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My summer of giveaways continues with an absolutely brilliant one from Rapid White: they are offering A Model Recommends readers* the chance to win one of FIVE Pro Clean & Polish devices for a hygienist-at-home, deep-clean experience. Rapid White’s new Clean & Polish system is scientifically proven to remove up to 68% more plaque and stains than an electric toothbrush alone, making your teeth look whiter (and feel a lot cleaner!) even after just one use.

I have never, ever met anyone who can talk as much as my dental hygienist. It’s actually something of a problem, and Mr AMR feels the same way – we both sort of dread going, because what should take ten, twenty minutes, takes about forty as she bangs on about everything from Christmas tree longevity to the benefits of a cordless hoover. Quite honestly, she could talk the hind legs off a donkey, and it wouldn’t be so bad if she just got on with the job as she talked, but she stops mid-polish, with the metal hose thing in her hand, and waves it about as she continues her monologue. Your jaw begins to ache but you can’t shut your mouth because you never know when she’s going to dive back in again!

So I love that the Rapid White Clean & Polish system can’t talk. When I first read about a “hygienist at home” I thought God, no. Pass me the earplugs. But this is strictly (almost) silent, just emitting a comforting hum that is nothing like the dreaded sounds you get in the dentist’s chair! And easy to use, too. Inspired by the cleaning and polishing treatments used in dental surgeries, it has a cleaning head and a polishing head, which has a small rubbery cup on the end, and you use these, along with the special dental polishing paste (included) to remove stubborn stains, and precisely clean along the gum line and on the interdental surfaces.

A thorough, deep clean. Mr AMR said it made his teeth feel like new teeth. And he has very good teeth anyway (strong, white teeth – “American” teeth as my Dad would call them!) so it’s worth noting that he saw a big difference. The Clean & Polish system has been designed to be used once or twice a week, on top of your usual oral care routine and it doesn’t feel like a faff at all – it’s just like having to brush your teeth again, a couple of times. As someone who quite likes messing with their face (examining pores, inspecting hairline for greys, etc) it’s actually rather enjoyable to spend time doing a close-up cleanse on each tooth, and the polishing part is very satisfying.

Fancy a go? To be in with the chance of winning a Rapid White Pro Clean & Polish device, leave a comment below (*UK readers, 18+ only) before noon on the 30th August and keep your fingers crossed. A whiter-looking smile could be yours, just in time to wear those hot orangey-red lipsticks for the last death throes of summer. (Orangey lipsticks do tend to make your teeth look on the yellow side, don’t they?) If you want to take a closer look at the Rapid White Clean & Polish system then it’s at Boots here – £50 reduced from £65 until 16th August!

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Matte palettes just won’t stop being a ‘thing’! The MakeUp Revolution Iconic Elements Palette is a stellar example of how to do mattes beautifully in a muted nude graduation from very light to very deep. There’s pretty much every single smoky … Read more

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Ready, set, brow! It’s Saturday & you know what that means… okay, maybe we’re stuck in our beauty-filled world over here, but these days, Monday through Friday means work, sleep, repeat. However! On days like today, you can find us at our nearest Benefit boutique or brow counter inside ULTA or Macy’s getting ready for whatever the weekend has in store. (Even if that means chilling on the couch, we’d like to have our brows in tip-top shape, just in case.)

First things first—we’re starting with a brow tint, our to-dye-for treatment that takes brows from fair & barely there to full and flattering in minutes. Our Benefit aestheticians custom-blend colors to ensure you get the absolute best brows for your face.

Next, we’re getting a signature Benefit brow wax, the quickest way to not only flatter, but flaunt your favorite features. Whether you’re searching for eye-opening arches or a little extra lift in your overall look, the results from this service will leave you looking polished, pretty, and put-together. The three P’s for a successful weekend in or out.

Speaking of going out, if our girlfriends call—because it is Saturday night, after all—and tell us to put on our dancing shoes, you know we’ll be ready in a heartbeat. That’s where our fave collection of brow products comes in: we’ve got brow zings, instant brow pencil, gimme brow, speed brow &, of course, a spoolie and tweezerman tweezers to boot.

There you have it! The perfect weekend ritual to keep our brows shaped & ready for the week—even if that means just looking fab at the office. How do you maintain your arches?

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The Acne Pimple Master Patch from COSRX is actually a set of twenty-four patches, which makes me want to write “es” after “patch” on the packaging in Tippex. But that, I have to say, is my one and only complaint (and it’s a silly, pedantic one) when it comes to the Acne Pimple Patches. I’m not sure how helpful the Master Patches would be if you did actually have proper acne, because if you have quite a few spots then I can’t imagine it would be convenient or cost-effective to have to regularly apply multiple patches. And it is often hard to distinguish individual spots, if you have acne – I remember that one of the worst things about my adult acne breakouts was the fact that the large expanses of reddened, bumpy, sore skin behaved like one gigantic super-spot, now and then kindly throwing up a standalone pimple with a squeezable head.

How I got rid of my adult acne…

But for the readily-distinguishable, in-your-face spot, one with an outline and an almost-emerging head, the Master Patches are absolutely brilliant. Actually, even if the spot doesn’t have an emerging head, the patches still work a certain degree of magic. I’ve been totally rescued by the Master Patches on a number of occasions now, each time finding that my blemish has flattened, de-reddened and – ultimately – disappeared from my face much faster. The added benefit of having a patch stuck over your spot (and it really does stick!) is that you can’t poke and prod and squeeze, so the skin can be left to heal.

And the patches absorb the gunk that comes out of the spot (nice!), the gunk that usually, if you’re anything like me, you’d be sticking your grubbster fingers into all day long, poking about and making little streams of blood appear and then dabbing with acid and swearing very loudly.

It probably makes a lot more sense to wear a patch overnight, if you can, but if you wake up to find a huge egg custard stuck to the side of your nose then it’s by no means the end of the world if you’re forced to sport one in the daytime. I wore one on Tuesday for a packed day in town (hideous nose-crease pustule) and it was almost undetectable. Hopefully. I buffed a bit of my foundation over the top just to take the edge off…

CosRx Master Patches online…

There are three patch sizes in the pack – so far I’ve only needed the small ones for daytime emergencies, but overnight I’d perhaps go larger just to cover a bit more than just the slopes of the volcano. You stick to clean skin and then just leave for the night, or day, until you can see that the spot is flatter and reduced in size. I’ve left a patch on for sixteen hours and it was still stuck fast – it was the first time I’d used one and I was completely taken aback when I peeled it off to find just a faint pinkish blob where previously there had been the beginnings of a devil’s horn!

I was given my patches by the beauty-font-of-knowledge Alexia from Cult Beauty, but they don’t seem to be available there at the moment. I’ll find out when or if they are due to arrive and update this post when I know, but in the meantime I have found them online here. I must say that this is another big tick in my book for Korean beauty imports; I’ve tried a few other spot patches and they’ve been pretty useless. And pricier. So these are well worth checking out if you – like me – get the occasional show-stopper of a pimple, right before you have to face the public/go to Tesco/meet your boyfriend behind the bike sheds.

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