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[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] The Neom Real Luxury Wellbeing Soak is firmly one of my favourite things to put in my bath – after saying it was too expensive in the initial review. I think it is pricy at £45 HERE but you really only do need a few drops for it to fulfill the brief of nourishing…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I know that fragrance is personal preference but I’m not sure how much I love fig and tomato together. I don’t think I’d eat them together so maybe it’s no surprise that I don’t want to smell them together. I can’t fault the throw on this candle – it’s permeated my kitchen fully predominating…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Can we declare this summer a washout yet? I’m definitely not reaching for sunny floral fragrances at the moment but I think the Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Forte Florabloom fulfills the flowery criteria without necessarily needing a lot of sunshine to go with it. If you aren’t a floral fragrance, this is definitely not for…

[unpaid/sample] As full disclosure from the get-go, I’m not a fan of eye creams or concealers. I’ve got 59 year old skin and dark circles – I don’t care what anyone else thinks about them and I consider them a natural early warning system … if they’re particularly noticeable, it’s because I’m tired and today…

[unpaid/affiliate] I am not a fan of the cardigan in general – there are some really droopy things out there that for my 5ft 3in stature make me look like I’ve been covered up like an un-used piano. Others – more chunky things – give me Mrs Doubtfire vibes so I’ve always kept a weather…

One of my loveliest gifts this year (from a friend) is a Japanese pin holder for flower arranging. It’s sometimes known as a flower frog if you’re looking on-line. Trust me, I am no flower arranger, but I can truly say that this tiny thing has brought me a great deal of delight. Ikebana is…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] The Malin + Goetz Grapefruit Face Cleanser travel size (30ml) is exactly what you need if you are more oil prone on holiday. A mix of sun, sweat and sunscreen can send your complexion (and pores) into overdrive but this little beauty will ably remove everything, leaving your skin to breathe again. In many…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] When I first opened the Haus Labs PHD Hybrid Lip Glazes that had been sent for review, I felt disappointed because there wasn’t a single colour I would have chosen for myself. And, as so often happens, I am completely wrong – they’re completely lovely. I should point out that the first in line…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I’ll happily try any shade of nail polish (partly, it’s my job to do so) but my default is always a coral or orange shade. Luckily, Mavala’s summer line-up includes just such a colour with Yummy Mango and I know it’s going to be on my toes very shortly. There’s also a ‘matcha’ type…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] This is a re-visit because the weather could not be worse for us frizzy ladies! I’ve been relatively untroubled by frizz so far this (ahem) summer but the past few days have been the humidity days from hell – warm, wet, thundery and unreliable. I came home last Friday from walking Dora and was…

[purchase] I’ve had to put the brakes on buying Hello Kitty stuff – I’ve been to Hello Kitty World (Sanrio Puroland) in Japan and my house could so easily start to look like an extra wing because I find it so inexplicably irresistible. However, I couldn’t resist a couple of items from the Essence collaboration…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] If you ask me the brand I most associate with bronzer, it’s still Guerlain, who, back in 1984, invented their Terracotta powder inspired by a trip to the heart of the desert. To be fair, that does not sound at all appealing in the way that perhaps a day on the beach in Nice…

Not strictly beauty, but it’s summer and pickings are slim but it looks like Symprove (the gut supplement that I’ve taken for a couple of years) is planning a sale. The brand went to private equity in 2020 after being invented in 2010 by farmer, Barry Smith, who originally created the supplement for his cows!…

[unpaid/affiliate] I’ve always been unsure of ‘flowy’ clothes – I like droopy but flowy is another thing altogether. It’s not the jumper than casually slips off your shoulder or the too big shirt, it’s more slippy and billowy than those things. However, I bought a pair of wide-leg, lightweight fabric trousers from Zara and I…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I’ve long been a fan of Japanese and Korean sun protection which, a few years ago, was such revelation compared to our home-grown formulas. I guess that because the aesthetic for both countries is to keep their skin from showing any sun whatsoever plus a level of humidity that we rarely encounter, formulas have…