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, […]
Frapin Nevermore: A Scent For All Eternity
Frapin Nevermore eau de parfum is an unforgettable rose scent. Haunting, elusive, and evocative; it is a scent for all eternity. Last September, I was fortunate enough to meet David Frossard, the Creative Director of Frapin, at Bloom Perfumery, where he was introducing Nevermore, the newest scent in the Frapin line.  I was given a bottle of Nevermore […]
Coup D’Eclat et Moi – Love at First Sight!
I was struck by un coup de foudre when I first set eyes on Coup D’Eclat Ampoules Lifting. I have a weakness for most things French – and I especially love their food, their strikes, their magazines, their magasins and their beauty products. Coup D’Eclat retails at BeautyMART for £36.00, which works out to £3.00 per capsule. This is a bit […]
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 […]
Chin-chin, Darlings! Here’s To The Success Of Concoction Club!
I have written before about Concoction: the cocktail-concept shampoo that allows YOU to choose the scent-and-serums combination that will make your locks the toast of the town.  I have a Citrus & Black Pepper + 2 shots of Pump Up The Volume on the go at the moment, but I’m already planning my next purchase (Bakhour […]
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 […]
