Last week I created my three favourite makeup looks for new online beauty community and makeup store, The Beautyst*. I had instant love for The Beautyst because they stock By Terry; anyone who appreciates a bit of By Terry maquillage is alright in my book! The...
More Beauty Reviews for you; this time it's Aerin's "Kaleidolight" palette, Max Factor's Colour Correcting sticks and the Nude Lingerie eyeshadow quad from L'Oreal. (OK, so the eyeshadow palette you've already seen. I posted it up a couple of days ago (here) - a silly...
I was editing some film yesterday and came across a couple of photos that I thought may be of interest to some of you. When I'm filming videos, I take a still photograph before each segment to autofocus the camera, and two of the stills from last week's Beauty...
Another bunch of beauty reviews for you; this time I'm "live testing" Lancome's new Miracle Air de Teint foundation, Clinique's new Feathering mascara and a second mascara, a violet-hued Maxi Lash version from Guerlain. The response to these videos seems to be very...
I've been making an effort, recently, to try and do before-and-after photos when I review makeup products. It's hard to do this for everything that's out there, but there are certain launches that end up catching my eye. In the press release for a new cosmetics...
A rather belated review, I'm afraid; I had a bit of a shade mix-up with the Eve Lom products when they were first launched and then they got a little overlooked for a while, partly because I wasn't overly wowed by the product that I tried first (spoiler alert!) but...
I was very much in two minds as to whether I was going to post up my "Brit Awards" makeup look - there's something about it that irks me. I think partly the lighting - I like filming in natural daylight so much more - but it could be, as I mentioned a week or so ago,...
Hooray and Hurrah for the Cube of Great Frustration and Eventual Delight has landed at The Body Shop online. I featured this springtime eye quad earlier on in the week - it has the most bizarre little boxing set-up that I have ever seen! Four little plastic cubes,...
Newly beamed down from Beauty Heaven: Dior's Diorskin Nude Tan Matte Sun Powder. A perfectly matte bronzer that (if you have a very light hand) can be swept all over the skin for quite a realistic "long weekend in Marrakech" kind of tan, or used in more targeted areas...
My "powder of the moment", both for everyday use and when I'm going to be on camera. It's an absolutely invisible and weightless setting powder that seems to literally freeze time: over the course of a twelve hour rush about town last week, my makeup stayed exactly...
Yes, I know: "partying" used as a verb. As bad as "holidaying", in my books - where do you holiday? - but still. I wore it emblazoned across my chest on a Milly NY t-shirt: "Sorry for Partying". I wish I had time to "party" - the most I've managed recently was a...
I used to love the Nirvana song Heart-Shaped Box. When I was suffering my first ever proper crush on a boy, I listened to it over and over again on my little tape cassette recorder. That and Alanis Morisette's Jagged Little Pill. Completely random and irrelevant piece...