I love Philip Kingsley – the brand that is, not the gent. I love the heritage of these hugely sensible, no gimmicks, tried-and-tested formulas. And what a heritage! The Elasticizer that I swear by to keep my dip-dyed lengths from snapping off was first formulated for Audrey Hepburn and Kingsley…
CF Beauty
Musings from a red-lippie wearing, skincare obsessed, French pharmacy brand addict, ex-Beauty editor. Posh candle habit currently out of control.
30-second review: Bioderma Photoderm Autobronzant and Sebium H20 Micellar water cleanser
I picked these two up in Escentual.com’s current ‘French Pharmacy Brand Sale’ this week. I’ve been using Bioderma’s Crealine H20 micellar water (the original pink one, for sensitive skin) for aaaggges, picking up triple packs in bulk when across the channel. This time though, I took advantage of the generous…
CF Review: Bodyism Serenity supplement for some serious beauty sleep
I’ve written a couple of posts now about coping with grief, and while I don’t wish for that to become my focus for Countryfille.com, I thought a couple of practical, helpful ‘coping device’ style posts might help others going through the grieving process, or even those dealing with serious stress…
CF Review: The Purifyne 3-day Green Cleanse
Last Friday morning, just in time for breakfast, I took delivery of a cool bag, stuffed full of fresh, organic, cold-pressed green juices from Purifyne, ready to start my 3-day green cleanse. I was offered the chance to roadtest one of their nationwide juice cleanses and as their ‘green cleanse’…
The Sunday Overhaul: Week Two – Brows
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…
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…
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…
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…
CF Review: This Works No Wrinkles Wonder Essence
I’ll admit this from the get-go. Kathy Phillips is my beauty girl-crush. The woman was a/ Health and Beauty Director at Vogue for seven years (all hail) and b/ went on to launch This Works, one of my hero ranges that I will extol the virtues of till the cows…
CF Review: Wild about Beauty SS13 collection – swatched
I think Louise Redknapp’s beauty range, Wild about Beauty, created with her pal/make-up artist Kim Jacob, could possibly be the beauty equivalent, in WAG terms, of Victoria Beckham’s fashion line. Even after the first collection was released last September I knew this was no celeb-endorsed token collection; the formulas were…
How often do you wash your hair?
So, I’ve been conducting a little hair experiment. Namely I haven’t been washing it. The reasons behind going a bit ‘hippie’ in the hair hygiene stakes are two-fold. 1/ I’ve got a new exciting, rather time consuming project that I’m working on, which means 6am starts with no time for…