
24 Jun
See through, hydrating cheek gels that come in dinky pump dispensers. I’m all over them As obsessed as I am with cheek colour (how do you blush-boycotters avoid looking half dead?), gel blushers and I have never been friends. While gorgeous and sheer on oilier skins, they generally sink immediately into drier faces like mine, making them impossible to blend and leaving behind messy, unnatural tide marks. I’ve avoided them like the clap, until now. Estee Lauder’s new...
22 Jun
Bloody weird and wholly genius, this product has saved my overworked, stressed out skin I was first shown Astalift skincare when it launched a couple of years ago. The nerdy story behind the brand (it’s made by Fuji, using patented camera film technology that results in the tiniest microparticles of collagen ever used in skincare) interested me, and I was intrigued by Astalift’s hero product, Jelly Aquarysta, a decidedly weird looking red gel-serum. I played with it a bit...
10 Jun
The most sought after lipstick of last year returns, as bright and badass as ever. Clinique’s Long Last Lipstick in Runway Coral made its debut at New York Fashion Week in Spring / Summer 2012. Everyone immediately went nuts for it – including me. When Clinique released it as a limited edition, I got two and sat on them like a hen on eggs, rationing their use for fear they’d run out and leave me bereft. Mercifully, I can...