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[unpaid/sample] If you’re a nude lip lover, I think you might like the slightly honeyed tones of Jewel (gloss) and Flirt (lipstick) in this handy everything-goes-with-everything set. Delilah Nude Lip Wardrobe Volume 2 Review If I was scoring out of comfort alone, this kit would get 10/10 – the lipstick …

[purchase/affiliate] First of all, if you’re finding the site glitchy, especially on mobile, please accept my apologies. The ad server needs some fine tuning and we are working on it … when I say ‘we’ I don’t mean me! Code is not my language. The goal of taking ads (I …

Back a couple of months to the bankruptcy of Amyris and forward to now with an auction for JVN hair – winners for this particular brand are Windsong Global who paid $1.25 million. That is not a lot of money in beauty M&A terms. A bid of $3 million for …

[unpaid/sample] So, in this silly time between Christmas and New Year when nobody knows what day it is, I have a confession. I was sent all three of the Ipsum Face Oils and unbelievably can’t track one of them down. I usually work at my dining room table, and obviously …

A beauty therapist who sued her boss for sexual harassment after he called her ‘sexy legs’, asked for a full-body massage, and sent porn to her work computer has won a £1,500 payout.     April Freke was left feeling ‘sick’ and ‘frightened’ by Rohit Vikal’s advances which included turning …

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] In general, I’m still suspicious of very expensive hair care although Oribe seems to be the exception to the rule. If you want clean hair, you don’t need to pay a fortune, but interestingly during the pandemic and beyond, the luxury hair category continues to rise. I’m not massively …

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] In general, vanilla is not my thing, fragrance wise. I think I got tired of high street fragrances piling it into any and every formulation so that it just became one, amalgamated smell of biscuits. However, Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Forte Bosca Vanilla could not be further from that. It’s …

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] If you like a seamless red lip, Bobbi Brown’s Parisian Red is all the good things rolled into one. It’s creamy, sheeny, easy to apply and so brightening for the face. Bobbi Brown Parisian Red Lipstick It’s sold out on the Bobbi Brown website which isn’t really a surprise …

[unpaid/sample] I’m getting emails already about products launching in February/March and while they’re not useful for today, they have made me think about what would be cheering in February. If you are all done on your Christmas shopping (mine was completed yesterday!) but like to think ahead, the Trish McEvoy …

There are train journeys where one just gazes at hills rolling by beyond the carriage window. I love such routes, be they in the Alps, Iberia or the Balkans. Things are different in the Netherlands, where pancake-flat landscapes dominate. Yet even in the flatlands there is often visual drama. The …