04 Jun
For make-up artist and beauty assistant Lauren Oakey, too much of a good thing can be wonderful. Sometimes only too much make-up will do. I rarely experience such joy as when I set aside two hours with some make-up in front of me, glass of wine on the go and a specially made ‘getting ready’ playlist before really going to town on my face. Properly primed skin, topped with a couple of layers of foundation, then one more for luck....
31 May
Take away Lucy McCarry’s lipstick, powder and paint – but her beloved lash curlers will have to be prised from her cold, dead hands. My big sister, Winnie, was always my beauty guru. From the dregs of dried-out Miners mascara she passed me down (‘wands’, and truly magic), to her daring use of geometric blusher and her perma-cloud of Rive Gauche, she was the epitome of post-punk glamour. So when she returned to rainy Glasgow, 19, tanned and exotic...
17 May
All brides want to look fabulous, right? Be careful what you wish for, says Lindsay Frankel. Wedding make-up can be too perfect. When my then-boyfriend-now-husband proposed six years ago, we happened to be in the middle of our friends’ wedding reception (it wasn’t planned, I think he was just overcome by the love in the room, and possibly the free Champagne). The bride that day also happens to be a make-up artist by profession, so unsurprisingly she looked flawless...
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