23 Dec
Andrea Garland Winter Compact Isn’t this just darling? Andrea Garland started off filling vintage pill boxes with the lipbalm she brewed up in her Hackney kitchen and selling them from a market stall on Brick Lane. Six years on she’s a proper brand, with a collaboration with Liberty, and her charming fox-head ring with a hidden stash of lipbalm is still one of my favourite things. This is one of a series of four seasonal compacts, each with a whimsical...
22 Dec
CHANEL No.5 Eau de Parfum I’ve been wary this month of recommending a particular perfume to give or to receive. Who am I to say what might appeal to you, your girlfriend or your granny? I find it hard enough to pick a new scent for myself, never mind for someone else. But Chanel No.5 isn’t a perfume, it’s THE perfume, created for Mademoiselle Chanel in 1921. It’s my firm belief that every woman should have a bottle of No.5...
21 Dec
NARS Killer Heels Mini Lipstick Set I do love anything in miniature, whether a travel-sized tube of toothpaste, a dinky, glasshouse-grown cauliflower or a Sylvanian Families canal boat crewed by otters, so this set of five scaled-down lipsticks from the limited edition NARS X Steven Klein collection appeals to me no end. Each Lilliputian tube contains a bullet precisely half the size of a regular one, which might just be the perfect size for a lipstick, given that in around...
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