Nothing makes me feel older than when I realise I am able to look back and see how much things have changed, like some old dear in a nursing home talking about rationing.
It’s time to tell you about another lovely offer that I think you should jolly well take advantage of. This one is really good, and it comes from my current brand-crush, Aromatherapy Associates. I know, I’ve been going on about them almost as much as I go on about Elemis but it’s for your own good. Continue reading…
I have glasses. Bet you didn’t know that about me. To be honest, I don’t wear them very often because my eyesight is actually OK, I just have something tedious called astigmatism – which I have just Googled and is apparently ‘an optical defect in which vision is blurred due to the inability of the optics of the eye to focus a point object into a sharp focused image’. Wow, that’s dull.
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I’ve bored you before about my penchant for stealing from my offspring. Nothing is sacred. Easter eggs (they don’t need that many), nail varnish (my stepdaughter has some cracking shades these days), money (I’m joking, although there was that time I was short of bus fare and I raided a piggybank). Bad mummy. Continue reading…
It’s a grim subject but one that many of us bloggers have been inspired to write about in the last 48 hours. It’s also a story about a brand I previously had a lot of respect for – MAC.
They’ve come up with a new collection in collaboration with the fashion house Rodarte, which was inspired by a road trip from El Paso to Marfa, Texas – and specifically by the Mexican town of Ciudad Juárez. So far so what, you might think. Continue reading…
Welcome to the first BeautyBay Bulletin. I’m Ailsa, your new beauty correspondent from BeautyBay.com, and Product Placement has kindly allowed us to take the reins every few weeks and give you all a bit of insight into what goes on behind the scenes at an online beauty retailer. Continue reading…
Time for another delve into the world of offers and deals, and today I thought I’d tell you about Wahanda – the leading online health, beauty and wellness resource – and their fabulous MobDeals, which are getting a lot of attention in the press of late. It’s a genius concept. Customers benefit from the power of group buying to get an unbeatable daily deal on offers such as massages, facials, spa days, haircuts, manicures, yoga, Pilates classes and more. Hence the term ‘mob’… Continue reading…
Do you have a scene in a film which, no matter how many times you watch it, you always just about cry laughing? Mine is in Anchorman, which I realise may divide you as Will Ferrell is an ‘either love it or hate it’ kind of actor. But I love it/him. And the scene in the film is when Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is discussing an aftershave called Sex Panther with Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd). Every time I watch it my face aches from laughing so much. I am quite possibly a bit of a moron. Continue reading…
Picture the scene. It’s sunny. You’re in the garden at a friend’s house, having a cheeky afternoon Pimm’s. Suddenly you realise that the tinted moisturiser with a vague SPF that you put on at nine that morning probably isn’t cutting it, and indeed you start to feel that tell-tale tingle on your forehead. Continue reading…
The winter allows you to get away with all sorts of short-cuts and laziness when it comes to your appearance. Well it does me, anyway. Why shave your legs when it’s so horrendously cold you’re going to wear your opaque tights to bed anyway? Why file and paint your toenails when the mere thought of doing anything barefoot makes you shiver? Why worry about your hair when you’re just going to tuck it under a hood or put it in a winter-friendly chignon (i.e. neck-warming bundle)? Continue reading…
Do you remember a few weeks ago I reviewed the Scholl HydraStep? It was exciting, wasn’t it? I bet you wrote about it in your diary. And if you didn’t, you might have a few emotional lines to commit to history about today. Because it’s time for another competition. And this time, I’m giving away something really flipping fancy.
It’s not just a prize, it’s a goodie bag. A Dr Scholl goodie bag, to be precise. And unbelievably, it contains a pair of the aforementioned foot-softening flip-flops (which are pink, in a size 6/6.5 and normally retail at £24.99). It also contains the following Dr Scholl products: Continue reading…
