Category: Body

[unpaid/sample/purchase] In celebration of 100 years of Chanel No.5, there’s a brand new limited collection, Factory 5. There are 17 products in the line-up – it’s all selling very fast so if you will need to be very quick on it if you want to get anything. I know that some lines are already listed…

[unpaid/sample/purchase/own/ad] So, in that brief 24 hours of summer we had a few weeks back, I was grateful for my body routine that meant I could slip on a t-shirt and shorts without thinking twice about whether my skin was in good nick. Obviously, I’ve been using the Japanese Cleansing Cloud almost exclusively for body…

[unpaid/sample] Given that Original Source Shower gels cost around about the £1 mark (at Boots or almost any supermarket) they’re very, very good value for money and prove that treats don’t have to be expensive. It’s such a long time since I’ve used anything from this brand but lovely to have a reminder of the…

[unpaid/sample] Oh my! This is indeed a very luxurious launch – La Perla has revamped their existing beauty offerings and introduced a few more, including one for lipstick collectors. I do not have this here – but I’m on the case because that is an absolute beauty. Embellished bullets are so much more of a…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] This is a very timely campaign from Escentual who are donating 30,000 Broad-Spectrum Sun Protection For Children SPF50 to school children on free school meals in Wales. The aim this year is to get some momentum before rolling out nationwide next year. To be honest, I’ve always thought that sun screen is something that…

[unpaid/sample] Over the long weekend I had a good chance to put Bloom & Blossom’s cooling products through their paces. Specifically formulated for hot legs and feet Spritzy Toes has a sister product in Legs Eleven which is a cooling serum formula. Bloom & Blossom began as a mother & baby brand and there’s still…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Well, I was convinced I was going to be useless at applying the lash extension system – I mean, how could it possibly be easy with those little gone-in-a-sneeze lash whisps and those impossibly unwieldy tweezery-things? Turns out that it truly is a breeze – it did not take more than five minutes, and…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad/prioradrelationship] Hmm. Okay. I think this new launch from The Body Shop is going to be very much a marmite product – it’s not raspberry as you might expect it to be. If you’re expecting a sweet and juicy scent, that’s not it. This version of raspberry is tart and green enriched with raspberry seed…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] You’ll notice that the Paul & Joe Sun Care range calls their SPFs ‘primers’ which are not to be confused with traditional make up primers. These are normal SPFs that ‘prime’ the body for the sun – which does take you down the wrong track – I spent quite a long time wondering why…

[unpaid/sample/prioradrelationship] I honestly shudder when I remember the shortage of hand sanitizer last year. I was lucky that my mum had put some in my Christmas stocking and I hadn’t used it, and I later managed to get hold of some big bottles by searching high and low on the internet and just striking lucky…

[unpaid/sample] Much as I would love to have my home littered with posh hand wash, and much as I love a burst of Jo Malone at the sink, it’s not practical or affordable to use it all of the time. Anyway, I appreciate a ‘treat’ wash all the more for it being occasional (okay, quite…