[TIL] is a new tag for the blog. It's an expression my husband uses often, and it means "Today I Learned". My usual expression for this is "Every day's a school day", but "TIL" is punchier somehow, so it's here to stay. 🙂 So - today I learnt about "hard pan". To roll back a... Continue Reading →
One of the pleasures of writing this blog is that I get to talk at length about some of my favourite things. Primer is one of those things! My relationship with Primer goes back quite a long way, really. Somewhere around about 5 years ago, I was having lunch with two of the most beautiful... Continue Reading →
As mentioned in my customer service post a few days ago, I have been on the hunt for a good warm weather foundation to work in partnership with my cool weather one, which I love dearly but which simply doesn't hold up when faced with my oil slick of a complexion combined with heat and... Continue Reading →
So, at the end of yesterday's post I said that Friday night was brush cleaning night - in the event, I was so shattered after last week that I didn't get to it until this morning. I thought I'd take a few pictures as I went along and show you what I do to keep... Continue Reading →
Brush pot available here. "Hello Beautiful" mirror from Fox & Ivy for Tesco. Lavender room scenter candle from Melt. Brushes! Hurrah! Brushes are one of my new favourite things. One of the things I learnt very, very early on is that makeup as a whole is just that much easier when you have the right tools... Continue Reading →
In the industry I work in, customer service is king. If you don't get it right, it can do an awful lot of damage both for your customer, and for your own reputation. It tends to mean that I have little or no tolerance for crap customer service from other places. So when I encounter... Continue Reading →
Here we have what is without question the oldest item in my makeup bag (it's not a bag, but we'll get to that some other time). All makeup has a shelf life, and technically eyeshadow has a life of around 24 months from date of opening. In real terms however, dry products have a much... Continue Reading →
So - after the events in my introductory post, I kept reading. The internet is an absolute goldmine of beauty information, and I made the most of it! I noticed very quickly that an awful lot of bloggers were raving about the same thing - Charlotte Tilbury's "Pillow Talk". So on a pre-Christmas trip to... Continue Reading →
For the first 36 years of my life, makeup was more or less something that happened to other people. I kept a makeup bag, which I blew the dust off and fished around in on rare special occasions, but that was about the end of it. In the Autumn of 2017, two things happened. Firstly,... Continue Reading →
