
21 Dec
NARS Killer Heels Mini Lipstick Set I do love anything in miniature, whether a travel-sized tube of toothpaste, a dinky, glasshouse-grown cauliflower or a Sylvanian Families canal boat crewed by otters, so this set of five scaled-down lipsticks from the limited edition NARS X Steven Klein collection appeals to me no end. Each Lilliputian tube contains a bullet precisely half the size of a regular one, which might just be the perfect size for a lipstick, given that in around...
20 Dec
Origins Gift Sets My love of the beauty gift set peaked in the early 90s, when every Christmas I would wish for a Body Shop basket containing bath pearls, some Dewberry bubble bath and a sponge in the shape of a fish, all cocooned in a nest of shredded purple tissue paper. I never did get one, and eventually I went off the whole idea. Gift sets tend towards a lot of plastic packaging, a couple of products you might...
19 Dec
Kevyn Aucoin The Essential Brush Set Look at it. LOOK AT IT. This is The One. Fourteen heart-stoppingly lovely make-up brushes in a smart black case. Yes, it’s about a billion pounds, but it clearly states that it’s The ESSENTIAL Brush Set, so evidently every woman needs one, dammit. Without it, we are but hollow husks. Now, I know there’s a slim chance that you won’t be swapping gifts with an oligarch next week —hashtag sadface—and if that’s the case,...