You know when Simon Cowell goes  (after a standing ovation performance): “You know…." (pause)…this is why we do the X Factor”. Well – ditto The Beauty Shortlist Awards.
One of the brands really floating my boat this month is Swedish eco-luxe skincare range M. Picaut.  But first, a little about its founder, Mette. In her words, taken from the website www.mettepicaut.se, her’s the “About Me”.

Founder and all round lovely person
Mette Picaut was born in Gothenburg in 1967. She worked abroad from 1989 to 2000 as a model, mainly in Tokyo, but also in Scandinavia, Paris, Madrid, Hamburg, Athens, Milan, London, USA, Hong Kong and Australia. Mette is also trained in art school, as an acupuncturist (in traditional Chinese medicine) and has studied four semesters of nursing education. Today she is married with two children and has a passion to highlight what increases the beauty of everyday life and everything that is created with love and care. At first look, M. Picaut looks clean, pure, botanically-powered and very “cocoony”, and guess what" One of the hero products is her Calming Cocoon Cream (the one in the round tub), which is so comforting it could almost appease a wailing baby.

Favourite new moisturiser: second from Left (in a lightweight plastic pump)
This balm-like barrier cream is a winter bodyguard and I’ve been applying the Calming Cocoon Cream last thing at night and loving the results. Th...