Category: Beauty

[productsample/affiliate] If ever there was a gift to self staring you in the face, this is it. I’ve noticed that some advent calendars have started to be a bit repetitive and contain pretty much the same contents as have appeared in a slew of beauty boxes throughout the year. That’s great if you find favourites…

[productsample] I know that this is a very popular box so I’m surprised (and relieved) to see they’re still in stock. The boxes are £25 and £15 of that goes straight to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The contents are super – everything is covered so it’s a comprehensive offering, including cleanser (I’m always totally…

[productsample/affiliate] I really wasn’t expecting this – I haven’t paid too much attention to the slew of beauty advents this year; I know that some sites do a great service of listing all of them to save everyone time browsing, but so far, I haven’t read any so I’m only up to speed with a…

[productsample/affiliate] I said I had more advents, so brace yourselves! My Mum and Dad love L’Occitane – my Dad (84) was an early adopter of this brand so it’s been in our home as long as I can remember. He discovered it on holiday in the South of France and I *think* I can remember…

[productsample/affiliatelink] I can see November on the horizon so I have a few more advent calendars to show you over the next couple of weeks. First up is the SpaceNK offering that has ‘advent’ nowhere near it, as it’s set out as a beauty library or anthology meaning that it bypasses any connotations with Christmas…

[productsample] This is a handy (cough) little accessory for anyone who is clumsy with their nail polish. I’m usually pretty good but a pair of pyjamas with a dot of orange polish on them for ever emphasises the ‘usually’ :-). So, Nailpad is a portable pod that folds out to reveal a bottle holding slot…

[productsample] There was never going to be any chance of the rest of the seasonal collection from Paul & Joe being as spectacular as the advent calendar but if you don’t want to go all-in with the most expensive product they’re offering this time, these are the little ‘fancies’ that will be available from Novemeber…

[productsample] Yes, yes it is…. an Advent Calendar. But Paul & Joe call it a Make Up Collection so I have too. I always have qualms about posting things like this too early but I followed a thread on Twitter the other day where everyone was saying that they like to have earlier information so…

[productsample/affiliate] Every time my sensible self has a stern word about not needing to spend a fortune on make-up brushes when there are really good tools available (Real Techniques, for example) that are priced not to make your credit card cry, I get a new drop from Artis and forget everything I told myself. I…

You know how it is with YesStyle – buy now, consider later. It’s not entirely the site’s fault that I’ve ended up being the proud owner of Think Your Teeth; my friend Tamara is a travel writer and very kindly sends me pictures of beauty products from various locations so when she sent shots from…

The news! At last, Pat McGrath Labs is coming to the UK in the form of a A Technicolour Odyssey, a ‘multi-platform’ campaign with Selfridges. I know the products are available on Net-A-Porter, but theirs is seemingly an edited range whereas the whole shabang is coming to Selfridges. The Pat McGrath Labs collection is taking…