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...

I have such sensitive skin that when I’m not testing out facial products I tend to stick to a standard fragrance free moisturiser by Boots. However, and I say this like an excited kid, that was until I experienced

There are some things which make a girl go weak at the knees, and the sight of a Jo Malone carrier bag is one of them. What is it about the vanilla packaging with the black scented tissue paper and ribbon tied boxes that gets us all excited? Well now there is another reason to get very excited, the new Vanilla and Anise fragrance is due out this September, and I’ve...

Make-up brushes, precision eyebrow tweezers, pedicure kits and crystal nail files are among the products in Revlon’s new range of professional but affordable beauty tools. However at MFL we’re particularly excited about the Pedi Expert (£9.78), a hand-held file and buffer that removes hard, dead skin from feet and then smoothes and buffs. It’s perfect for summer...

Generally, I’m not a fan of long-wear lipsticks. I’ve tried many of them in the past, mainly during a misguided but fun period as a goth. Dark lipstick was essential and at the all-night rock clubs I used to frequent long wear was the only thing that would do. Getting back on topic, I think I can rank the things I most dislike about them in this order. - In at...

So, for the past week I’ve been trying out Clinique’s 3 step programme. Because, not all of us can afford a one to one consultation with a dermatologist, Clinique (with the help of dermatologists of course) has developed a skin care programme tailored to each individual skin type. All products are fragrance free but they vary in strength depending on your...

Thanks to Lancôme I had the opportunity to meet a number of really great bloggers earlier this week. To celebrate the launch of Aaron De Mey’s new make up collection for fall titled Declaring Indigo, the luxury cosmetics brand invited myself and 14 other European bloggers (Elodie, Barbara, Cinzia, Monica, Christian, Mercedes and

I’m in a bit of a quandary about this product. I can’t decide if it is genius or spectacularly sinister. Huge Lips Skinny Hips by New York cosmetics brand Purple Lab is a lip plumping gloss with added natural appetite suppressant, Hoodia Gordoni. The company describes it as a “ground breaking lip gloss offering non-invasive access to the lips and hips women have...