Ruth Crilly

I’ve posted my skincare routine online every year for sixteen years. For the latest instalment comment SKIN. 💪 Any questions about specific products or the order in which I use them, please read the blog post first because most stuff is answered there. Oh, and subscribe to get all blog posts sent straight to your inbox! ❤️ Ad-info: I have a longterm contract with @currentbody and the blog post this links to has a paid collaboration.

Think this has to be one of my best discoveries in a while! @sulisfineart . Found them online when I was looking for paintings for @thedorsetnest and realised they weren’t too far from me so I asked if I could go in and film… 📹 They have over 10,000 original paintings! Every price point, every style, ancient ones and new ones, framed ones and paintings on pieces of wood… I was in my element. 🎨🖌️ If you struggle to find beautiful things for your walls and don’t have years to spend trawling galleries and antique markets then you can thank me later! This is going to save me so much time in the future. You can return paintings too, if you find they don’t work for you when you get them unwrapped and on the wall… 💪 I’ll pop some of my favourite picks online this week. They have a new drop of paintings every single week but go quite fast, apparently. On your marks… 🤣 I bought three paintings but am deeply regretting the ones I left behind…

House stuff: what I do when I don’t know where to start. 🤷‍♀️ Wish I had a cheat sheet for other areas of my life! 🤣 Comment LINK and I’ll send you the longer blog post.

NEW LEVEL OF SATISFACTION UNLOCKED! 💪 For the past quarter of a decade I’ve been trying to reduce the size of my travel bag when I go for just one night away and LOOK! All my skincare for one night and morning and it fits onto half the palm of my hand! 🤣 God I’m thrilled. Nobody to share my excitement with IRL unless I go and knock on @lorna_colwill and disturb her work so I’m sharing it on here! 🥂 Skincare list: Little tiny pot of @farmacybeauty cleansing balm that I fill from my big pot in the cupboard, teeny tiny serum capsules from @elizabetharden (the OG brand for light beauty packing, imo!) and 2% BHA exfoliant pre-soaked pad from @paulaschoice . An almost empty moisturiser from @olehenriksen (forgot to check it, epic fail) and my trusty spot patches from @ceraveuki . 💃 My next challenge is to reduce the entire luggage down to a handbag but a) I needed my laptop and b) I have a cold so felt the need to bring massive socks, extra jumper and my comfy pyjamas. Next time, next time…. 🤓 Contains ad-pr samples from Paula’s Choice and Cerave.

It’s happening again… 🤍🤎🤍 Very excited to introduce you to @thedorsetnest , open later this summer. Make sure you’re following to be the first to know when bookings open! 🪾🌷🪾 The Dorset Nest is a fairytale thatched cottage in deepest rural Dorset and joins The Dorset Nook (@thedorsetnook ) as a supremely stylish retreat in one of the country’s most beautiful spots. I can’t wait to welcome you in! 🥂 Cottage photo credits @inigo.house (purveyors of dream cottages and houses, FYI) ad info: I own this business.

@ruthcrilly and I went to see our fantastically genius friend Emma’s latest work on Friday night. @emmaricecompany Malory Towers is in Bath this week before going on tour around the UK. Run don’t walk. Family friendly, funny, whip smart and with a brilliantly talented young cast. ❤️🎭

Some snippets of my day! 🌳 I was @highgrovegarden with @kingsfoundation to learn about some of the educational charity work they do and to see the amazing gardens, the tours of which support the foundation too. 🪾 The event was hosted by @lydia and @louisepentland and they were both funny and charming and the whole day was a 10/10. No notes. I also got to spend the day with @fleurdeforce and @jimchapman which felt like a very rare and excellent treat. My cup spilleth over or whatever the phrase is. 🤣 More on my outfit tomorrow - very kindly dressed for the occasion by @meandem (ad-press sample) and will go into more detail because a) the dress is one of the fanciest I’ve ever worn and b) the jacket is the BEST cut and would go with just about anything. It’s so brilliant.

Things you do when you’ve set yourself strict deadlines, part 85. Vote for the best double-pose. Yes we’re available for shoots.

AD | If you’re thinking of cutting down on your telly consumption, now is NOT the time. I’ve been getting stuck into new @ITV series Secret Service, starring Gemma Arterton, Rafe Spall and a cast of stars and it is TENSE. Tense, I tell you! Covert operations, double-crossing, clocks a-ticking and not knowing quite who to trust, it’s the sort of thing that leaves you with no choice but to keep on watching. Who’s ready? . #SecretService is available to watch now on #ITV.

Comment “link” for the blog post. You won’t regret it. Not in the same way I regret go-karting, anyway.

Haven’t done one of these in a while. All the photos I had to swipe through in front of the ticket inspector before I reached the screen grab of my train ticket. . 1) yes I know you can add them to Apple Wallet but I never do 2) no I wasn’t even that mortified this time because I have experience and I merely laughed and avoided making eye contact 3) I haven’t put all of the photos in because one was, how can we put it, medical, and nobody needs to see that. Apart from the ticket inspector.

AD | Celebrating 100 Years of Skin Food with Weleda. A HUNDRED YEARS! I’ve been recommending it for almost that long, lol. For good reason. Nothing hits the spot quite like it, especially if you have skin that is so dry and so tight that it feels almost stretched to its limit. Do you know what I mean? When it feels like it just couldn’t get any drier? . Enter Skin Food. Oh, it’s lush. I discovered this when I was a model (in the days when I would get plonked down into a makeup chair at about 6.30am and the makeup artist would have to do everything in their power to turn my 96% alcohol blood level skin into something soft and velvety and magazine cover-worthy. And it’s still a staple. Overnight emergency mask, quick fix for dry elbows and knees, hand rescue, and an instant quencher for ridiculously shrivelled-up face skin. . Oh yeah - it now comes in this huge 100ml tube! Due to popular demand. That’s how quickly people tend to race through it… Shop their Limited Edition 100ml tube @bootsuk and Weleda.co.uk. Here’s to another 100 years. Bravo Weleda. #Weleda #WeledaSkinFood #SkinFood100Years