Fireworks Night, Alexandra Palace

It’s a known fact that fireworks night is my favourite night of the year. It just doesn’t have that anti climax feeling like New Years eve. Plus it marks the first official day of winter for me. I’m talking new coat, boots, winter accessories – the lot. I shop for November 5th in September and plan where I want to spend my evening months in advance. USUALLY. This year with…

Fuller Eyebrows with Castor Oil + Wunderbrow

My eyebrows have tons of sparse areas and the more I go to those random threading stations in shopping centres, the more they like to thin them out! I’ve been for HD Brows a few times but the main bulk of the 30 treatment is pencilling. So I did some research into the best threading places in London and discovered the Shavata boutique in Knightsbridge. Because I work in Chelsea…

5 days in Dubai

Laura and I have been el desperado to sun seek somewhere other than Ibiza so we decided to book Dubai for our birthdays. Stevie also has a September birthday and was finishing her Masters too and came along!! So just as all the troops start their return to cold, wet and windy England we were booked out of Gatwick on a nice 8 hour flight to the desert. I’ve only…

Kat Von D in Debenhams Beauty Hall

First place I go on payday from the new job? Department store beauty halls! Or maybe I should say on a beauty haul in Debenhams Beauty Hall. I only went to check out the Kat Von D counter, honestly. I ended up purchasing from 4 different brands because the sales girls were so nice. I used to work in Harvey Nichols and Selfridges so appreciate good customer service but genuinely…

My New Job

At the time of writing the my post about feeling accomplished after the Olympics, I was actually in the interview process for my new job! I was sent an ad for a Gallery PA position going at ITN and honestly didn’t think I stood a chance; but I’d become comfortable at Chelsea, it was now the norm and I was starting to think I needed more of a challenge. So…