As a beauty editor, brow maintenance was simple: Shavata at Urban Retreat. The only brow bar I entrusted my Cara-wannabe brows to. It was love at first thread, as Baljit (the master threader) took one look at my pair of scraggly caterpillars and sent me away: ‘they’ve got potential, but…
CF Review: Aromatherapy Associates Inner Strength shower and bath oil
If someone had told me that at the moment when you are completely broken, exhausted and grey with grief, a capful of aromatherapy oil could make some small dent in that endless sorrow I would never have believed them. But then I drew a hot bath after a particularly harrowing…
CF Weekend: The Bank Holiday plans, Chelsea and a lot of eating out
I have spent most of the last week dodging all forms of news/social media, desperate to avoid seeing anything of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show coverage as we are going on Saturday and I want it to be a complete surprise. I’ve been a number of times before on press…
The Sunday Overhaul: Week One – Tanning
So, here’s the idea. Us working women all get into a flap on a Sunday night about our Beauty Maintenance – right? It’s the only day of the week we get a second to think about frivolous things like hair masks, manicures, defuzzing or, heaven forbid, a DIY facial (30…
CF Eats: an immune-boosting nutrition overhaul
So, I thought I’d do a series of posts on my plans for a serious nutrition overhaul. I’m not calling it a diet as to me, that relates to weight-loss. My plan is to literally feed my completely broken immune system back to health. I’ve seen my consultant today and…
Treasured possessions: my charm necklace
I thought I’d start a series of posts, introducing you to a couple of my treasured possessions. Rather than posts that encourage rabid consumerism (guilty as charged), I want this series to be a bit less ‘BUY! BUY! BUY!’ and more ‘appreciate what you’ve already got young lady.’ So, here…
Spring break… but not as we know it.
I had to get this shot of tulips and daffs in as it is currently the only vestige of spring that seems apparent in the run up to Easter (bitter aside: I was on the beach here in 20 degree sunshine last Easter). To this end, we have decided to…
30-second review: Burberry SS13 look – English Rose
*Sigh*. Edie Campbell is my #1 beauty girl crush at the moment. Don’t get me wrong, Cara Delevingne and Karlie Kloss are right up there but Edie is the gal for me. The heavy fringe, those sad eyes and this season, her oh so perfect, barely there make-up campaign, courtesy…
Snapshot: a week or two on Countryfille.com
Hello stranger. I know, it’s been a while. Forgive me. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you that in the last 10 days we have had two deaths, a stroke and some heart surgery in our immediate family. Crazy, heart-breaking, stressful and all true. So, I’m afraid this is…
My Wardrobe sale bargain: Ash Wedge Trainers
So, I finally succumbed to the siren calls of the Wedge Trainer and splashed out on this gorgeous pair from the originators of the sport luxe trend – ASH. My justification? They were a much less eye-watering £87, compared to their full price of £175, in the My Wardrobe sale…
The perfect holiday souvenir: Furore, the Amalfi Coast
Whilst delving to the back of the shed last weekend (it’s all glamour here at Countryfille..), I came across two bulging carrier bags that I had completely forgotten were lurking there. Inside were these tiny tile fragments, worn into organic shapes by the sea at Furore on the Amalfi Coast.…
Diptyque’s new spring candle launch: Jonquille
My love of Diptyque is well documented here at countryfille.com, it’s fragrances have punctuated my life over the last 5 or so years with the happiest of memories: one whiff of Philosykos and I’m at my husband’s family home on the Amalfi Coast; Baies reminds me of our first marital…