Crikey. If there's anyone else out there who's been trying and failing to do the whole work-life-balance thing over the summer holidays, can they please make themselves known? That's right, hold your hands up high: I need to do a full and accurate head count here. The...
You might well point out that I'm a bit late to the party with this particular seasonal makeup update, but apparently we're in for a little heatwave next week, here in the UK. So there. I refuse to let go of summer! At any rate, why be so rigid about the seasons? I...
There's something deeply satisfying about applying a cream eyeshadow with fingertips - it must appeal to the toddler in me. The teeny pots of "paint", the relatively slapdash approach to sticking a finger in and then swiping it across the eyelid... It's makeup that...
One of my first (and best) discoveries as a beauty blogger wasn't a single pot of magical cream, or a little tube of face-changing foundation. I wasn't hooked in by just one eye gel, or bowled-over by a lone cleanser - I was far greedier than that. I fell in love,...
I reviewed Burberry's Fresh Glow BB Cream two years ago as part of a bigger post on Burberry foundations, but I think that it deserves its own page. So many BB/CC/DD creams have a claggy, SPF-heavy kind of feel and it's a real treat to find one that's fresh textured...
Do not adjust your television sets: the title at the top of this page does indeed show that this video post should have been published in June. I'm afraid I have been feeling a little overwhelmed, recently, with regards to work - I constantly feel as though I'm...
I've been shopping, which is always a dangerous sport. To be fair, a lot of it gets returned: for every twenty things I order (always online, much to the horror of Mr AMR, who has to sidestep huge mounds of ASOS bags and shoe boxes for two weeks while I decide what...
Lee Stafford's quite rude-looking CoCo LoCo Wonderball Ceramic Hair Waver has instantly shot to the top of my "best hair things" list. It's so easy to use that I managed to wave my hair without using a mirror. That's right, readers: I curled my hair using blind faith...
I'm trying something a bit new on the video front: A Week In My Life. It's a sort of scrapbook montage of things that I get up to during the week, but it's all very informal and unstructured. As you know, I'm not a natural vlogger. I find the process quite...
As I've already mentioned, possibly more times than necessary, I've had a bit of a hair makeover. I'm loathe to bang on about it too much, but I can't seem to help myself: I think that I was probably pretty low about my appearance after having Ted, and my new,...
Wah - six whole months! The time is flying by far too fast. I keep finding myself getting very weepy every time Ted the baby does something remotely non-newborn-ish, like, er, growing a tooth. I don't know whether it's a hormonal thing, designed to keep us...
I do love it when I rediscover something utterly amazing; the eye cream that feels instantly nourishing (Elemental Herbology), the face base that feels as light as a feather (Effaclar BB Blur), the mascara that makes me look twenty times more alive (Guerlain Maxi...
I'm a total sucker for a bit of personalisation; whether it's a suitcase with a fancy monogram or gold initials embossed on the front of a dainty little notebook, things just feel that much more special when they've got your name on them. (Disclaimer: I don't actually...
Sometimes, I just love the perfected look of a full coverage base; the velvety finish that's so glamorous and Old Hollywood, the way that my dark underye circles are obliterated and the redness around my nose totally erased. Mostly I tend to go for very sheer, "real...
I think I've reached "Peak Fatigue" this week. I could not be more tired. I know we're not supposed to moan about being tired - let's radiate positivity! - but when you feel as though you've been awake since November 1998 and your eyeballs seem to have been replaced...