For months I’ve been using the Jane Iredale Smooth Affair Facial Primer & Brightener* underneath my foundation, and I’ve always been happy with it. However, I think it’s found a rival: the new Smooth Affair for Oily Skin Facial Primer & Brightener*. Continue reading
For the second year running, Jane Iredale has won the Gold Award in the Make-up category of the FreeFrom Skincare Awards, this time for the Longest Last Mascara. (Last year they scooped the Gold Award for their Eye Pencil.) After winning the award, I was lucky enough to receive a sample to try out and review. Continue reading
It’s not often that a brand gifts me something to trial that I’m so over the moon about that I feel like I need to shout about it, but when that happens I feel like I need to put a huge THESE ARE MY HONEST OPINIONS disclaimer in all capital letters right at the start … Continue reading
While having a poke about online for some daytime makeup looks and tutorials, I stumbled across this video on Lisa Eldridge’s channel where she’s doing the signature Alexa Chung makeup, inspired by Jane Birkin and a modern cat eye, on Alexa herself. Featured in the video, used right alongside some pretty high-end products, were two cheap … Continue reading
With August came my second Birchbox delivery, and I’m absolutely over the moon with what I’ve received! From body wash to hair serum, perfume (and I’m not normally a perfume person!) to eyeshadow – this month’s five surprises have got me smiling… Continue reading
To support my recent beauty addiction, I’ve decided to sign up to Birchbox. I’d read a lot of mixed reviews online first, but for £10 + p&p I thought it was worth a try – and with my first box’s arrival I was delightfully surprised! The theme for July was ‘Sun, Sea & Sand’… Continue reading
That’s right, last week Jeff and I got hitched! Or as he keeps saying to me: “You liked it so you put a ring on it…” All in all, the day really was like a fairy tale. The sun was shining (in January, in London – luck, I know!), we were surrounded by friends and … Continue reading
My dear readers, you know I’m not strictly a beauty blogger. But when my lovely friend Mitra asked me to join her at the Bare Minerals party in Canary Wharf to celebrate their new store with some bubbly and a “make under”, I couldn’t well refuse! Continue reading
When I was 16 I loved posting in and reading makeup forums and blogs; I did my makeup everyday and always got compliments from the girls at the MAC counter. Makeup was just something I loved, and I loved experimenting with colours, shapes, application, etc. to the point where many my friends in undergrad would … Continue reading
