Category Archives: beauty products

There are two beauty favourites videos, this month – one on skincare and one on makeup – and I filmed them nice and early. I’m trying to do everything nice and early, just in case I get a sudden late-pregnancy energy deficit – or, scarier thought – I go into labour before forty weeks. (I’m begging Baby AMR to stay in until forty weeks or thereabouts, because much as I can’t wait to meet him/her, we are going to have a seriously stressful house-move situation! Also, I have loads of work to do. Also, I have some really nice maternity stuff that I’d like to waddle about in, it would seem a shame not to show it off. How shallow. Also, I need as long as possible to get my head around the idea of a) childbirth and b) the fact that I’m going to have a baby. You’d have thought I’d be well au fait with these ideas by now, but…no. Do give my pregnancy blog a read if you’d like a small glimpse into my antenatal mind.)

Anyway, April beauty favourites. The first video is skincare, the second is makeup. I’ve listed all of the products below, for those who can’t abide watching me ramble away. But actually, do watch the makeup video if only for the brilliant brow transformation that I spoke about in my recent Gimme Brow post. It’s subtle, but strangely pleasing and it makes so much difference to my face. It’s right at the end of the makeup vid, if you want to just get to that part…

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This week has been mostly dominated by my naughty left breast, which decided to go and get Mastitis. I particularly enjoyed the flu-like symptoms, which were a bit like the world’s worst hangover combined with having a lobotomy sans anaesthetic. Anyway, I’m thankfully over the worst of it, with any luck, so am ready to start a new week with renewed vigour. Sadly, the thing I’m most excited about, at the moment, is testing out my new Dyson V6 hoover. I bought it last weekend in Curry’s after being wowed by my friend’s one. (For hoover geeks, I went for the Total Clean version of the V6, not the “Fluffy” one, because apparently it’s much better. We shall see!)

An update on the “Lock n Roll” shower caddy that I mentioned in my homeware video: yes, it does stick to the wall. But you have to do it properly. I stuck it on and it fell off, nearly giving me a heart attack when it crashed into the shower tray. Mr AMR stuck it back on and it may as well have been cemented in – I’ve loaded it up with products, leant on it with all of my weight and given it a good pull and it’s not budging. Bravo. You can see my homeware video here.

Lovely beauty bag from Aurelia Probiotic Skincare, makers of the nicest body oil in the world. It’s pictured here with the Refine & Glow Miracle Collection, which includes the Miracle Cleanser (luscious) as well as the Miracle Balm, which I haven’t tried yet, and the Cell Repair Night Oil. And seven little rolled-up muslin cloths, which is a nice touch. The bag on its own is £25, the collection including bag is £42.

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If you don’t follow @copylab on Instagram, you’re missing some incredible work. Fashion intern and student, Chris Rellas, at Georgetown University, reworks art masterpieces to give them a fashion and beauty twist. Chris uses my favourite brand, Chanel, a lot so I’ve pulled out the best double C ones but really, check in on Instagram to see all the fashion pictures. The painting above is Femme à mi-corps, couchée sur un divan by Joseph-Désiré Court, reworked with make-up inspiration from Chanel Spring 2014 Runway looks.

CopyLab

The original painting here, before the subject was given metallic brows is Pavonia by FredericLeighton. Remember the Chanel jewelled brows from autumn/winter 2013 runways? That’s them, right there! 

Copylab

This is probably the most familiar painting – Girl With A Pearl Earring by Vermeer – and a cheeky Chanel shaped liberty taken with the earring!

I love these – they’re so imaginative and interesting – and they’ve made me Google more info about fine art so educational, too!

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If you’re a fan of Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle (I must say that it’s my most-worn Chanel fragrance) then this limited edition coffret might just shoot to the top of your must-haves list. Containing an eau de parfum and a purse spray, it has all bases covered in terms of scent application, but I think that the biggest pull is that it’s just so beautifully presented – definitely the kind of packaging you’d want to put out on display. Although then you have the million dollar question: do you display it with the doors closed, or do you have them open, revealing the treasures inside?

Or do you arrange it all a bit like a shop (see above), with the contents set out in front of the closed coffret, creating a kind of Coco Mademoiselle shrine? Choices, choices. Because the contents are as chic and beautiful as the minimalist, monochrome box; the 50ml eau de parfum spray with its classic glass bottle and the little refillable purse spray with its sophisticated styling and luxurious golden lid…

In terms of value for money (possibly not what you’d be overly concerned with if you were hankering after this!) the 50ml perfume is worth £68 and the purse spray, with three 7.5ml refills, is worth approximately – I dunno – forty or fifty pounds? I’m guesstimating that because the full-size purse spray, which has three 20ml refills, is £76, but we all know that little luxury things often don’t scale down in price at the same rate as their size! So I think that you get your money’s worth, pretty much, though I do have to say that the full-size purse spray (here) is very special and one of the nicest perfume-y things I own. Well worth considering if you don’t want to stretch to the coffret…

The Chanel Coco Mademoiselle Coffret costs £110 and is available at Selfridges.com here.

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