Alpha Mummy on TV

If you had happened to be watching BBC Breakfast at 7:20 you would have seen Alpha Mummy - in the guise of me - talking about wooden toys. It's AM's second appearance on Breakfast (the last one was about drinking during pregnancy about a month ago), and I was on the sofa along with Liz Fraser, author of The Yummy Mummy's Survival Guide. All very informative (sales of wooden toys are heaving this year).

Of course loads of Times journalists are on TV and radio all the time, but for the relatively uninitiated like me, it's all very exciting. I can pretend I'm a high-profile minister or vastly important C-list celebrity being escorted through dimly-lit halls by TV professionals at a time of day that I'm usually searching for clean underwear. They even have a makeup woman who stands at the ready in a small windowless rectangular room with loads of pots and brushes and hair products. Which leads me to the most important bit of the post: imparting the secrets of the BBC Breakfast makeup artist.

* Jane Iredale mineral makeup - doesn't use chemicals and goes on powdery then interacts with the oil in your skin to create a dewy natural finish. You can apparently even jog in it  and it will stay put (although she didn't say why you'd ever want to jog)

* Touche Eclat - for dark circles, as if you have to ask

* Laura Mercier - used to cover my, ahem, blemishes

* Dr Hauschka lipstick - more natural than other brands. She's testing it out - update after my next appearance

Got anything for these dark circles? Picture from An American Werewolf in London