Debra Brock’s crammed her iPhone full of beauty apps, so you don’t have to.
If there’s an app for everything, then there’s an app for everything beauty. And while I’m particularly jonesing for an in-phone pal that’ll help me catalogue my modest nail polish collection (all right, all right, my infinite nail polish reference library) I’ve decided to go on a download spree and click install on absolutely everything that touts itself as a ‘beauty app’. In the process of testing them all, I’ve already made myself look like an extra from Avatar, scanned more bottles of nail lacquer than a Superdrug checkout girl, and created a mammoth wish list of products. Here are my favourite iPhone apps – do check for Android compatibility.
Ask Bobbi (free)
I have an induction process in my house. I come home from a beauty counter with a lovely bag of goodies and take time to carefully unwrap and coo over them, admiring products on my dressing table for a couple of days before actually using them. A week later I’m on the internet, trying to remind myself what exactly the sales assistant said about how to apply the product, and what that other thing was that she said was really good.
The Ask Bobbi app offers a series of easy to follow tutorials on topics like Brows, Make-up for Glasses, Smokey Eye and Party Makeup. The app will also save product recommendations made to you on counter, so that you can shop for them later if you fancy adding more product in, or want to make a wish list.
There’s nothing complex here – no virtual makeovers – but it’s all simple, straightforward advice that would be useful for any product range.
Plum Perfect
Hair Color / Modiface 
Beautyspotter.
Wahanda
And the one that I desperately wanted to work…
