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[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] The product of the summer is tinted sunscreen – everyone’s had a go at it to greater or lesser success but I think Merit have the genre perfected. The Uniform is a mineral sunscreen and tint in one and I think the success of this is down to the fact that they’re not trying…

Just how is everything in the new Italian Garden collection from L’Era just so pretty? We are at peak garden at the moment – everything is blooming and wondrous and everywhere you go there is some flower or another giving its best. I walk across the now not green heath nearby almost every day and…

July and August are weird months in beauty – things tend to go quiet before picking up again in September. But, you’ll be pleased to know that it’s never quiet in class action land. Exhibit A is Dermalogica who is facing a class action filed in California for labeling their products as made in the…

[AD] This week could not be a better week for telling you about hair accessory brand, Silke London. My hair has been dreadful – it’s processed, obviously, and is very much struggling in the heat. I was bemoaning my crispy ends with my friend Genevieve earlier today and ended up going for a complete re-wash,…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Summer iterations of fragrances tend to be disappointingly uncreative – a ‘lighter’ version of the original perhaps or a very vague waft of citrus somewhere. Jo Malone London Raspberry Ripple Cologne, however, is going fully in on summer with a proper burst of juicy raspberry that is so immediately fruity that it takes you…

[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.…