The British Beauty Blog
by Jane Cunningham since 2008

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Studio London is one of those relatively low key brands, but the more I see, the more I like it. Much as I love a bit of luxury make up, I’m also very happy when I find affordable products doing exactly the same thing as products five times the price. Studio London Dew Dream…

It’s the season for beach wear and I’m cringing as I do every time clothes for the beach are mentioned. This is a fashion sore spot for me – it took me years and years to find the right thing to wear for the beach or by the pool. I just cannot imagine parading round…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I was in from the get go – as soon as Lanolips SPF30 Sun Balm hit my lips I was happy. I’ve got one caveat to that – the flavour, which is a pleasant Tutti Frutti kind of a taste, takes on a bit of an after taste after a while. But, trust me,…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Up until now, I can’t say that I’ve found a lip stain that feels like home. They’re always too drying, too patchy or just too dramatic for me. If I’m honest, the new Huda Beauty Lip Contour Stains are too deep in colour for me personally – even the lightest looking shades – but…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I’ve been truly looking forward to reviewing Sonsie which most of you will know as the brand co-founded by Pamela Anderson is a complete image about turn. I think that Pamela could not look more beautiful, elegant and graceful in the promo pictures and she’s given some meaningful and thoughtful quotes on the subject…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Facial SPFs are a hot topic right now – I’ve just had a little rant on Instagram about how we are all being hoodwinked into thinking we need to pay £££ for facial SPFs when in reality, we don’t. Your facial SPF only needs to do one thing – offer a sun protection factor…

[unpaid/affiliate] I have bided my time, friends. I have wanted a pink linen bed set for a long, long time. It turns out that you can pay anything from approximately £100 to £1000 for this very thing and I know which end of the scale I’m prepared to be. An eye opener for me was…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] It feels like a long time since Jane Iredale appeared anywhere in the UK – it’s not been in my sightline for literally years. The company was sold to venture capital in 2019 and if my memory serves me correctly, it was far more active in the UK prior to that. As an early…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] When I am sent a multitude of palettes from a brand, I can’t feature all of them – Morphe very generously sent me ten of their new and glorious palettes which works out at (six x 6 pan and 4 x 12 pan) 108 different colours to talk about. What I tend to do…

I can pinpoint the exact day that I stopped believing that skin care could change my life. It was at the launch of a (then) new brand that had apple stem cells as the key and game changing ingredient. Even for a non-scientist, that sounded so dodgy that I wanted to stand up and leave.…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] It’s coming up for peak holiday time and the dreaded squashing of all your under 100ml essentials into a plastic bag that barely holds one donut, never mind your beauty essentials. If you’re lucky and your airport has the new technology for screening, you don’t need to put your products in that silly sandwich…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I never quite know where I’m going to start on a Monday – I just sit down and hope for the best generally. I often use the weekends to experiment with new products, particularly make-up, so by Monday morning, I have several posts I can make for the week to come. It’s very clear…

[purchase/affiliate] I’ve got an event today so I’m fully focussed on not sweating into my newly blow dried hair so I had to think twice about whether to even try to get a snap of myself in a wool/cashmere blend hoodie this morning! All fans ON… The postman delivered my Chinti & Parker sale bargain…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Japanese made beauty brand, Paul & Joe, has put together a summer edit and if you like whimsy with your sunshine, this could not be more right for you. It’s always the prettiest of make up with so much attention to detail in the packaging but I don’t think there’s anything new-new here because…

[unpaid/purchase/affiliate] It’s summer so the SPF Brigade are in full swing on Instagram, scaring us witless about even thinking about the sun. We are assumed a common-sense free zone with no ability to adult without a lecture about the dangers on the sun. The algorithm on Instagram is serving me nothing but SPF advice (as…