From the category archives:

LLG Beauty

Beauty products to take on holiday…

July 23, 2010 LLG Beauty

I’ve had several ‘what beauty products do you take away with you’ emails, so here is a very short answer that I shot last week in the fabulous bathroom in my room at Barcelona’s Hotel Omm: Nivea Sun Invisible Protection Transparent Spray SPF20 £13.30 Nivea Sun Spray SPF30 200ml £11.99 St Tropez Wash Off Instant […]

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Eyeko nail polish

July 11, 2010 LLG Beauty

According to Clare, who knows nail polish like I know liquid eyeliner, this tiny bottle of Eyeko Tea Rose varnish (left) is the business: it went on smoothly and just one quick coat lasted three days without chipping. Go the extra mile with two coats and this varnish seems impervious. A great size for traveling […]

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What to pack in a hospital overnight bag

June 7, 2010 LLG Beauty

Considering how much time my family spends in the Royal Free (such a shame you can’t get frequent flyer miles on the NHS), I should have known better than to turn up at A&E last week with just my laptop, a book and a bag of snacks from M&S (conveniently next door to the hospital). […]

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Hero product: Neal’s Yard Wild Rose Body Elixir

June 4, 2010 LLG Beauty

One of the less thrilling side effects of Eosinophila, the super elevated white blood cell count from which I currently am suffering, is extraordinarily itchy legs. (My Infectious Diseases consultant at the hospital tells me this is a classic symptom.) Short of wearing mittens to stop me scratching, the best solution is to use some […]

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LLG’s bathtime cleansing ritual

May 31, 2010 LLG Beauty

I’ve just had the deepest, most luxurious bath. Finally I feel properly relaxed and, most of all, clean. Having been released from four days in hospital in London, I felt sticky and grubby. It’s not that the hospital was dirty, far from it (the Royal Free is pretty immaculate), but that I didn’t feel well […]

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Makeovers, The Cannes Film Festival & me…

May 19, 2010 Celebrity

I don’t normally re-publish from my archives, but as I am sick at the moment and it’s the Cannes Film Festival, I thought I’d run this post I wrote in January 2009. ______________________________ Getting to the point where I believe in make-overs has taken me at last ten years. I once pissed off a make-up […]

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Eco Tools Bamboo Make Up Brush Set

May 12, 2010 LLG Beauty

For someone who writes about beauty, I’m pretty slapdash about my make-up tools. I don’t have a particular set, I just use whatever is kicking about at the time. Granted this isn’t as useless as it sounds: I get sent lots of things to try out & my kit has recently included brushes from MAC, […]

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Perfect Merchandising: How to sell eye cream

May 11, 2010 American Shops

So, you are in the vast Bed, Bath & Beyond on Sixth Avenue. You’ve navigated the endless aisles of kitchen equipment, coathangers and the rest, and been spat out into Beauty on the way to the registers. As you pass through, you stop, lean forward into the magnifying mirror, & then leap back in horror […]

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Hero beauty product: Espa Essential Tea Tree Gel

April 20, 2010 Hero beauty products

As I ran around last Tuesday morning like a blue arsed fly trying to simultaneously store, pack, clean & tidy, I grabbed a shoebox, indiscriminately throwing in some of the beauty samples I hadn’t got round to using whilst in England, & shoved it in a corner of my suitcase. Back in New York, whilst […]

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What to wear in the sun on your skin & your body

April 16, 2010 Accessories

(Please excuse the grumpy face — I always forget to smile in photos) I am so pale, so English, that if I go in the sun I start to sizzle like bacon on a griddle. Uncomfortable in minutes, scarlet in half an hour, I learnt from a very early age to cover up outdoors. Hat, […]