After what feels like a two year-long labour birthing an oversized porcupine, my app has finally launched. It has been a something of a trying time and I fear I may have turned into what's known as a shouty person, but The Night Feed is here at last and I'm so proud...
A bonus life update, this month, because I promised to tell you how it went with Angelica's first day at school. Whether I cried, whether I fell to my knees sobbing and tried to hold on to her feet as she walked into the classroom... As a matter of fact, I didn't cry...
I get a lot of questions sent to me, either via email or through Instagram, and there are always a few things that get asked more than anything else. For the past year or so, that question has been (roughly) "I'm completely new to skincare, where the hell do I start?"...
If you watched the June Favourites video then you'll already know that I've totally fallen for these silky, buildable bronzers from Yves Saint Laurent. I love everything about them, from the way that the powder has been pressed so that it looks like rippled sand right...
Beauty favourites were a bit thin on the ground, last month, but I did do quite a bit of reading so I've shared this video between reading recommendations and beautifying tips. The Anne Tyler book (here) is just a beautifully gentle, slow-paced novel, examining the...
A very sheer and natural makeup look for you in this video - dewy textures, glowy formulas and a healthy, youthful sort of finish. Those thinking of investing in either the Hourglass Illume Trio or Becca's Aqua Luminous foundation might find it particularly...
Last week I stayed over at the London Edition Hotel on Berners Street. I've often had meetings at the Berners Tavern, the restaurant on the ground floor of the hotel (an amazingly decadent affair with high ceilings and framed paintings covering every inch of the...
Brilliant skincare brand Alpha-H are celebrating their 21st birthday this summer and as a special treat for readers of A Model Recommends, they're giving away twenty-one pots of their incredible new night treatment, the Beauty Sleep Power Peel. I love Alpha-H for...
I've been pulling a few cleansing and exfoliating bits and pieces out from "the archives" recently; products that I've tried before and loved, but haven't - for one reason or another - given my full attention. For the past month or so I've had the One-Minute Glow...
There have been lots of comments about my blusher in the Empties video that I posted last week: it's the Creme Puff Blush in Seductive Pink from Max Factor. Rather more pinkish than I would ever usually go, but I was filming one of my Beauty Recommended videos and...
Sorry, I should have announced these in the Sunday Tittle Tattle and I totally forgot - lucky winners of the Caudalie Vinoperfect Giveaway are as follows (names followed by first part of email): Sue (ssnfallon), Julia (lia-s), Sarah (sarahsjs20), Judith (jvarga) and...
I've had total and utter brain-fry this week. It's the first time that this has happened to me in a serious way, where I can't seem form proper sentences or kickstart the creative side of my head, and it has not been fun. Luckily I had my blog posts scheduled, more...
Now that I have precisely twenty-eight seconds to get ready in the morning, I tend to gather together little groups of staple beauty products that I can rely on to get me through the day. The windowsill in my en suite is my "essentials" storage area - all of the bits...
This week's window shop was going to be all about how to recreate the beach experience at your own home, but these summery morsels are too good not to show off. Maybe I'll do the beach-in-your-garden theme next week - I just need to source some nice, golden sand that...
I wrote about the Ultra Repair Hydrating Serum a little while ago for my post on dehydrated skin, but I've tested it far more extensively since then and it most definitely deserves its own write-up. It's made by First Aid Beauty, a US skincare brand who make very...