My summer skincare routine is here and it's slightly juicier than usual because a couple of months ago I had to do an almost unprecedented SOS u-turn on my whole beauty routine. I know you're ready to hear about it. We all love a bit of a disaster. Actually it...
Fancy a quick blast through the beauty things that have wowed me recently? Well buckle up, team, this is going to be quite the ride! I'm exaggerating, obviously, because it's just a post about beauty favourites so there are never going to be any significant potholes...
I had to pull a whole live tick out of my child's face last week and I'll be having nightmares for months. In fact if you have a phobia of insecty things, or if the idea of minor medical procedures being performed by a non-professional makes you edgy, then it's...
I'm having a bit of a face wash frenzy at the moment; after finally finishing my First Aid Beauty Deep Cleanser with Red Clay I decided to start not one replacement cleanser but four. The full reviews are coming up, but I thought I'd jot down some speedy notes in case...
Apparently, 30% of women in the UK believe that their skincare stops working - or stops working as effectively - over time. I can see where this idea comes from - it's actually very difficult to see results on your own face when you're glancing at it in the mirror...
I've had a good chance to really test the limits of my new haircut, now, and things have been going pretty well. Which has led me to ask the question: could this be my perfect style? Well: yes and no. Perhaps I'm just in the honeymoon phase with my new, shorter hair,...
I think that OM Skincare's Mindful Traveller is a fabulous idea: a gorgeous, sleek bottle that houses travel-friendly amounts of OM's Pure Glow Cleanser and Daily Radiance Moisturiser. I call it a bottle, but it's not really - it's a lightweight tube, with two little...
Just a little life update that I know you'll find absolutely riveting: I'm back on the old "breastmilk expressing" regime. Which means that the (approximately) one spare hour that I get every day (between 9pm and 10pm) is spent connected to a wheezing, vibrating...
Well this is an interesting one. I can't decide whether Chanel's Les Beiges Healthy Glow Gel Touch Foundation should be classified as a foundation, a tinted moisturiser or a complexion enhancer. The best way I think I can describe it is that it feels like a glossy top...
Do you get yourself into a bit of a mess when it comes to bronzer application? I think that it can be really tricky to get right - especially as there are so many different methods shown in video tutorials and beauty pages. The application pattern du jour on the...
I have new hair. Please excuse the fact that I've taken these photos with my shower in the background - I was filming a video in the bathroom and the light was nice! But anyway, here's my new style - shorter, blonder, fresher, younger. I love it. Many thanks to the...
I do enjoy it when a product does exactly what it says on the tin. Although I must admit that I often fail to look at the tin (tube/bottle/pot, delete as applicable) before I start, which gets me into all sorts of beauty scrapes. I once fake-tanned my face instead of...
People of Kent, a question: is it always so horrifically bad trying to get back into London through the Dartford Tunnel? Every time I've done it there have been huge queues - a few odd times over the years, but four times in the space of the last two weeks. Always...
I've been trying to ignore all of the fuss around "millennial pink" (the dusty, opposite-of-Barbie pink that's quickly established itself in the world of fashion and beauty and interiors as the shade du jour) but I have to admit that it is very easy on the eye. This...
I've spent so long dithering about the things I want to change in my videos that I completely forgot to post up one that I'd already made! Thank you, by the way, for all of your wonderful comments on the video-making post - I'm reading through them now and they're so...