Month: August 2010

Dubai skincare range Shiffa looks, feels and acts hugely premium. The packaging is beautiful – I loved the way the inner box opens out to reveal product information, and a duck egg blue ribbon just adds to the luxury look of the blue and cream boxes. The oil is gorgeous; easy to apply, it sinks…

If you love a face balm, this will be your trip to skin heaven. It’s easily one of the best balms I’ve ever come across; a fluid, light balm that literally floats over the skin, wiping away every last bit of grime. In fact, you just want to massage and massage and massage…which any way…

I’m having a little ‘does not compute’ moment and wondering how on earth I’ve missed that Nicole by OPI (the more budget friendly OPI little sister) is in Boots. Not sure how this one passed me by – for all I know it’s been there for years. But, on an internet trawl for new and…

To celebrate the opening of an envelope, uh no, sorry, the re-opening of the New York SoHo store in Spring St, Peter Phillips has flicked his magic make up wand and created the limited edition SoHo Collection. The stand outs are the nail colours, Steel (grey) and Strong (purple metal), and the SoHo de Chanel…

Ok, all the new nail collections had got me thinking that maybe I could blend my own perfect colour. So, I got to it and found it isn’t nearly as easy as I thought it might be, but ended up with a colour (only enough for one hand though! and I’ll never be able to…

Finally! Nail lovers have been waiting for a peek at Andrea Fulerton’s range – it is really very impressive, so here’s a view of some of the polishes modelled by my friend Anna. I’ll have product pics shortly, but wanted to showcase some of them in the place they’re meant to be first! What I…

Some trends emerging in the make-up market, other than the blatantly obvious ones, will be I think a gradual transition for the professional ranges into a more open consumer market. If bloggers have shown the buyers anything, it’s that so called professional ranges are used by – gasp – non-professionals! I’d love to see a…

Anyone who has a blog will be familiar with Trolls. Those nasty, spiky little comments placed always by ‘Anonymous’ that don’t add anything whatsoever to the post but are just random insults or derogatory – often very personal – snipes. I’m intrigued by their motivation. After all, reading blogs isn’t compulsory and there are enough…

I always love Mavala for their bite-sized bottles and also their price point: £3.95, which doesn’t induce nearly the same shopping guilt as £19 for a bottle of Chanel Le Vernis. This line up is my favourite autumn/winter nail collection so far – I’m especially crazy about Marron Glace (single pic) which was specifically created…

Thank you Laura aka http://thebeautyspark88.blogspot.com/ Lumie Clear Review: After replying to the rallying call of an enviously clear skinned BBB, I took on the challenge of giving the Lumie Clear a good old test. Now I’m not going to sit here and claim I have the world’s worst skin, but during the early part of…

Maiden Pink Sinuous ClaretNebulous TaupeSaffron CopperOk, so this isn’t, in my view, Art Deco’s strongest range, but nonetheless I do like the way that they make sure that every palette is decorative and something a bit different. This time, the palette is inspired by Missoni fabrics and the shades are a clever twist of caramels…