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Beauty Bible Weekend Steal: @nyxcosmetics Wonder Pencil Highlighter 💕

Do you ever somehow fall out of a beauty habit? The other morning, browsing in Boots on Oxford Street before a press breakfast, Jo spotted a double-ended highlighter pencil that

Beauty Bible Weekend Steal: @nyxcosmetics Wonder Pencil Highlighter 💕 Do you ever somehow fall out of a beauty habit? The other morning, browsing in Boots on Oxford Street before a press breakfast, Jo spotted a double-ended highlighter pencil that reminded her: one of her best-ever beauty tricks was to add a line of highlight above the lip-line. It creates a more defined contour, but also the optical illusion of fuller lips. Somehow, at some (busy) point, she’d stopped doing it. But there was the perfect pencil, to resume the habit. With one end matte, one end shimmery, it is also good for adding a ‘lift’ just under the brow-bone. Even better? Times have moved on, and so have beauty brands, when it comes to offering a spectrum for all skintones. So, whereas once upon a time this sort of product tended to come in a shimmering ivory, NYX Professional Makeup Wonder Pencil Highlighter comes in five colour-coordinated shades. Link in bio to read more 💖 #beautybibleloves #weekendsteal #nyx #highlighter #wonderpencil

So many GREAT new products we’ll be sharing with you over the coming weeks/months, with brilliant brands gathered together last night at Islington’s business design Centre for the speed-smelling, speed-slathering and speed swooning event that is the @cew_uk awards. It’s so hard to get round the room and see everything because we bumped into so many lovely friends and colleagues, but it was wonderful seeing you @alicehartdavis @alancemebeauty @orielefrank @rubyhammer @carolinehirons @aliyoungbeauty @atehjewelbeauty @traceylwoodward @nasher76 @jamesreadtan @charlotte.vohtz @4160tuesdays @balancemeskincare - so many brilliant founders, PRs and beauty editors all under one vaulted roof! Bravo @sberkerey and team for a FAH-BU-LOUS night! Bigger and more glam than ever… #cewuk #beautydemoevent #weloveourjob

Treatments We Love: @caci_beauty Synergy Flex Facial 😍

Face in need of TLC, after a l-o-n-g winter? We highly recommend CACI’s absolutely fabulous NEW Flex Facial, the latest iteration from this time-honoured pioneer of non-surgical face-lift

Treatments We Love: @caci_beauty Synergy Flex Facial 😍 Face in need of TLC, after a l-o-n-g winter? We highly recommend CACI’s absolutely fabulous NEW Flex Facial, the latest iteration from this time-honoured pioneer of non-surgical face-lifts. We tried, and we were wowed. Read Sarah’s full review - link in bio ⭐️ #beautybibleloves #flexfacial #cacibeauty #treatmentswelove

✨WIN @olverum Beauty Bible Award-winning wellness treats – 5 sets (worth £100 each) ✨

The three fragrantly fabulous products which make up this week’s fab prize have all scooped Beauty Bible Awards – and are long-term favouri

✨WIN @olverum Beauty Bible Award-winning wellness treats – 5 sets (worth £100 each) ✨ The three fragrantly fabulous products which make up this week’s fab prize have all scooped Beauty Bible Awards – and are long-term favourites of ours. So we’re delighted to have five trios to share with you, from a wellness brand that’s a bit of a legend, frankly 🫶 Five Beauty Bible readers will receive the following products… Olverum Bath Oil (normally £28 for 60ml) Olverum Dry Body Oil (£44.50 for 100ml) Olverum Restful Sleep Pillow Mist (£27.50 for 50ml) Link in bio to enter 💕 #beautybibleloves #prizedraw #olverum #bathoil #bodyoil #pillowmist #awardwinning

Jo’s Scent Notes: @vancleefarpels Néroli Amara ⭐️

Last week, Jo was taken away for 24 hours to a favourite hotel (Heckfield Place), to be immersed in the fragrances that will be launched throughout 2025 by Kenneth Green Associates 🫶

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Jo’s Scent Notes: @vancleefarpels Néroli Amara ⭐️ Last week, Jo was taken away for 24 hours to a favourite hotel (Heckfield Place), to be immersed in the fragrances that will be launched throughout 2025 by Kenneth Green Associates 🫶 KGA’, as they’re known in the business, may not be a name on your radar. But they’re responsible for distributing all manner of gorgeous perfume brands, ranging from spiffy and exotic Amouage through to good old Roger & Gallet. In other words, covering the whole scent price spectrum. Link in bio to read more 💖 #beautybibleloves #beautybloggers #scentnotes #fragrance #kennethgreenassociates

Fab Find Of The Week: @velvetsmokeltd Filthy Rose Bath Soak 🛁

Well, if this isn’t a match made in heaven, we’d like to know what is.

The scent of Velvet Smoke’s Filthy Rose candle – a Beauty Bible fave, which we’ve ra

Fab Find Of The Week: @velvetsmokeltd Filthy Rose Bath Soak 🛁 Well, if this isn’t a match made in heaven, we’d like to know what is. The scent of Velvet Smoke’s Filthy Rose candle – a Beauty Bible fave, which we’ve raved about on several occasions has been transformed into a bath soak, in collaboration with the equally brilliant people at fellow female-founded brand @soapsmithlondon - creators of amazing, silkifying bath soaks (Beauty Bible Award-winners for those soaks, actually). Velvet Smoke, of course, was co-founded by our make-up artist friend @lisapotterdixon and her interiors dynamo friend Lia Briamonte ⭐️ Their brand offers home fragrance, home accessories – and this is their first (but hopefully not last!) ‘beauty foray’. #beautybibleloves #fabfindoftheweek #bathsoak #bathproducts #soapsmith #collab

Beauty Steal: @biomed_uk oral care 🧡

The key with toothbrushing is to want to do it. Well, BIOMED oral care will do just that, with really rather scrumptious flavours, high levels of natural ingredients (around 97% in most cases), and free from SLE

Beauty Steal: @biomed_uk oral care 🧡 The key with toothbrushing is to want to do it. Well, BIOMED oral care will do just that, with really rather scrumptious flavours, high levels of natural ingredients (around 97% in most cases), and free from SLES, the foaming agent which can make mouths really sore and irritated. No fluoride, PEGs or chlorhexidine, either. It’s a big range, with something for everyone – BIOMED Sensitive Toothpaste (with actives to restore tooth enamel and reduce sensiviity); BIOMED Superwhite Natural Whitening Toothpaste; BIOMED Citrus Fresh Toothpaste (above – a lovely wake-up call first thing!), also incorporating juniper, birch leaf and plantain for their soothing effect on gums, and a specific BIOMED Gum Health Strengthening Toothpaste, which we love, with essential oils of eucalyptus, sage, rosemary and cedar. Link in bio to read more ⭐️ #beautybibleloves #weekendsteal #oralcare #biomed #vegan

Date for your diary: The @barnesfragrancefair is a treat for the nose 🥰

Hands up everyone who loves fragrance? 🙌

🗓️ If yours is one of them, you need this event – on Saturday 17th May 2025 – on your radar. Now in its third year, the

Date for your diary: The @barnesfragrancefair is a treat for the nose 🥰 Hands up everyone who loves fragrance? 🙌 🗓️ If yours is one of them, you need this event – on Saturday 17th May 2025 – on your radar. Now in its third year, the Barnes Fragrance Fair is a most deliciously enjoyable festival of all things scented – a one-day deep-dive into perfumery. You’ll meet the perfumers and the founders behind many different indie fragrance brands including @4160tuesdays @ostens_official @nancymeilandparfums @maya.njie.perfumes @kingdomscotland @angelaflanders – gosh, so many exciting names. Link in bio to read more ✨ #beautybibleloves #fragrancefair #barnesfragrancefair #fragrancelovers #dateforyourdiary

WIN new @daisyface_skincare (worth £238) plus two runners-up prizes 🫶

With innovative and refillable packaging, sustainability in mind – and simply great textures and scents – we’ve earmarked this skincare start-up as a &lsq

WIN new @daisyface_skincare (worth £238) plus two runners-up prizes 🫶 With innovative and refillable packaging, sustainability in mind – and simply great textures and scents – we’ve earmarked this skincare start-up as a ‘rising star’. Here’s your chance to experience it for yourself… Just last week, we were delighted to showcase DaisyFace as our Fab Find of the Week. Now we’re even more delighted that this dynamic new skincare range could be all yours, with a full set available to this week’s prize draw winner, while two runners-up will be able to choose the product of their choice from this utterly delightful range. Link in bio to find out more and to enter. Prize draw closes Wednesday 26th March 🤩 #beautybibleloves #prizedraw #daisyface #skincare #sustainableskincare #fabfindoftheweek #win

Sarah’s Health Notes: A-tish-ooo! It’s hay fever season again… 🤧

The delights of Spring also presage hay fever with a runny nose, stuffed up sinuses, tickly throat and itchy, watery eyes.

No mystery about the causes of seasonal

Sarah’s Health Notes: A-tish-ooo! It’s hay fever season again… 🤧 The delights of Spring also presage hay fever with a runny nose, stuffed up sinuses, tickly throat and itchy, watery eyes. No mystery about the causes of seasonal allergic rhinitis, as it’s properly known. Pollen is the arch villain, in tandem with other airborne allergens like fungal spores – the fungi equivalent of seeds in plants – which also comes from mould in any form. (And with the deluges we’ve been having in the West Country, there’s a lot of mould about.) Some tree pollen is already peaking with more in March, before grass pollen starts causing problems from April to autumn. Read Sarah’s top tips to combat hay fever this spring and keep the runny nose at bay 💛 #beautybible #healthnotes #hayfever #spring #healthtips #wellness

Fab Find of the Week: @lizearlebeautyco Superskin Advanced ⭐️

It’s a l-o-n-g time since we’ve shared something so exciting from Liz Earle skincare, so this is big news – familiar fragrances, but turbo-charged ingredients to help wi

Fab Find of the Week: @lizearlebeautyco Superskin Advanced ⭐️ It’s a l-o-n-g time since we’ve shared something so exciting from Liz Earle skincare, so this is big news – familiar fragrances, but turbo-charged ingredients to help with skin firmness. We just got to try the trio, and we’re impressed. Link in bio for the full review 💖 #beautybibleloves #fabfindoftheweek #skincare #superskinadvanced #lizearle

Our beauty steal this week is @starface Star Balms 🤩

Hands up who DOESN’T have dry lips, right now?

We are scanning the room… and not seeing many hands. So as this week’s affordable find, we’d like to introduce you to a on

Our beauty steal this week is @starface Star Balms 🤩 Hands up who DOESN’T have dry lips, right now? We are scanning the room… and not seeing many hands. So as this week’s affordable find, we’d like to introduce you to a one-swipe wonder, which delivers a slick of nourishment with just a single pass. Link in bio to find out more about this fabulous steal 💖 #beautybibleloves #beautybloggers #weekendsteal #starface #starbalms

Jo’s Scent Notes: Éditions de Parfums @fredericmalle Portrait of a Lady (special edition) ❤️

💬 “Portrait of a Lady is celebrating its 15th birthday with this gorgeous flame-red lacquered flacon. For 14 of those years, however, I

Jo’s Scent Notes: Éditions de Parfums @fredericmalle Portrait of a Lady (special edition) ❤️ 💬 “Portrait of a Lady is celebrating its 15th birthday with this gorgeous flame-red lacquered flacon. For 14 of those years, however, I didn’t feel grown up enough to wear it. Preposterous, I know. I am a grown woman, with decades of working experience and a lot of living behind me. Yet somehow… its sophistication is so off-the-scale that I didn’t feel I was worthy of ‘POAL’ (as it’s known for short in perfume circles)” POAL was created for the perfume ‘editor’ Frédéric Malle, by one of the world’s greatest noses, Master Perfumer Dominique Ropion, sometimes called ‘the master of flowers’. It is, many agree, his greatest of Dominique’s litany of masterpieces – and though really pricy, a must-smell for anyone who’s educating themselves about fragrance. Link in bio to find out more 🌟 #beautybibleloves #scentnotes #fragrance #portraitofalady #fredericmalle #eaudeparfum

14 Secrets of Beauty & Wellbeing: Margo and Roxy Marrone, of @eyeam skincare ✨

For the first time, we’ve invited a mother and daughter to share their ‘7 Secrets of Beauty & Wellbeing’ – and yes, that adds up to 14, in

14 Secrets of Beauty & Wellbeing: Margo and Roxy Marrone, of @eyeam skincare ✨ For the first time, we’ve invited a mother and daughter to share their ‘7 Secrets of Beauty & Wellbeing’ – and yes, that adds up to 14, in all. Margo and Roxy Marrone also happen to be co-founders of eyeam, a truly holistic brand that seeks to look after body, spirit and skin, and includes daily affirmations to calm and inspire. Read the full feature - link in bio 🌟 Don’t forget, we also have a fab prize draw where you could actually WIN a fab eyeam TLC package - closing 26th February, so be quick! 🏃‍♀️ #beautybibleloves #beautyandwellbeing #eyeam #holisticskincare #holistichealing

Win TLC for face, body & hands - 10 @gentlecareofficial trios to give away (worth over £60 each) 🌟

Sometimes we long for simple products that just do the job they’re meant to – no fuss, no hype. And the GentleCare capsule coll

Win TLC for face, body & hands - 10 @gentlecareofficial trios to give away (worth over £60 each) 🌟 Sometimes we long for simple products that just do the job they’re meant to – no fuss, no hype. And the GentleCare capsule collection – Face Cream, Body Lotion and Hand Cream – does exactly that. From the elegantly plain packaging to the pared-down list of proven ingredients (many natural), they take the faff out of skincare. Link in bio to find out more and to enter this fab prize draw! ✨ #beautybibleloves #prizedraw #gentlecare #skincare #bodycare #tlc

Fab Find of the Week: @daisyface_skincare ✨

The universe has ways of making you realise that the decades are fast rolling by. Case in point: when a dynamic young woman gets in touch about her new and exciting skincare range, reminding you that once

Fab Find of the Week: @daisyface_skincare ✨ The universe has ways of making you realise that the decades are fast rolling by. Case in point: when a dynamic young woman gets in touch about her new and exciting skincare range, reminding you that once upon a time, you interviewed her mum about giving birth to triplets while running one of the UK’s best-loved lingerie brands (and attaches the press cutting from YOU magazine, for good measure!). Well now, that boisterous triplet is all grown up and has a venture of her own – and what a beauty start-up it is. Because we are very, very taken with DaisyFace, Daisy Schaffer’s just-launched range, enjoying everything about it: the refillability (if that’s a word!); the textures; the fragrances; the formulas – and the bottles, which have a unique, very tactile finish. Link in bio to read more 💫 #beautybibleloves #beautybloggers #daisyfaceskincare #beautystartup #fabfindoftheweek

It’s up, up and away to celebrate the launch of @benefitcosmeticsuk BADgal Bounce ✨

We’re loving new Benefit BADgal Bounce – and we think you will, too. (Full review to follow next week.) But you can check it out for yourself at a

It’s up, up and away to celebrate the launch of @benefitcosmeticsuk BADgal Bounce ✨ We’re loving new Benefit BADgal Bounce – and we think you will, too. (Full review to follow next week.) But you can check it out for yourself at a fun, round-Britain roadshow event staged by the UK’s No.1 mascara brand. Here’s what Benefit tell us is happening at giant BADgal Bounce Lash Lounges, immersive spaces that will be popping up in key shopping destinations. They invite you to ‘test, and try new products, enjoy walk-in lash consultations, and seek advice from Benefit’s makeup experts. Snap your best uplifting shot on the one-of-a-kind Bounce selfie trampoline and shop exclusive promotions with free treats available for everyone to enjoy.’ As they explain, ‘It’s all about exploring, playing, and finding your new favourite products! Come for the lashes, stay for the experience.’ Link in bio to read more 💖 #benefitbadgal #benefitexperience #benefitlashlounge #benefitcosmetics #beautyreviews #mascara #eyemakeup

WIN! The world’s most luxurious hairbrush, from @altesse.studio (worth £395) 👱&zwj;♀️💖

100% hand-made by artisan crafters, Altesse Studio Prestige Care and Shine Hairbrush is a last-a-lifetime creation – well, several lifetimes!

WIN! The world’s most luxurious hairbrush, from @altesse.studio (worth £395) 👱‍♀️💖 100% hand-made by artisan crafters, Altesse Studio Prestige Care and Shine Hairbrush is a last-a-lifetime creation – well, several lifetimes! And one lucky winner will receive this cult beauty treasure. How can a brush be worth £395, we hear you chorus…? Well, this really is an artisan product, made by hand using 19th century manufacturing techniques, from shaping the olive wood brush to stacking the tufted bristles. Those are composed of boar bristle – a natural by-product – which is composed of keratin, and the only fibre which provides genuine benefits to hair health. As the wording in the beautiful mirrored box exhorts: ‘Take Your Hair Routine to the Next Level.’ Link in bio to enter 🌟 #beautybibleloves #prizedraw #hairproducts #artisan #altessestudio #keratintreatment #luxuryhairproducts

Sarah’s Health Notes: Get in training to walk the MoonWalk 💖

We’re doffing our hats - and donning our trainers – to support Nina Barough CBE, Founder and Chief Executive of health charity @walkthewalk 🚶&zwj;♀️✨

Launched almost 3

Sarah’s Health Notes: Get in training to walk the MoonWalk 💖 We’re doffing our hats - and donning our trainers – to support Nina Barough CBE, Founder and Chief Executive of health charity @walkthewalk 🚶‍♀️✨ Launched almost 30 years ago, Walk The Walk organises the famous MoonWalk fundraising events in London, Edinburgh and Iceland which have raised more than £143 million so far for cancer prevention, research and integrated care - scroll down for details of 2025 events. The charity aims to raise money but also awareness with some pretty eye-catching outfits and make-up, as you can see above. Importantly, Walk The Walk also campaigns to raise awareness that men can get breast cancer too (one of Sarah’s closest men friends was diagnosed with it to his shock). Link in bio to read more 🫶 #beautybibleloves #sarahshealthnotes #walkthewalk #moonwalkchallenge #fundraising #breastcancerawareness #cancerprevention #healthcharity

Jo’s Scent Notes: @perfumerhlondon Saddle ✨

Saddle was love at first sniff, for Jo – even better, after the top notes (bergamot, aldehydes) mellowed.

‘It’s warm, and so, so snuggleable, wrapping you in a blanket. The orange

Jo’s Scent Notes: @perfumerhlondon Saddle ✨ Saddle was love at first sniff, for Jo – even better, after the top notes (bergamot, aldehydes) mellowed. ‘It’s warm, and so, so snuggleable, wrapping you in a blanket. The orange flower lingers for a surprisingly long time, and there’s another white flower – jasmine – which has its moment, too. But it’s the base which is so darned cosy and comforting: vanilla absolute, benzoin resin (sweet and warm), amber and – well, just enough patchouli to keep me happy. Is it leathery? Yes. But in a gentle way.’ Link in bio for the full review 🫶 #scentnotes #beautybible #fragrance #fragrancetips #beautyreview #perfumerh

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