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Need fodder for your lottery fantasy? Here are eight things I’d buy if money were no object   Increasingly, I find myself being criticised for acknowledging the efficacy of any product costing over thirty quid, as though it were me that decided on its price point. My honest response to this is always to point out that my job is not to tell you how to spend your money, but to tell you what works across all price points. The...
Diamonds, clutch bags and Jimmy Choos? Pffft. Lupita Nyong’o showed The Academy a thing or two about accessorising   If, like me, you stayed up all night to watch The Oscars on Sunday and if, like me, you have almost bionic vision for even the merest flash of beauty product, then you will have immediately identified the item Ellen DeGeneres cheekily pulled from Best Actress in a Supporting Role Lupita Nyong’o’s clutch as none other than Clarins HydraQuench Replenishing Lip...
Sali had no idea one of her favourite smells came bottled and ready to take home. Do keep up, said Cowshed.   This week I visited the new Cowshed spa at the Beauty Workshop on the ground floor of Selfridges, Oxford Street. It opens this Saturday and it’s as reliably lovely as all Cowshed spas (they consistently do the best mani and pedis, in my opinion), but ANYWAY, that’s really not what this is about. While in the spa I...