Outspoken Beauty

I'm so happy to finally welcome the founder of PHENOMENAL makeup brand Hildun onto the podcast. Suzy Griffin Dunne is such a brilliant personality with a background in both beauty writing and makeup artistry.
Suzy's creation of Hildun has really inspired me. Every product is so carefully thought through and is such a pleasure to use. I know that you'll love getting to know the woman behind it and hearing her story. It's one of ambition, graft and Suzy is bound to make you laugh too - she's a true Outspoken Beauty.

I am sitting here writing up this week's Outspoken Review in my knickers. I'm sweating in places that I didn't know could sweat and I'm frequently spritzing the poor, over-heated rabbit with water.
Anyway, heat aside, I have some lovely products to tell you about this week including a brilliant SPF, the best tinted lip balm (that I've been using as a highlighter too), minty freshness from Neom, some mind-blowing fragrances and two simple but impressive recipes.
Enjoy fellow Outspoken Beauties xx

In this episode I'm chatting to cosmetic scientist and The Good Housekeeping Institute's Innovation Tester Juliet Heaton.
Juliet is in charge of rigorously testing products against their claims in the Institute's lab to make sure that they actually deliver on their claims.
During the episode we have a really interesting chat about how clever marketing can lead us to believe things about our beauty products that simply aren't true and why some of the social media personalities who recommend things to us may be aligned with brands or at a basic level, recommend products that work for their skin but that are useless for us.
Juliet's job is to use tech that can really prove (or mis-prove) product claims and tell us about the brands and products that stand out and will deliver on their promises.
We also chat about the inaugural GHI Believe In Beauty Awards, the winners of which which have now been announced. We'll chat about some of the winners and whzt makes the products stand out.
This is such a great episode and in a world of too much information and choice, it will help you find the beauty products that really work.

In this week's Outspoken Review I have some real treats in store... the most beautiful, glowy SPF and another game-changer that has been 6 years in the making.
I'll also tell you all about the absolutely beautiful new Acqua di Parma discovery kit , my fabulous sound bath experience, why I'm not really enjoying the "clean girl aesthetic" at the moment and lots more.

Scientist, dietician and author Dr Emily Leeming is back for another incredible episode about our gut health and this time we're chatting about fibre.
Whilst on paper fibre sounds pretty boring, Emily is here to prove that it is quite the opposite. There is so much research showing just how vital it is for our health and wellbeing and Emily is here to tell us about all the latest scientific findings and how we can apply them easily to our own diets.
Emily is never about taking food away but about adding bits here and there that add up to make a big difference. She'll tell you more about this during the episode.
Emily also talks about her new book Fibre Power which is a must read. It's full of easy tips, tricks and recipes and I recommend it wholeheartedly.
What a brilliant and important episode this is!