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Six Uses For Dishwasher Tablets That Will Shock You

Dishwasher tablets can help save you from the burden of hand washing dishes, but they also can do more for tough cleaning tasks that will… The p ...

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The Body Shop British Rose Petal Soft Bath Foam Review

Hello sweeties, The Body Shop keeps pampering us with their products and every now and then they come up with something new. ?British Rose? is the lat ...

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Maybelline Color Drama Lip Paint

This brand is heading only one way for next season – bold! The Maybelline Color Drama Lip Paint is seriously pigmented and even if you don̵ ...

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July's Throwback Faves

It feels like 90\'s vibes are everywhere at the moment, from choker necklaces, crop tops to TV revivals, it all seems to be coming back! I\'m certainl ...

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Advanced Lifting Techniques With Dr Shotter

When it comes signs of ageing I think lack of firmness can be more of an issue than lines and wrinkles. In the aesthetics industry there?s a concept ...

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Everything I Know About Fillers – Part 2

I?d like to start my second post (first post HERE) on fillers by saying that getting them is a such a personal decision and it really isn?t for ev ...

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Everything I Know About Fillers (Part 1)

When it comes to tweakments (non-invasiive aesthetic procedures) fillers are my top choice. I don?t think there?s anything else that can provide such ...

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Overusing Skincare ‘Actives’ – A Warning!

I?m part of the first generation of women whose skincare routine has heavily relied on 3 key ingredients – Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Tretin ...

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My Favourite Make Up Items From The Past 12 Months

#The Vitage Tanning Drops were a pr sample/gift and I bought all the other products mentioned. Following on from my favourite skincare products of 20 ...

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My Favourite Skincare Products Of 2018

(Disclaimer: I bought all the products mentioned in this post though I’ve received pr samples in the past from Exuxiance, NeoStrata, Clinique ...

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3 Beauty Trends For 2019 And Beyond

A big reason so many of us are hooked on ?beauty? is that there?s always something new and exciting around the corner. The area that?s developing mos ...

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What Happened When I Took Seven Seas Perfect7® Advanced Ren

Following on from my initial post  about the Seven Seas Perfect7® Renewal Advanced supplements, I?m really excited that I can now share my results. ...

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Christmas At Diptyque

When it comes to decorating my home for Christmas I prefer small tasteful touches rather than loads of tinsel and tat. That way I?m not itching to cl ...

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Seven Seas Perfect7® Advanced Renewal & How Ceramides

I?m pretty obsessed about taking good care of my skin and I?ve always been quick and eager to introduce the most up to date breakthroughs into my r ...

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3 Superstar Haircare Products

When I was younger I hardly put any effort into taking care of my hair and it just seemed to stay in good condition. Unfortunately that’s no ...

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Random Recommendations #2

Visit Diptyque Pop-Up Store – Mayfair Everyone?s favourite home fragrance and perfume brand, Diptyque, has popped up on10 Hanvover Street, May ...

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What’s New In Aesthetic Medicine

At the beginning of this month I attended CCR Expo 2018, a trade show for the medical aesthetic industry, to find out about the latest treatments. A ...

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NeoStrata Skin Active Tri-Therapy Lifting Serum

The Tri-Therapy Lifting Serum from Neostrata launched earlier on in the year and, in skincare terms, this is a big deal. Neostrata is one of most eff ...

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Random Recommendations – Read, Watch, Listen & Bu

It’s been a quite a while since I last posted. I hadn’t planned to take a such a long break but the school holidays disrupted my routin ...

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The QVC TSV skinSense 5 Piece Set

This is just a quick post to highlight a QVC TSV of such an unbeatable value that it?s hard to overlook. It?s for a 5 piece set from the newish brand ...

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The Fragrance Profiling Experience With Miller Harris

Discovering a new fragrance that you love is a wonderful thing. However, you often have to sniff a lot of fragrance frogs before you find your fragr ...

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Rodin Olio Lusso In The Spotlight

RODIN Olio Lusso sprung from when it’s founder, Linda Rodin, started mixing her own oils and handing them out to her friends to try. Word sp ...

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The Summer Beauty Edit

To me Summer Beauty should be about products that are fun, uplifting and practical in the warmer weather. The emphasis shouldn’t be on how to ...

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Perricone MD Cold Plasma+ Face Serum & Eye Cream –

The Perricone MD Cold Plasma range was one of the first (if not the first) to use a Copper Peptide which is an ingredient that has soared in popular ...

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Tixel Laser Treatment For The Eye Area – An Update

I?d planned on writing about the results of the Tixel treatment I had around my eyes about a month ago but I?m glad I waited as the area has continu ...

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Two Brand New Alpha H Liquid Gold Products & Details of

Something that’s talked about with growing frequency amongst skincare addicts is whether one should be sticking to the same routine week in w ...

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AF Vitamin C20 and Detox Mud Treatment – Two New Produ

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years you probably know that Vitamin C is one of the most important ingredients for p ...

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Colonia Pura By Acqua di Parma

I should start off  by saying that if you like big, blousy and heady scents this one isn’t for you. Colonia Pura is pretty much the epitome o ...

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Cloud Nine Hair Irons – An Upgrade From GHD

In the last few months I’ve come to rely on hair straighteners to get my hair into a presentable state much more than previously. This is beca ...

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Previse DermApothecary – Zero Fragrance Skincare

Fragrance in skincare often splits opinion. There are those who enjoy the sensorial element of scent. Then there are those with sensitive skin who fi ...

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The New Alpha H Liquid Gold Firming Eye Cream & Info On

A new launch from Alpha H is always big news for skincare addicts and this one is especially exciting as it?s an eye cream in the Liquid Gold range � ...

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My Beauty Review Of 2017

I was in two minds about publishing my review of beauty in 2017 because I?m so ridiculously late with it. However, in the fast moving world of beauty ...

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My Current Top 3 Beauty Products & Top 3 Beauty Tips

At the end of last year Top Santé asked me to recommend 3 beauty products and 3 beauty tips with a winterish slant for their January issue. Unfortuna ...

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Thinning Hair – My Personal Story

Until I started experiencing my own issues with thinning hair I didn’t realise what a big and increasingly common problem hair loss has beco ...

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3 Gift Ideas For Beauty-Lovers

Buying presents for the women in our lives is generally a lot easier than buying for the men. And if the women have an interest in beauty it’s ...

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Three Current Favourites From Clinique

My first experience of using Clinique was over 30 years ago when I wanted a foundation and my mum steered me towards the Clinique counter. Though it ...

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Suqqu’s Limited Editions For Christmas 2017

While I was aware that Suqqu had a great reputation I was still surprised by how much I loved the brand after trying some of the products for the fir ...

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General Advice For Reducing Breast Cancer Risk

The threat of breast cancer is something women live with everyday. We might not think about it constantly but it’s one of those background wor ...

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Tixel – The Laser Treatment For The Eye Area With Mini

Earlier on this year I had a series of treatments at PHI Clinic using the M22 device which utilises IPL, ND Yag and Fractional Laser Resurfacing ...

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The Survival Range From NIOD

A short while back I wrote a post on my favourite sun protection products. If Survival 30 was available then it would definitely have been included. ...

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How To Get Perfect Eyebrows With Micro Blading By Daxita

I’ve always taken a pretty low maintenance approach to my eyebrows. They say eyebrows should be viewed as sisters and not twins as it’s ...

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The Alpha H Essentials Collection

While Essential Cleansing Balm*(£27 for 50ml)is an absolute joy to use. It has a heavenly rose scent and diligently removes make-up and dirt but w ...

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Juliette Has A Gun Launches Two New Fragrances

It?s hard not to be intrigued by a range of fragrances called Juliette Has A Gun. I assumed that it wasn?t available in the UK and have often happil ...

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My Summer Beauty Favourites

While not all the beauty products I use are season related there is a shift in what I find myself reaching for once the weather warms up. Generall ...

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Finding Out My Body Composition With InBody At Hypoxi Knight

InBody is a detailed body composition analyser and recently I went along to Hypoxi Knightsbridge to get assessed. It was quick, easy, safe and painle ...

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Clinique X Jonathan Adler – The Limited Edition Collec

There are times when a beauty brand launches a limited edition range when I think why bother as the products are just not that interesting or specia ...

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Bio-Extracts

Customisable skincare is going to be a huge trend in the years ahead. I recently had coffee with a beauty PR who said that a big high street brand s ...

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Three Under The Radar Products From NIOD

There are two products that should come top of everyone’s NIOD shopping list and they are the Copper Amino Isolate Serum and the Multi Molecul ...

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3 Excellent Anti-Ageing Facial Suncreens

Though I’m sure a lot of people find sun protection products a dull necessity (and some not even that), to me they are one of the most interes ...

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H2 Elemental Energy By Perricone – Best New Skincare

The new H2 Elemental Energy Firming Foam Mask by Perricone MD was listed as one of the best beauty products for Summer 2017 by Lesley Thomas in The T ...

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Dandelion Fig by Shay & Blue – A Perfume With A D

I think the main reason that Shay & Blue has become so popular in such a short space of time is because their fragrance are distinguishable. They don ...

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4 Treatments For The Neck That Actually Work

It’s Beauty Law that you can’t write about anti-ageing neck treatments without quoting the title of Nora Ephron’s book ‘I ...

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The Smith & Cult Spring 2017 Collection

When I first saw Washed Demim, the nail polish from the Chanel Spring 2017 collection, I snapped it up. Unfortunately, I was left disappointed by it ...

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A Conversation About Facial Surgery At The Karidis Clinic

As well as being interested in the ‘before and after’ of cosmetic surgery, I’m also interested in the recovery process. Going und ...

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Zelens Marine Complex – A Supreme Anti-Ager For Sensit

Zelens  (one of my favourite skincare brands) don’t launch products that often which makes it particularly exciting when they come out with s ...

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Alpha H QVC TSV – All The Info & How To Order Two

I know I feature a lot of the QVC TSV beauty sets but that’s because they’re so bloomin’ good. They usually work out to be abou ...

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The Margaret Dabbs TSV @QVC – The Details

Exclusive to @QVCUK as Today?s Special Value is the @MargaretDabbsUK 3 Piece Supersize Hero Collection containing 3 of their bestselling products in ...

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The Haircare Edit – What I’ve Loved This Year So

Unfortunately my hair is not what it once was and this has given me a new interest and appreciation in haircare. The right products can make a differ ...

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A Short Cut To Brighter Skin With Clinique’s New Fresh

Fresh Batch Beauty is going to be a big beauty trend in the years aheads (I originally wrote about it HERE) and the idea behind it is solid – ...

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3D SkinLift At EF Medispa ? The Non-Invasive, No Downtime Tu

  Back in February I explained about how the 3D SkinLift treatment  worked. Basically, when performed on the stomach, it’s a non-invas ...

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5 Essential Beauty Products For ‘Awake-Looking’

These are the products that I rely on to make my eyes look  â€˜awake’ even when it’s far from how I’m actually feeling. So ...

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Universkin – The Personalised & Futuristic Skinca

Universkin is expensive and not widely available. Normally, I wouldn’t write about a range that falls into both these categories but these ...

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Earth Month 2017 – How You Can Get Involved

Every year Aveda celebrates Earth Month with the release of a candle with the aim of raising both funds and awareness for local and global environme ...

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Decléor ‘Skin In Bloom’ 4-Piece Set – Upc

Treat time alert. There’s a Decléor ‘Skin in Bloom’ hydrating collection of 4 products coming up this weekend as a TSV on QVC. A ...

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Zelens Extreme Velvet Lipsticks – Review & Swatch

The big emphasis of the Zelens makeup range, Zelens one in Apricot is what I reach for the most as it gives the most natural flush of colour and is i ...

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The Latest From Alpha- H – A Super-Serum, Moisturiser

The new Alpha-H Vitamin B product could easily be described as a super-serum. It contains 3 powerful ingredients – Niacinamide (B3), Copper P ...

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My Week In Pictures – Farmacy, Deciem, Latest In Beaut

I met up the lovely Dionne from super-brand, Deciem at Farmacy which is a new healthy eating restaurant in Westbourne Grove. The interiors are beauti ...

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Can You Be A Feminist And Love Fillers"*

At the end of last year, Allergan (makers of Botox and Juvéderm facial fillers) and CEW hosted a debate with some of the biggest names in female jou ...

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What Happened When I Used The No7 Lift & Luminate Range

As I?ve been using the No7 LIft & Luminate Serum for the 8+ months since it launched last year I wasn?t expecting my skin to improve much further aft ...

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Q and A’s With Anti-Ageing Expert, Dr Frances Prenna J

Though she’s far too discreet to confirm this, rumour has it that Dr Frances Prenna Jones is the cosmetic doctor that a fair few A-listers tu ...

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Is This Spring’s Most Wanted Lipstick & Should We

I was reading a beauty story in Net A Porter’s online mag, Edit, and it mentioned ‘a soon to launch and sell out’ NARS lipstic ...

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Skinade – The £100 A Month Beauty Drink Reviewed

While supplements that claim to rejuvenate skin aren’t anything new there’s an increasing interest in this area as clinical studies are ...

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3D SkinLift At EF Medispa – The Non-Invasive, No Downt

As I’ve been pregnant and lost weight my tummy isn’t as smooth and taut as I’d like it to be. It’s not so bad to warrant ...

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Hydrate & Nourish by MZ Skin And Why Retinol In A Sun P

The term, Age Defence Retinol Day Moisturiser SPF 30, might set alarm bells ringing because there’s an assumption that retinol should only be ...

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My Week In Pictures – Hospital Visits, Red Nose Day, H

I think I’ve skipped at least a week of  â€˜My Week In Pictures’ but life took an unwanted turn with my daughter needing to have so ...

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The Latest Launches From Smith & Cult

While I don’t mind at all if the packaging for my skincare is plain and functional but when it comes to makeup I have to love the presentation. ...

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My Ultherapy Treatment At The Karidis Clinic – Before

Nearly 4 months ago I had Ultherapy which is touted as a non-invasive, no downtime alternative to a face lift. So often with these things the results ...

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The NIOD X QVC TSV That’s Not To Be Missed

  The simple reason NIOD has become so well established in such a short space of time is because the products are very good indeed. Clever market ...

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Ambre Imperial – The Mouthwatering Fragrance From Van

I’ve quite an obsession with Amber fragrances and Amber Impérial from Van Cleef & Arpels is now at the top of the my list of favourites. Itâ ...

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New – Bright Blonde Radiance & Repair Treatment

Unfortunately, I can’t put this product to the test myself as it’s for blondies and I’ve dark hair. Therefore, this is a heads ...

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My Week In Pictures – New Music, New Clothes & A

New Music I’ve been listening a lot to 64 Bits and Malachite by Baloji and I’m particularly addicted to Spoiler video and the lyrics in ...

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The New No7 Lift & Luminate Range And Why It?s #BetterT

In a couple of weeks time I turn 47 (almost 50!) so ageing has been on my mind a lot recently. The conclusion I?ve come to is that getting older does ...

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Obagi Elastiderm -The Eye Treatment Most Recommended By Cosm

The question of whether a separate eye product is necessary is the subject of much debate in the beauty world and my view is that as the skin aroun ...

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My Week In Pictures – Bowling, Adidas, Sali Hughes, Yo

  I spent the Bank Holiday bowling with a group of friends at the recently reburshined Queen’s Ice and Bowl in W2. I was reluctant to go as ...

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My Top Ten Beauty Favourites From 2016

Seeking out the best beauty products and treatments is always the ultimate aim but it’s not easy in such a crowded market. Also, thereâ€� ...

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Decléor QVC TSV On 8th Jan – Massive Savings

This Sunday there’s going to be a 5 set Decléor TSV on QVC which has a value of £279 but will sold for £61.24. I think those numbers speak ...

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My Week In Pictures – My Daughter’s Science Part

My daughter, Hannah’s birthday party actually took place a couple of weeks before Christmas and while I had every intention of posting on thi ...

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Christmas Shopping Using the Aveda Gift Finder Tool

With Christmas just days away it’s easy to go into panic-buying mode. This usually involves spending too much money on unsuitable presents. On ...

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My 3 Top Beauty Gifts from M&S

One of the main reasons I like Christmas shopping at Marks & Spencer is because you know you’re getting good value and, most of all, it� ...

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Highly Recommended – The Signature Facial At The Teres

I haven’t reviewed a facial on my blog before because, on the whole, I think they can be a waste of time and money. I concede that they can be ...

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My Week In Photos – A Christmas Walk With Penhaligon&

Last week I had the supreme pleasure of going on a walking tour of London’s Christmas past. The event was hosted by Penhaligan’s and the ...

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My Week In Photos – Michael Buble, A Thread Lift &

I had my first Christmas dinner of the year at the gorgeous Covent Garden Hotel. The evening was hosted by Thirty Plus Blogs and Michael Bublé fragr ...

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Finding My Perfect Shade With Smashbox Be Legendary Lipstick

A while ago I attended a joint Smashbox and Thirty Plus Blogs event to celebrate the 120 shade collection of Be Legendary Lipsticks. Whilst there we ...