Don't get too excited: Beauty edior Bethan Cole just refers to Hillary's comment about Bobbi Brown's Maoist ethos, without crediting her, in this year's edition.

And now for the diatribe:

The awards themselves are determined by readers' votes. I find it somewhat depressing that with all of the innovation going on and the explosion of so many fabulous brands over the last several years, boring old Clinique ended up the brand Sunday Times readers voted for most. While ...

Thinking of cutting my hair this short 
  Originally uploaded by dynamist.

My last cut was this one, which I got in Paris last October. Since then, my hair has grown rather a lot, as you can see here (though even that doesn't really show you, since that style is the result of hot rollers). Anyway, it's grown out.

Thing is, that last cut was a really ...

I don't care how soft-yet-firm this moisturizer can make my skin. All of its positive properties are negated by the fact that it smells of bad potpourri. It's just not a scent I enjoy at all. The annoying thing is that it's not off-putting enough to make me throw away a $32 jar of moisturizer (though I did get mine for only $7 at TJ Maxx). So this will be my nighttime body cream, I guess, since I'm ...