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I often get asked about what my “all-time favourites” are, and I suppose that at some point I should really make a video about it. The problem is that there are always new readers coming through (hello new readers!) who haven’t seen previous posts, and so every now and again I have to go over [...]
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This is one of my favourite new masks – it’s a real ‘doer’ that actually shows results! Some masks, I feel, are just glorified moisturisers; a mask should be a concentrated shot of ingredients, a treatment, something that targets specific issues. Of course, you may just want to relax and pamper yourself with a nicely-scented, [...]
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You know how I love a multipurpose balm – I’ve reviewed quite a few on here now. They’re great for chapped skin, chapped lips, little scrapes and bruises, scabby elbows and knees, windburn, sunburn and just about any little skin annoyance you can think of. The only thing they are not good at, however, is [...]
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I have spoken about this very special SPF before, but I don’t think that it ever got its own post because it was in last year’s summer skincare videos. There are two reasons why I’m re-visiting it; 1) I have been using it as a winter sunscreen on very bright, clear days and am continuously [...]
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I just want to put it out there that I LOVE the Satsuma Shimmer lip balm from The Body Shop. It reminds me of being a teenager, when we all used to rock up to lessons with our little pots of Body Shop balm! Using the Satsuma Shimmer was just a total olfactory blast from [...]
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In a way, I wish that I had never discovered Sisley. You may remember how I was introduced to the brand (that fateful day in the Maldives) you may not - here’s the little tale: How I Met Sisley. Life was a little easier when I lived in blissful ignorance, when I thought that ‘Sisley’ [...]
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I have gone a little bit AHA crazy recently. After the Liquid Gold success story, I wanted to try out some other exfoliants and see how they compared. (For those of you didn’t follow my little summer skincare saga, have a look at my ‘skincare miracles‘ post for a brief catch-up.) Chemical exfoliants are now [...]
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January is infinitely depressing, is it not? I often feel like being cryogenically frozen for January and being defrosted when it gets into the second week of February. Just in time for Valentine’s Day. Because obviously I wouldn’t want to miss that spectacular money-making swizz that is St Valentine’s Day – imagine all of the [...]
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I have been a bit slack at making videos recently, but I managed to pull myself together at the weekend and actually film something! This particular vid has been on the agenda for a while, but it hasn’t (until now) been cold enough to justify making a winter skincare routine video! I had pretty much [...]
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Are expensive lip balms worth the dough? The sensible half of my brain says ‘no’, but the half that was paying attention when I tested the examples below is screaming YES! These were simply superb – especially the Sisley. Effects were long-lasting and really beneficial – none of that ‘leaving your lips drier than when [...]
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How have I only just discovered BuyaPowa? It’s really quite a genius idea! They take a product and people ‘co-buy’ it so that the more people buy, the cheaper the product gets! At first I thought that this would most definitely appeal to people who love a bit of a gamble, but then I realised [...]
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OK, I really like this stuff. I have been on a balm-testing mission over the last year or so (it’s an ongoing thing!) and the Mama Mio Omega Wonder-Full Balm is one of the best yet. By balms, I’m not referring to ‘lip’ balms but treatments that are more multipurpose, that have been designed to [...]
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This post comes to you via a veritable wonder-woman, Lauren; model, landlady of an uber-pub, ex-PR of an extremely famous rock-star, general glamourpuss and NEW MUM! She has been trying out Decleor’s Life Radiance Scrub which contains Jojoba Beads, Cardamom Seeds and Egyptian Luffa Fibres. What in the name of God are Egyptian Luffa Fibres? [...]
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I keep seeing this cropping up in various ‘backstage beauty secret’ articles so I thought I’d give it a whirl. You know how I like my balms! First point to note: this says it’s a cream, but it’s most definitely a balm. Anything that is almost solid but then melts down to an oily consistency [...]
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Hurrah and hooray to the two winners of the NUDE Advanced Cellular Renewal Moisturiser, who are: Viktoria (Twitter @EternalLife_) and Yasminec9, both of whom should have received an email from me by now! If they haven’t, it means I have forgotten, so please do feel free to leave a comment to remind me! (Brain like [...]
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This is a beautifully luxurious face oil that helps to promote healing and cell rejuvenation, it’s a wonderful oil to use in a home facial . The smell of it is just amazing (the blend contains neroli and tangerine as well as the ‘usual suspects’ rosehip and argan) and massaging it in really is a [...]
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