Starting off the new week with a skincare video; here’s a roundup of the beauty products I’ve been slathering on my face in an attempt to beat the dreaded “winter dryness”. I think my horrifically dry and tight skin has been more down to being ill rather than the weather, because until very recently it…
I had a little phase of being really into overnight face masks – I tried loads and loads of them and made notes in my diary and then totally forgot that I’d done any of it and left this post in drafts, to languish along with old restaurant reviews and posts on coathangers (don’t ask) that are…
My search for the perfect nude lipstick continues. And when I say nude, I mean the kind of shade that almost blanks out the lips, not that “my lips but better” kind of shade that’s a pale, caramel-beige neutral. “My lips but better” shades are easy to find – there’s usually a good one in every…
I did an absolutely mammoth lipstick-trying-on session last week; I was seduced so completely by the new Chanel Rouge Coco launch that I spent a good few hours playing about with the different shades. They are just beautiful. Silky-smooth colour with a plumpy, buttery texture and a non-shimmer, luminous finish. There are no wild headline-grabbing claims to be…
Oh, the Space NK Goody Bag: always sent to tempt us. This time, a slightly lower-than-usual spend threshold and perhaps a slightly lower value, though I am yet to tot up the contents. Hold on while I grab my calculatrice… I can tell you for a start that the minimum spend is £100, and inside the goody bag…
Jelly cleansers have crept (or should I say wobbled!) into my skincare routine over the last six months or so. It started on a purely superficial level – I simply loved the word “jelly” – but after trying Melvita’s Purifying Cleansing Jelly and then NUDE’s Perfect Cleanse Omega Cleansing Jelly, I realised that these wonderfully…
Space NK are running their Discover promotion again – £10 off if you spend £40 or more – and I have an exclusive preview code for readers of A Model Recommends that allows access to the promotion a day before everyone else. The idea behind the “discovery” element is that you try something new – something that has piqued your interest…
There have been loads of questions recently about serums; people wanting to know what they are, what to do with them and – this seems to be the most frequently asked question – whether they are worth the money. Are they just another marketing ploy to get us to add a step to our beauty…
A chic, slimline, ultra-portable palette of neutral shades? Yes please. This Clinique launch, the Neutral Territory 2, ticks most boxes. The packaging is incredibly lightweight and low-profile – no extra bulk whatsoever – and the shadows inside are nicely pigmented, long-wearing and universally flattering. In particular, I love the addition of the warm, reddish accent shade…
There’s something of a ‘Serum Craze’ going on at the moment and very soon I am going to be offering you a little round-up of my favourites. But in the meantime, I wanted to tell you about the newest product by NUDE – the advanced cellular renewal serum. If you’re a Space NK regular, you’ll…
Three images from my latest shoot; an exclusive preview, you might call it, if the definition of exclusive preview happens to be “anyone with an internet connection is allowed to have a look”. I have posted them up because: a) I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the hair and make-up b) It’s very now with its nudes…
The ultimate non-scary, non-attention-catching lip-colour for fellow lip-o-phobes.
This photo is from my latest shoot, which was, as you may have guessed, inspired by Alice’s wonderland!
It’s a brilliantly versatile product that saves you having to buy a separate highlighter, radiance-boosting moisturiser, ‘dewy’-look foundation and illuminating body lotion.
Anyway, my point is this: her skin is amazing. Better than ten-years-younger, much more like fifteen-to-twenty-years-younger. I want to put up a photo in evidence, but she would strangle me with her slippery moisturiser-hands.