Month: May 2009

I took Laboratoire Remede Wrinkle Therapy Moisture Lift Baume on holiday to Vegas a couple of months ago. Vegas is a place of extremes in more ways than one, not least the blazing sunshine outside, the incredible dryness of the atmosphere and the fierce blasts of air-con indoors. Air-con makes my skin shrivel up with…

Well, Le Metier de Beaute has finally arrived at Liberty; I walked past the new counter earlier this week – it looked surprisingly flat and clinical given that there are some amazingly vibrant colours in the range. It’s extremely expensive; these two sets – one lip, one eye, are £65 each. Creatively speaking, each item…

Over in camp bonkers, the good people at US nutraceutical skin care company, Borba, have joined forces with Deluscious to make an anti-aging biscuit. Skin-loving ingredients are baked into the cookies so the more you eat, the better you’ll look. Right.

We’ve kind of seen this sort of thing before, with nano-encapsulated caffeine in tights to tackle cellulite, but this is a new generation of skincare that is worlds on from previous technology. AhRT have formulated three products, Refreshing, Moistursing and Slimming, in a lotion format, that you apply to your wash (at the softener stage)…

I can’t work out if the rumours that Brazilian waxes are completely over because of the economy are exactly that – rumours, or whether it is really true that things are getting decidedly bushier out there as women divert their resources elsewhere. I kind of hope that having your hair down there ripped out in…

Last night was the launch of the new fragrance from Jo Malone, Vanilla & Anise. I was kind of dreading this because I really don’t like vanilla but was in for a very pleasant surprise. The fragrance isn’t a hefty, sweet and sugary blast – it is as light as air and tempered by the…

Daisy tested a range of Anatomical products: “There are so many beauty brands out there and there are new cosmetic and skin care products coming out all the time- sometimes it’s hard to differentiate between them all. Anatomicals are a brand that you wont forget- their products have quirky names such as ‘snog me senseless…

I love it when a product really delivers, and this medicinal looking tube from GoodSkin Labs (at Boots) is a such a surprise! Despite it’s appearance (don’t muddle it with your athelete’s foot cream), it packs a punch on the complexion. Glucosamine, hydrolized protein and Protectami (who knows? a ‘new’ ingredient devised in the labs…

I’ve just come to the end of the two week skincare regime, LA 2 Week Miracle, designed to re-invigorate your skin’s natural recovery function (back to how it worked in your twenties, apparantly). It’s a 4 step programme that requires application twice a day, and is packed with peptides that are able to mimic the…

Ever since I discovered that someone was so taken with this brand they splashed out £30,000 in one go on it, I’ve been intrigued by Boadicea The Victorious. Behind the brand is Michael Boadi; international hair stylist (Chanel, Vogue, Missoni, J-Lo and Kate, no less). Given the name Boadicea, it’s fitting that everything is made…

Thanks to the success of Fresh Brown Sugar Body Polish – easily the best body polish ever – Fresh have now brought out a body cream using the same ingredients, but without the crunchy bits. Better yet, at £24 it’s more affordable than £47 for the polish. Whatever Fresh founders, Lev and Alina Glassman, touch…

I’ve just tried Aveda Caribbean Therapy Body Scrub – it’s out and out the best body exfoliator I’ve used in a very long time. A combination of sugar and salt grains are effective enough to give skin a thorough sloughing (none of those silly ‘exfoliating beads’ that do absolutely nothing), and the avocado, coconut and…

A few weeks ago, I was sent a sample of L’Occitane Ma Creme Nature; basically a DIY moisturising cream kit. The box contains two jars; one a third full with organic olive tree extracts and a sachet of plant oils. The theory that it’s completely fresh (and needs to be kept in the fridge after…

At a recent Barry M blogging event (at Madam Jojo’s in London) I actually got to meet one of my favourite bloggers, MizzWorthy. She very kindly gave me the low down on another area of beauty that I hadn’t really known much about – the YouTube Beauty Reviewers. I’d already spotted boy beauty blogger, Richie…