Category: Beauty

  • How to look fresher longer: my serum addiction

    How to look fresher longer: my serum addiction

    Heaven knows I could do with some “ironing out” of the forehead and those laughter lines around the eyes. But the thought of a needle spewing out liquid and/or chemicals inside my skin fills me with dread. So instead, I’ve become a serum addict. I have a dozen serums and they have helped me look…

  • How to get good results at the beauty clinic

    How to get good results at the beauty clinic

    Regular readers will know I’m no fan of high tech beauty and ‘tweakments’. So it was with some trepidation I followed a friend to one of Great Britain’s top beauty clinics, the Dermanda Clinic in Harley Street. Harley Street is, of course, the country’s number one spot for people fighting spending fortunes on fighting the…

  • How to know if you have too much makeup on

    How to know if you have too much makeup on

    It seems today you can’t pile enough foundation and shadow on your face – the more the merrier, indeed. But whatever TikTokkers and Instagrammers say, you can actually end up looking ridiculous. Here is how to know if you’ve over done it – like the Princess of Wales with too much makeup. The short answer…

  • How to create your own look at Stylist Live

    How to create your own look at Stylist Live

    The big pop up pampering experience returned this autumn at Stylist Live in London’s coolest district, Brick Lane. If you ever wonder how to create your own look, check out beauty and fashion festivals where you can wander and get (free) advice from dozens of experts. Here’s where you can really create your own look.…

  • Beauty Obsessions: our love of Brows and Botox

    Beauty Obsessions: our love of Brows and Botox

    Botox and eyebrows are the two top beauty obsessions of the 2020s. In our post beauty obsessions brows and Botox we ask: Where does our love of brows and Botox come from and why is it so important to some of us? I’m not sure when I first heard of Botox, but I do remember…

  • Face Gel now: Sanctuary Spa Radiance Jelly

    Face Gel now: Sanctuary Spa Radiance Jelly

    If I can’t find a Scandi beauty product (as I live abroad) I buy the next best thing. It’ll be something minimal, clean, a tried-and-tested ‘foreign brand I know. But sometimes I take a chance – and this summer I found my new gel of the month: the Sanctuary Spa’s Wet Skin Radiance Jelly. Completely…

  • What is the best Eyebrow Trend now?

    What is the best Eyebrow Trend now?

    We’ve been obsessed with our eyebrows for decades. I remember the late 1970s when eyebrows had to be well plucked and thin. Since then trends have changed from thick and untamed to almost invisible, but regular readers of this blog will know I’m all for a natural brow. But we keep getting asked: What are…

  • Beauty Advice that makes me see Red

    Beauty Advice that makes me see Red

    Some people seem to get better looking with age. I have an acquaintance who looks decades younger than her 50-something: the smooth forehead, taught eyelids and that pout. But behind the glossy facades, there is beauty advice that makes me see red. At what point do you tell a friend to stop “fixing” and try…

  • Beauty Hack you need to know before you’re 30

    Beauty Hack you need to know before you’re 30

    It happens every morning on trains and buses as we make our way to work. We see women passengers rubbing their faces with a finger as they try to make that foundation sink into the skin before the next stop. So here in beauty hack before 30 we show you the hacks to know… Some…

  • How to look great with uneven Eyebrows

    How to look great with uneven Eyebrows

    One of my favourite (of the moment) pass times on the train to work is looking at people’s eyebrows. My word, they all look the same. It is as if everybody (women, mainly) pluck, draw, sketch or tattoo the same brow on to their foreheads… even if it doesn’t suit them….So here’s how to look…