Super-posh bargain where you might not expect it …

The best value manicure in town right now has to be the £20.00 shape and paint at the Chanel pop-up shop in Covent Garden, surely? OK, so they don’t touch your ragged cuticles (would you want them to lower themselves to this: they’re Chanel after all!) but they do spend a whole 30 minutes making […]
I am SPArtacus!

That lovely @MrsKellyLong was kind enough to send some SpaMagic and Find products this way. iBeheld LOVES getting stuff in the post  – and when I’d unwrapped it all I was delighted to find a fine assortment of product AND a button badge. Obviously, I can only wear the button badge if the statement truly reflects […]
Ouate de phoque?

Bourgois So Laque! in 46 Abricot Ouaté The colour isn’t the most obviously appealing or must-have, but something about this prim, peach pastel fascinates me. One of five polishes from the COLLECTION SO LAQUE! ULTRA SHINE PARIS BUBBLE CHIC, Abricot Ouaté – like stablemate Rosé Merveille (no. 45) – is at the tame, conventional […]
Superdrug BB Cream 5-in-1 Day Cream (Light, 50ml)

It was the price that drew me to this, as the packaging is pretty basic and certainly not a box I feel compelled to keep on the dressing table. Here are some of the claims it makes: *24 hr hydration* *imperfections concealed & skin tone enhanced* *antioxidant protection* *UVA/UVB filters* *SPF15* The SPF15 is important […]
Alligators All Around

Leather Forever, the Hermès exhibition, is worth at least two visits. We went yesterday and marvelled at the room of skin and hides. Calfskins are almost as big as double-decker buses. Very fatted calves. And exotic reptiles have tender inner thighs, and a neat little buttonhole for excretory purposes. But the room of skin and hides, […]