Fans of La Roche-Posay's Effaclar Duo rejoice: they have released a new version of their highly effective spot treatment, this time with an added SPF. Effaclar Duo+ SPF30 has the same basic formula as the original, helping to minimise the size and appearance of spots...
I think you'll agree that the below "before and after" photographs are pretty epic: no light or computer trickery has been used. (I don't ever retouch my images, by the way - or Facetune or whatever people use to whiten their teeth and get rid of wrinkles and...
Lengthiest post in the world alert. Do you remember when I recruited some skin care guinea pigs to test out the new Effaclar Anti-Blemish System*? Way back when the sun was shining and we weren't being relentlessly pelted with hailstones and cold rain? Well the...
I've never been a huge advocate of toners; most that I tried in my teens and early twenties left my face so dry and stripped that my skin would be completely knocked out of balance. I think that there was a real trend, then especially, for "cleanser and toner duos";...
**UPDATE: chosen testers are Harry (h.nortonshaw), frances.barcelos, bethanrabjohns, dianalloyd5 and Andrea Lutton. Thanks to everyone who left a comment, I wish I had hundreds of these sets. (I'm working on it!) Testers; you'll receive an email shortly from La...
OK, the winners of the Effaclar Duo+ samples have been randomly picked and I am listing them below with vital parts of the email addresses missing, for security reasons. If you have won then you will shortly be receiving an email directly from La Roche-Posay, so...
*This giveaway is now closed. Winners announced in a separate post shortly.* As many readers will already know, Effaclar Duo is one of my staple spot-beating products. It seems to be one of the few products that works on those horrible, deep-seated pimples that lurk...
I still have a few posts to catch up on from the end of last year - drafted but not quite finished - but this one on blemish busters is, I feel, very relevant. Mask-induced spots, or "maskne" as the marketing world coined it, seems to be an ongoing issue for some...
A new video for you here, but as it's proved to be such a popular one already I'll give you a bit of an extended blurb. The Five Beauty Products that Changed My Skin has a slightly confusing title, I suppose, because it's more about the five "types" of product that...
Whilst I continue my epic deliberation over whether I like or dislike Bobbi Brown's Long Wear Weightless Foundation (even after eight weeks I simply can't make up my mind) I'm going to turn my hand to reviewing face bases that are total no-brainers. The ones I've...
I only managed to go and film a new video, didn't I? After two false starts (one of them was realising I'd done the whole thing without actually pressing the record button) I managed to create a short(ish)list of my seventeen most-used beauty products from last year....
There seems to be a bit of a thing for longwear foundation launches at the moment, and I have a handful of those that I'm testing on rotation, but I wanted to kick off this run of reviews with Dior's new Diorskin Forever Perfect Mousse. Although it actually...
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