OK let's do this: after the success of the Budget Skincare That Really Works video, we now have my Top Affordable Eye Creams. So many people ask for recommendations in this category, especially friends and family, and I'm writing this post mainly so that I can just...
Oh, these little eyeshadow palettes from NARS are just so good. I've been testing them out for months now and they are without a doubt one of the most-used (and most useful) eye products in my makeup bag. I say makeup bag, obviously I mean bags, plural. The cosmetics...
I've been going to town on my skincare testing recently, after a summer of general beauty laziness, and I've been focusing on some of the more affordable, results-driven brands that have begun to really make waves in the industry. I've whittled it down to a great...
Goodness. If there's a fresher-feeling foundation out there with the same amount of coverage and glow and real-skin finish then I want to know about it. Becca's Aqua Luminous foundation ticks so many boxes when it comes to a summertime face base that it's almost...
I had written a whole essay for today's post about why I love heatwaves, but when I read it back there were more things I hated about heatwaves than loved about heatwaves, and after an hour or so of late-night editing I just thought CRILLY, what an earth are you...
This has to be one of the best fifty pounds I've ever spent: I must have clocked up dozens of man hours, this week, pushing the new baby "Mini Cooper" about in the garden. Angelica absolutely loves it. We went to Toys R Us looking for a trike and came away with a...
Something a bit different, this week: the books that are on my reading list. I'll be ploughing through these over the course of the summer, whenever I get to snatch a sunny moment in the deckchair or a couple of hours before bed. I've just finished The Girls, which...
I have a rather special giveaway for you; as part of their 40th Anniversary celebrations, gorgeous beauty brand L'Occitane have forty prizes to give away to UK readers of A Model Recommends. And that's not all: the forty winners will be able to pick their own prize!...
Just a courtesy post to let you all know that I'm temporarily on strike until the heatwave breaks and it starts to rain. Which I think is supposed to happen later on tonight, but who knows? With any luck it might be Friday, or even Saturday! Hurrah! I've taken up...
Here I am, trying to look chic in my Maison Michel hat whilst applying sun protection to a one year old. I'll tell you something: it's not easy. It's like trying to have poise whilst riding a Bucking Bronco. You need to have six hands to apply anything to a one year...
I've used the term "foundation" loosely, here, because I mean it to incorporate other face bases such as tinted moisturiser, BB creams and complexion enhancers as well as the traditional high-coverage foundation. In truth, no BB creams or CC creams come anywhere near...
I didn't know whether I'd carry on with these baby and body updates past a year - the ONE YEAR mark seemed a very natural place to stop and I did wonder whether people might get bored. However, a quick straw poll revealed quite the opposite and so here we are with the...
I've bought new bed linen. Because my Kelly Hoppen stuff from QVC was such a success (1000 thread count, brilliant white, no longer in stock) I thought I'd splash out again and go for top quality. The sort of sheets that make you think you're in a swanky hotel, until...
Ah, the wedding season is upon us. Actually, it has been upon us for a while now, but I've only just done my first one - a gorgeous, outdoor affair in a very posh garden with possibly the most lavish tent I've ever set foot in. I could have set up home in it! Anyway,...
Those still searching for their signature summer scent might like to give Tom Ford's Orchid Soleil a try. It's heady but not cloying, exotic but in the "steamy, sexy nights" way instead of the "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" sort of way. You know the exotic...