Featuring this month's 5 beauty and lifestyle favourites! Please excuse the random, disorganised, wasp-infested start and the filming conditions in this month's favourites video: firstly a wasp came in to the bedroom (probably trying to escape the building dust in the...
My four year-old has recently stopped calling his six year-old sister by her actual name and instead has taken to calling her just "sister". It's slightly unnerving and makes him sound as though he has been beamed through time from the Dark Ages, where he was the...
Welcome back to the 'If I Could Only Buy One' series, in which I give myself a week-long headache trying to decide on my absolute favourite beauty product from a given category. This time my quest has been for the best tinted moisturiser. Please do read the disclaimer...
Goodness me. Can we just take a moment to appreciate the effort that's gone into designing these Guerlain Rouge G lipstick cases? Rouge G has always been a favourite of mine, with the slide-out lip colour and pop-up mirror. It weighs about the same as a four-oven AGA,...
The idea for this pre-Father's Day post was supposed to be that things get better with age and that we should embrace getting older and all of the fine things that come with it. Wisdom, perhaps; an improved financial situation, with any luck, or maybe - if you're one...
I'm going to do a bit more of a written accompaniment than usual to this month's "most used" video; I filmed the video at my Mum's whilst enduring a minor hangover (two glasses of prosecco, rock and roll) and there were some important things I forgot to talk about....
If you were scrolling through Instagram this week, you may have noticed a bit of a commotion going on over some rather nice (very roomy) swag bags from brilliant clothing brand Scamp & Dude. I had always thought a swag bag was the sack that a comedy burglar...
Darphin have two brand new additions to their Lumiere Essentielle skincare range and they are absolutely gorgeous. Luxe-feeling, sweet-smelling and perfect for the summer months. There's a micellar cleanser, light in texture but rich in beautiful essential oils, and a...
I have a new idea for a feature, borne (once again) from the comments section, which is often where I'll go to if I need some inspiration and motivation. The feature is a regular post where you choose the subject, however random, and I write about it. A few hundred...
I picked up this not-insubstantial bottle of face-cleansing oil for two pounds. Two pounds! Granted, it was on offer (this was last year, I've never seen it as cheap since) but even at the full retail price of £6.99, it's still quite the bargain. I'm not sure what to...
Those of you who read The Uphill - the parenting and family blog I write "in my spare time" (haha) - will already be familiar with my life updates. I do one every single month without fail, always on the same day of the month, and I've been writing these little...
Right, don't panic: the monthly update is over on A Model Recommends. I have started to put the wheels in motion to merge the content here on The Uphill with my main website and so I thought that I'd bite the bullet and write any new posts straight into their...
Oh hallelujah! (I managed to spell hallelujah correctly the first time then, by the way, which is something of a miracle. Some words are just meant to be Googled - diarrhoea is one of them - and some words are destined to remain unspellable for your entire lifetime....
I am without a beside table. Have been for quite some time. In fact if you follow me on Instagram then you'll remember this photo from weeks ago - it's of one of my Ercol vintage kitchen chairs being used as a makeshift book-and-vase stand. Rather more attractive than...
Most of you know that my love affair with acid exfoliants - in particular glycolic acid - is fairly long-standing. I like the ease with which an AHA exfoliant (for that is what it is, if you want the fancy name) slips into your skincare routine and I especially like...