Mary Greenwell and Get The Gloss at the Chanel Beauty Boutique
On Thursday evening, the online beauty and health magazine Get The Gloss hosted a reader event at the Chanel Beauty Boutique in Covent Garden. Two hours watching make-up artist of international renown Mary Greenwell demonstrate iconic Chanel products? For a mere £25, redeemable against purchases? I wasted no time in booking my place … It is wonderful to […]
KUNG HEI FAT CHOI! Shopping in London’s Chinatown
Chinese New Year is one of my favourite celebrations: I love the emphasis on grub, decoration and MONEY! The Year of the Goat began yesterday, on the 19th of February, so hip, hip hooray for me, as I’m a Goat. The Belle and I met up in Chinatown to celebrate what we hope will be a happy, […]
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 […]
Goodbye To The Garden Pharmacy Of Earthly Delights: HELLO! To The Garden Online
The Garden Pharmacy in Long Acre closed its doors for the last time on March 21st this year, which means that London has lost an incredible independent shop. The Garden Pharmacy had been operating from the same site in Covent Garden for 29 years: it’s a fixture of London life, and the news of its […]
Bloom Perfumery Spitalfields
Have you left your Christmas shopping a little late this year? Be not afraid, I bring you good news:Â 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 […]
Happy Birthday BeautyMART!
Let the cry ring round the houses: BeautyMART is one year old today! Without doubt, BeautyMART is my very favourite Thing That Happened in the world of beauty this year. BeautyMART opened at Harvey Nichols on September 6th 2012. This makes BeautyMART a Virgo, born in the year of the Water Dragon: Â meticulous attention to […]
Welcome to the Neighbourhood! BeautyMART at Boxpark & Other Local Glories
Regular readers will have guessed that I was counting down the days until the opening of the BeautyMART at Boxpark pop-up, on Bethnal Green Road. Much as I like trolling around London, to have BeautyMART on my doorstep is a treat and a half! I visited (twice) on July 1st, when they opened … As a […]
Ain’t No Party Like a BeautyMART Party … Brand Experts at BeautyMART
When BeautyMART hold an event, it is ALWAYS worth going. ‘Brand Experts at BeautyMART’ on May 30th 2013 was a ticketed event that allowed beauty lovers to get advice, try products, chat, laugh and swig Prosecco with Beauty Industry Geniuses. Many of London’s leading beauty halls have put on similar events recently, but for me, BeautyMART did it […]
She’s Gotta Have … Terry de Havilland Shoes!
World-renowned shoemaker Terry de Havilland is back in London, and London is all the better for having him here again. The Terry de Havilland pop-up shop is located in Ganton Street, W1 (just off Carnaby Street), so pleasingly central. I do love a good pop-up … and this is a GREAT one.If you aren’t of […]
In Other News … & Other Stories
& Other Stories opened on Regent Street this week, just down from Oxford Circus tube station. & Other Stories is the latest store brought to us by H&M Group. I have loved H&M since the early ’90s, when they religiously carried Pippi Longstocking childrenswear, despite no-one in the UK knowing who Pippi was. I’m quite […]
