It’s never an easy job getting up in the morning, especially in these dark, colder months. I for one, am not a morning person and seem to find it increasingly difficult to rise from my warm, cosy bed each day. In fact, I am quite possibly the definitive snoozer, constantly waking up in a panic when I realise I have pressed the snooze button one too many times in...

Clinique has launched a new limited edition make-up range for Christmas. But you’re going to have to love purple as much as Dot Cotton to be excited by this one. The Black Tie Violets range features products for eyes, cheeks and lips in hues that vary from plum to sugared almond. Apologies for all the food references - I think I must be a little peckish. But with...

Yep, brace yourself and hide your purse. Those naughty people at MAC have just launched another assault of tempting new products that you’ll instantly convince yourself you just need to have. Want doesn’t even come into it.

Glamorous. Over the top. Fabulous. That’s how American designer Michael Kors describes the star factory that is Hollywood. It’s this sexy decadence which has inspired the new fragrance. The Project Runway judge says: “

The Body Shop has called on the big guns for its latest fragrance, Love Etc. Star perfumer Dominique Ropion is behind their latest scent. Ropion has worked on fragrances for brands including Cacharel, Givenchy and Calvin Klein, and assisted on the development of Armani Code, Dune by Dior and Lovely by SJP. This time, his creation fuses jasmine, vanilla, sandalwood...

What: National Chocolate Week runs from October 12 to 18. And it’s only right to celebrate. But the summer diets have gone by the wayside and with the new season

Russian make-up brand Rouge Bunny Rouge has launched in the UK. And I can’t help but think it has been created by hippies with a keen knowledge of certain fungi, if you understand what I’m saying. It’s not just the brand’s darkly trippy packaging and imagery, featuring black and white silhouettes of flowers. Any brand that describes how to apply one of its products...

Skin-care experts Origins have launched three nifty new products to add to their collection. We popped down to their London offices to try them out. We’ve come to expect good things from this brand, whose products use only organic ingredients, plants and natural oils, and our expectations were duly met. We were first introduced to Brighter by Nature skin tone...

Ingeborg Van Lotringen has the kind of job that most girls dream of. As beauty editor of Cosmopolitan, one of the world’s best known glossy magazines, she’s in charge of a beauty cupboard full to the brim with amazing goodies. Forget having to pay £100 for the latest face cream, Ingeborg gets sent it for free before its even available in the shops. But it’s...

So a luxury beauty brand, gets in touch and offers you a skin scanning treatment, what do you say? “When, where, can I come today?” Of course. This is exactly what I did and ended up at Darphin headquarters to have my skin scanned. Now I have always been fairly sceptical of these scientific techniques employed by skincare brands to make you realise how bad...