It's a brief update this month, because it all feels a bit disjointed to talk about mundane, everyday events when such momentous things are happening in the wider world. I don't know whether anyone really needs to hear about how my three year-old is now "dry at night"...
Here's the skincare routine I've been following for most of the season and I have to say that it has kept my face looking quite spectacularly fresh and bouncy, considering the stress levels and overarching sense of fatigue that has dominated the past few months. (And...
My children (three and a bit years old and almost five) have been learning to ride their bikes and it is at once a massively rewarding experience and a very new, very fresh hell. On the one hand, seeing them learn a new skill and become fully-functioning mini-people...
A while ago (it may have been last year, or even the year before that), I mentioned that I had been comparing recent and old photographs of myself and trying - in a highly scientific and objective manner - to identify which changes to my face were the most ageing....
Fans of La Roche-Posay's Effaclar Duo rejoice: they have released a new version of their highly effective spot treatment, this time with an added SPF. Effaclar Duo+ SPF30 has the same basic formula as the original, helping to minimise the size and appearance of spots...
Benefit have launched a new version of their hugely popular Hoola bronzer: Hoola Lite. This is the first time that they've properly strayed away from their bestselling bronzer shade, offering up a slightly lighter alternative for those with fairer skin. Or, I suppose,...
*UPDATE: the winner of this giveaway has been announced (as promised!) on the Nomi social media platforms. Their Facebook page is here. Well this is rather good news: I have an amazing Nomi Highchair to give away to one UK reader! You'll remember from my Nomi review...
Why oh why do I look so bloody moody when I'm filming videos? I had always been under the impression that I had a rather cheery face - you know, a bit wholesome and healthy, friendly, the sort of face that might break into a companionable grin at the merest hint of a...
I'll start by saying that this isn't a post about potential causes of manic crying episodes in newborn babies - I honestly don't have a clue what sets them off and, on a more serious note, if you think that there's actually something wrong with them then always seek...
Another foundation review for you. (Ambassador, you're really spoiling us, etc.) It's actually two foundation reviews in one; the Coverage Foundation and the Serum Foundation, both from Deciem brand The Ordinary. The Ordinary launched last year to a hugely positive...
I've been testing out Armani's Power Fabric foundation - very thoroughly, as it happens, because I've been trying to film quite a bit of content for Youtube and so I've needed a fuller base. As you know, I'm not the greatest lover of high coverage, longwear...
Sometimes, as I write these updates, I think to myself my kids are going to absolutely hate me when they're older, for sharing these things! But you've got to hate your parents for something, so here we go: Angelica did her first poo on the potty yesterday! To be...
I've just finished reading the Maggie O'Farrell novel After You'd Gone, which completes my epic O'Farrell reading marathon. I've read all of her novels, now - five of them in the last couple of months - and I can safely declare her to be one of my favourite writers. I...
Did you ever play a game when you were little called Kim's Game? We used to play it at Girl Guides. It probably has loads of different names and ways to play it, but our version was this: you'd have a tray with a load of objects on (things like pens and buttons and...
It's almost entirely impossible to focus when you have a three month-old baby. Because it's the first (I personally think) of the properly cute stages, when babies start to gurgle at you and try to grab things and generally flop about looking gorgeous. Ted is like a...