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One lo-tech, implausible little gadget from your local chemist proves that miracle products really do exist   If I had to choose one product I believe in more than any other, one that I want people to go out and buy, use, go “bloody hell, she was right”, then I think, in all honesty, it would be the Boots Avert Coldsore Machine. More than any serum, concealer, balm or supplement, this is a product that truly performs miracles, and not...
Products mentioned in this video: Fountain, The Beauty Molecule, £24.99 La Roche Posay Cicaplast Mains hand cream, £6.07 Living Proof Prime Style Extender, £17 Kate Shapland’s Legology Air Lite, £60 Bourjois 2-in-1 Tweezer and False Lash Applicator, £4.99 ByTerry Terribly Densiliss foundation, £75 Urban Decay Naked Skin Ultra Definition Pressed Finishing Powder, £19.80 Charlotte Tilbury Film Star Bronze & Glow, £49 Charlotte Tilbury Colour-Coded Eye Palettes, £38 Japonesque beauty at John Lewis Mac Masterclass Brushes, launching January 2014 The post...
The 12 unexpected scents I completely adore   I confess I can be such a snob about perfume (today I’m wearing a Frederic Malle Eau D’Hiver, yesterday, Tom Ford’s Rive D’Ambre), but however many luxury scents I amass, the bargain bucket smells of some every day beauty products still do remarkable things to me. Delicious, evocative fragrances that instantly transport me to happy times, comforting and soothing smells that remind me of a simpler age, or even just scents that...