Illamasqua is one of those iconic brands that make you feel like being a makeup artist is within your reach at home. I love the beautiful packaging, with it's decadent feel, it's unusual shape, and the beautiful quality of the products. The product darling of both professionals and women at home, they don't test on …
Continue reading Dramatic Makeup: Illamasqua Eye Shadow Palette in Demise
If you haven't read Daphne Du Maurier before, you might want to start with her most well known work, Rebecca, which is a huge all time favourite of mine. Her books are often eery, with a mystery at the heart, and things unravel from there, with interesting consequences, which was perhaps why Hitchcock was a …
Continue reading The House On The Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
Want good skin? Have you tried a brush? I actually hadn't before, though these brushes have been out for ages. I have combination skin, and I find that exfoliating about every third day tends to keep my skin pretty healthy. And sometimes I feel like these trends in beauty care can be just that: trends, …
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Lacey Becnel is still recovering from the death of her beloved husband Fox, and the subsequent revelations of his infidelity, when she wakes one morning to find her self under an overpass in New Orleans, naked, with an unconscious and injured stranger lying next to her. As she starts to piece together what happened, she starts …
Continue reading The Incident Under The Overpass: Book One Of The Traiteur Trilogy by Anne McClane
Makeup Revolution London created a range of Zodiac themed cosmetics last year, and something about the idea really tickled me. Each star sign has it's own lipgloss and an eyeshadow wheel, which has a primer, highlighter and brow duo as well as three eyeshadow shades. And the eye shadow has a horoscope sheet for 2017. …
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I loved this book, and read it almost in one sitting! It's atmospheric, creepy and actually really fun, in a spooky way. It tells the story of a small town called Warboys, nestled in Britain, and the way that the entry of one beautiful woman tears the town apart. That woman is Agnes Samuel. If …
I'm pretty happy to announce that I'm a finalist in the Summer Fashion Blog Awards, in the category of Best Beachwear Outfit. I'm really touched that I got nominated, and that people like my blog. So I wanted to say thank you to all of you who read it. As you can tell from my …
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I was sent this book by the author for review, and I was kind of blown away by her story. Luellen is the daughter of Allen Smiley, a man who was very publicly known to be a member of the organised crime syndicate in LA, but whom she knew as Daddy. As a sheltered child, …
Winter fashion can sometimes feel like a bit of an oxymoron to me. When you have to layer up all the time just to stay warm, you can end up feeling like the Michelin man, which is not exactly sexy. But even in a cold climate, your look doesn't have to be utilitarian. And it …
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A more fun book this week than usual, a Victorian mystery/thriller about a girl who has inherited a criminal empire from her grandmother and must learn how to use her new power wisely. But as she is coming into her own, her long lost brother asks her to shelter a child, and she soon finds …
Continue reading Kitty Peck & The Child Of Ill Fortune by Kate Griffin
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