
17 Jun
The sheet-white Lauren Oakey tested a heap of wash off tans, so you don’t have to. As the lone person on a 25 degree Brighton beach last June in a pair of 80 denier ‘body sensor’ tights that come with outrageous claims that they cool you down in the heat (they don’t) and a cardigan ‘just in case’, I can safely say that summer is just not for me. Of course, this being Brighton, no one cared a jot as...
09 Jun
Writer Michael Hogan is feeling supersonic, give him gin and tonic… If only my forefathers could see me now. I come from a long line of Irish navvies, squaddies, farm-hands and gas-fitters. I’ve already betrayed my roots by earning a living tapping on a keyboard with un-calloused hands, sending the resultant flowery words down a pipe to fellow fops. Now here I am, “exfoliating” with an electric scrubbing brush and black charcoal. God help us if there’s a war. On...
04 Jun
Excellent new tubing mascara alert. Regular readers will know I cannot live without my tubes. Most normal mascaras smudge like crazy on my under eyes (with some notable exceptions, like Armani’s Eyes To Kill), so I either just wear a polymer tubing mascara like Estee Lauder Double Wear or Clinique Lash Power, or for a more dramatic look, give a regular mascara a topcoat of tubes to lock it down (Estee’s Little Black Primer is good for this). As much...