Category: Makeup

[purchase] I thought it was worth flagging these testers that I was sent when I bought something from the CHANEL website – I was honestly so pleased with them! As you can see, there is a little Red Camellia Rich Revitalizing Cream which I won’t use but my niece Sophie will absolutely love, but the…

[unpaid/sample] I think lots of you may already know Ateh – she’s a regular on This Morning and a stalwart in the world of beauty journalism. For as long as I can remember she’s been ready to have her own brand and in particular products with inclusive tones. So, you will find with these creme…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] At the back of my mind, I have a feeling that I might have covered this product before but even if that’s the case, it’s worth another show. I’d say that e.l.f. Putty Color-Correcting Eye Brightener isn’t for you if you have very oily lids – the one thing I do notice about it…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Older skin and drier skin types will like this moisturising tinted serum from Sculpted By Aimee. This brand impresses me more with every launch – I have not seen a ‘bad’ product yet which makes me think the formulators are top of their game. This tinted serum is dewy on the skin, as lightweight…

[unpaid/sample] Okay, are we ready? Two things happened yesterday (I’m excluding the trip to the emergency vet because I don’t want to be a dog bore – all is fine) that are CHANEL related. First, Mr BBB gave me a beautiful Chanel necklace that I’d been looking at on an auction site – he’d sneaked…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Givenchy’s Le 9 palette is a bit of a masterpiece in understated neutrals by making them shimmery, metallic or matte. There’s something always pretty about a shimmering shadow that has a bit more body than a pastel but stays on the nude spectrum. These are far away from Charlotte Tilbury neutrals and nudes which…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Givenchy has stopped doing seasonal collections – quite right too as there’s really no need for three (sometimes four) different collections per year. It’s reminded me how much store we used to set by seasonal beauty and it’s not really something that exists in any real state any more. Berry shades for autumn, deep…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I’m always keen to travel light – carry on is absolutely the goal as I can’t think of anything worse than waiting for luggage to appear on the carousel of doom. Will it? Won’t it? If it will, how long will it take? If it doesn’t, what do we do? It’s just SO stressful!…

I’ve been trying to dupe this now obsolete lip balm for quite some time now – I’ve had fairly good success with bespoke lipsticks but not so much success on the high street. I feel very sure that £37 is well over the odds for a lip balm but it’s what Gucci commanded for this,…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Unless you have deep toned skin you really only need a micro droplet of the Charlotte Tilbury Matte Beauty Blush Pillow Talk Dream Pop – it’s a very intense shade and a little goes a very long way. It’s not really possible to daub this on your cheeks via the sponge unless you have…

[unpaid/sample] Wow – how much better have mascaras got while we weren’t really looking? I’ve never had a bad experience with Fenty but have generally drifted away from the brand. So the Hella Thicc mascara was a nice wake up to a very good lash cover. I think you can see that this formula adds…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Monika Blunder’s new Kissen Lush Lipstick Crayons launch on 15th June – very well worth the wait, and miracles – all three new shades suit me perfectly! There are already six of these colour packed pens – which came after her sell out Blunder Cover Foundation/Concealer in one (HERE). These crayons have made me…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Hope everyone had a good bank holiday – I think we need one every month from now til the end of time. I took some beauty pictures for this week, edited them, pottered about in the garden, collected some cuttings from a friend, dropped into Tesco to buy a bag of Maltesers and then…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] It’s so rare for two heathery toned lip products to come my way in one week – in fact, I am not sure it’s ever happened before. But as soon as Taupe Luster touched my lips I was sold! For some reason I was expecting it to be hyper-vanilla scented but in fact, it’s…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I tend to struggle a bit with nude shades – a lot are just too chalky or orange toned – but this little beauty from MAC is just right, I think. I don’t think this is a new shade – it arrived from the brand amongst some of their popular minis which I was…