BEAUTY IS THERAPY
Click here for my stress relieving product picks. About four years ago I left my dream job as a Beauty Director. I had worked at the magazine for almost eight years, it was a job that defined me (or so I thought), but even though my working life revolved around giving...read more
THE WINTER GLOW GUIDE
Recently, I’ve become obsessed with fake tan. It’s like Lockdown Part 3 has sent me spinning back to 2010. Back in the olden days, BC (Before Covid and Before Children) I’d get a twice-monthly spray tan on my lunch break and catch up in between with...read more
HOW TO TREAT MASKNE
Post-lockdown my skin was crying out for some TLC so when the kids went back to school & the salons were given the green light I booked into Laura Kay London, a salon not too far away from where I live, for my first facial of the year. Completely Covid-compliant...read more
20% OFF OUR BOBBI BROWN FAVES
There is 20% off everything on the Bobbi Brown website until this Sunday – use the code TIM20 – running from today until Monday, so we thought that we’d highlight some of our absolute favourite Bobbi Brown products. A newbie but already a firm...read more
BEAUTY // THE SIX MOST ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT RETINOL
Intrigued by beauty’s most effective ingredient but don’t know where to start? So many of you want to incorporate this anti-aging wizard into your skincare regime but you’re scared. There are tales of skin peeling and having to stay inside away from the sun for weeks...read more
THE 35 BEST BEAUTY BUYS ON ASOS
Big beauty news: Charlotte Tilbury has launched on ASOS. With the current Covid situation, this is major for the beauty industry for so many reasons. Firstly, the way we shop for beauty has changed (forever, who knows?!) and the days of perusing the beauty counters...read more
10 BRILLIANT BEAUTY BRANDS CREATED BY BLACK WOMEN THAT SHOULD BE ON YOUR RADAR
The beauty industry has a long way to go when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Through my fifteen year career in the beauty industry, change has happened – ten years ago it wouldn’t be unusual to attend a launch for a new foundation and see six shades...read more
ISOLATION MODE: ARE SHEET MASKS THE NEW PLASTIC STRAWS? ECO-FRIENDLY, BUDGET FRIENDLY & LUXE FACE MASKS
Face masks have hit peak popularity over the last few years. We’ve been known to have proclaimed our love for the cheap and cheerful, insta-friendly sheet mask about a hundred-thousand times but now we’re holding our hands up here and saying that we were...read more
OUR EVENING SKINCARE ROUTINE
Skincare routines can be overwhelming – there’s so much being sold to us these days – so much we ‘should’ be using. Do we need to double cleanse? Do we need a serum? Do we need an eye cream? Now that we’re effectively in lock-down, we thought...read more
OUR MORNING SKINCARE ROUTINE
Skincare routines can be overwhelming. – there’s so much being sold to us these days- so much we ‘should’ be using. Do we need to double cleanse? Do we need a serum? Do we need an eye cream? The main point of the morning routine is to prep your skin for...read more
9 HAIR HACKS FOR MEGA BUSY WOMEN
Whether your baby only naps for 20 minutes and you need to get your act together quickly, or you’re back and work and we’re meant to be at a board meeting 10 minutes ago but your spin class ran late, we’ve got you covered. When we became mums, our old hair routines...read more
ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM BURN OUT?
More than half a million of us are suffering from work-related stress, but what happens when it breaks the boundaries? There was the routine visit to the dentist where he pointed out that I grind my teeth badly. And then there was the time that I burst into tears...read more
WHAT ARE ACIDS AND HOW DO I USE THEM?
So I thought that the first beauty blog post of the year should answer one of the most asked questions we get over DM: “I think I should be using acids on my skin but what are they and how do I use them? Skincare can be a really confusing world but once you have...read more
OUR LOVE AFFAIR WITH QVC
Hello! And welcome to a blog post all about our new obsession, QVC. Well it’s not so much a new obsession, as in reality we’ve both been shopping from it for years, and Sam was a guest presenter on it with a favourite beauty brand, Liz Earle, around 2...read moreSearch the blog
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