Review | More Than Toast

How I’ve Been Buying £200 Worth Of Luxury Beauty Products For £20

When I look at the amount of money I’ve spent on luxury skincare and beauty over the last few years I feel slightly sick. This is how I’ve cut this spending down by 90% without scrimping on quality or experience.

White City House Hotel, The Perfect West London Bolthole

Located inside the old BBC Television Centre, the old HQ for BBC TV between 1960 and 2013, this 45-room hotel is bursting with charm, good food and plentiful drinks.

The Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green

On occasion I’m one of those people who gets smug about no longer living in London. I noticed it when I went for lunch with my Sister-in-Law recently; I started waxing lyrical about the low crime rates, big houses, affordable living costs and good schools out here. “And it’s only 30 minutes into Euston!!!” I exclaim. “Amazing!!!!”

PUBLIC Hotel, New York City

Studio 54’s Ian Schrager opened PUBLIC on Chrystie Street in the Lower East Side last year. Sold as a disruptor to the Air BnB model, he wanted to open a space that would do away with the unnecessary bells and whistles of traditional hotels. Did it work for us?

St Tropez Gradual 1 Minute Tan Pre Shower Mousse Review

I am pale. Not a fun English-rose kind of pale either, but the kind of pale that, when untanned, leaves friends asking if I’m ill. Which is why, for as long as I can remember (15? 16?), I have used tanning products. And this one, that promises a quick tan with no streaks or orange bedsheets, promises to be revolutionary.