25 Mar
The best selling novelist, columnist, editor and brand consultant chooses her can’t-live-without beauty staples. 1. Bobbi Brown BB Cream SPF35 in Light, £28 I’ve got lucky skin and never wear foundation other than for photo shoots. BB cream does the job on top of regular moisturiser – very light coverage and enough concealer to even things out. I’ve tried a few BBs but Bobbi’s is the best I’ve found. 2. Clinique Naturally Glossy Mascara in black, £16 I have no...
25 Mar
Novelist Mhairi McFarlane on why Marilyn’s face still takes her breath away. To paraphrase D.H. Lawrence, beauty isn’t an arrangement of features, it’s a feeling, which is an elegant excuse for not being able to explain precisely what I find so compelling about Marilyn Monroe. The familiar image is the baby-doll pretty ‘50s starlet with Milkybar hair, peachy cheeks and blood-red lips, but the Marilyn I love is in the informal, candid, soulful photographs by Eve Arnold and George Barris....
25 Mar
Sali Hughes has found a decent air freshener, honest. Air freshener is the worst thing in the world – never more so than within the cloying confines of a car. That stifling synthetic stench as you sit half-cut in the back of a cab, trying not to look at the swinging Magic Tree threatening to send you from dizzy to pukey, can ruin a girl’s week. I had long-since chosen to go au naturel on the road. That is until...
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