This is the second time in only a few weeks that I've gone to write a rave review about something and then found that I've already done a rave review about it. On the one hand, it's very annoying, because I invest quite a bit of time testing things, photographing...
I had a (mostly) baby-free afternoon last week and so I thought I'd film myself getting ready for a Jimmy Choo 20th Anniversary dinner that I was attending. This sort of video is widely known as - rather unimaginatively, but we'll let that pass - a Get Ready With Me...
Here's an easy way to wear blue around the eyes without looking like a five year old in a beauty pageant: a few coats of mascara wiggled right into the roots of the lashes, top and bottom, so that there's almost a haze of colour defining the eye. It looks great on an...
Filming in my new office is not going well. Not at all. I can't really talk to Mr AMR about this as when the office was being designed (it's newly built and at the bottom of the garden) he asked me a million questions about whether such and such wall dimensions or...
I've been playing about with Dolce & Gabbana's Summer In Italy collection, which includes a lemon yellow eyeshadow, a creamy gold shimmer pot for face and eyes and a bronzer with the most colourful packaging I've ever seen. The matte eye monos are unbelievably...
Usually I'm happiest with my makeup when I haven't thought too much about it. It's total sod's law, but my looks seem to always turn out much better when I don't video them! I think it might actually be because when I'm filming I use a small compact mirror - and...
When I went to write this comparison post I realised that the Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum foundation didn't have its own page here on the website. A travesty! It's such a good little base - it behaves exactly how I want a foundation to behave, with a light and...
The baby has started sleeping through the night. Hurrah, you might think, but no: I have developed, for the very first time in my life, a kind of strange almost-insomnia that sees me spend much of the night in quasi-dream-mode and the rest of it listening out for the...
I begin this month's favourites with my most-hated things - slightly unorthodox, but I found it rather cathartic. So much so that I may even do a whole video of hated things. I could make it a regular feature! But on to the positive items; two "man" things, two...
I filmed this video before I discovered the Soap & Glory Glow All Out stick, which is very annoying, because it definitely would have been included. Especially as the Topshop one I show is no longer available. Also (multiple errors alert!) the Rosie for...
Last week I had the pleasure of spending the day filming videos with mega-makeup artist extraordinaire, Caroline Barnes. Caroline works on the biggest A-listers and is an absolute mine of information when it comes to makeup tricks and tips - everything from plumping...
A slick of luxurious tinted balm on the lips seems to be my makeup "thing" at the moment. Perhaps because I look a bit tired and washed out au naturel, but also - and this is probably more to the point - because it makes me feel as though I've made a bit of an effort...