hairdryer finally gave up on life. It had a tough upbringing, my hairdryer; in its five years, I had thrown it down the stairs, used its head as a door-stop, almost drowned it in the sink, kicked it across the room when it got in the way… Yet it stuck with…
My latest article for your perusal. Just a little summary of my beauty routine over the last couple of weeks. I say the word ‘ridiculously’ three times, which is because I was ridiculously tired when I was editing. If it annoys you, just mentally swap in the word ‘bloody’ – or something stronger if you…
This is my new bronzing brush from Aveda. It’s real name is ‘Uruku’, but I have nicknamed it ‘Stumpy’. Stumpy is the latest addition to my makeup bag, and a very welcome one indeed, because it means that I can now make my beauty baggage even more compact than it was before! Being a model…