• Lush Emotional Brilliance

    So, on Saturday, Lush moves away from bathing and onto the dressing table with their eagerly anticipated Emotional Brilliance collection. With products all in the same (recyclable of course!) packaging, you can choose from a selection of cream shadows, liquid lipsticks, eyeliners and even mascara. One...

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  • Traveller Companion – Elemis

    Elemis know how to do small packaging don’t they? You see many of the miniatures on QVC in their specialised sets, and certainly at Christmas they bring out collections that often include their most popular products. For us, we’ve selected 2 collections that work incredibly well as Traveller...

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  • Summer Trends – Illamasqua Naked Strangers

    In a bold step away from their usual bright and in-your-face colours, those that play on the alter ego, Illamasqua have created a slightly more subtle collection for Summer 2012.  Naked Strangers. However, behind the products is a more usual story for the brand.  Creating ideals of nudity, sexiness...

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  • G is for Grooming and…?

    It’s fair to say, that in the modern millenia, men are becoming more open to using skincare and grooming products. There are many that are still of the soap and water variety, and many are coming slowly around to the idea of using something ‘girly’, albeit with quite a lot of kicking...

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  • RVB Colour Therapy Summer Collection – Sahara

    Warm golds on the eyes, warmed cheeks, lips that look exotically expensive, and then splashes of brights on nails.

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  • F is for Foundation, and…?

    There are so many foundations out there, that it’s a minefield to try and establish which is the one for you. So, here we are with some of the tried and tested foundations currently on the market. As with E is for Eyes, we’ve chosen to use ‘soundbites’ from our team of testers!...

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    Best of British – Abahna

    20 years ago, 10 even, if you asked someone to sum up ‘British’ in a few words, you’d hear things like ‘cold weather’ ‘steak and kidney pie’ ‘stodgy puddings’ ‘woolly jumpers’ and other such staid sorts of things. Okay, so we weren’t...

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  • D is for Detox, and…?

    When we think of Detox, it’s often in conjunction with clearing out our insides, not necessarily the outside, but with all things beauty in mind, we are brining to you a variety of products to detox your exterior, a slightly less intrusive way of getting you ready for Spring!   Champney’s...

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  • Valentine’s Day Gifting, for him or for her…

    Have you noticed that certain holidays, seasons and celebratory dates seem to have their own set colour theme?  You see the colours repeated over and over in shops, people’s houses, wrapping papers… Christmas brings red and green, and gold and silver.  Easter is all about pastel pinks,...

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  • C is for Concealing, and…?

    There are some incredible concealers out there, we’ve touched on this subject before, but it’s worth investigating what is outside the professional makeup artist’s kit, and see what you have to say about them.   Marks and Spencer Perfection Colourmatch Concealer    Angela...

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