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The Daily Beauty: Burberry Brit Rhythm Eau de Toilette & Collection

March 6, 2014 LLG Beauty

It’s quite a task to make lavender, the scent of grandmothers, linen closets and National Trust shops smell sexy, desirable and, above all, modern. Burberry Brit Rhythm, the latest fragrance from the British luxury house, and their first to have lavender as its central note, may just have done so.

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The Daily Beauty: Diptyque’s Rosa Mundi Candle & Hand Cream

February 20, 2014 Accessories

In the middle of this revolting, and particularly English, version of a Narnia winter – endless rain instead of eternal snow, the gentle scent of roses reminds me that summer, however elusive just now, will return. I’ve been burning this pretty new Rosa Mundi candle from Diptyque in my bedroom, which looks just as lovely as [...]

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The Daily Beauty: Balenciaga Rosabotanica Event with Illustrator Clym Evernden at Selfridges TODAY!

February 13, 2014 LLG Beauty

I’d love to believe that I look as soignee as I do in my portrait above on a daily basis, but fear that dragged-through-hedge-backwards is more often my style. Still it’s lovely to believe that there is even a vague possibility that sometimes I look this. For which I owe a huge thank you to [...]

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The Daily Beauty: Blonde Highlights again at Jo Hansford

February 6, 2014 LLG Beauty

I’ve been asked several times who is looking after my colour at the moment, since I ran the Karen Millen post earlier in the week. I’ve been really happy with my colour at Jo Hansford: the lovely Evie did it for me last autumn, to great success, and I went back at the end of [...]

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The Daily Beauty: Swell Volumizing Shampoo, Conditioner and Root Nutrient Complex

January 19, 2014 LLG Beauty

I have quite a lot of hair, but it is very fine, the curse of natural blondes, so I’m dead keen on anything that gives me lasting volume without having to resort to rollers or tongs, as my hair starts to frazzle and split under the heat.

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The Daily Beauty: Promenade in the Garden Eau de Toilette by Replica Maison Martin Margiela

January 16, 2014 LLG Beauty

Right now this olfactory journey into an English country garden, that Margiela sent me, is the only reminder that there will be sun, one day, breaking through the relentless rain. Its delicious freesia top note, with an unusual hint of coriander, is balanced by middle notes of Turkish rose oil, Peony accord, and Sambac jasmine absolute. [...]

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Friday & Saturday in London: From Wahaca to Pizza East, via Bob Bob Ricard

January 13, 2014 LLG Beauty

(The call button in the booths at Bob Bob Ricard restaurant in Soho.) Christmas and New Year feel like they quite some time ago, and yet last week was the first back in the office after the holidays. And a long, long week it was too.  There’s all the email I ignored in the run [...]

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The Daily Beauty: Oskia Renaissance Hand Cream

January 8, 2014 LLG Beauty

Between  laptop sessions and  the seemingly endless washing up, my hands have been suffering this winter. To try to combat that horrid tight, dry and weather-roughened feeling,  I have stationed tubes of hand cream all over my apartment, from the basin in the bathroom to the kitchen sink, via my study desk and the hall [...]

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The Daily Beauty: Phyto Phytokeratine Ultra Repairing Mask for Weakened & Damaged Hair

January 6, 2014 LLG Beauty

Hands up: who else has winter straw hair? Too much staying indoors with the central heating during the festive period, eating loads of rubbish, and getting my roots done rather more than usual, has left my hair in need of a serious SOS. So I’ve taken to slapping on this very, very good hair mask by Phyto in [...]

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The Daily Beauty: Cochine Water Hyacinth and Lime Blossom Candle

January 4, 2014 LLG Beauty

I find scented candles and diffusers to be a very particular taste: there are lots that I just can’t stand, and plenty that trigger sensitivity symptoms. (My skin starts flushing, my nose starts running and I get a headache. Incense and lilies are the absolute worst.) So I’m very wary about lighting a new one, [...]

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