The Most Useful Accessory Ever? Phone Bags
[unpaid/affiliate] The most useful accessory I’ve ever found – a crossbody bag for your phone. I’ve ordered a couple already as gifts and I bought myself an Accessorize one as a ‘practice’…
Boy Smells Neopeche Candle
[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I’ve wanted to try Boy Smells in one way or another for a long time – it’s just such a cool brand. I’ve got a couple now – Neopeche…
Charlotte Tilbury Diamond Chest Of Beauty Stars Review
[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I like this so much – much more than I expected to. It’s 12 doors rather than 25 (or the skimpy 24!) and each item is something you’d actually…
Guerlain Parure Gold Matte Foundation
[unpaid/sample] I had mixed feelings about trying out the new Guerlain Parure Gold Matte Foundation – I’m not a matte fan at all and tend to assume that matte equals…
Treaclemoon Bath & Shower Gel
[purchase] I picked up Treacle Moon Bath & Shower gel the other day – maybe it’s too early in the morning for me but this is a busy store front!…
L’Occitane Reusable Advent Calendar
[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I used to think that reusable advent calendars were a little, well, dry. Now, I think they’re a really good idea – we have reusable stockings that come out…
Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Brightening Flawless Finish Powder Review
[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Hmmm, *taps fingers* – it’s always rather difficult to know whether brightening powders really do anything much away from studio lights, but when I tested this over the weekend…
Travalo Milano Travel Atomizer
[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Swit-swoo! Travalo has got fancy. I’ve had various iterations of Travalo over the years (it’s a mini atomizer that you decant your favourite fragrance into so you can take…
Grazia Parfum Review
[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] After some initial confusion about whether Grazia Parfum is anything to do with Grazia Magazine (grazia means grace in Italian and yes it is the brand’s first foray into…
Beauty Business News September 2022
Galinee Beauty has been bought by Shiseido despite – or maybe because of – early investment from Unilever Ventures. Shiseido has recently sold Buxom, bareMinerals and Laura Mercier to AI…
Kate Somerville HydraKate Recharging Water Cream
[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] It’s impossible to test every single skin care item I get sent although I do my very best even if its just a surface test as is the case…
Jo Loves Pomelo
[unpaid/sample] It’s very much turned out to be fragrance week this week – totally unexpectedly but I’ve enjoyed trying them. This one, Jo Loves Pomelo, I don’t need to try…
Moroccanoil Body Care Review
[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] It surely must be the case that Moroccanoil didn’t expect, from their beginnings with a bottle of hair smoothing oil, that they’d end up encompassing bath and body as…
Miller Harris Myrica Muse Fragrance
[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] At first glance, Myrica Muse looks rather uncomplicated. Fruits, rose and rum – how easily digestible for the olfactory senses… like a Pimms in the garden; straightforwardly delicious. However,…
Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia Cologne
[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Of all the Jo Malone London fragrances, I’d say that English Pear & Freesia isn’t amongst my favourites – I’m not particularly drawn to freesia so I’m searching for…