Let's take a look at Chanel's Spring 2020 collection. It all looks so beautiful, especially photographed against the huge booklet they sent along with it - mauves and vibrant sandy corals and pale shimmering champagnes. The colours of a desert as the sun goes down -...
I just can't seem to keep away from favourites videos. I stop doing them and then I start again, always returning to make just one more. I stop because I think that they're generally a bit formulaic, but then, a few months down the line, I start to miss making them. I...
Well this is a very joyous revisit; I've reviewed Murad's brilliant Retinol Youth Renewal range before, but they've reformulated and relaunched it and it's now even more of a find. I say find, but this skincare trio (there's a serum, an eye serum and a sumptuous night...
I made a cheeky little Space NK purchase just before Christmas; the Philosykos eau de toilette from Diptyque. This makes it - by far - my most-repurchased luxury beauty item. I can't think of any other product I race through so quickly and so religiously keep "in...
If you read my post on pregnancy skincare last week, you'll have seen that I asked cosmetic dermatologist Dr Sam Bunting for her opinion on a couple of quite controversial ingredients - retinol and salicylic acid. Many professionals (including Dr Sam) are of the...
(About this photo: sometimes Mother takes photos of me on her mobile phone, and then she looks at them at says "ooh now that's a lovely one", and then she sends it and I expect it to be some sort of Testino masterpiece but it turns out like...well, this. Usually they...
Lots of people requested I make a video on the contents of my hospital bag, so here it is - to be very honest, it's not much different to the bag I took with me when I was having Angelica, which was supposed to be a natural birth. The clothes are looser, the knickers...
Woo, there's some serious alliteration going on there! "Chanel Coco Codes Collection" - sounds all cloaked in Parisian mystery, if you ask me. But listen, I can't go on too much because I'm - quite literally - about to have the new baby and it feels a bit...
The last few weeks of pregnancy have not been kind to me, not in terms of peace and restfulness, anyway. Firstly, my nesting instinct kicked in, but instead of me polishing and sorting out drawers I've been on a crazy work frenzy, sending emails at midnight and...
I've come to a conclusion about the whole VBAC thing. You'll be pleased to know. Bloody good job, really, as the baby could be here at any minute, surprising me before my elective section! This post is going to be a bit over-honest, I'm taking myself well out of my...
Let's take a look at some gorgeous new lipsticks, shall we? These are just some of the shades in the new "Gen Nude Radiant Lipstick" line-up from BareMinerals. There are fifteen shades in the range, carefully chosen so that there's a perfect nude for every skintone...
In between doing crazy, frenzied bursts of work (obviously my version of nesting, as I've mentioned!), I have been spending quite a bit of time browsing clothes online for Angelica. And in-store, if I've been out and about, but in truth I've not been getting around...
I'm not sleeping very well at the moment (I've just done five hours, but most of it spent tossing and turning and dreaming that I was in labour, which wasn't very restful!) and so I'm glued to my laptop, most mornings, working through the huge list of posts that I...
Excuse my blusher overload in this video - I got rather carried away testing that new Hourglass palette that everyone is raving about. (It's nice, very glowy, not for everyone. God forbid any of the powders catch you around the eye area - it's like putting a spotlight...
Good Morning, everyone, this is Ruth's Mum speaking!!! Ruth has asked me just to do her Sunday Tittle Tattle Post and to keep it short (she’s quite bossy; she does know how circum-loquacious I am, and how etymologically absorbed I can be, and what is the difference...