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Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessJuly 31, 2015

Natural skin care with a botanist bent : AS Apothecary

By Amanda

When I first started emailing Amanda Saurin, founder of the niche AS Apothecary natural skincare brand, I realised I wanted her life. On our first exchange she’d had just got back in from picking roses at Glyndebourne (where she has… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 28, 2015

The O Wow! Brush, by way of India Knight’s beauty advice

By Amanda

I bought this Cailyn Cosmetics O Wow! brush after St India Of Knight (as Belgian Waffle so brilliantly calls her) wrote about it in her Sunday Times beauty column. It is for applying foundation/ tinted moisturisers/ mineral powder and blusher… Read More

Out & AboutMay 12, 2015

The new fragrance and beauty hall at Fortnum & Mason

By Amanda

Over at Fortnum and Mason, in London’s Piccadilly, there’s been a revamp of the fragrance and beauty floor which is worth a visit. I know Fortnum’s is The Queen’s grocer so I’m risking treason here, but I’ve not been that… Read More

Things We LoveApril 22, 2015

Perfume review: Avery’s own range fragrance launch

By Amanda

More lovely new fragrances to talk about today, it’s thrilling to see how many interesting, quality fragrances are being launched at the moment. The main stream fragrances brands, who have been rather lazy with their rather predictable block buster fragrance … Read More

Out & AboutMarch 30, 2015

New store love: Haeckels, Made from Margate

By Amanda

Easter is coming up, and if you have no plans and fancy a trip, can I suggest you think about Margate? I appreciate it’s got tough competition from our tempting guest post about Deal (and it is south, obvs) but… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 19, 2015

Older models, Helen Mirren and L’Oreal

By Amanda

Just keeping you up to date with the older model situation here, since we’ve had such a good start to the year. Here’s Helen Mirren’s advert for L’Oreal, which I’ve only just caught up with, you’ve probably all seen it… Read More

Out & AboutMarch 13, 2015

See this: Savage Beauty at the V&A

By Amanda

Like you need telling….but just incase you’ve been so tied up with The Archers flood that real life has passed you by, the V&A is AT LAST hosting the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty beauty exhibition that was such a smash… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 12, 2015

We are in April’s Good Housekeeping!

By Amanda

If you have a copy of Good Housekeeping for April, turn to page 137, where we are on the Best Dress List…oh yeah….. Actually, we are both a bit blithery about having our photo taken, but Jo Atkinson from the… Read More

Things We LoveMarch 9, 2015

Perfume review: Ostara by Penhaligons, the perfect Mothers Day perfume

By Amanda

Another divinely packaged fragrance from Penhaligon’s, (read here for more), this time featuring a laser cut wrap of daffodils running charmingly all around the box of the new Ostara perfume. I have this in front of me as I write… Read More

Things We LoveMarch 6, 2015

Monu skincare

By Amanda

After our post on the best skin care for cold weather, the nice people at MONU Skincare introduced us to its excellent range of products that they thought might also be good for older skin in this very drying weather.… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 6, 2015

What hipsters think they’ll look like when they’re older

By Amanda

I am indebted to eldestson, who sent me these images from Vice magazine via email with the title ‘Mum! This is what I’ll look like when I’m older!’ Eldest son is a fully paid up hipster, although he’ll object very… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 2, 2015

A moment with Diane Pernet and her new fragrance collection

By Amanda

I’m not sure how many of you will have heard of Diane, she writes the blog A Shaded View On Fashion and holds cult status amongst the fashionata for her support of original designers and film makers. I’ve loved her… Read More

Things We LoveMarch 2, 2015

Tudor fragrance love: Jo Malone Rock of Ages collection

By Amanda

Fessing up, I haven’t actually trialled this new set of fragrances from Jo Malone, but the very wise Sali Hughes has, read here, and really liked them. If she gives them the thumbs up, the likely hood is they are… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 28, 2015

Weekend Woman: Patricia Arquette

By Amanda

Our Weekend Woman can only be Patricia Arquette this week, for her impassioned speech on the need for pay equality for women, at The Oscars 2015. She won her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Boyhood, a really fabulous film… Read More

Things We LoveFebruary 27, 2015

Penhaligon’s Trade Routes Collection

By Amanda

Trade Routes is another lovely collection of fragrances from British brand Penhaligon’s. Launching ‘collections’ of fragrances is becoming something of a thing, offering three to ten new fragrances in one launch rather than the odd one here and there. This… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingFebruary 18, 2015

Have I Said Too Much? by Carole White

By Amanda

Fessing up, I haven’y read this yet, but I bet it’s fabulous. You may remember we interviewed Carole back here, where she was extremely entertaining and very candid on the state of the fashion model industry. She has run her… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 12, 2015

Style icon: Joni Mitchell

By Amanda

If there was a God and she happened to be female, then surely she’d look like Joni Mitchell in last weeks New York Magazine? Although would God be able to afford Lanvin, which is what Joni is wearing in the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 4, 2015

Cold weather protection for older skin

By Amanda

While I love a bit of snow, cold weather generally makes my skin itch. My skin has got more sensitive to cold weather as I’ve got older and I shrivel up like a sun dried tomato at the first signs… Read More

Things We LoveFebruary 2, 2015

Redermic R corrective concentrate by La Roche-Posay

By Amanda

I’ve been meaning to write about this for ages but Christmas held me up. La Roche-Posay is a beauty brand I’m warming to fast, I like its good-quality-at-reasonable-price point and its increasing availability- once it was a brand you picked… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 24, 2015

Weekend Woman: Twiggy

By Amanda

Another week in 2015, another stylish woman who happens to be older than the average model is selected to front a major brand campaign. This week it’s Twiggy, who is the new L’Oreal ambassador for hair care. We’ve loved Twiggy… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 22, 2015

Beauty update: products you need to know about from our Good Housekeeping shoot

By Amanda

It’s far too cold to consider buying spring clothes currently and I think it’s madness to buy anything other than good sale finds in January anyway. So today we’re going to talk about the excellent beauty advice we were given… Read More

Things We LoveJanuary 16, 2015

Rush Salon Styling Collection at Marks & Spencer

By Amanda

This is a lovely new range of semi-professional hair styling products from luxury London based hair salon collective Rush, which has collaborated with M&S to produce a very well priced collection. Two years in the making, the range is deliberately… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 10, 2015

Weekend Woman: Joni Mitchell

By Amanda

Blimey, what a week for grown ups in the press, indeed, what a start to the year! First Joan Didion, then Bright Old Things at Selfridges, and now news of Joni Mitchell for Saint Laurent. I absolutely ADORE Joni, always… Read More

Things We LoveDecember 18, 2014

Olio Lusso luxury face oil, by Rodin

By Amanda

When I was in New York recently I picked up some of our girl-crush Linda Rodin’s much talked about face oil, as I’d been keen to try it. Beauty industry insiders have been telling me it is excellent at enriching … Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 16, 2014

New words for old, as we redefine our decades

By Amanda

Coming back from a week away, I’ve just caught up with my blog reading, including the recent This Is 50 post, where photographer Kristin Perers interviewed the eloquent dance critic Judith Mackrell. As well as looking fit and stylish, Judith… Read More

UncategorizedDecember 15, 2014

All I want for Christmas: Beauty must haves

By Jane

I never really like beauty pages in magazines as they seem to be filled with whatever products the editors have been sent that week and the re-hashed versions of press releases just aren’t convincing. I much prefer to read a… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 10, 2014

Fragrant bling: perfumed jewellery from By Kilian and Penhaligon’s

By Amanda

I am currently lusting after some jewellery that could be called well, ‘smelly,’ although perhaps ‘fragrantly glamourous bling’ is a more alluring description. Perfumers are keen to get us to wear their fragrances in ever more interesting ways, including through… Read More

Things We LoveNovember 30, 2014

Perfume review: The White Line by Odin

By Amanda

Oh my, the White Line is a lovely new addition to the New York based Odin fragrance collection. Lets talk about the way the perfumes smell first….the White Line is a fresher, more floral and a little more feminine than… Read More

Things We LoveNovember 14, 2014

Beauty Blender

By Jane

[show_shopthepost_widget id=”384954″] I am never quite sure about the concept of flawless skin but having spent at least two days of a recent trip to New York in Sephora with my wanna be beauty guru daughter, I am convinced that… Read More

Things We LoveOctober 27, 2014

Skyn Iceland at Marks & Spencer

By Amanda

[show_shopthepost_widget id=”345690″] Fessing up, I’ve had this pack of Hydra Cool Firming Eye gels in my ‘to try’ drawer for over a year. I got them at an M&S beauty press day, when I met the brand founder Sarah Kugelman,… Read More