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Roses are Red

Collaborations • Editorials

Red, the colour of passion. The perfect colour to celebrate Valentine’s day with. Timeless red rubies and roses. I so excited to celebrate this Valentine’s Day with Fabergé.

Romance is about passion, but it’s also about enduring love, building something together. I love the idea of Valentine’s Day presents reflecting that. Red rubies are undoubtedly the colour of passion. These beautiful rings from Fabergé can help you to build a collection that reflects your memories together. Whether that’s to celebrate your first six months together, your wedding anniversary, valentines day or the birth of a child, you can stack up all your memories with these lovely mementos. They look chic stacked or on their own. A combination of bands and rings or all one style. You can make them totally your own. Choose colours that reflect you and your love. Fabergé are making the Three Colours of Love collection in Rubies, Emeralds and Sapphires, all surrounded with either rose or white gold. The detail that goes into the setting and design of every Fabergé piece means that they last the test of time. I love the detail of the small diamond set under the Rubies. It’s such a beautiful detail. Like love, it’s the things that only you know about that make it exceptional.

The Fabergé Rings Featured…

Ruby Pave Rose Gold Fluted Ring
Fabergé Ruby Rose Gold Fluted Ring
Pave Diamond Ruby Fluted Ring
Ruby Rose Gold Fluted Band
Diamond Rose Gold Fluted Band
White Gold Fluted Band
Rose Gold Fluted Band

I’m wearing a vintage dress.

Photos by Frances Davison

Food

Our Engagement Party

Party Planning • Weddings

At the end of August 2016 my boyfriend asked me to marry him. A moment, that will shape the rest of my life, one way, or another. Sometimes a chance meeting is fate.

V&A

V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, London, United Kingdom

Although this site is mostly a place for image references and creative ideas that I have, it is also my little corner of the internet, it has been since November 2010. I know there are amongst the people reading this, cherished and loyal supporters of the site that have been with me right from the beginning. For those of you that bother to type ‘p’ into your browser in search of me, I’m grateful, and I want to share little of my private life with you (most often kept apart from the general content of this site) in order to explain the progress this site will naturally take, following as it does my creative life, which is enviably influenced by my real life experiences.

I met my fiancé at a dinner club run by a friend of a friend. Coming on for two years later we are planning our marriage and future together. I’m not much of a bride, I never thought about what dress I would have, or secretly planned my wedding on pinterest. But meeting him has made me want a life shared and a family.

We are getting married in the summer but we celebrated with an engagement party on the 15th of December at the V&A in London. We used the Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery (which is designed to look like an italian sculpture garden).
The flowers were by Wild at Heart, my favourite florist in London. (You might remember them from my Chanel Couture shoot). Wild at Heart always surprises me with something beautiful and effortless. For the engagement party they did miniature christmas trees on the standing tables, and then white and green arrangements, one large and three small for each of the two bar tables. They were all stunning, festive but not themed. I can only recommend them in the highest way possible for an event or just for your home! I wore a stunning bespoke dress from Razan Alazzouni (which I will share in another post).
We used the wonderful caterer Rocket, who were also amazing. Arranging tastings, working to our budget and to my visual brief, making all their platters dressed with seasonal foliage to match the floristry. We had… Black Rice Crackers with Tuna Tartar, Lobster and Spinach Butter Filo Parcels, Miniature Beef Wellingtons, Potato and Truffle Cream Thins, Roast Scallop and Pancetta Rosemary Spiedini, Irish Potato and Herb cakes with Spiced Duck, and Pea and Gruyere Soufflés. Served alongside Prosecco with Thyme and Lemon Zest twirls. Everything was beautiful and delicious, all thanks to my wonderful and generous parents who hosted the party, and without whom none of it would have been possible.

Planning the wedding has obviously been a whirl wind, and it made me think, for all the girls out there, like me, who didn’t have a clue what they wanted at the start, maybe some wedding content would be helpful. So please do comment below if you would like to see a bridal guide on the site and I will let you know my top tips as I go through the process.

Photos by Ella Sadika , Peony Lim

Beauty

Make Up That Cares

Collaborations • Makeup • Tutorials

A fresh start for a New Chinese New Year. Clinique and I are sharing a routine for skincare and make up that cares for your skin. Oranges always remind me of Chinese New Year. I used them for inspiration for this tutorial. I wanted it to be a fresh start for your skin and makeup routine. The new year is a great opportunity to start possitive new habits. This year think about how your skincare and make up routines care for your skin. Clinique is all about your skin.

Be Kind to your Skin

Starting with a face wash on the Clinique face brush I wash my face for no more that 30 seconds with warm water (it’s important not to over use the brush or it will irritate not purify your skin).
I get some redness around my nose and chin so I use a special moisturiser just on these areas, to calm the skin.
Then across the whole face and neck, I add a great all round moisturiser. Working the product with the warmth of my hands into my skin.

Lipbalm

Always finish with a good lip balm to condition your lips ready for lipstick.

Making a good Foundation

Using a flat foundation brush, I apply CC cream across the cheeks, chin and nose. With whatever remains on the brush across my forehead.
Then I apply an undereye concealer with the same brush, pressing the product in.
Following with a more brightening concealer, I add another light coat under the bottom of my dark circles (to bounce the light up) and bridge of the nose. Blending out with my finger.
Using the dark Chubby contour stick, I lay down a light shadow under my cheekbones and temples and I blend out the cream product with my fingers.
The highlight Chubby stick comes next, which I run over the top of my cheekbones, on the top of the brow bone and above the eyebrow on the outer edge. Again I find my fingers blend this out best.

Setting

Using a yellow based powder and a large brush set your under eye concealer.
Then with a transparent powder and the same brush, set the rest of your face. (The brush that comes with the powder is great for highlighting).
Using the same big brush light blend out all the powders.

Bronze, Blush and Highlight

I focus bronzer on under my cheekbones, the temples, under the chin and top of my forehead. Then a light dusting over the whole face.
Then I use the blush to warm and balance my face. Blending across the bridge of the nose, temples and the apples of the cheeks.
Using the lightest colour in the blush (it has a lovely shimmer), I set the cream highlight, on the tops of my cheeks, nose and cupids bow. I used the little brush that came with the powder.

Blending with your Fingers

Using the liquid liner I volumsize my lashes by just filling in the lash line in the outer corner of the top lash.
With my fingers I use the palest shade of eye shadow to highlight the center of my eye, patting to blend the product out.
Then with another finger I use the mid-tone brown to contour my eye subtly. I press the product into the outer crease of my lid and pat to blend them again.
Finally I curl my lashes and apply a couple of coats of Mascara.

And to finish

I apply the liquid lipstick straight from the tube and as it dries I pat my finger across it to make the colour more subtle.
Finishing with a good spritz of face spray to set my makeup and add a little moisture. (Feel free to repeat this set throughout the day to freshen your makeup back up).

Cleaning Brushes

I get so many questions about how to clean my brushes. A great way after every makeup application is by using a mouse or spray on a cotton pad or brush cleaning pad. Then I spray the brush on both sides with the cleaning spray and wipe it on the pad until it’s clean. It’s a great way to maintain your brushes between full washes and prevent breakouts. Simple steps like this really help to care for your skin. Dirty brushes make dirty skin, which results in breakouts.

Photos by Frances Davison