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Fashion & BeautyApril 1, 2018

Spring Skincare: Good Stuff We’ve Tried And Loved

By Amanda

Is it safe to assume there’s no more snow coming our way? Let’s hope so. I get very lazy with my skincare when it’s cold, wanting to dash from fully dressed to under-the-duvet in as fast a time as possible.… Read More

Things We LoveFebruary 21, 2018

Beauty Buys To Fix Flu-ish February Skin

By Amanda

While in bed with flu I’ve tried to make myself feel better through the application of nice beauty creams. It kind of worked, when your skin is hurting, dry and going a strange shade of yellow, a soothing balm can… Read More

Things We LoveJanuary 11, 2018

Best Lip Balms for Broken January Skin

By Amanda

It’s that time of the year, when your lips feel like they’ve been used for pot scourers. Mine go flaky at the first hint of icy weather, then come over all super-sensitive when faced with central heating, wind, snow, hot… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 21, 2017

Special Offer Klaxon! La Montana Candles and Its Clever Scent Cards

By Amanda

I’m a huge fan of La Montana scented candles, from the delicious fragrances and the artful illustrations to the evocative stories surrounding founder Cassandra Hall’s Spanish village home, on which the brand is based, it all makes me want to… Read More

Things We LoveSeptember 15, 2017

Midnight Radiance Mask from Omorovicza, For Lazy Beauty Fans

By Amanda

I am very lazy with my beauty routine, preferring fast action, simple applications rather than complex, multi-staged interventions. Apparently there’s a ‘thing ‘about double cleansing happening in beauty right now, I can hardly bring myself to clean once, let alone… Read More

Art & CultureSeptember 5, 2017

Things to Love in September

By Jane

The Return of Katherine Hamnett 1980s fashion icon Katharine Hamnett, is back and not before time, as we are in dire need of some activist fashion that comes from the heart, rather than some not so subtle marketing ploy. Her… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 10, 2017

Adding A Layer Of Invisible Style With Some Niche Summer Scents

By Amanda

Most of us have been busy peeling off layers of clothes to cope with the magnificent heat we’ve been experiencing in the UK recently, but today I’m suggesting you add another -invisible – layer of style. Scent is a useful… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 26, 2017

A Better Approach To Beauty Products? NIOD and The Ordinary.

By Amanda

I thought you might like to know about my recent trial of some of The Abnormal Beauty Company’s products, in particular the Niod range, which is a bit more grown-up-woman that the more Millennial based stuff and The Ordinary, which… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutJune 21, 2017

Perfume: A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent at Somerset House

By Amanda

Exciting news for perfume fans, Somerset House is hosting a wonderful exhibition looking at ten key contemporary scents and why they are important. Regular readers will know that I launched a fragrance website We Wear Perfume a while back due… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 24, 2017

Burts Bees Now Do Lipsticks

By Amanda

Just a quickie today, as I’m in Venice this week attending the Biennale, do follow us in instagram @thewomensroomblog if you want a tour of the arty highlights while you are at your laptop. Anyway, the lovely Burt’s Bees lip… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 26, 2017

The Best Of Spring Beauty: TWR Tried-&-Tested Roundup

By Amanda

I know I’ve been paying less attention to fashion over the last few months, but really, it’s ALL about beauty currently as far as retail is concerned. As I write this, retail figures have had their biggest fall for seven… Read More

Things We LoveApril 15, 2017

A Fabulous Lipstick For All From Lipstick Queen

By Amanda

Listen up, womenfolk! I’ve learned about a terrific new lipstick from the Lipstick Queen that works for anyone. The weirdly green coloured Frog Prince is a shea-butter and vitamin E stuffed lipstick that once applied, amplifies your own lip colour… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 10, 2017

Our Modern Lives: An Accurate Way To Talk About Fragrance

By Amanda

As regular readers will know, I took a left turn into the world of fragrance not long ago to write We Wear Perfume and specialise in fragrance trends (yes, there is such a thing) as well as fashion. One of… Read More

Things We LoveApril 6, 2017

Tadine, from Les Belles Matieres Collection by Cire Trudon

By Amanda

Of all the candles I have inhaled over the last twelve months – and believe me, there’s been a LOT of inhaling – I’m always looking for someone to out-do my very favourite candle maker of all time, Cire Trudon.… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 5, 2017

Move Over Mindfullness, It’s All About The Sound Bath

By Amanda

For those of you still wondering if you should download the mindfulness app to keep up to the minute on all things holistic, stop right there. Things have moved on and it’s now all about the Sound Bath. Last week… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 24, 2017

Sharon McGlinchey from MV Organic Skincare comes to London

By Amanda

Just a heads up here for anyone interested in beauty facials…You may remember me enthusing over the lovely Sharon McGlinchey and her holistic facials last year. Sharon is based in Australia and whizzes around the globe doing mostly private clients.… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 22, 2017

Confidence Building Make Up with Beautii

By Amanda

So, I’m nearing the end of month two on my Nothing New year and I’m discovering a lot about my old See-Now-Buy-Now behaviour. Firstly, I’ve had to curtail those ‘I’ve got ten minutes to spare so lets pop into COS… Read More

Things We LoveFebruary 21, 2017

FRUU, A Millennial and Vegan Friendly Lip Balm

By Amanda

FRUU is a good new lip balm from an indie cosmetic company which aims to provide good quality, organic and sustainable products at a price well below the fancy stuff that’s out there. I’ve been using the Mango Lip Balm… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 1, 2017

Advanced Skincare Collection from The White Company

By Amanda

Attention womenfolk, this is a good new thing from The White Company. Advanced Skincare Collection is the brand’s first foray into proper beauty creams, but it has cleverly collaborated with the hottest beauty company around, DECIEM -The Abnormal Beauty Company,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 16, 2016

Christmas beauty buys for the women in your life

By Jane

So teen daughter is no longer teen daughter but a fully fledged grown up who is writing an absolutely brilliant beauty blog. She is not only a total beauty addict, she is also something of an expert and is studying… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 15, 2016

Summer Beauty Buys

By Jane

Balance Me have sent me lots of lovely products over the last few months and I am fast becoming a fan of this natural skin care brand. The real test of a product for me, is if after testing I … Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 14, 2016

Amazon Hair with Rahua

By Amanda

One of the great things about reporting on fashion and beauty is the (occasionally) fascinating people we get to meet. So it was with Fabian Lliguin, renowned New York hair stylist and passionate environmentalist, who founded the all natural Rahua… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 4, 2016

MV Organics: Extremely Good, Grown Up Skincare

By Amanda

Before I high-tailed it off to sunnier climes recently, I met MV Organic Skincare founder Sharon McGlinchey, who gave me one of her spectacular facials, I’m not sure I’ll ever use any other product ever again. You always feel good… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 30, 2016

Slow Spring Beauty With Amanda Saurin

By Amanda

Over Easter, the clocks went forward, giving us lighter evenings, blooming daffodils and a proper feeling of spring. Hurrah! I’ve been using Amanda Saurin’s gentle, flower based A.S Apothecary skin products since I discovered her last year. She lives by… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 2, 2016

Some Beauty Buys for March

By Jane

Our thoughts are finally turning to Spring – giving our skin an overhaul and perhaps getting our legs out sometime soon. Here are a few products that have come to our attention over the last few weeks that are definitely… Read More

Health & Happiness, Out & AboutMarch 1, 2016

See This (quickly): The Timeless Shop

By Amanda

Over in the depths of Old Street Tube station, for just one week, is Timeless, a brilliant pop-up store which discusses female fertility, specifically egg freezing, via the medium of a beauty and fragrance brand. Anyone who has yet to… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingOctober 22, 2015

Perfume, A Century Of Scents

By Amanda

One of my favourite women involved in fragrance is Lizzie Ostrom, who as her alter ego Odette Toilette runs enjoyable and informative scented events. Lizzie has been extremely generous with her time and encouragement over We Wear Perfume and we… Read More

Things We LoveOctober 20, 2015

Palette London’s Bespoke Nail Colours

By Amanda

This is a clever idea, a bespoke nail colour service for those moments in life when getting the right coloured nail polish is absolutely essential, I’m thinking weddings mostly, but I can see a case for trend forecasters wanting to… Read More

Things We LoveOctober 5, 2015

Elemental Herbology

By Jane

Elemental Herbology is one of those skincare ranges that makes you feel good about yourself – in that way that you feel when you’ve made a healthy vegetarian meal and not only is it good for you, it’s also delicious.… Read More

Things We LoveAugust 10, 2015

The Beauty Papers

By Amanda

Attention beauty fans, there is a simply delicious new biannual beauty magazine just out called The Beauty Papers, which hopes to ‘take the chains off’ beauty imagery, leaving behind the ‘pseudo glamour masquerading as beauty’ we’re normally subjected to by… Read More