New Chanel products for Cool Girl Summer Fresh Skin! Les Beiges Touche de Teint and Eau de Blush. Review and swatches.
Skin Type & Skincare: A Definitive Guide for Beginners and 1 Essential Nugget
In Skin Type & Skincare: A Definitive Guide for Beginners and 1 Essential Nugget, we’ll discuss how to determine your skin type and set up a skincare regime. This is the first installation of a series of posts that aims to help anyone who is new to skincare get started. Table of Contents #Throwback: The…
No1 de Chanel Foundation & Balm: the Perfect Skin Finish?
Does the No1 de Chanel colour collection produce the perfect skin finish? Let’s find out by testing and swatching the No1 de Chanel Foundation and Lip and Cheek balm. No1 de Chanel Foundation I’ve died and gone to foundation heaven with the discovery of the No1 de Chanel Foundation*! Why, you may ask? Five words.…
Hahnemühle Watercolour Book Review
Today I’ve got a Hahnemühle watercolour book review! I bought this in Munich a few years ago now. I was in Schachinger Künstlerbedarf, this amazing Aladdin’s Cave of an art shop. Ah travel – I miss my pre-pandemic life. I kind of forgot I had this, and actually I ended up buying a second one…
Project Pan 2022
A new year, a new Project Pan. Project Pan 2022 here we go! What is a Project Pan? If you don’t know what a Project Pan is, you can check out my previous post available here. To recap – a Project Pan in it’s most simplistic form is where you set out to “pan” your…
All the Lisa Eldridge Velvet Lipsticks and Counting
Here are all of the Lisa Eldridge Velvet Lipstick Swatches! I’m a diehard fan of Lisa Eldridge makeup, and I’ve got all the lipstick colours she’s ever released, except for Velvet Dragon, Velvet Affair, Velvet Pompadour and Velvet Rain (and Meet me in Berlin from the Luxuriously Lucent). This is because orange & brown don’t…
Argireline: Botox in a bottle?
I first encountered argireline touted as “Botox in a bottle”, probably in a fashion magazine or online blog. A quick google search told me that Deciem carried this specific ingredient as its own serum (hurrah!) under the The Ordinary line. Plonk it went into my online shopping basket, and soon arrived into my eager hands.…
New Year’s Resolutions: Mindful Skincare
Happy New Year all! I know I’ve been absent for a wee while, but I had a pretty big deadline in December, which meant forgoing all hobbies. I don’t normally sit and think of New Year’s Resolutions. Rather something usually comes to me, and it’s usually something I need to work on or something that…
How to make Chinese dumplings (shuijiao)
Chinese dumplings. In my mind, they are shuijiao, or “water dumplings” as they are boiled. These to me are are “Chinese dumplings”. Guotie or “pot stickers” to me are “Hong Kong” dumplings, or just dumplings. We used to eat them every Sunday at dimsum. I’ve googled Chinese dumplings, and I have learned that actually they…
Grown Alchemist Hydra-Restore Cream Cleanser: Review
The Grown Alchemist Hydra-Restore Cream Cleanser is a current favourite on my rotation at the moment. (For information on my skin type, please see my post here, or the information in the footer at the bottom of the page). Confession: I have used Dr Bronner’s Castille soap for 10+ years to as my cleanser. It…