From Clinique's perfectly formed Pop Matte lipsticks (yesterday's post, read here) to a decidedly more cheery and cheeky matte offering: Tanya Burr's Soft Luxe Matte Lip. I came across the one I'm wearing in the photo below, which is called Puppy Paws, completely by...
With the Pop Lip Colour + Primer, which launched last year, Clinique brought us a lipstick that was just about as perfect as could be. Great, intense colour, an easy to apply formula, a comfortable feel and a juicy, non-greasy finish. I had thought before testing them...
After the feedback on my budget foundations video, where many people expressed frustration at not being able to get a suitable - affordable - foundation match for their skintone, I decided to do a bit of research and see what was available on the high street. Not a...
I'll start with a spoiler: I did not get on with this foundation stick. I wanted to - I read every rave review under the sun and the Hourglass Vanish Seamless Foundation Stick sounded like just the face base I needed. "Flawless" coverage, a texture that "melted into...
I told you this week would be rather heavy on the Chanel, but I couldn't write about their amazing Nail Gloss without then going on to reveal the ins and outs of the new autumn launch, Le Rouge Collection No.1. (If you're astute and read between the lines, here,...
After many, many years of producing the most brilliant nail polish shades but in a sub-par, easy-chip formula, Chanel have completely revamped their nail offering and it's good. It's really good. The new longwear polishes are just that - longwear, with the nude shade...
My lipstick of the summer seems to be a shade that's somehow entirely inappropriate for the hotter months. Whilst the rest of the beauty world wears the hot oranges and fiery reds, enhancing their sunkissed skin and getting away with just a slick of lipstick and a...
After quite a long spell of using mostly high street complexion powders in my daily makeup routine (I've been doing research, watch this space) I'm rather pleased to be reunited with a bit of luxe. There are so many brilliant bronzers and blushers and face powders...
As promised, my edit of the best budget (high street/drugstore) foundations. This has been a long, long time in the making - I've tried some really shockingly bad face bases and some excellent ones and the four that follow are, I think, outstanding. I hope that...
Goodness. If there's a fresher-feeling foundation out there with the same amount of coverage and glow and real-skin finish then I want to know about it. Becca's Aqua Luminous foundation ticks so many boxes when it comes to a summertime face base that it's almost...
I've used the term "foundation" loosely, here, because I mean it to incorporate other face bases such as tinted moisturiser, BB creams and complexion enhancers as well as the traditional high-coverage foundation. In truth, no BB creams or CC creams come anywhere near...
If you watched the June Favourites video then you'll already know that I've totally fallen for these silky, buildable bronzers from Yves Saint Laurent. I love everything about them, from the way that the powder has been pressed so that it looks like rippled sand right...