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The original celebrity make-up artist and beauty guru talks about her new campaign to empower women, and why we all need to stop looking in the mirror. You’re a big advocate of looking like yourself at your prettiest. Why is make-up important? Every woman looks better with a little make-up. After this many years in the business, I know it to be true. That doesn’t mean that an extreme look in a make-up artist’s coffee table book is going to...
    Sali Hughes says bye bye BBs, you’ve been de-throned. Regular readers will know that BB creams and I don’t get on. Last year I felt like the entire beauty industry metaphorically came out of the cinema declaring a film a masterpiece, while I stood on the pavement mumbling “WTF?” into my popcorn. It would now appear I just needed to wait for the sequel. I’m hesitant to say I love the new CC creams (that stands for Colour...
Columnist Lucy Mangan on her favourite spectator sport. I had one of those strange moments the other day when, after a lifetime of assuming that you held the majority opinion on a subject, you are suddenly revealed to be very much in the minority. I arrived late at a party because the train had – for reasons vouchsafed only to the Network Rail gods and not to anyone as lowly as their passengers – stopped for 20 minutes outside a...