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The fashion historian, TV presenter, author and DJ reveals her desert island beauty essentials. Sassoon hair salons My face really starts with my hair, which I’m lucky enough to have cut and coloured at Sassoon Salons, where the super-sharp geometric bob was pioneered by Vidal Sassoon in the late 1950s. I’m half of a DJ duo called Broken Hearts and Sassoon make sure our hair is always on point (and pointed). I’ve had red hair for longer than I was...
Lauren Oakey on Warhol’s tragic star Edie Sedgwick: a waiflike, dancer’s body and a penchant for leotards and tights that clung to her tiny frame. It was a tough look for me to emulate, 5 foot 10 with massive red hair, stomping around Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach to The Velvet Underground on a Friday night in worn-down pixie boots, black and white stripes and 80 denier tights, clutching a bottle of ‘lemon and alcohol’ and a Marlboro Light.   But...
The socialite and plus-sized supermodel spills out her make-up bag and tells Lauren Oakey which products rock her world.       Rimmel Exaggerate liquid eyeliner, £5.29 I’ve used Rimmel Exaggerate liquid eyeliner in Black every day since I was 13. It’s amazing – it dries really quickly after you’ve applied it and is also matte, which I love. You can go to a disco all night in it. I’ve tried more expensive brands like MAC Fluidline, but this lasts...