Scented Candles for Winter, 10 of the Best

Roasting chestnuts and mulled wine, sweet orange, cinnamon and musky cloves, mmm, the homely scents of winter.

Snuggle down through the long dark winter nights, lift your spirits and indulge yourselves. Relax in the comforting glow of one of my ’10 of the best’ scented winter candles.

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S/S12, The Make Up and how “Tops and Bottoms” Affect us all

“It’s just tops and bottoms”, a friend once told me. “People take it so seriously, it’s not brain surgery”. He’s right of course, it’s not brain surgery, it doesn’t save lives. But it is a form of therapy, for me anyway. As soon as New York Fashion Week gets under way I’m glued to vogue.com for the next month. It’s exciting, it makes me happy, it definitely helps my brain…

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Lashed Out

For me, it was Miss Piggy that started it. The “eyelash effect”. The way she used to flutter those lashes at Kermit. I was hooked. For those of you too young to remember, she’s back this year in the new Muppets film. Watch her, you’ll see what I mean…

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