At Last! some beauty news

My back to work glow wore off after about twenty minutes of looking at this: A LOT piles up in the beauty department when its editor is a part timer...

Also, there were no less than three deliveries of chocolates. Yes I know, so ungrateful, but you don't understand how much it hurts to give up something you love as much as I love chocolate for six months. It hurts a lot more when you get sent Lindor (my favourite in the world) and have to give it up to Lucy Wood, Fashion News Editor. Lucky b**stard. If you are a PR with a heart please keep the chocolates in your own office. But thanks for the thought!

Two things restored me to my former glory. One, the next installment from Nails Inc for Diet Coke. Just like the last collaboration, which contained my 2010 nail obsession, 'London', this Catwalk Collection has Cool Caramel. Which is basically my 2011 nail obsession. I know its early days but I'm feeling confident that it can take the crown. Its ltd. ed. you have to buy 2 little bottles of Diet Coke from Boots - the maths will never work out (Nails Inc full size, which this is, costs £11, and this colour is outstanding), but really, don't question it.

Oh, and the other happy thing: the YSL ring on my finger, yes, I succumbed to Net A Porter in a moment of severe boredom, and it was worth the tenner postage...

the other 3 shades in the collection

Advent Day 4 - The New Nail (the one I was !!!! about)

The almost-but-not-quite perfect shade from Nails Inc. I say almost because they already nailed (sorry) the no. 1, but only for a ltd edition promotion with Diet Coke. I still want them to make 'London' part of the main collection - are you listening Thea Green?!

'Porchester Square' is launching in January 2011. Put it in your (new) diary. You'll most likely get a hint at a good one of those too behind one door or another on ilovelipstick. I have mine already - not so much super organised as super spoilt. Thank you Clarins!

Nailed!

Oh my goodness, have I found the (almost) equal to Nails Inc's ltd edition Diet Coke shade in London that you can't get anymore? I just might have.

Watch this space...

MY secrets...

The cutest perfume to ever come out of the house of Guerlain (well, aside from that bee bottle, so cute) is a dark floral concoction in a miniature flacon, with the best name there ever was... 'Les Secrets Des Sophie'.

I am very pleased to say I now own a bottle, so thought it befitting to divulge a few of my own...

I have an unhealthy obsession with coats, jackets, cardi-coats, anything coat like. And Alex Monroe necklaces. It is my birthday soon, the only thing I can think of is this Pea Pod necklace - but I get one most birthdays. Too many? What a shameful dilemma...

If I could have kittens instead of babies, I think I might

At last count I owned 75 pairs of shoes, not counting flats or flip flops. Don't tell DadJokes, I hide a lot of them, mostly because I can't walk in them - but all so beautiful!

This is a bad one - when I lived in Hackney, I got Nails Inc acrylic tips, very kindly via the press office. I promised I was in no way stupid enough to get them filled in anywhere disreputable and would of course come back to Nails Inc at every opportunity to get them redone. Instead I made monthly visits to the Vietnamese place at the end of my road, where they drill them off and reapply. This, for the uninitiated, is the equivalent of putting your cream cashmere jumper in a hot wash. With a red sock. But it cost £15 and they made my hands look like they belonged to a proper beauty editor. Not any more mind you, I'm a little bit shy of manicures now. In hindsight - avoid the Vietnamese drill.

The Most Local Nail Bar There Is

The anticipation was incredible; "Will you be in the office on Wednesday? You HAVE to both be there and you need somewhere with enough space to store your BIG present", said the Nails Inc pr, we were also given the most specific ETA ever, so at 16.10 precisely we were scheduled to be downstairs in the foyer, expectant to say the least.

Much speculation later (highlights: it must be human/a man will jump out of something-where will we store him?/maybe it's a twice lifesize cut out of me and Katie) we were presented with THIS:





Look at the joy on Katie's face, and who wouldn't be joyful at the prospect of their very own nail bar? Especially me having recently moved out of Hackney and all it's Vietnamese highstreet fare.

This set of all 40 Nails Inc best sellers, TIMES FOUR is the grown up equivalent of my teenage Pick n Mix dreams. A never ending shop stock supply! Ahhh, what a colorful stroke of gifting genius Nails Inc...








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