About

About Ellie Brown / Forensic Foraging
I’m a beauty writer for both on-line and mainstream media. I’ve written 4 beauty books over the years and never want to write another! I have two children, a little poodle and live in Paris.

I started writing beauty for various newspapers. When I first started writing, my initiation was to be made Shopping Editor on a parenting magazine, because the previous incumbent had walked. Actually, it wasn’t long before I followed her, realising that there is only so much fascination a limited edition set of Duplo can induce.

I started Forensic Foraging as a place to talk about products and experiences in a way that just wasn’t possible in magazines or papers: I wanted to say if a product was rubbish and not just discretely ‘not mention it’.. I just felt consumers had a right to know if they were throwing their money away. Basically, I had gathered so much product knowledge and it was all sitting in my brain doing nothing, so along came the blog.

So, I like to showcase products I think are excellent, beautiful, and exciting, as well as give a no holds barred point of view on products that aren’t so good. My thought is that if a brand is asking for money for a product that doesn’t do the job, isn’t great value for its market, is all smoke and mirrors, they need to go away and make a better one and not expect nobody to mention that it really isn’t very good.