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Dear friends. Today I'm taking you to a fascinating exhibition in London: "Queen Elizabeth: Her Life in Style." I went with six colourful friends and we had a fun lunch in Sloane Square afterwards.
The late Queen's early reign coincided with the start of UK couture. The quality of the craftsmanship involved in creating many of the Queen's outfits was outstanding.
Dear friends. Perhaps not as many books read as usual this month, but they were generally high quality and very different from each other.
There were three 5 star reads, one a moving account of the death of an ordinary man.
I've also given an update on my book challenges, given that we're nearly halfway through the year.
All books were supplied as digital advance copies by NetGalley in return for an honest review, except those with an asterisk which I bought myself.
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Dear friends. Have beauty brands been deceiving us for years with products containing ingredients that don't penetrate the skin?
It's all to do with a unit of measurement called a Dalton. It's a unit of mass used to measure the size of molecules.
What's significant about it is that some small beauty brands are claiming that research from Harvard University suggests commercial skincare products with "miracle" ingredients are actually biophysically too large to do the heavy lifting they are marketed for.
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Dear friends. I'm sharing a couple of new season buys today. I didn't need very much for summer and I haven't seen very much that grabs me. That's one of the drawbacks with having had colour analysis. You search for particular colours and sometimes they're just not in the shops.
My new orange jacket is from Kettlewell, who specialise in colours for those who have been seasonally or tonally analysed.
