alice in wonderland beauty
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Beauty in Wonderland: Feast Your Eyes

I appear to have developed a penchant for the sort of beauty packaging that looks as though it’s come straight from the set of an Alice in Wonderland film. I’ve become a real sucker for vintage-style perfume bottles, interesting pots, dainty tins, jars with fancy lids and anything that might look fabulous on my fantasy dressing table….

last minute christmas books
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Weekly Christmas Shop: Six Good-Looking Emergency Books

If you’re still Christmas shopping and starting to panic (I have three presents left to get, I’m with you!) then prepare to be saved: not only do many of the things in my previous gift guides come from online stores with one day delivery (get it on Friday if you order today, or Saturday if you…

Weekly Christmas Shop: The Luxe List
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Weekly Christmas Shop: The Luxe List

Here it is: the women’s Christmas Gift Guide. I find that women are much, much easier to buy for than men. My friends like almost anything that smells or looks or feels nice. I like almost everything that smells or looks or feels nice. I honestly don’t know how people get it so wrong, with unfunny novelty mugs and candles that…

My Top Winter Makeup Palettes…
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My Top Winter Makeup Palettes…

My top winter palettes, on video for your viewing pleasure; perfect picks if you like to treat yourself to a little glitzy makeup number before the party season. Or, y’know, at a push, give people presents, but I do feel that these are too nice to earmark as gifts! All contain wearable shades and gorgeous glowing…

Weekly Christmas Shop: Gifts for Men | AD
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Weekly Christmas Shop: Gifts for Men | AD

Right. This is always the tricky one, isn’t it? Presents for the man/men in your life. It doesn’t matter whether it’s your Dad, boyfriend or brother, the things that are regularly paraded in front of us as suitable Christmas offerings are just so…drab! I’ve tried to give a mix of the practical and the pleasant,…

Weekly Christmas Shop: Gorgeous Gifts for Under £10
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Weekly Christmas Shop: Gorgeous Gifts for Under £10

The Weekly Window Shop is being temporarily replaced with the Weekly Christmas Shop – there’ll be something festive each week to get you started with your shopping or give you a few handy ideas. Call it a gift guide, call it present p*rn: just know I have it all covered. You don’t even need to leave the sofa. We begin…

liberty beauty advent calendar 2016
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Palpitations: The Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar

I promised myself that I wouldn’t write about any more beauty advent calendars – I could keep going for weeks, and by that time they will have all sold out and I’ll have calendar fatigue and I won’t have had time to write about anything like skincare or foundation or avocados (don’t ask, see Sunday)…

Lookfantastic’s Gargantuan Advent Calendar: The Beauty Secret
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Lookfantastic’s Gargantuan Advent Calendar: The Beauty Secret

Hmm. I tried to step away from the beauty advent calendars this year (my post on the Clarins and l’Occitane ones was going to be my singular foray into this particular area) but the Lookfantastic offering is gargantuan. Again. Do you remember the one from last year? This year’s is as big. It’s better. To give you…

clarins beauty advent calendar 2016
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Beauty Advent Calendars for the Seriously Enthusiastic

It’s only the beginning of October – the leaves are barely dropping from the trees – and already the beauty advent calendars have begun to creep onto the internet. I sort of feel that you need to be a serious beauty enthusiast to snap up anything Christmas-related this early, but on the other hand, these…

Luxury Candle Sets: Not For Sharing

Luxury Candle Sets: Not For Sharing

Some great candle sets for you here; but don’t think you can start divvying them up into little individual stocking fillers. Oh no. These were not made for sharing: they are little boxes of pure, selfish candle indulgence, each fragrance carefully chosen so that you have a kind of “scent experience” going on*. Take, for example, the Jo Malone…

Fancy Papery Stuff

Fancy Papery Stuff

There’s something about a fresh notepad with its crisp white pages, or a beautifully bound book waiting to be opened for the first time… I can absolutely see why the term “Stationery P*rn” exists. Here’s my little roundup of some of the papery things that have taken my fancy recently – all would make excellent…