TRYING ON SHORT SHORTS

TRYING ON SHORT SHORTS

In this video I try on some shorts and they are very… short. Don't hold me to this but I think I've come up with a solution for those of you who don't use Instagram but want to see the content I post on there. I'm experimenting with uploading the videos to YouTube as...

Life Update: Oh Sh*t, The Kid Can Read

The just-six-year-old can now read, really quite well, which means I have had to hide all of the novelty mugs with swear words on them and also stop leaving dirty messages to Mr AMR on the fridge door. (Who knew magnetic letters could be so much fun?) In all...

Best Luxury Cleanser – If I could only buy one

Best Luxury Cleanser – If I could only buy one

Welcome 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 quest has been for the best luxury cleanser.  Disclaimer: Ooph, this "If I Could Only Buy...

RUTH CRILLY

Writer, content creator, veteran model and avid tester of beauty products. I’ve been blogging since 2010, giving honest recommendations and writing unbiased reviews about everything from luxury holidays to the best budget foundations. I’m in my forties, have two children and often tell funny stories about my life. You can read more about me on the aptly-named “About Me” page.

Domes of Elounda: The Haute Living Holiday (With Kids)

Domes of Elounda: The Haute Living Holiday (With Kids)

When Mr AMR and I first had Angelica, we vowed never to take a holiday abroad for at least five years. Just getting to Sainsbury's was enough of a faff - getting her into the car seat, getting her out again for a feed and a change, stopping for another feed halfway...

All The Places I Wore This Dress

All The Places I Wore This Dress

I was looking through my photo library trying to find a picture of myself holding an avocado (don't ask) when I noticed that I've been wearing the same Hush dress* for about a month. It's the easiest, comfiest summer dress of the year so far - basically an oversized...

My Favourite Beach-In-A-Bottle Fragrances

My Favourite Beach-In-A-Bottle Fragrances

I'm really in the mood for a bit of high-summer fragrance, at the moment. I think it's because we keep getting these little pockets of surprise hot weather; one day it's drizzly and grim and then the next it's absolutely baking and you have to pop inside to put...

My Three Key Hair Styles | AD

My Three Key Hair Styles | AD

The smell of Elnett hairspray is the smell of my twenties. The smell of my entire modelling career, really, wherever in the world it has taken me. Because I can't think of many photoshoots I've been at where there hasn't been a cloud of Elnett escaping through the...

The High Street Mascara with High-End Performance

The High Street Mascara with High-End Performance

Last week I wrote about my non-surgical eye lift revelation which was, probably to many people's disappointment, simply the power of a good mascara. No trickery, no miracle-promising skincare ingredients, just simple lash definition and a bit of lift at the roots to...

A Tour of my Kitchen

A Tour of my Kitchen

  "Tour" is a bit of a grand word to use, isn't it, for what amounts to a quickish snoop around the room that I cook and eat in, but there we go. It's a thing, online, apparently. House tour, office tour, tour of my makeup kit, bathroom cabinet tour, tour of my...

Bikini Horrors and The Miraclesuit

Bikini Horrors and The Miraclesuit

Before I went on holiday (yes, the holiday post is coming up, I'm still recovering from the night-flight-with-toddler-and-baby) I bought a load of bikinis and swimming costumes from Figleaves so that I could try them on in the relative comfort of my own home....

The Non-Surgical Eye Lift

The Non-Surgical Eye Lift

OK, you have to bear with me here, because the revelation that follows is so unbelievably obvious I'm almost embarrassed to post about it. What we have here isn't some new-fangled eye cream ingredient or a fancy, muscle-toning massage move. It's not an optical...

5 Most Used Beauty Products: April 2018

5 Most Used Beauty Products: April 2018

Brain like a sieve... I filmed this video weeks ago and forgot to upload it; my five most-used beauty products for April 2018. A gorgeous healthy-glow foundation (see the full review here), possibly the world's most expensive bronzer, an anti-wrinkle treatment that...

Weekly Window Shop: Guccification

Weekly Window Shop: Guccification

I have been spending a dangerous amount of time staring at various accessories on the Gucci website. Scarves, headbands, belts, costume jewellery, shoes. I wouldn't normally tease myself in this way, but Gucci seem to have silently crept in and infiltrated every...

Sunscreen Review: Vichy Tan Enhancing Solar Protective Water

Sunscreen Review: Vichy Tan Enhancing Solar Protective Water

Sunscreen reviews: it's been a while. Mainly because (until recently) I hadn't been anywhere hot for almost four years. And to properly test out sun protection, to really get to grips with the texture and the effectiveness and the pros and the cons of a particular...

HUGE Announcement: Colab with Little Mix!

HUGE Announcement: Colab with Little Mix!

As you will know, if you've been following A Model Recommends for any length of time, I'm a very proud founder of the Colab dry shampoo brand. It seems like only yesterday that we launched it, with a star-studded party in East London (I had found out that I was...