Author: Alice Smellie

  • With a passion for beauty and over a decade’s experience working for national newspapers and magazines, Alice has written for such publications as the Independent, Harpers, Grazia, ES Magazine,Daily Telegraph, Brides magazine and InStyle magazine. For the last five years she has predominantly been writing beauty features for the Daily Mail. Her obsession with decent mascara is rivalled only by her increasingly desperate quest for effective anti-wrinkle creams. She adores cheap chocolate, expensive champagne and Edward Cullen with a passion and hasn’t left the house without wearing make-up since 1993 when the local newsagent didn’t recognise her without lipgloss.

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Release Your Inner Witch

Wouldn’t it be great if you could trick or treat for lipgloss? Halloween is almost upon us and thoughts are turning to beauty of an altogether darker sort.... Read more.
Beauty & Wellbeing, Beauty

The Colour Purple

As the mists of autumn descend and leaves start to turn and fall, keep up with the new season and take on the colour purple as your must-have make-up colour.…... Read more.
Beauty & Wellbeing, Beauty

Death of the Face Cream

The time has come for Belles to wave a radiant goodbye to the overpriced face cream. The buzz word in the beauty world this year is nutricosmetics, and it’s... Read more.
Beauty & Wellbeing, Beauty