Madeleine Spencer

Madeleine Spencer

Madeleine Spencer is one of the top influencer in United States with 20347 audience and 0.99% engagement rate on Instagram. Check out the full profile and start to collaborate.

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Deeply moved to have been asked by @nikkitibbleswildatheart @wild_at_heart_foundation to take a more official role in helping to raise funds and awareness for them as a friend of the charity. You can find more about me, my fellow friends and ambassadors, and the great work they do on the website. I would say Monty would be proud of his human but actually he didn’t care much for other dogs, the funny man. But I will think of what a very good boy he was and how a little rescue dog lit up my life whenever I am doing anything them, of course. Please do look through the information on these slides - it’s very sobering and perhaps would be helpful to share with anyone contemplating buying versus adopting a dog.

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Improbably, the sewage saga hasn’t been all bad (even though it has been very very very bad indeed on the most part). Having to pack to leave my house brought clarity; just as you realise who actually cares about you when at a low ebb, it turns out your house being a site of excrement makes you grab only the products you think really, really highly of. A handful I’ve found to be outstanding (and a few treatments, too): - Hair Botox @gustav_fouche. See that shine to my hair? That’s all thanks to this treatment. It lasts up to three months and is deeply conditioning and very smoothing, hence the name. - @mortarandmilklondon PHA serum. Look, I say it a lot, but this serum is the difference for me between a bad skin day and a good one, so even though my shoulders are knotted from hauling around bags, this glass bottle is non-negotiable. - @ilovelash lazy lash lift. The sole reason you can see my eyelashes in this photo. That and lashings of @sweedbeauty Cloud mascara - my current thing. - @boadiceathevictorious Valiant. People always tell me I smell good when I wear this, and I respond in that silly British way and confess that it’s nothing to do with me and is merely this exquisite, ultimate low-key but luxe smell. - @refybeauty highlighter. Takes sheen up to the max but somehow still looks quite a lot like skin. A mad achievement - would you let me in your labs please, Refy, to have a nose around? - @palmersuk cocoa butter body moisturiser. If you wish to be softer than a seal and smell quite a lot like chocolate, there is nothing superior. I’ve been devoted since I was in my early teens and it is quite possibly the best body moisturiser I’ve ever used. - @oskiaskincare Violet Water Hydra Gel. Stress = spots. This helps stop them turn into beasts. - @bareminerals Mineralist Gloss Balm in Peace. Peachy pink with little gold spheres, this makes lips look slightly fuller and a little more alive, but without being a headline. Am wearing it in the above, and it’s been my go-to for months. - @victoriabeckhambeauty foundation drops. Somehow offers decent coverage and looks like skincare alone when on. A feat.

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Since their inaugural issue, @wellcurated.co.uk have always asked me to write pieces that examine the very core truths surrounding beauty and culture, the how and why we do what we do, the how and why it makes us feel so profoundly. Here are my two latest pieces for them from the vantage point of my bed from which I’ve been gobbling up the latest issue. Thanks for having me again @camillahewitt @katedavismacleod.

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The reality of being a leaseholder under @citywestminster. It is day three of the sewage flood as the result of collapse of a drainage pipe that’s Westminster’s property and despite my having made endless calls, the only action: two hapless plumbers who believed the main drain was in my house, left, and… that’s it. Today, they’ve decided they might be putting some CCTV in to figure out where the rupture is. After THREE DAYS during which I’ve been exposed to god knows what and lost money through work as well as having to pay for endless taxis and takeaways. What do you think? P.s. I also couldn’t use my loo or shower in that time. JOY.

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When you’ve spent a week engaged in a sewage-related saga, going to the best place in town with a handful of the best people in one’s acquaintance is necessary, so that’s precisely what I did. Also: Wolfgang’s first trip to the Hut, but unquestionably not his last.

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When in Milan… (I am here in the capacity of make-up artist this time round. Where does one go and what does on see during downtime in Milan? If you leave it to me I’ll gaze at buildings and eat street pizza, and while both are marvellous I am keen to branch out.)

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Delighted to have helped launch the @ouraring Ring 4 Ceramic into the UK today by hosting a conversation with their VP of Brand and Marketing, Lindsay Belknap. It came at an excellent time: the flood situation and dealing with the council has been unbelievably taxing, my Oura telling me I’ve experienced unprecedented stress before offering tips on how to mitigate it and reminding me of what’s important to look after myself - so I’m full of the joys of this clever ring (and my God was it good to have an excuse to leave the laptop for a few hours). My choice of the newbies is the Cloud one - very clean, very simple. But there’s also a pale blue and petal pink and deep navy in case you are keen. ???? @humeara @beautyandtheb

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When my Ancestry results arrived, the response in my family couldn’t have been more divided. My brother and I, both avid fans of history, pored over the results. Where did the Spanish 2% come from? How did Dad carry English blood? And the French bit was completely baffling - but at least my name suddenly felt warranted. On the flip side, my Dad, whose blood carries a great many countries implying a great many back stories, couldn’t care less. To him, life is now and what came before doesn’t matter much. It hasn’t put me and the brother off. While combing through an old album to trace lines back, we found this photo of my maternal great-uncle Frederick, who was conscripted to the Kriegsmarine. The third photo is my brother back when he was around Freddie’s age. Isn’t the resemblance uncanny? Bridging the two is a photo of my Oma, from whom I seem to have inherited my colouring and upper lip. Beyond the superficial details of their faces and the main outlines of their lives, I’d like to know a great deal more. But, and it’s a big but, there’s a limit to how readily I can access European records over here. I want to delve deeper but it seems fraught with difficulty. Has anyone done this successfully and, if so, how?

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I’ve encountered a lot of public people during the course of my career. An overwhelming trend: the appearance of goodness doesn’t translate to actual goodness, and the entreaties to others to be kind doesn’t mean that kindness is sent out into the world alongside that post/article/video. There is a lot of empty carried in parcels of pretty words. @lisaoxenham is one of the few exceptions to that, a woman who is remarkable both because she looks it and because she actually is. And I don’t just mean that she’s great at her job or has achieved incredible things or even that she looks like pure health at 50 (despite having had her second baby solo a matter of weeks ago) - though all those things are true, granted. Closer up, the thing that makes Lisa pure gold is that she’s the kind of person you can call at any time of day and whether she’s breastfeeding or writing or, likely, both, she will enter into the fray, will do everything within her power to help, materially or emotionally. Whether it’s the council yet again or someone being shitty at work or my endless questions about what to do with my hair, she’s wise and warm and enthusiastic and bloody hell am I lucky to have had her help steer me for over 25 years now. The best of women, and friends. Happy 50th, Lise, you creature of sunshine. Hopefully I’ve been half as good a friend to you over the years as you have been to me.

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