Well it looks as though we have ourselves a new beauty series; I uploaded a Youtube video about supermarket beauty on Sunday night and it was an instant hit. It was a video I had been meaning to do for a while – a quick “supermarket sweep” style vlog where I pick out the best beauty buys in my local supermarket. I originally intended it to be a sixty second video for Instagram, something I might do quickly every week with just one product (might still do it, actually) but when I got to Sainsbury’s I had nowhere to prop my camera without looking like a berk and I also had Ted with me, who was being (understandably) grumpy and had to be fed mini scotch eggs at a rate of one per twenty seconds.
So I changed the idea slightly, grabbing the beauty bits I needed and heading home to talk through my choices. To be quite honest, it probably made the video more useful, because it meant I could go into more depth with the product reviews and ramble about supermarket beauty buying in general. Had I tried to film the whole thing in-store, I would have rushed it and probably just done a very quick precis for each item whilst looking nervously over my shoulder to see whether anyone was coming to admonish me. (Also: supermarket lighting tends to be DIRE for filming in. It makes you look about twenty years older and ten times more sallow.) Anyway, here begins a whole new series: I thought I’d make it a regular thing to go to different supermarkets and find the...