Nivea Micellar Water

I’m always up for trying things out and, as I recall, this was recommended by one of my beauty blogging friends as a cheap and effective way of removing makeup. Sadly, it didn’t work for me. I know it cost only £3.99 but you’d expect to to have some...

Nars Velvet Matte Skin Tint

Now, generally, I’m a big fan of NARS and I’ve virtually bankrupted myself in the last year replacing all my old Chanel and not so old Hourglass cosmetics with colours and formulations from NARS as they tend to have the correct shades and yellow, peachy...
Sensationail – a review

Sensationail – a review

Perhaps it’s got something to do with biting my nails for decades in the forlorn hope that they would be beautifully-shaped and gorgeously polish-ready like those women I saw on the television and around me, but I have fairly weak nails. They seem in good...
Another day, another ballet

Another day, another ballet

This time it was a quadruple bill at the Royal Opera House, a compare and contrast programme full of delightful moments. How I love ballet, the pinnacle of human effort and strength and hard work and control. And it’s so beautiful. The first in the programme was...
L’Occitane Divine Youth Oil

L’Occitane Divine Youth Oil

I’ve loved L’Occitane’s Divine skincare range for a while. The texture of the face and eye creams and the sera have always suited me very well, being neither too thick and heavy for my combination skin, nor too untrustworthily runny. They’ve...