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A great lipstick ‘listen’ – and a deep-dive into make-up history 💄 Lipstick is more than just make-up. And if you’re in any doubt, we’d love to point you in the direction of a pair of riveting podcasts from the super-smart (in every way) team at Dressed: A History of Fashion. The podcast recently re-aired this couple of episodes – and we were so happy to catch them, this time round. The interviewee over these two podcasts – The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History – was beauty historian Ilise S. Carter, who reveals how a single swipe of lipstick was more than mere glamour, down the years, fuelling protest, embodying patriotism and more. The focus is America, but many of the stories played out on this side of the pond, too, and Ilise traces lipstick’s tale, leading us from suffragettes to wartime morale and Hollywood myth-making.. Altogether, it’s fascinating stuff (and if anyone ever dares to suggest to you that make-up is frivolous, point them in the direction of these two episodes, which are brainy, witty just so impressively well-researched.) Link in bio for the full review 🌟 #beautybibleloves #podcast #makeuphistory

🌟 Fab Find of the Week: Quantum Alchemy by Michelle Roques-O’Neil 💫 We’d honestly follow Michelle Roques-O’Neil to the ends of the earth. One of the most extraordinarily healing therapists we’ve ever been treated by, she is a secret shared by those-in-the-know. And Michelle’s products, in their various incarnations, have always been go-tos for us. So we were properly, properly excited to discover her new range, Quantum Alchemy, during an ‘Aroma Aura Reading’ at her studio just off London’s Portobello Road. (We’ll be reviewing that later, when Jo receives her personal ‘perfume prescription’, as follow-up to the session.) If you can’t get to see Michelle in person, however, this trio of new products definitely brings some of her magic to your door. (Bathroom and bedroom doors, that is.) Link in bio to read our full review ✨ @michelle.quantumalchemy #beautybibleloves #fabfindoftheweek #healing #selfcare

Beauty Bible Weekend Steal: @superdrug POP skincare 💖✨ This is cheering in every way. The colourful packaging. (Functional, too: we love a moisturiser which emerges from a tub with the perfect dose, when you press down.) The affordable prices: nothing more than eight quid. (HALLELUJAH.) Plus, the fact you can find it on virtually every high street, because this range is one of Superdrug’s own creations. Link in bio to read the full review 💕 #beautybibleloves #weekendsteal #skincare #popskincare #superdrug

Win an AMAZING beauty haul from @thebeautycrop (worth £350+) 🌟 We love a bumper beauty fun pack – but this is one sensational make-up and skincare prize, with over two dozen products across three showstopping kits. You’ll be able to indulge to your heart’s content – or grab your friends, for a pamper party! Well, this is quite the haul – from a new-to-us name we’re delighted to have on our beauty radar. The Beauty Crop is a UK-based, female-founded brand focused on ‘skincare-meets-make-up’, founded in 2015 by Ning Cheah, a former investment banker whose eczema really impacted on her beauty rituals and life in general. (We certainly empathise with that.) 💝 It’s a seriously long list of beauty goodies - so here are just a few highlights one lucky reader will win… 🌿 Erase & Fade 3-Step Regime (£38) A blemish-focused trio powered by BHA, succinic acid, rice water, 3% tranexamic acid, 2% niacinamide and soothing CICA - featuring the Clarifying Cleanser, Balancing Gel Moisturise and 3% Tranexamic Acid Serum. 💧 AM to PM Skincare Bundle (£98) Korean-sourced glow heroes for brighter, plumper, ultra-hydrated skin - including Peptide Calm favourites (Milky Cleanser, Toner, Eye Cream, Rich Night Cream) plus Vitamin Babe Brightening Moisturiser, SPF45 Glow Primer and Antioxidant Serum. 💄 25-Piece Beauty Essentials Bundle (£221) Packed with skincare and make-up must-haves from The Beauty Crop - think PoreFilter Primer, Peptide Calm Lip Balm, Avocuddle Mascara, Glow Milk Blush… and so much more. Link in bio to enter - closes Wednesday 25th March 💫 #beautybibleloves #prizedraw #skincare #thebeautycrop #beautyhaul

Fab Find of the Week: @lizearlebeautyco Superskin Advanced newness ✨ This Superskin Advanced range simply gets better and better, in our book. Last year saw a non-SPF serum-in-moisturiser launch – and now there’s Liz Earle Superskin Advanced Firming Serum-in-Moisturiser SPF20 – again, with a bouncy, (yes) serum-like texture that just glides over skin. This version offers very light sun protection via an SPF20 that’s probably just about OK till Easter – but what we’d really like to see is that bumped up a bit further in its next incarnation, because we’d like to use this all summer long, please! Both are honestly bliss to use – which means we want to use them – which equals the best chance of seeing that ‘lift and defined’ result that this duo promises. Link in bio to read our full review 🌟 #fabfindoftheweek #skincare #beautybibleloves #lizearleskincare #liftanddefine

Beauty Steal: @rogergallet Jean Marie-Farina Cologne treats ✨ Roger & Gallet Jean-Marie Farina Eau de Cologne isn’t just lovely - it’s the original Eau de Cologne. Created in the 18th century by Jean-Marie Farina, it was all about bright citrus - bergamot, lemon and orange - at a time when heavy musks ruled. The result? Fresh, zesty, timeless. The white shirt of fragrance. Even better, you can now layer it so that clean citrus feeling lasts longer: ✨ Roger & Gallet Jean-Marie Farina Shower Gel – £9.75 ✨ Roger & Gallet Jean-Marie Farina Perfumed Soap – £7.75 ✨ Roger & Gallet Jean-Marie Farina Deodorant Stick – £12 And of course, the Cologne itself – £39.95. Fresh. Easy. Always chic 💫 #beautybibleloves #beautysteal

Enjoy a Central London sniffathon – but blink, and you’ll miss it! ⌛️🏃&zwj;♀️

We spent a fascinating and enjoyable couple of hours this week exploring the International Maisons of Fine Fragrance, which is in residence at Frieze on Londo

Enjoy a Central London sniffathon – but blink, and you’ll miss it! ⌛️🏃‍♀️ We spent a fascinating and enjoyable couple of hours this week exploring the International Maisons of Fine Fragrance, which is in residence at Frieze on London’s Cork Street tomorrow (you’ll have to be quick if you want to visit!) for you to try 💖 Wish we could have given you more notice of this fab fragrance pop-up show in London’s Mayfair but we had to see (and sniff it!) first. Curated by luxury world dynamo @valeriekaminovilbc who we’ve known and respected literally for decades, there are some truly fabulous brands here, many of which were new to us – and brands are retailing or taking orders if you fall for something. It’s a slightly unusual mix of trade and public show, and you do pay to access – but walking the show with perfume writer colleagues we were rather wowed 🤩 Entry for the public is £36 for access from 2 – 6 p.m, and that does also secure you a goodie bag. (Can’t tell you what it contains or comment on whether that’s value for money, but for a true perfumista, that’s probably not relevant.) @sisology_official - Korean perfume house inspired by photography and cameras 📸 @the_rac_on_teur – founder Craig Andrade brought these beauties from Australia. Nearly fainted with pleasure… @angelaflanders – stunning new bottles + the most beautiful stand 😍 @toldlondon – today we’re burning Night Blooms, India and we can confirm it’s swoon-worthy. @scentofafrica – truly transporting scents from a continent rising in fragrance 🌏 @kingdomscotland – not forgetting those Macallan-inspired candles… smoky, peaty, DIVINE. @t.leclercparis – famed for their iconic face powders, it’s so good to see them back. ✨ We anticipate that the show will be back next year, even bigger and better – and we’ll be able to give you a bit more notice. But it’s not our thing to rave about events we don’t know intimately, or write about products we’ve never tried. (And we like to think that’s what makes Beauty Bible rather special.) #beautybibleloves #fragranceshow #perfumelovers #fragrance beautyreviews

🌟 WIN a flattering, fluttering lash wardrobe from @tatti_lashes with a spectacular kit (worth £350!) 🤩 To celebrate National Lash Day, a show-stopping prize featuring false lashes – from the UK’s No.1 name – to suit absolutely everyone. (And you might just want to share it with your friends…) If it’s a while since you tried your hand with false lashes, trust us: a lot has changed. So much less fiddly, with so much more staying power than the earliest false lash incarnations. (Days, in many cases.) Lashes these days come as ‘clusters’ to use just where you need them, half-strips or full sets, which now really go the distance – and the bottom line is: less faff, more style! And everything from natural looks to full-on lash va-va-voom, with false lashes to flatter at every age and stage of life. 🫶 So we’re delighted that this week’s prize comes from Tatti Lashes, who have swiftly become the go‑to name in falsies for lash lovers who like their glamour seriously dialled up, yet wonderfully wearable… Here’s what one lucky winner can look forward to: ✨ With Love, Treat Box (normally £51.80) – a curated lash gift set, accessories and tools for year‑round glam. ✨Ultimate Winter Edit (£84.65) – Tatti’s seasonal lash collection, showcasing glam styles, essentials and exclusive favourites. ✨ Pre-Glued Half Lash Kit (£37.35) – pre‑glued half lashes, applicator and extras for fast, flirty definition ✨ Pre-Glued Soft Glam Bundle (£26.90) – soft glam pre‑glued strips, natural volume, effortless everyday enhancement essentials. 📝 Online Lash & Brow Course with Kit (usually £150) – taking lash love to another level, Tatti actually offer the most in-depth online training course on the market 🥰 👉 For your chance to win this amazing lash bundle, enter via link in bio 💫 #beautybibleloves #tattilashes #nationallashday #makeupfinds #lashcollection

Sarah’s Health Notes: Decoding LED Face Masks 💡 Long before LED masks became a beauty trend, light therapy was already rooted in science - in 1903, Niels Finsen won a Nobel Prize for phototherapy. Today’s LED masks use red, blue and near-infrared light to help rejuvenate the skin and, in some cases, treat problems. They can be effective - but with consistency. Think 3x a week, allow 2–4 weeks for results, and always check for safety certification and high LED density. And remember: no mask replaces good skincare, nutrition and common sense. ✨ This month’s prize draw features the @correxiko LED Light Therapy Mask (worth £399) plus a collagen bundle — designed to support brightness, tone and firmness. Link in bio to enter 💫 #SarahsHealthNotes #LEDFacemask #SkinHealth #BeautyScience

✨ Fab Find of the Week ✨ @elemis_uki x @elizabethscarlett ‘A Gift of Glow’ Mother’s Day 2026 may have crept up on us (15th March, BTW, if it’s in your diary 💐), but this glow-giving beauty had already landed firmly on our radar - and in our hearts. We’ll be honest, we didn’t clock it as a ‘Mother’s Day’ set at first. We just saw a lineup of skincare heavy-hitters we adore, paired with a powder-blue velvet bag by the ever-giftable Elizabeth Scarlett - whose pouches and eye masks we’ve long considered foolproof presents. Inside? A dream team from ELEMIS: 💛 ELEMIS Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm (50g) – our forever favourite, in its aromatic original form. A travel size that somehow lasts for a-g-e-s. ✨ ELEMIS Pro-Collagen Glow Boost Exfoliator (15ml) – ideal for shaking off those end-of-winter skin doldrums. 🌫 ELEMIS Pro-Collagen Toning Mist (150ml full size) – for the nights when… yes, we’re in a toner mood. But the real discoveries? 🌙 ELEMIS Superfood Midnight Facial (50g full size) – a gel-cream dream with a subtle fruity scent. 🔬 ELEMIS Pro-Collagen Future Restore Serum (5ml) – seriously high-tech, promising up to 46% improved firmness in just four days. Consider us intrigued. Worth £162, currently £120 — including that so-soft velvet bag. Link in bio for our full review 🌞💫 #beautybibleloves #beautyblogger #mothersday2026 #giftideas #fabfindoftheweek

Beauty Bible Weekend Steal: @cerave Advanced Repair Ointment 💙 Dry, cracked skin? The big guns are here. For all those nooks, crannies and ouch-level dry patches - this ointment goes the distance when it comes to sealing, soothing and protecting. Yes… it’s petroleum-based (a little unexpected from a naturals-loving beauty team), but that’s exactly why it works - it stays put instead of disappearing instantly. Alongside the petrolatum you’ll find three essential ceramides plus hydrating hyaluronic acid to help support seriously compromised skin. What’s more, it doesn’t come with a big price tag. We’re impressed! Link in bio for our full review 🌟 And, Happy Valentine’s Day from the Beauty Bible team. We hope you’re getting your self-care in, whatever that looks like for you 💐💖 #beautybibleloves #weekendsteal #ceraveskincare

We recently stopped by The Beauty Concierge in Covent Garden - @dcypherbeauty brilliant pop-up where you can have your perfect foundation or concealer custom-blended right before your eyes (Jo’s seamless match is already a firm favourite). Alongside the bespoke base service, there’s a fab line-up of indie brands to discover - including REESON, RUM, Klira, Hildun Beauty, No.98 Beauty, What’s That Patch and Raven James. 📍 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden 📅 Until 6 March 2026 A lovely little beauty pilgrimage if you’re in the area. 💄✨ #beautybibleloves #beautypopup #thebeautyconcierge

🌟 Jo’s Scent Notes: @acquadiparma Colonia Il Profumo Millesimato 🫶🇮🇹 💬 “Acqua di Parma are having a marvellous time celebrating their 110th anniversary. If you haven’t caught the video of Michael Fassbender in ‘The Art of Living Italian’ video that he made for them (find it on @acquadiparma’s Instagram, roughly three weeks ago), then you’re really missing something fabulous. Makes me want to up sticks, move to Parma and even get a bicycle.” 🌞 As part of the celebrations, they’ve brought out a limited edition – all the zing that Acqua di Parma-lovers are familiar with, from creators of that quintessential, splash-it-all-over, awaken-the-senses Cologne 😍 Link in bio to read the full review from Jo ✨ #beautybibleloves #scentnotes #fragrance

Fab Find of the Week: @williammorrisathome x @purdyandfigg Love Your Home Collection 🏡❤️ We are ALL about the spring cleaning, right now. Tidying medicine cabinets. Pulling out beds and chests of drawers. Polishing windows that suddenly look dusty and even cobwebby, now that the light’s changed a bit. And this is just the loveliest range to help you power through the spring cleaning in a fabulously fragrant way. As you may know, we’re longstanding fans of Purdy & Figg. (As a customer from the beginning, Jo even did an online ad for them last year – the only thing she’s ever done such a thing.) And we’re equally longstanding fans of William Morris At Home, created by our friends at Heathcote & Ivory. This Love Your Home Collection Starter Kit was a sell-out in days when it launched last month, but – set your alarms – because new stock is being added to the website on Valentine’s Day. Link in bio for our full review 🫶 #beautybibleloves #fabfindoftheweek #loveyourhome

Beauty Bible Weekend Steal: @dr.pawpaw YOUR Gorgeous HAIR 💙 This is good stuff. But we’d expect nothing less from Dr.PAWPAW, actually, who’ve now added haircare to their range (and will be refocusing on the EXCELLENT skincare again soon, we hear.) Affordable, with packaging to wake up your senses, we’re loving everything about this. EVERYTHING. The smell? Light, freshn a teensy bit tropical, but underplayed. (Because let’s face it, we want people to be able smell our fragrance, not our haircare.) Faves to date are the OUR gorgeous HAIR Cleansing Shampoo and YOUR gorgeous HAIR Hydrating Conditioner, and – for us – the heroes of the range, which are a couple of styling products. Link in bio to read our full review 🫶 #beautybibleloves #weekendsteal #haircare #drpawpaw

WIN @correxiko LED Light Therapy Mask (worth £399) – and more! 🌟 We’ve written about Correxiko collagen products before, applauding founder Dr. Dinuk Dissanayake, London-trained specialist gastroenterologist turned health and beauty entrepreneur. He describes founding the company as ‘a love letter’ to his wife Lalani. The first missive came in the shape of clinically proven formulations based on the marine collagen peptides he’d first used as an NHS doctor for wound healing post surgery. They stimulate fibroblasts, the raw material to produce new collagen to give skin bounce, suppleness and smoothness, also elastin for springiness and hyaluronic acid to keep skin hydrated and plump. 🌟 The BIG NEWS now is that Dr. Dinuk has just launched the Correxiko Light Therapy Face Mask, designed to be used in tandem with taking the collagen supplements 🌟 💫 We’re delighted to offer Beauty Bible readers the chance to win a Correxiko Light Therapy Face Mask (normally £399), plus a Correxiko Marine Collagen Bundle (worth £69), with a 30-day supply of marine collagen powder and marine collagen capsules. No other brand is offering this exclusive combination to help you look and feel your best, and it’s really pretty fabulous. Link in bio to enter ✨ #beautybibleloves #prizedraw #collagen #lighttherapy

Fab Find of the Week: @urbandecaycosmetics Naked Original Eyeshadow Palette - Limited Edition 👀🌟 ⏰ It’s back. But be quick! Because Urban Decay are telling us that this will be absolutely the final time that this invaluable, truly iconic palette will be on sale. Allegedly, 30 million of the original Urban Decay Naked Original Eyeshadow Palette have been sold – and we’re not really surprised. This is your capsule collection of totally wearable matte and shimmer shades, for every eye effect imaginable. It spans the whole spectrum of colours that we’d use ourselves, from Virgin – a great bone shade, for the brow-bone – through to a smouldering deep navy and grey (the slightly weirdly-named Creep, and Gunmetal), via lots of brilliant neutrals. Link in bio for the full review 💫 #beautybibleloves #fabfindoftheweek #limitededition

💖 Beauty Bible Loves... @glisten_cosmetics x @teletubbieshq ✨ It’s a mad world out there. So, don’t think us crazy, because today we bring you a colourful collab between Glisten Cosmetics and Teletubbies that’s a thing of pure joy and fun (albeit one probably designed for younger faces than ours). And don’t we all need more joy and fun, in present times? 🌈 The Glisten Cosmetics x Teletubbies collection offers a rainbow (literally) of palettes. We think young teens would love this – not to mention as anyone who feels a tad nostalgic for the Teletubbies themselves, and those innocent, optimistic days of the 1990s. Link in bio to find out more 🌟 #beautybibleloves #collab #beautyproducts #90sera

Beauty Bible Weekend Steal: The return of @thebodyshop Dewberry ✨ Who can forget Dewberry? It was the signature scent of so many in the late 80s and 90s, and legions of Dewberry-lovers were plunged into beauty mourning when it was discontinued. But it’s BACK! Another sign that The Body Shop understands what a rich and beloved heritage it has to plunder. The fragrance has been revived (with a cheery new look) and layerable body products have been added to the range. Link in bio for our full review 🫶 #beautybibleloves #weekendsteal #thebodyshop

Jo’s Scent Notes: @aftelierperfume Patchouli Noir (featuring 100-year-old patchouli...!) 🌿✨ In this week’s Scent Notes, Jo dives nose-first into Patchouli Noir by Mandy Aftel - a dark, daring natural fragrance with a red-velvet, smoke-hazed nightclub soul. Think cognac, ambergris, blood orange, pine tar and four different patchouli essences, including one that’s a century old. Jo says: “This is one naughty fragrance, with a red velvet, smoke-hazed nightclub vibe, and a pulsing, smouldering sensuality” Discover why Mandy Aftel is the true master of natural perfumery - and explore the stories, books and curiosities behind this extraordinary scent. Link in bio to find out more 💖 #beautybibleloves #scentnotes #fragrancelovers

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