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...
03 Jun
I recently had coffee with Sunday, during which, I made the mistake of revealing that I’d never tried Good Genes. Honestly, if we’d been in a film, the record would’ve scratched and every diner would have turned around, mouths agape. My reasoning for not testing it was this: Good Genes claims to help with hyperpigmentation and I have melasma, which will never respond to a serum. Plus, it hadn’t launched when I last did a column on hyper pigmentation, so...
02 Jun
Facial washes aside where they belong, oils are generally my least favourite cleansing method. It’s entirely personal. I find them a bit messy and dribbly and given that a balm removes makeup and dirt just as effectively, I opt for the convenience of a solid product in the evening (for mornings, I’ll use a milk or cream). That said, this new cleansing oil has stolen my heart, and I’ve used nothing else for my nighttime cleanse for the past several...
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