My Best of 2024: Leonor Greyl hair care
Investing in Leonor Greyl shampoo, hair oil and treatment spray has enabled me to make my peace with age related hair changes. As I write this, it’s exactly one year since my first encounter with Leonor Greyl Hair Expert Masa. Masa was in store at The French Pharmacy to introduce the brand and give customers […]
J’aime Bien Le Shopping! French Beauty Haul
It might have been a short holiday; it might have been a family holiday; but we were in La Belle France, so obviously, there was going to be le shopping! Allow me to present: the French Beauty Haul … Never get a migraine in Disneyland Paris: you can’t find painkillers for love nor money! The upside […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Have You Heard About Handpicked Scarves? The Designer Auction For Save The Children
The Handpicked Scarves campaign for Save The Children launched on Thursday: UK designers and artists have produced a collection of exclusive, hand-painted silk scarves, that are now up for auction on Ebay. You have until Sunday 23rd February to place your bids – and to make up your mind which scarf you’re after: all are beautiful, and very […]
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 […]
MY-Make Up Masterclasses with Lee Pycroft and Sarah Reygate
This week I was invited to find out more about MY-Make Up, the masterclasses in make up offered by renowned make-up artists Lee Pycroft and Sarah Reygate. I first saw Lee Pycroft and Sarah Reygate in action at a BeautyMART Meet The Experts’ Evening, held this summer at BeautyMART Boxpark. I loved what I saw: […]
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, […]
