Your beauty editor has landed!

Where to start, where to start? Well firstly, may I apologise for the tardiness of this introduction? I was supposed to have written it weeks and weeks ago but life, as they say, took over. Also, I was rather nervous; having seen the darts of razor-sharp wit flying about on here (and not always in a straight line!) I was wary of raising my head above the parapet.

But here I am, tentatively staking my ground in the hot-bed of acute observation and quick-fire humour that is Le Blow. Beauty. Beauty Editor! I’d quite like to have a regular look at truthful beauty subjects on here – things that perhaps couldn’t be mentioned in polite conversation. Topics (not-yet) pitched to the Editor include:

1) suggestive beauty packaging – bottles that look like sex-toys. (Umberto Giannini, main culprit.)

2) breast cream application – how much time is too much time?

3) (ditto for applying body cream to the upper thigh region.)

4) First Date makeup that will survive until the First Morning After.

5) what’s the point of pubes?

6) festival chic – how to look human, 48 hours in.

Whilst I’m waiting for approval on those I’ll be tackling much more dignified beauty dilemmas such as ‘how to: apply the ‘smokey eye look’ when you’re about to get stuck in to your second bottle of Pinot Grigio’ and ‘how to: happy-hour hair styling’. Now and then I may come forward with some paragraphs of sense and wisdom, but please don’t hold your breath. I spend the majority of my time poring over skincare ingredients and lipstick shades, and I’d quite like our time together to be fun, frivolous and frank. Obviously my role as beauty editor does require me to touch fleetingly on current ‘styles and trends’, and I shall endeavour to do this with as much sarcasm and non-constructive criticism as I can possibly muster.

For slightly more orthodox beauty tips and reviews, you can always refer to A Model Recommends, my daily diary of findings and ramblings – go on, knock yourselves out! [Ed: Oi! Less self-promotion, more blog posts, yeah?]

– Ruth Crilly