Imagine how fast my heart was beating when I received this press pack from Chanel – I honestly thought that I had been sent a special travel diary, complete with cute little double-c sticky page markers and lovely postcard inserts. After my eye-rolling over The Happiness Planner, with its vom-inducing inspirational quotes, I couldn’t have been more excited about the arrival of a chic grey travel journal.
Grown-up. Understated.
I mean, I’m not going on any travels any time soon (other than our massive family relocation, which is a whole other story) but in terms of stationery p*rn, a Chanel travel journal would surely be way up there on the top shelf.

As it turned out, the Travel Diary was merely a very attractive press release – filled with beautiful photos, but nowhere for me to scribble down my thoughts about the bleak Minnesota landscape or what have you. My soul was somewhat soothed, however, by the small cloth bag underneath the press pack, which contained a selection of products from the new Autumn-Winter Chanel makeup collection.
The collection is called (you might have guessed) Travel Diary and it’s the latest stroke of cosmetic genius from Chanel’s global creative makeup designer, Luca Pica. Luca drew inspiration from a road trip along the Californian coast, and she’s come up with a really evocative palette of contrasting tones – the warmth of bright city lights and a vivid red sunset, the grey, murky shades of ...