My Current Skincare Routine: Spring 2020

My Current Skincare Routine: Spring 2020

Here's the skincare routine I've been following for most of the season and I have to say that it has kept my face looking quite spectacularly fresh and bouncy, considering the stress levels and overarching sense of  fatigue that has dominated the past few months. (And...

My Three Favourite Sunscreens

My Three Favourite Sunscreens

Struggling to find a sunscreen that doesn't make you want to claw your own face off with one of those plastic spaghetti spoons? My three current favourites might give you some inspiration. They're all virtually undetectable on the skin with pleasant, lightweight...

5 Beauty Favourites: April 2020

5 Beauty Favourites: April 2020

My five beauty favourites for the month of April - I've gone back to them again and again, enjoyed using them all and will be sad when they finally run out. Although if they're anything like my Medik-8 R-Retinoate I could be waiting a long time, because I just can't...

My Best Supermarket Skincare Buys

My Best Supermarket Skincare Buys

Brilliant skincare buys that you can pick up in the supermarket. I won't dilly-dally about today with silly introductions and off piste distractions because I have limited time: I just hoovered up a load of moths with the Dyson and I don't want them flying back out of...

Testing Retinol With My Mum – Age 39 v Age 69! | AD

Testing Retinol With My Mum – Age 39 v Age 69! | AD

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...

Best Budget Beauty Under £20 – with Nadine Baggott

Best Budget Beauty Under £20 – with Nadine Baggott

It's Best Budget Beauty time again and who better to join me in my bargain-hunting exploits than the self-confessed dupe-obsessive Nadine Baggott? Nadine has decades of experience as a beauty editor and presenter and spends an unholy amount of time chasing down...

My Current Skincare Routine: Winter 2020

My Current Skincare Routine: Winter 2020

I've made some quite significant changes to my skincare routine since Christmas and so I thought it might be time for an update. This wasn't the easiest update video to film, mostly because the issue of the hero product's price-tag was hanging over me like a spectre...

Best of 2019: My Skincare and Haircare Favourites

Best of 2019: My Skincare and Haircare Favourites

Here are my 2019 favourites for skincare and haircare, including the latest shampoo discovery that actually changes the entire feel of my hair and the skincare that'll make a proper difference to your beauty routine. I was going to do a bodycare version of this 2019...

Press Trip de Chanel: A Masterclass in Branding

Press Trip de Chanel: A Masterclass in Branding

Here begins my epic task of catching up on all of the stuff I didn't manage to post before the end of 2019, and I'm going to start with a bit of a Chanel update. Because who doesn't love a dose of double-c luxury to kick of the year? Before Christmas I was invited on...

Skincare Review: The Ordinary Squalane Cleanser

Skincare Review: The Ordinary Squalane Cleanser

Oh this is an excellent buy if you're after a hard-working cleanser that won't break the bank. It's a true all-rounder that can genuinely be used by all skin types, even sensitive and - please sound the bargain klaxon! - it's one of the most budget-friendly cleansers...

The PMT Skin-Saver and Four Ways To Use It…

The PMT Skin-Saver and Four Ways To Use It…

As I write this, I am officially in PMT Skin Week, which is the one week in each and every month that my skin is in danger of going completely haywire. If anything is going to go wrong with my skin then it goes wrong now. Angry, bumpy jawline, weird forehead dryness,...

Skincare Review: Beauty Pie’s Apricot Cleansing Balm

Skincare Review: Beauty Pie’s Apricot Cleansing Balm

I think that I've mentioned Beauty Pie's Plantastic Apricot Butter Cleansing Balm before, but it more than deserves its own review post so that I can truly go to town in the rave department. (What the hell is a rave department? Imagine! Is it part of the local...

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