Is Caudalie, the latest must-have French beauty brand, worth all the hype?

*Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links Ah! French beauty brands! A long term addiction of mine! A guilty pleasure, with hardly any guilt attached. After all, who could feel guilty for being besotted by the most beauteous of beauty products that the world has to offer?! Brands that make you want to exclaim… Even if…

3 Great Reasons to Revamp that Skin Care Routine!

  Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links Okay, so it’s confession time! I’ve been having a longterm love affair (noooo, not that kind of one! 😜) … with the beauty industry! For as long as I can remember, I have always loved, invested in and experimented with more beauty products than I could ever attempt…

4 Hot Australian Trends we’ll all be wearing this Summer!

 This blog post has been a whole lot longer in the works than anticipated, but (big breath, excuses time!), following our epic trip Down Under at Christmas, there has been seriously debilitating jet lag, mixed in with a spot of real flu (which lasted, I kid you not, three whole weeks!), not to mention the…

Cult Beauty Brands… that are Totally Worth the Hype!

Cult beauty brands… Sigh! While I do love a great bargain beauty find (for proof of this, see: 4 of the Best Budget Beauty Buys Revealed! and Six Aldi Products we all need in our lives right now… ), almost nothing makes me happier than a high-end beauty product splurge. It’s not so much the…

This week Mostly Mum was mostly shopping in… Sephora

Sephora… Sigh! Mostly Mum has been in love with Sephora since first setting foot on French soil as part of a school exchange way back in 1993. (Yes, Mostly Mum is practically a dinosaur! 😩) And ever since, that monochrome Sephora (fun fact alert! Sephora comes from the Greek spelling of Zipporah, the most beautiful…

Today Mostly Mum was mostly… tied to the kitchen sink!

Ugh! Today was just one of those days that I felt well and truly tied to the kitchen sink… Approximately 7am my Lulu (aka Baby C) alarm went off. Darn and double darn! Was too tired to wash bottles last night so now I had to haul myself out of bed and down to the…