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 […]
Oh, Sugar Sugar: Purely Natural 1 For All Body Scrub review

Those nice people over at Purely Natural offered up some products for review purposes recently, and I was quick to put in my request to try their 1 For All Body Scrub. Purely Natural offer a range of hand-made face and body products created using natural ingredients and certified as suitable for vegans. Regular readers […]
Have I Found My Dream Cream in dermaviduals® Bespoke Skincare?

Thanks to the good offices of those lovely people at John Bell & Croyden, I recently had the pleasure of meeting the very friendly and skilled Donna at dermaviduals®, who had undertaken to mix me a bespoke skin cream. To get the right mix, Donna needed to know my current regime. To her eternal credit, […]
What’s Your Name, What’s Your Number?

Do you choose shades based on the name? I do. I doubt I’ll ever be able to match the utter bliss of having once been given a nail varnish called Poontang, but I’m always looking for that hit. So it baffles me why companies don’t name their products and instead rely on numbers. Kate Moss […]