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[unpaid/sample] This is Caroline’s 29th beauty kit and as usual, it’s a skin-focussed edit curated to give you glowy and fresh skin. Impressively, everything bar the eye-masks is full size so you’ll have literally months of use from it. Unlike a lot of beauty boxes who clearly bang in whatever they can get their hands…

[unpaid/sample] I’ve never had a matcha latte and honestly don’t understand the obsession with matcha. I only quite recently had a chai latte (loved it!) and even more adventurously (for me) had a rose latte which is seared on my brain as one of the most beautiful things I’ve even drunk in my life. But…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] This curious world of beauty reviewing means that sometimes you have to wait for a problem to occur before you can have anything meaningful to say about a product. I’ve been sitting on this sample (not literally) for months waiting for my sometimes dry and flaky scalp to act up. At last! Who’d have…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] CHANEL No 5 is my favourite fragrance – it’s the perfume Mr BBB brought me back from his holiday just after we started dating (then known as ‘going out together’) and I was so a) surprised and b) impressed that I thought I’d better keep him. L’Eau launched in 2016 but this year has…

[unpaid/sample] I love that Kure Bazaar only issues a couple of new shades per season – I like the confidence of pared back releases and rarely dislike the colours. It’s one of my favourite nail polish brands and nine times out of ten, I’ll be wearing a Kure shade. This season’s shades are Matcha Latte…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I think I’ve tried a couple of things from Haus Labs before but now I’ve got a very comprehensive view of the collection by Lady Gaga, starting with the Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Foundation which is a product that I’ve seen getting raves across the internet for its twenty skin care ingredient line-up.…

[unpaid/sample/ad] Last week I went to the launch of CHANEL Jardin Imaginaire Summer 2024 – a collection created by Ammy Drammeh, Global Make Up Creative Partner whose inspiration is amplified fairy tales – jewel like flowers, colour saturation and harmonious light. It reminded me so much of the work of my favourite hyper-realism photographer and…

I thought I’d leave Friday Treat well alone this week while we all adjust to sweating through the days and instead give you some recommendations for your leisure time. I love a podcast and listen almost daily to something or other. I never listen to anything beauty related because it’s what I’m doing all day…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] These skin care products have probably had more exposure on my site than any other because I’ve seen with my own eyes how beautifully they can calm and soothe inflamed skin. REN Evercalm Barrier Support is one of my favourite all time skin products for when I feel that my complexion needs to calm…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I met Juliette Has A Gun founder, Romano Ricci, a few years ago – he’s very dapper, very French and exquisitely charming. It was at the time the brand was launching into the UK so it was all new and shiny and not nearly the famous fragrance name it is now. Romano comes from…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] If you Google SPF Lipgloss, you really won’t find very many at all. In the big, big ocean of glosses that are available, SPF amounts to droplets. I can only think that this is because it’s hard to formulate well enough to be effective but it’s a very good example of e.l.f. winkling out…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] Bibbi isn’t a new brand but it’s new to me and what a beautiful discovery. Initially, being a shallow person and judging the book by its cover, I assumed that this really wouldn’t be for me but all it took was one (semi-reluctant) spritz and I’m putty in Bibbi’s hands. Bibbi is a very…

[unpaid/sample] I don’t normally do colour extensions as an individual post but this is one of my favourite brands for eye liner and there’s a heathered one which is unusual. The two new shades that have been added to the 23 strong line-up are Smoky Topaz and Metallic Taupe, the latter of which gives a…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] It doesn’t instinctively feel like the right time to buy foundation – I’m much more into skin tints and tinted moisturiser at the moment – but this is a good one and worth your time and attention away from under the parasol. I really don’t have any hesitation whatsoever in saying grab a tube…

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] It seems like the ideal time to give thisworks Perfect Legs Skin Miracle another outing – it’s an oldie but a goodie and circumnavigates that awkward phase of transitioning from spring (legs covered) to summer (legs not covered). We can safely ignore the ‘multi-vitamin’ on the bottle because it will make no tangible difference…