Rodial Contouring Bar at Harvey Nichols – Instant Bone Structure!
The Rodial Contouring Bar at Harvey Nichols opened for business last year – just in time for early adopters to look très chic at Christmas parties. But I am moved to write about it today because I am full of cold and February flatness, and cheering myself up by remembering how extremely jolly and buoyant I felt […]
It’s My Birthday and I’ll Buy If I Want To featuring YSL Opium and Nip & Fab
There are many, many things I love about being a Capricorn*, and high on the list is that my birthday falls during the January sales. It’s My Birthday And I’ll Buy If I Want To is my New Year Resolution and has been for many years! Anything I’ve shown HEROIC resistance to buying for myself […]
Bronze Buffer (Before & After) – The Self-Tan Remover You Should NEVER Be Without
The Bronze Buffer is a magic sponge that puts an end to tragic tanning mistakes. These soft, squeezable little stars can gently blend away and erase every tide-mark, blotch, stain and streak that stands between you and your perfect fake tan. Do you think it sounds too good to be true? That’s what I thought until Anna-Marie Solowij […]
New Year, New Riah: featuring Balmain Cosmetique and Paul Yacomine
Or more accurately, Last Year, Old Riah … I’ve been terrible at keeping the world updated with my hair woes and triumphs. A new reader might not even know that I have extremely fine hair, and that in the last couple of years it has been thinning around the crown and naturally wonky parting. I […]
Barefoot In The Dark: a New Year’s Eve Home Pedicure with Margaret Dabbs and MICRO Pedi
Regular readers will know that I’m not a big fan of Going Out, and I particularly hate leaving the house on New Year’s Eve. This year, my friend T invited me to a party that does sound truly marvellous, and I was tempted – for the first time in 26 years – to actually leave […]
Bloom Perfumery Spitalfields
Have you left your Christmas shopping a little late this year? Be not afraid, I bring you good news: Bloom Perfumery in Spitalfields stocks an amazing range of astonishingly lovely scent that will delight any adult on your list. The Belle of Brockley discovered Bloom earlier this year, and it is now one of my very […]
Queen Cosmetics: They Reign Supreme!
Although they were established 85 years ago, I only became aware of Queen Cosmetics last autumn, when I found their Theatrical Cleansing Cream on the shelves at John Bell & Croyden. It’s quite difficult these days to discover something captivating and surprising quite by chance. Beauty brands spend a fortune on advertising and marketing, soliciting […]
The Perfect Concoction: The Bespoke Shampoo That Is Shots and a Cocktail In One!
Concoction, the custom mix shampoo range that blends the concepts of Chemistry and Cocktail Mixology to astonishingly good effect, launched in Selfridges last week. I’ve been watching twitter feeds blow up with exclamations along the lines of of ‘So good!’, ‘Amazing!’ and ‘OMG IT REALLY works!’ ever since. This enthusiastic response to Concoction was no […]
Lipstick Queen Poppy King – She Rules Supreme!
I have been a Lipstick Queen: Poppy King enthusiast since the Belle of Brockley discovered her products in the early ’90s – Poppy King brought passion, matte red, and drop-dead glam to the beauty market at a time when ‘nude and natural’ was all the rage. Poppy King’s lipsticks were a ray of light in a dull decade, […]
Beautify Me! (New Year, New Riah, Part 3 … Skin, Nails, Hair … Action!)
Beautify Me is the name for Inner Me’s course of vitamins designed to put the oomph and ooh-la-la back into your skin, hair and nails. Regular readers will know that Inner Me founder Nikki Cooper is helping in my quest to make this the year that I stop fretting about the state of my extremely […]
