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Hero beauty products

Hero Beauty product: Yes To Carrots C Me Blush Lip Tint

January 8, 2010 Hero beauty products

Every time I crack open one of the historical novels & bonkbusters that I read when huddled up with a cold, I am struck by the description of the heroine. Whether Angelique and Catherine in the French sagas, or Georgette Heyer’s delicate debutantes, they all have glorious natural colouring: flushed cheeks, coal black lashes, sparking […]

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Hero Beauty Product: Dr Organic — Manuka Honey Rescue Cream

December 21, 2009 Hero beauty products

The prospect of snow is one thing. Dealing with it upon arrival is quite another. I took one step outdoors on Friday and my skin dried up like a raisin. It isn’t the snow so much as the wind that whips across it, turning my Clarins plumped cheeks into dehydrated pouches. With the joyful synchronicity […]

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Hero Beauty Product: Charles Worthington High Gloss Serum

November 25, 2009 Hero beauty products

I fear that I am turning into one of THOSE women. One that is obsessed with her hair. This is a new thing for me. I was always that girl who was stopped on the street and asked to be a hair model, that had hairdressers oohing over her hair’s natural, glossy, healthy thickness & […]

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Hero Beauty Product: Clarins Generation 6 Extra-Firming Botanical Intensive Care serum

November 18, 2009 Hero beauty products

A lovely reader (hello Cal!) emailed me to say she was a little confused by the whole beauty régime thing and could I please explain when one was supposed to use beauty serums? I was reminded that I hadn’t addressed her question this morning when I was massaging in a layer of gunk after my […]

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Hero Beauty Product: Bobbi Brown Nude lipstick

October 22, 2009 Hero beauty products

Whilst in my daydreams I wear scarlet lipstick in the manner of a film star of the 50s, in reality the unholy combination of rosacea and my blonde colouring means that I can wear only neutral lip shades. In summer, when my morgue-like pallor fleetingly morphs into a bronzed tone through the wonders of the […]

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Hero Beauty product: Elemis Japanese Camellia Oil

October 16, 2009 Hero beauty products

A few years ago I started using oils on my face and body, as an occasional alternative to more traditional cream based moisturisers. Often they are purer, needing no preservatives or petro-chemicals to stabilise them, and they can deliver a more concentrated shot of goodness to tired, dehydrated skin. I’ve tried plenty (John Masters Organics […]

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Hero Hair Product: L’Oréal Serie Expert Absolut Repair Shampoo For Very Damaged Hair

September 30, 2009 Hero beauty products

I haven’t bought a bottle of shampoo in years, using whatever is lying around in my sample bucket. My hair doesn’t present any problems: it’s not coloured or permed, greasy or curly. It just hangs there. Then I started torturing it with curling tongs and the ends went all frizzy as they do when you […]

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Hero Beauty Product: Yes to Carrots C a Softer You Hand & Elbow Moisturising Cream

September 26, 2009 Hero beauty products

Lil’sis has been testing this for me: she Skyped me today, practically dribbling with excitement, to tell me that the seemingly ineradicable rhino skin on her elbows which has defeated every other moisturiser she has tried, disappeared in 24hrs after using this cream. She waved her new silky soft elbows at the webcam in proof, […]

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Hero Hair product: Mizani H20 Intense Night Time Treat

September 14, 2009 Hero beauty products

My new found love of the curling tong is not doing a lot for the condition of my hair. I’m lucky to have had shiny, soft hair in my thirties precisely because I’ve never really coloured it, used much product or even used a hairdryer regularly. But this year of using curling tongs has meant […]

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Hero beauty products: daily face creams

March 21, 2009 Hero beauty products

I have several enormous plastic buckets under my bed, chock full of brand new beauty products, as a leftover from my last Important Job. My way of dealing with the avalanche at the time was to dole out the goodies to the office, with the proviso that if I had given them something that they […]