The British Beauty Blog
by Jane Cunningham since 2008

[unpaid/sample] This palette is taking me right back to my blogging roots in the days of windscreen wiper brush strokes and arm swatches. The trend for palettes has dipped in favour of eye crayons, single shadows and creme formulas but PLouise Feeling Peachy has made me wonder if we are due for a resurgence any…

[unpaid/affiliate] I’m scheduling this post early because the Uniqlo x Anya Summer collection launches on line at 8am and a big flag that it’s going to be popular – and I suspect is available in quite limited quantities – is that you can only buy two of each item per customer. It’s a very small…

[unpaid/sample] The latest LGFB box is here in the form of The Confidence Edit with products from OPI, Marc Jacobs, Philip Kingsley, Shiseido, Rituals, Dr Lipp and Dr Pawpaw, supported by The Perfume Shop. I’ll go through  each product in more detail but just want to place the reminder that for every two boxes sold,…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] It’s taken me a long time to love Living Proof – early iterations were not nearly as good as the products are now and since Unilever stepped in and bought the brand. Living Proof is a good example of how big corporations can make a success of a small brand by slowly growing it,…

[unpaid/sample] It’s an age since I’ve seen anything Orly and my initial impression of their 50 year celebration collection was apprehensive. The colour choice feels a bit jarring to the modern nail eye, but, I’ve sat with them for a while and they’ve grown on me – especially Acid Trip, the glitter fest. Orly was…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate] While most of our family birthdays cluster around the winter months, there are a few dotted about over June and July (including my dad’s 90th!). I spotted these beautiful, summerful and frilled plates from Caroline Gardner and thought I could tick off every friend summer birthday in one fell swoop. All you need to…

[unpaid/purchase/affiliate] I’ve been looking for exactly the right pair of flowy wide-leg jeans – I needed them to be as soft and flowy as my (now sold out) GAP wide legs but with more of a jeans look to them and, most importantly, for them to be the right length. As it happens, Unilqo has…

[unpaid/purchase/affiliate/ad] Rarely have I loved a summer base more than the CHANEL Water Fresh Tint. It replaced my go-to bareMinerals Complexion Rescue (which I still wear on and off as a fail-safe in cooler weather) and I’ve featured it many times. So this is just a reminder, because it sells out every single year without…

[unpaid/sample] Koba! Where have you been all my life? It turns out that founder, Therese M’Boungoubaya, not only has a pharmacist father and a mother who home-blended skin care over the kitchen table, but she’s also got experience working with Clarins and L’Oreal. That’s a root and branch immersion into the world of beauty so…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I can’t be the only one that wondered whether Supergoop! has anything to do with Gwyneth’s Goop and a quick Google confirmed that no, I’m not! In fact, the brand makes a point of letting us know they are not related in any way. And that’s 100% fine with me because it gives me…

[unpaid/sample] I’ve written about Reedling before – the only other person I see writing about Reedling is James Welsh, a make up artist and influencer. Like me, James has a special interest in Asian skin care. As a reminder, Reedling is a popular Korean Beauty trend that uses micro particles to act like micro-needles when…

Not me there in that teeny weeny bikini but it could definitely be me there with the sunniest, happiest of crochet beach bags come summer. I’ve got almost millions (I haven’t) of tote bags from various launches over the years but when the sun comes out, I stop being the colourless person that takes any…

I know – I never quite got to it in April – so here we are. In some ways, it’s a good job I waited because a) REN and b) SpaceNK, and I’ll start with the latter. Back in June 2024, SpaceNK sold its wholesale arm in the US to PCA Companies which started rumours…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I’m actually pretty good at doing my own nails – I once did a stint with The Body Shop painting models’ nails before they went on stage for London Fashion Week and it turns out that while I am excellent at my own manicures, doing it on someone else is another thing entirely. What…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] It’s hard to believe, as I sit here shivering in front of my laptop, that we have had such glorious, warm weather of late. I’ve just come back from a break in Prague where it was very hot other than the last day (which was good because we were there to support our friends’…