14 May
Writer and lifetime lash junkie Dolly Alderton is a connoisseur of budget mascaras. Here she reveals her favourite five on the high street. Over the years, I’ve learnt that there are times when you must spend cash on products to ensure you get the best money can buy. These include: coats, boots, bras, face moisturiser, foundation, bedding, bikini waxes, bin bags, eggs and dairy, meat and fish, white wine and vodka. And speakers. Oh, and phone chargers, the cheap ones are no good. Also,...
06 May
The latest men’s fragrance from Tom Ford proves a welcome handful for Daniel Maier Tom Ford’s new scent is presented, with a typical eye for detail, in a chunky, rectangular bottle, the boss’s initials debossed to either side. Smoked glass with a ribbed gold lid, it’s a robust bit of Deco luxury, somewhere between F. Scott Fitzgerald’s cigarette case and a scale model of a 1930s Chicago bank. Immediate and punchy straight from the bell, Noir Extreme is well-named. This...
04 May
Fashion historian Amber Butchart on the importance of powder and rouge in times of national strife The Imperial War Museum in London is not the first place that springs to mind when when you think of make-up. Yet the current Fashion on the Ration exhibition offers a brilliant rundown of the innovation and creativity that went hand-in-hand with fashion and beauty in wartime Britain. The exhibition has been staged to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second...
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