There is really only one thing I want to say to you here about nails and that is… not wait hang on hang on… two things… and they are: ONE: Never let anyone cut your cuticles. If you do, then three days after your manicure you will suddenly have these little hang nails everywhere, which will rip and cause you… View Post
A while ago you might remember I did a campaign with Beauty Pie – this is really a kind of catch-up, where-are-we session about it all, plus updates from me about some new products coming through. I hope that those of you who became members might leave a comment about what you liked or didn’t like about it (are you… View Post
This is less of a recommendation and more just news, really. Ha! I say news, Trinny London has been around for ages. Nothing new about this. But I have only just tried out something from the range – a Lipglow in Cordy with a cheerful watermelon flavour that reminds me pleasantly of Juicy Tubes. And it’s just really really good… View Post
I decided – at 0530 this morning, – to have a BEAUTY WEEK on The Spike for no other reason than as it happens I have got a lot of beauty things to talk about and I thought we might as well turn our minds to it all together. Today: clay masks and clay-based products. I know, I know! As… View Post
I say “new”: The Dirt, by Motley Crue, has been around for years. I have only just got around to reading it after seeing endless plugs for the really shabby-looking Netflix adaptation of this band memoir. (I can’t get over the stupid umlaut placing, making it so it ought to be pronounced Merhtley Cruuu. That really is all you need… View Post
Is there a task more fraught with danger yet exciting possibility than buying a new sofa? It’s so scary because you’re stuck with it, is the thing. I’m sure you can send back a sofa – but has anyone actually ever done it? You can also spend an unlimited sum of money on a sofa and I don’t know about… View Post
You may remember I was going on about a striped linen shirt the other day that wasn’t available online well NOW IT IS. Here is the link. Yes, okay, it is not cheap but it is absolutely the nicest thing I own at the moment. I was, like, grateful to the girl on the till for taking my money in… View Post
This is something I need to write about because it resonates so massively with anyone I mention it to in private. And that is, the thing when your husband is working at home and wants to have lunch. With you. Probably something that you have made. I don’t know why this should be such an incredibly enervating subject but I… View Post
Whenever I’m talking about having children or being a parent in any kind of philosophical way, I will always inevitably reach for the phrase “We all have our own crosses to bear.” And what I mean by that is that being a parent is incredibly difficult for all of us, but in our own distinct ways. One of the things… View Post
