Some beauty shopping scenarios for you, tick all that apply: - you're in need of a skincare restock but don't know where to begin - you've saved up for a beauty treat but want something that truly delivers on results - you're sad that summer is coming to an end and...
Some lovely, melty-textured makeup bits that'll see you through the rest of summer and take you nicely into Autumn. Oh God! The A-Word! I hate myself for even using it, because the summer months are what I live for, but all good things must come to an end. Also, the...
This is the third SPF problem in my little mini-catalogue of sunscreen issues and it's the one that seems to frustrate people the most: how on earth do you reapply sunscreen over makeup? I have two good options below. My first thought, though, is this: if you're doing...
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...
Well here's a little something that gets my gadget-geek side a bit overexcited; La Roche-Posay have just launched an incredibly useful piece of tech called My Skin Track UV. It's a wearable sensor that measures your exposure to UV, pollution, pollen and humidity and...
I fear I'm late to the party with the boilersuit trend. Praise be, frankly, because they all look dreadful on me. I can't see what all the fuss is about - even when they don't look outrageously unflattering they still make a lot of people look like a Super Mario...
I always have such good intentions for this monthly life update post (in fact even writing the first part of this sentence seems very deja vu), but however hard I try to do things in advance I always end up compiling it at the nth hour on the 3rd day of the month. (It...
Finding properly pretty bed linen is not the easiest of tasks, especially for children's rooms. Because a lot of the time "pretty" means cartoon fairies and a very sickly sort of princess pink, when what you actually want is Liberty print and the sorts of teeny tiny...
Elemis have launched two new moisturisers into their Peptide 24/7 range; a clever, multi-tasking day cream - Peptide4 Adaptive Day Cream* - and an overnight mask called the Plumping Pillow Facial*, which must be one of the most inviting product names I've ever seen....
Rejoice, rejoice, the Emanuelle dress from Hush is - I can declare - the perfect garment for eating in. And I don't mean any old eating, obviously; eating is rarely an act that's impeded by your clothing. You can eat in virtually anything, really, except for a...
Well, Molton Brown's new Geranium Nefertum range is a bit of a surprise. I can't remember the last time I needed to try a fragrance on Mr AMR with such immediacy - I actually sprinted down the stairs to spritz him. He thought I'd won the lottery such was the...
I really need to crack on with my foundation reviews because I have a serious backlog. I get a bit stuck, sometimes, because I try to go into too much detail and then I start comparing one foundation with another and then I set myself the task of wearing one on one...
Is there a term for someone who is the very opposite of green-fingered? Who's more Die-das touch than Midas? Whatever the term is for it, that's me. I just seem to be very bad with houseplants - I've killed orchids, money trees, even cacti! (I really shouldn't use an...
I've been looking for something to jazz up my very plain bathroom, but something soft, steam-tolerant and relatively portable. A flash of colour, a punchy pattern, a sort of moveable visual feast, if you will. And what's more soft, steam-tolerant and movable than a...
I wasn't at all prepared for this video; I was on an overnight stay at Heckfield Place (lovely new hotel, incidentally) and in the morning decided, with just a smidgen of a hangover, that I'd film myself putting on all of the makeup in my makeup bag. It was an odd...