I don't think I've ever had so many questions and comments about a foundation as I have about the Pat McGrath Labs Skin Fetish Sublime Perfection. I photographed myself oh-so-casually wearing it on Instagram stories and it has made background appearances in some of my...
We're having another heatwave here in the UK - in September! Honestly, this year must be breaking some kind of hours-of-sunshine record. It feels as though we've had the longest summer in history, starting in March and running all the way through into the autumn -...
Do any of you have any huge objections if I widen the scope of my monthly favourites round-ups to include stuff other than beauty? I feel it would inject some new and welcome joie de vivre into what is an old - yet surprisingly still very popular - format. The only...
I've tried a lot of these "relaxing" bath oils now - mainly due to the fact that I seem to live in a permanent state of self-induced life-stress - and I can tell you that the Deep Relax from Aromatherapy Associates is one of the very best. I seem have two functional...
We've moved house. Actually, we've more than moved house; we've moved halfway across the country, to the beautiful city of Bath. There's a long-ish story behind this perhaps rather surprising turn of events, but I'll precis it for you, because it's an arduous and very...
Imagine how fast my heart was beating when I received this press pack from Chanel - I honestly thought that I had been sent a special travel diary, complete with cute little double-c sticky page markers and lovely postcard inserts. After my eye-rolling over The...
It has been a rather stressful month - perhaps one of the most stressful of my life, when I come to think of it. Though - thankfully - it's more administrative stress than anything unsolvable. I always think that health is the biggest priority, and we are all of us...
Applying the Rose Stem Cell Bio-Repair Gel Mask from Peter Thomas Roth is like having my face smothered in glorious, gelatinous Turkish Delight. There are few things I can think of, at this particular moment, that would be as high up on the sexiness scale as...
I'm still keeping myself amused with the bobbly-shafted Wonderball waver from Lee Stafford. Not in the biblical sense - let's keep things clean! - but it has been presenting me with plenty of opportunity for a bit of immature banter. "Have you felt my cool-touch...
I'm partial to a bit of brown mascara for daytime makeup looks; often jet-black can look a little bold and stark, especially if I'm trying to keep things low-key. There's nothing wrong with bold, of course, and if you want your lashes to properly stand out then black...
I've been doing a lot of soul-searching recently. Things have been hectic and somewhat stressful in the AMR household and I have been forced to meditate upon profound personal questions. (See photograph above for a visual indication of what I look like when I ask...
I've had so many comments about this photograph - it was just a little picture for my lookbook (see full post here), but the pale beige bag and the soft golden details seem to have won a few hearts! I really like gold against my skin tone, it just feels very warm and...
You must watch this What's In My Makeup Bag video, if only to see my miraculous hair transformation in the last twenty seconds! In one frame I have quite an uninspiring 'do - I'd just let my hair down from a mini-ponytail - and in the next, I have volume not...
Can a planner (that's a diary, Filofax-style, for traditionalists - when did it become "planner"?) make you a happier person? That's what the thing sitting in front of me seems to promise: it's called The Happiness Planner and it's filled with uplifting inspirational...
The new Triple Tone Lipstick from Smashbox is such an excellent idea on the face of it: three lipstick shades in one bullet, arranged from dark to light so that they create an instant ombré effect on your lips. A dark, punchy lip-line graduating to a lighter, plumping...