What's New?

My latest 'What's New?' has just gone live over on the Tube of You. :)

Hope you enjoy - all the product info and links are in the description box under the video.

Have a good Sunday!

Empties November 2014

Videos are back! Thank you for waiting. Been a tad busy but hopefully back on some sort of pattern now.

This is an empties video and the products featured are:

Jonathan Styling Creme - this has been on my channel before and is just gorgeous. Creamy, smelly (in the best way) and the perfect grooming/bun cream. 

$24.00 from jonathanproduct.com

pixi Flawless Beauty Primer - this has been on the blog before (here) and is my most-grabbed primer. Glowing, healthy, skin in a pump. Available on pixibeauty.com

(I Am) A Sex Goddess by Neotantric Fragrances - I swear they named this just for that moment when you are asked what you are wearing. Peach, pink pepper, tuberose, vanilla - made for me basically.
It has disappeared from everywhere in the UK except Amazon here.

Kate Somerville Nourish - again a blog and vlog repeat. Easily in my Top 5 favourite moisturisers of all time. Good for all skin types. Available on katesomerville.com

Sunday Riley Start Over - No surprises here - you've seen this before (repeatedly) on the blog. Suitable for all skin types and all eyes. Available on SundayRiley.com 

BioEffect EGF Eye Serum - Previously discussed on here as a major concern, I am currently converted. In short, the BioEffect EGF is plant-based - copied from human DNA not cloned directly from human cells like other EGFs.  Available on bioeffect.co.uk

July Favourites with Ruthie

Where has the year gone? It's JULY!!! Well, actually August tomorrow. WHAT?

Good LORD.

Full steam ahead with July Skincare Favourites on my channel.....(I literally love my Miranda impression face - caught accidentally LOL) - you may want to fetch yourself a large cup of tea. It's LONG.



AND our Makeup Favourites....which is short! YAY!



PLEASE SUBSCRIBE/SHOW ME SOME LOVE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE


*regains decorum, calms down, acts cool*

Bad bad blogger

So much going on and so little time. I can't be the only one that wishes there were more hours in the day?!

My recent efforts at keeping up to date with the blog have been LAME LAME LAME.  I'm SORRY. Really sorry.

I just got back from a birthday break in NY with Mr. Hirons which was amazing - albeit ridiculously tiring. Jetlag is KILLING me right now.

I have also managed to do more filming with Ruth  - hysterical as always.....

Our SPF video is here for your perusal....

Our fake tanning favourites are here....



And our makeup and skincare favourites for July will be live this evening.

I just broke the news to Mum that this video has been seen nearly half a million times...



Which makes us both a little *GAHHHHHH!*

Restarted the Clinic - the next one will be tomorrow evening (Friday) at 8pm. I'll answer as many as I can within the hour.

Thank you for your patience. I have Teen Skin and Pregnancy next on the list for Cheat Sheets. If you have any more suggestions please do let me know in the comments.

SPF with Dr Marko Lens

Hello lovely people! Enjoying the heat? (UK peeps!) I am.

Before you venture out into the rays you may be interested to watch this video that I filmed last week with the lovely Dr Marko Lens - THE man in the know when it comes to all things skin and melanoma.

Part two will go live on Monday evening (UK time) - in the meantime hope you enjoy!

June Makeup Favourites

Hi Everyone!

Just a quick one to let you know that my June Makeup (and other bits) Favourites is up on YouTube.


Let me know what you think!

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June Skincare Favourites and a Perricone Giveaway

My Skincare Favourites for June just went live over on my You Tube channel. If you haven't subscribed....



You may want to if you would like the chance to win these.....and see me doing my best Fiona aka Mrs Shrek impression....

New videos up on YouTube

The part where I make rambling excuses....

So it's been weeks since I filmed with the gorgeous Ruth. In that time I've finished my skin consults for the summer, closed up my office and set up shop again at home. This should be interesting.....

So yes, anyway - thank you for waiting.

There are 2 new videos up on YouTube - and they are on one of my most requested topics: budget skincare.

I hope you like them!

YouTube update

That's attractive

Thank you for all of the lovely comments about the videos filmed with Ruth last month. It's always a weird, slightly (very) unnerving thing putting yourself 'out there' and I really appreciate your support.

It has, however, led to me being stopped by friends and family and PeopleI'veNeverMetInMyEntireLife asking when I'm going to be filming the cleansing routines/massage videos/more skincare vids etc - and the answer has always been June - it's just that the opportunity came up to film with Ruth earlier than I was planning to launch and I thought it would be a great way of getting started. Having Ruth to hold my hand is brilliant - we're filming again this week.

So it's really just that - to say they are coming - soon - but at the moment I'm still busy with skin consults and obviously my actual job - I'm not a pro blogger (save the jokes about that being blatantly obvious thankyouverymuch) and so priorities are as they are.
I'm not going to quickly throw together something as key as a visual version of a cheat sheet without a lot of thought.

Anyway - it'll be there soon. And thanks again - for the support and reading my rambling.

More YouTube and my apologies

So Ruth and I have been at it again - our 'What's in my Handbag' videos went up over the Bank holiday and I'm so pleased you all seemed to like it. We had a lot of fun filming and will definitely be making it a regular thing.

My ridiculously organised bag:



Ruth's bag of shoes and candles (I think my face says it all):



She loves me really.

I'm making time tomorrow to try and respond to as many of the comments as I can - my apologies that I haven't done them thus far.

Thanks everyone!

YouTube

Last week the very lovely Ruth from A Model Recommends and I filmed a lot of videos. A LOT of videos - for YouTube.

Two of them have gone live and are available through the links below.

Morning Skincare Routine - via my channel

April Skincare Favourites - via Ruth's channel

I hope you like them. We had great fun making them. More to come!

Let me know what you think. :)

Young girls, 'thigh gaps', You Tube and the 'F' word.

Fat. The 'F' word I've probably used more recently than any other. Yes, even that one.

Long story short, I turned 40, broke my coccyx, bought a car, stopped walking everywhere, exercise was too painful - and I put on weight. No sh*t Sherlock. That is something I am still - and always will have, to work on. The back won't heal and I love my car.

What I let slip though was saying the 'F' word in front of my daughter. Fat - not the other one. She's used to that one. (Judge away - I'm human).

Then I heard stories from my child about girls at school talking about their 'thigh gaps'. Young women seeing a gap at the top of their thighs as something to look up to. Or saying things like 'Oh God I wish I had a gap like you!' to girls who are naturally thin. And some of her friends would call themselves fat in my presence - and my heart would sink.

These are young, healthy, intelligent, insanely intelligent, beautiful young women, who we are bombarding - through social media, advertising, videos (don't get me started on the videos) with images of what 'society' thinks is attractive. See also: Disney films. Anyone else notice that the girls in Frozen look like Bratz dolls? Big eyes, no waists, perfect boobs, long flowing hair that looks like it's trapped in a wind tunnel like a bad Meatloaf video from the 80's?
Yes, they may be the 'heroine' of the movie, but they look like a cartoon version of what real girls look like. And I'm sick of it.

This house is now an 'F' word free zone. I'm turning the 'F' in 'fat' to 'Fabulous'. I can't take it anymore.

We are our own worst enemy. I am in the process of editing my first YouTube videos. The first thing I thought when I saw them was 'God. Fat.' And I very quickly thought of my daughter - and her friends - and stopped myself. We are so much more than our outside appearances and yet we are continuously, relentlessly, made to feel inferior because we are not one of the 10 women in the world that look like the 10 supermodels in the world.

Watch this from Amy Poehler - it's wonderful.



No more. I'm sticking with the other F word. Fuck it.

YOU TUBE REQUESTS

COMETH THE HOUR. 

After talking with so many of you I think I have a fair idea of what you would like to see - but:

What would you most like to see from me on You Tube (keep it clean people)?

Leave a comment below and I'll start the list.

Brace yourselves.

Pixiwoo's BodyTalk

A couple of weeks ago and I sat down with Sam and Nic from Pixiwoo to talk about skincare. I say 'talk'. I mean 'rant'.

Thank you to the girls for having me and the team for being so hospitable. Next time we should do it with wine. :)