Category: Honest Beauty

  • Aurelia – Miracle Cleanser – Honest Beauty

    Aurelia – Miracle Cleanser – Honest Beauty

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    I’ve been planning to write a series of posts on Honest Beauty for a while now.  Taking my favourite skincare and make up products that are kind to nature, kind to skin and have had a particular impact on me. First up is the rather spectacular Miracle Cleanser from Aurelia Probiotic Skincare.  I first wrote…

  • Sephora Favourites

    Sephora Favourites

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    International brand Sephora has a great take on the best beauty products on the market from skincare to make up. Mr B knows he can be on a work trip anywhere in the world and all he has to do is find a  Sephora store for a winning gift So good is this ubiquitous hub…

  • Sunday Supplement #40 – The Other Room

    Sunday Supplement #40 – The Other Room

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    Last weekend I had some of my best friends come to visit, delighted to have visitors I set about sorting the spare room and ‘the other room’.  The spare room was not difficult, my parents stay with us a lot, quick sweep, change of linen, done.  To properly accommodate my friend her husband and two children…

  • Sunday Supplement #39

    Sunday Supplement #39

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    Hello! How are you all for a Sunday? I had a couple of days off this week with Mr. B, no holiday, no time abroad or even an overnight hotel stay.  Instead, we opted for a staycation, that’s right a week at home in the Boston Abode, time to reset, recharge and do all the jobs…

  • Sephora Haul

    Sephora Haul

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    When Mr B announced he was going to New York with work for a week in January I felt a little green with envy.  Then I remembered one of the basic rules of marriage.  If the husband travels abroad with work thou shalt be rewarded upon his return with gifts.  I think the marriage certificate…

  • How I tackled Contouring

    How I tackled Contouring

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    I know what your thinking, contouring has been around like forever now.  Slow on the uptake I loathed it at first, I’m going to give you my older perhaps wiser way that I tackled it. So yes contouring has been around for some time and yes it passed me by at first.  Doing this and…

  • Galvanic Spa

    Galvanic Spa

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    I read so much about how increasingly you don’t need to go under the knife to achieve youthful skin.  Award winning brand Nu Skin has developed a system called Galvanic Spa, which uses a galvanic current to push moisturizing products into the skin, for the optimum plumped look.  More recently they developed Age Loc.  A range…

  • Clarins – Honest Beauty

    Clarins – Honest Beauty

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    No trip to France would be complete without a beauty cache. I know from previous trips that you can’t go wrong in a French Farmacie. Rows and rows of unpronounceable names, French bottles filled with potions and lotions to beautify. My cousin stockpiles her favourite brands like Biotherm Micellular Water, when she travels to France and saves…

  • The Best Cleansing Waters

    The Best Cleansing Waters

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    I think it was a Couple of years ago that I read “wipes are for babies bottoms not for your face” from the fabulously straight talking beauty blogger Caroline Hirons. I don’t think I’ve used a cleansing wipe since. Wipes leave a sticky residue on your face which I always end up washing off. For…

  • Beauty Picks – February

    Beauty Picks – February

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    Hey hello It’s February and the first month of the year has passed.  No signs of Spring weather as yet, so far just cold wet grey days.  So I thought I’d share my skincare routine for Winter and how I’ve stepped it up. Take care of your skin in Winter and you will emerge in…

  • Collagen and Chocolate

    Collagen and Chocolate

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    Hello Back from the holidays with  a bump.  Ouch! Too much going out? Too much staying in and eating choc’s?  Too much Happy Christmas? January is the time for taking stock, resetting the balance with New Years resolutions to detox and eat healthily.  It’s also a time when our skin suffers.  Deep into Winter now…

  • Winter Skin from SBC

    Winter Skin from SBC

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    Hello December, It feels extraordinarily mild and warm outside for the start of the Winter months, but dear December your not fooling me!  I know if I don’t take the necessary precautions by the end of February my face will like a dried-up walnut.  So I have a Winter skincare plan.  More skincare, more often. Yep,…

  • Tabitha James Kraan – Organic Haircare

    Tabitha James Kraan – Organic Haircare

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    I’ve recently had the pleasure of trying Tabitha James kraan’s collection of organic haircare solutions, how wonderful it feels to use organic, British Made Haircare. TJK is founded on three main principles, 1/ Correct Cleansing – TJK organic hair cleansers gently cleanse the hair using soapbark, which creates a natural soap to clean without stripping the natural…

  • Skin Doctors

    Skin Doctors

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    Do you ever have days when you look in the mirror and all you see are wrinkles? My problem area is around my eyes, seems each time I look in the mirror another wrinkle appears. Praise be then to Skin Doctors, the brand that provides a face lift from a bottle.       I tried…

  • Nanogen – Science of Thicker Hair

    Nanogen – Science of Thicker Hair

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    Morning! Bad hair day?  How many mornings have you woke to find your hair just would not perform in its usual way?  Many women think about their hair – a lot.  But have you ever thought of hair loss? Women of any age can suffer hair loss or thinning hair, this can be age related…