Archive for September, 2010

Perricone MD No Foundation Foundation

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Dr. Perricone is a leading dermatologist who we are told has a rather impressive client list. He has long since been creating lotions and potions in a bid to rewind the wrinkle clock and one of his more recent creations is the infamous No Foundation Foundation. Now, to begin there has been many an internet read more »

Body Shop – Baked To Last

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Baked To Last is the new collection of eyeshadows, bronzers and blushers from The Body Shop, all lovingly handmade in Italy by local artisans who bake the products in small batches for 24 hours to ensure the pigments are bound together meaning intense colour and deep coverage. The collection offers two blushers, a pink toned read more »

Hand salvation

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

The season of cracked and dry hands is almost upon us so read on to find three hand saviours to suit all budgets: Budget – Vaseline healthy hand and nail conditioning lotion £2.41 If your purse strings are feeling a little tight and all your spare cash is heading straight into your Christmas fund then read more »

Rimmel Pro Matte Top Coat

Friday, September 17th, 2010

The war of the matte nail polishes has well and truly commenced with matte collections and top coats being released left right and centre making it easy and relatively cheap to update your nail polish collection. OPI, Essie, Chine Glaze and Zoya are to name but a few of the luxury nail polish brands who read more »

Yves Saint Laurent – Rouge Pur Couture Lipstick

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Though summer is barely over many of us have already confined our pastel nail lacquers and pale lipsticks to the bottom draw to make way for the darker and more dramatic autumn winter make up palette. Yves Saint Laurent’s new Rouge Pur Couture Lipstick with SPF 15 is currently only available at Selfridges and is read more »

Finger tip heaven with Chanel Paradoxal

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Chanel’s AW09 collection now seems but a dream in which a hoard of women were literally walking over dead bodies to pick up a bottle of the then ‘it’ polish Jade (mint green). The nail polish was famously auctioned on eBay where it reigned queen of the nail polish’s fetching ludicrous amounts even for partially read more »

Marc Jacobs – BANG

Monday, September 6th, 2010

BANG is the first Marc Jacobs masculine scent to explode into the fragrance market in almost a decade and with the one of the generations most influential style icons actually fronting the campaign himself, the confident and charismatic BANG is sure to prove popular. The designs of Marc Jacob’s are renowned for being timeless but read more »

Rimmel Lash Accelerator Mascara

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

How many times have we read ‘longer, fuller, lusher lashes’ on the packaging of the latest mascara & shamelessly skipped to the tills to buy it, only to find unsurprisingly that it makes absolutely no difference to our lashes? We have all succumbed to the advertising monster at some point and are slightly ashamed to read more »