Happy Birthday to Avon who turn 50 tomorrow! The makeup brand is encouraging you to raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer with their 50 for 50 campaign. They have 50 ideas for fundraising events in their website with everything from parachuting to speed dating and all you need to do is raise at least £50.00. [...]

Homegrown British brand, and sister business of LUSH cosmetics, B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful will be closing its doors for good at the end of the year. Here’s the official message that LUSH has announced to fans; “Six years ago B began in bustling Carnaby Street. Since then we have developed the look [...]

It really annoys me when my favourite high street shops don’t have an online outlet on which to buy their products. I do almost all my shopping online (London crowds – no thanks). I was delighted when  fast fashion retailer Zara announced it intends to go online next year and now H&M have announced they’re [...]

When it comes to getting my haircut I am inherently lazy. I have had so many disasters at hair salons that I dread going to the salon and tend to go every 4 months or so rather than the recommended 6 weeks. Well, I’ve finally booked myself in for a cut and colour later in [...]

Germany’s most popular womens’ magazine, Brigitte, has announced controversial plans to ban professional models from appearing on its pages. The big publication has decided to completely stop size zero models appearing in the magazine, replacing them with “real women”. Whilst I find it ridiculous that skinny girls are being labelled as ‘unreal’, this is a [...]

According to the Daily Mail, our earlobes show our age just as much as the condition of our hands our decolletage. Well, I can’t say I’ve ever looked at a persons earlobes to determine how old they look, but it seems other people do as a cosmetic operation called ‘earlobe rejuvination’ has stepped into trend. [...]

British Beauty Blogger won’t take the blame… Beauty Woo Me is smelling good… Beaut.ie is wondering which fellas you would have fronting fragrance campaigns… Kiss and Makeup is getting tasty… Cosmetic Candy gets scanned…

I love the American beauty blog Bellasugar, it is full of fun quizzes, trend inspiration, crazy beauty facts and has some really excellent practical beauty tips. Recently, they published their tips for looking good after crying which is something nearly all of us could do with a bit of help with on occasion! Here’s what [...]

Now that the summer is well and truly over my efforts have turned to getting my skin into good health for the winter. I am making absolutely sure that I’m drinking 2 litres of water per day, which quite frankly I ought to be doing anyway, and I have switched to a creamy, wipe off [...]

On my wish-list right now is Susan Posnick Colour Eye Define. This eye liner from the queen of mineral cosmetics features an angled pencil liner at one end and the other end hold a self-dispensing eyeshadow which complements the colour of the liner. There are colour combinations which will suit everyone and all situations. I [...]