In an attempt to give all of my Instagram videos a safe and permanent home (ie, at a place I actually own, not a platform I have no control over) I'm slowly getting into the habit of uploading them onto Youtube before embedding them into blog posts here on the...
Best Tinted Moisturiser – If I Could Only Buy One
Welcome back to the 'If I Could Only Buy One' series, in which I give myself a week-long headache trying to decide on my absolute favourite beauty product from a given category. This time my quest has been for the best tinted moisturiser. Please do read the disclaimer...
What’s In My Makeup Bag? Summer 2020
You might well point out that I'm a bit late to the party with this particular seasonal makeup update, but apparently we're in for a little heatwave next week, here in the UK. So there. I refuse to let go of summer! At any rate, why be so rigid about the seasons? I...
Foundation Review: Estée Lauder Futurist Hydra Rescue
Let's get down to business, in the words of Captain Li Shang from Mulan. (Can you tell I've overdone it on the Disney+ channel binging? There's no Disney stone left unturned in this house. As well as devouring the classics, we've watched every prequel and sequel, some...
Foundation Review: Code8 Radiate Beauty Balm
I haven't reviewed a tinted moisturiser in a while so let's make a juicy little comeback with this lovely luxurious one; the Code8 Radiate Beauty Balm. Code8 haven't called it a tinted moisturiser but that's pretty much what it is - light to medium coverage in a...
The Protecting, Tinting, Hydrating, Face-Finishing Moisturizer. Phew.
Writing my last skincare post, the one where I talk about trying to find an SPF that my Mum will wear, reminded me that I had, in fact, made rather a nice discovery when I was at her house the other weekend. I was rootling about in her bedside drawers, as you do (does...
Foundation Review: Burberry Fresh Glow BB Cream
I reviewed Burberry's Fresh Glow BB Cream two years ago as part of a bigger post on Burberry foundations, but I think that it deserves its own page. So many BB/CC/DD creams have a claggy, SPF-heavy kind of feel and it's a real treat to find one that's fresh textured...
Foundation Review: Clarins BB Skin Detox Fluid
Not strictly a foundation, but I'm going to treat the Clarins BB Skin Detox Fluid as one, with a full review and before-and-after photos, because a) the coverage is as good as many of the foundations I've reviewed and b) I think it's amazing and I want to have a...
My Top 5 Most-Used Foundations
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...
My Everyday Essentials with Sure Maximum Protection | AD
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...
Complexion Rescue: The Total Tiredness Turnaround
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...
New Way to Wear: Red Lipstick
A combination of raging PMT and the four day Easter break has rendered me completely useless in the writing department; I've tried to draft this post seven times, now, and each version has been virtually incomprehensible. So I'll keep it short and sweet. I'm doing a...