We hope you’re having a truly wonderful summer – abroad, or enjoying your well-earned ‘staycation’.  And because we think there should be a law against spending too much time at a computer screen during August, we’re not bringing you a full update of the site – but we do have some completely wonderful competitions that we’ve added, to tide everyone through August till it’s that sharpen-your-pencils, back-to-school time. 
So:  you’re definitely allowed to spend a little time in front of your screen to enter the prize draws for a £300 mega-pampering kit from NEOM Luxury Organics, wonderful natural skincare from OSKIA, 10 copies of the Quintessentially Perfume book – and a sublime calming treatment from Lisa Snowdon’s favourite facialist, Neena Trehan, at her Bond Street salon… 

Remember, we also have a complete run-down of the products you need in your beach bag this summer, with our very first Beauty Bible Summer Sun Special: 10 categories of summer must-haves - from facial suncare to bronzers, waterproof mascaras to aftersuns (and products to fake a tan from head to toe).  Click here for the complete results, based on trials by hundreds of our real-life testers who've helped us identify which products really are worth splashing out on.  As a bonus, we've also included on the site the results of our second Beauty Bible Perfume Panel, to keep you wafting gorgeously through the summer months...

And as ever there’s lots more on the site - such as the usual INSIDER DISCOUNTS on summer 'finds' from our Beauty Bible-approved websites (all listed right). 

On the left-hand menu, look out for the icon for our new Beauty Steals App, on the iTunes Store, which lists literally hundreds of beauty bargains which you can access at the touch of a button, or have handy on your iPhone when you're standing in a store and can't remember which products our testers loved best.  We're delighted that since it launched just a few weeks ago it's been a bestseller on the iTunes Store, with Look Magazine declaring it:  'The best reason to buy an iPhone yet...'

We’ll be back in September.  Meanwhile, after a short break (with complete radio silence) at the start of August, we’ll be Tweeting (follow us @Beauty_Bible) and blogging (here), with all the latest news. 
Between now and then, we hope you have an absolutely fantastic summer.  We’re even planning to get out there and enjoy it ourselves, any moment…

With love,

Jo and Sarah

PS  In the spirit of summer and all things beach-y, we've also included some fab tips from Crème de la Mer for keeping the seas pristine.