May 18, 2016 | Beauty

When eye-shadow sticks came along a few years ago, the make-up industry was changed forever. They put the intensity of a cream shadow into an easy-to-use stick that was formulated to stay smudgeable for a minute, then set and last for hours without fading. Now...

May 11, 2016 | Beauty

How’s a girl to keep up with her seasonal grooming when one minute it’s snowing and the next its 26 degrees?! There’s no time for an emergency pedi when you have kid (s) in tow.Like many of you, Gemma and I aren’t from London and although Gemma luckily has her mum and...

May 4, 2016 | Beauty

Welcome to the first installment of Make-Up on Mum Trial.If you want to know which concealer covers the darkest of circles, the eyeliner that can withstand tiny hands dragging at it and which mascara won’t smudge or flake despite getting poked in the eye, then you’ve...

Apr 27, 2016 | Beauty

For the first few weeks of motherhood, I neglected myself; my skincare regime went out of the window, I didn’t wash my hair (hello, dry shampoo) and I certainly didn’t wear make-up. Then once the after-effects of the brutal bombshell that is childbirth...

Apr 20, 2016 | Beauty

Whether you managed to wash your hair during nap time (always the aim but more important things crop up like, erm, Instagram) or your week is sponsored by a can of Batiste and several double-shot americano’s, by 3pm we’re all in the same boat. Today...

Apr 14, 2016 | Beauty

Because that’s what motherhood is, right?! Some days it feels like you’re playing a video game where you skipped the tutorial and you’re just sort of running about with no idea how anything works. I think it’s called winging it. But we’ll...