The British Beauty Blog
by Jane Cunningham since 2008

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I have never taken much notice of my brows – they’re neither sparse nor full, not dark and not pale – they’re probably the least interesting brows anyone could have and they’re hidden beneath my fringe so they very rarely get an outing anyway. But this week, two brow laminators have crossed my path so I’ve…

[unpaid/sample] I come across quite a few brands whose founders created new products basically for themselves because they weren’t finding exactly the right thing in what is a very crowded market. It’s always quite amazing that there is ever anything new – surely, we’ve invented everything now?! So, kind of yes, we have, but KNSPO,…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] False lashes are a big no-no for me – I just cannot fiddle about with glue and spider legs and come out with a lash line that looks anything other than full – and drunk – Drag Race. I’m not even sure why I said yes to receiving the new Tatti Lash Pre-Glued sets…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I could really just sum up Skin Rocks The Gel Cleanser in a sentence – it’s the best I’ve ever used. There we are, all done! I love cleanser testing and I must have tested into the far hundreds over the years – balms are my favourites (Emma Hardie), followed by a very lazy,…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Genes are your biggest indicator for dark circles, not tiredness. It’s just a very normal thing to have and one of the things that the magnifying mirror of doom really doesn’t help with. What you see compared to what everyone else sees is often very different. I don’t conceal generally, even though I have…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] If I can just jump in the way back machine for a moment, I’ll take us to the mid-2010s when everyone was obsessed with make up brushes. It was around the time that MUAs started to shine and become famous for their talents in making the great and the good look utterly beautiful –…

Intimate Care is currently a growing category – it’s taken literally decades for this to be the case not least because nobody found resonating language to convey the brand missions. Luna Daily has taken an all-body approach that incorporates intimate care rather than being fully about just that one thing. No wonder that Unilever Ventures…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I used to love a really scrubby-scrub but now I prefer a milder, more gentle approach to smoothing and softening lips. The Lanolips Strawberry Lip Scrub is not a super-scrubby-scrub but you will definitely feel granules of sugar exfoliating their way around any dry skin. The strawberry flavour? Well, let’s say it could be…

[unpaid/sample] It’s very rare to get anything more substantial than a compliment slip with samples now so I very much appreciated the personal touch of a hand written letter from founder, Rebecca Rose. The mission of To The Fairest is to represent landscapes, literature and love in fragrant form. While I don’t know the entire…

[purchase/affiliate] The fact that SpaceNK stocks a £12 lip balm is surprise enough in that rarified beauty environment but the fact that it’s excellent is even better. It gives me Sisley vibes and the new Naturium ‘Natural’ shades instantly made me think of Victoria Beckham Tan Lines lip gloss. No wonder e.l.f. snapped up this…

[unpaid/paidforexperience/affiliate] I was all up and ready to post about a new lip balm I’ve found (which can wait til Monday) when I remembered it’s Friday and it’s the day for something different. I booked a Kintsugi class for myself and my two (adult) children as a bit of a family day (Mr BBB was…

[unpaid/sample] The worst thing that happened to facial mists was global warming. Now they’ve mostly all switched to non-aerosol to be more planet friendly, it’s very hard to get the fine mist that our faces would probably like better than the drenching we actually get. So, with that in mind, and also the further away…