Random, I know, but I just love this image! In fact I love all of the images from this beauty shoot – it’s featured in Liberty’s online magazine but I can’t seem to find any credits for the model, makeup artist or photographer. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough… Anyway, pictures like these make me feel totally…
Have you had a chance to try out any Aerin cosmetics whilst browsing the beauty counters? If you haven’t then it’s well worth making time to have a play with the products. The makeup is beautiful and natural-looking and impossible not to like. The kind of makeup that makes me think of those fresh young faces that…
I promised that I would review the YSL cream blush in a standalone post and so here it is. I’m just hoping that there are actually some left on counter when this publishes – I had the photographs ready weeks ago but completely forgot to finish the words! If you want to see this nifty…
I’d just like to say before I start this post properly that I have become utterly obsessed with face charts. Obsessed! Did anyone used to have one of those makeup doll-heads that you could put waxy lipstick and eyeshadow onto? Well makeup face charts are so much better! It’s just a piece of paper with a…
In this video I’m just trying to mix things up a bit, makeup-wise, as you do. I usually go for a nude lip on a night out, but I was in a rush when I filmed this look and I wanted to have something a little more bold and dramatic, something that would provide a…
The new “Addict” polishes from Dior are so unbelievably juicy. I first tried them at their top-secret launch in Paris earlier in the year (you can read about that trip here) but have only just got around to having a proper test. In the photograph I’m wearing Spring Ball, shade number 343. It’s a sparkly, corally pink…
The first makeup brush that I ever bought was the Prescriptives Powder Brush – it’s now so old that it’s actually the Prescriptives Powder “Bru”, as one eagle-eyed Instagram follower pointed out. I bought this brush (see photograph for general condition and appearance) because the makeup artist at one of my very first modelling shoots recommended…
Oh, oh, oh. Givenchy has pretty much hit the sexy-nail right on the head with their Le Rouge lipsticks. The outer case is metal and black leather – I’ll just repeat that: metal and black leather. It just feels so luxurious when you hold it in your hand! Mine has my name engraved into it (I know) which…
For me, the highlight of Estée Lauder’s spring collection (Pretty Naughty) is most definitely the Pure Colour Matte Lipstick. It comes in four shades but my favourites are a peachy-nude, “Naked” and a bold, orange-red called “Rock Candy”. They are incredibly pigmented and long-lasting – but a word of warning: your lips need to be in good…
I thought that I’d share with you my current foundation “routine”. Obviously it varies a little from time to time; I adapt it to suit the weather, how my skin’s looking and the products that I want to test out, but this is the general gist of it. I’ve used a radiance primer (Laura Mercier’s)…
You know me, I usually go for very plain, nude nails. I’m not one for any type of glitter or, really, much colour. I like coral shades and really hot orangey-reds, but apart from that I do tend to stick to taupe, putty and pretty barely-there nude nail varnishes. It’s rather a surprise, then, that…
I’ve been rather tardy in getting around to reviewing this foundation from Giorgio Armani. In fact, it has probably been reviewed to death all over the internet by now and you’re sick of hearing about it – if that’s the case then I do apologise. I’m late to the party, but I like to think…fashionably late….
Here’s a handy little cream blush. Completely mess and hassle free. You just pop the lid off, wind up the blush, stripe it on to the cheeks and lightly blend. The result is a pretty flush that’s a lot easier to wear than you’d expect – it’s not sheer, exactly, but neither are the colours particularly…
A voiceover video for you because I can’t yet talk for more than two minutes without breaking out into the most unladylike, honking cough. It’s actually surprisingly difficult, when making videos, to get all of the different elements to come together without error; to get your words right at the same time as keeping the…
I’m finding it difficult to drum up any enthusiasm for writing about Springtime Beauty at this particular moment. Mostly because I’m still in bed (yes, still) with this hideous flu-with-a-touch-of-possible-pneumonia and my face looks like an old piece of tree bark that has washed up on a riverbank. I can’t imagine looking normal, with eyes that…
This month’s most regularly used lip “things” have been the new Tom Ford Lip Colour Shines. There’s something about Tom Ford – everything he touches just seems to appeal to me. I’ve said this before – Tom and I have very similar tastes. He should probably hire me as some kind of muse, or consultant,…
Dr Hauschka have changed their packaging for the summer 2013 makeup collection and I think that it looks incredibly swish. Rose gold foil with black detailing. I especially like the black pictures of the brushes that run along the length of the packets – there’s something distinctly retro about it, but at another glance it…
Another week, another new mascara launch. There are so many mascara launches that it boggles my brain, but I’m quite a picky old customer when it comes to my lash-lengthening products, so I don’t often post about them. Either the wand is too brittle or the formula is too runny, dries too quickly, makes my lashes hard…