20 Dec
Andrea Garland Sleeping Beauty Collection I am heavily smitten with Andrea Garland’s winter gift set. Her products are always things of beauty and this collection, designed with care and imagination, is both dreamy and novel. I’ll admit it’s a little twee but it’s lovely to see a gift set properly elevated beyond placing a couple of complementary products in a box. The set celebrates the notion of beauty sleep and comes in the form of a faux vintage...
19 Dec
Diptyque Eau Rose Roll On I couldn’t always comfortably dare to recommend perfume as a gift when scent is such a personal matter, but I think you would be on fairly safe ground offering this as a present. Rose is a commonly adored fragrance, familiar and classic but executed here as a delicious fruity infusion with notes of blackberry, bergamot and lychee, all delivered in Diptyque’s distinctive elegant packaging. Perfume is one of the areas in cosmetics where...
18 Dec
Cerebrum Wash Bag by Fanny Shorter Just in case you ever need a pithy reminder that brains and beauty are not necessarily exclusive of one another, here it is in the form of a beautiful screen-printed wash bag. It’s a gorgeous design by the wonderfully monikered Fanny Shorter, inspired by the naturally occurring patterns in human anatomy; the beautiful intricate symmetry of the cerebrum. It is British made with waterproof lining and a handsome brass zip. It would make...
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Cerebrum Wash Bag by Fanny Shorter Just in case you ever need a pithy reminder that brains and beauty are...
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