Month: October 2011

Loving the look of Paul and Joe Spring that I spotted over on my friend Marina’s site, www.makeup4all.com, who found them over at www.biteki.com It’s so all about feline charms, quite literally. I wonder when they’re going to do a poodle range? Huh? No other information as yet, I’m afraid, but will bring more when I…

The Jessica Halloween Collection priced at £9.75 each.

As if you needed any excuse to stock up on Creme de Corps, this is one reason where it would almost rude not to. Kiehl’s has teamed up with the Koons Family Institute to bring this limited edition version using the Balloon Flower as a visual reference. If you know Jeff Koons work, then you’ll…

I’m really not one for celebrity fragrances and I’ll ‘fess up from the start that I cannot bear the smell of this one mainly because it is a vanilla drenching, and I am not a fan of vanilla at all. However, I know that I’m unusual in not liking it, so because of the hugeness…

I thought I’d share my pictures from the Maybelline and Essie trend presentation; a lot of beauty brands do these presentations which both set trends for the following season and predict them. Sharon Dowsett was the make-up artist talking us through the demonstrations and creating the looks so it was great to see her at…

You’ve got to hand it to Kirsten Carriol for single-handedly reviving the reputation of Lanolin in beauty products. I use Lanolips lip balm every single day of my life, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Two new products have just hit the shelves and they’re equally brilliant to my eyes although have two different…

I’ve had a few requests to show Guerlain spring 2012, but I don’t have any official pictures yet so these are just taken on my own camera. If you know the British weather you’ll know that the light conditions aren’t optimum from around October til April! And remember the biggie for Guerlain is their amazing…

So, a new range from No7 whose selling point is that there is no toner, so it is a two step system and not a three step system. Not really revolutionary, because a lot of women have long since realised that toning is more for the financial health of the beauty brand than the health…

This is a delicious spring collection made all the better by the magical touch of Lisa Eldridge who manages to make all things bright and beautiful. Inspired by the diversity of modern British beauty, the collection brings a smile to the face and not least because it is an affordable collection that has all the…

And of course, guess what? Hermes did bring out some lipsticks a few years ago. Where was I?  A reader alerted me to the fact that there were indeed Hermes lippies, so a little bit of googling later and I found an image. There are one or two still knocking about on Ebay but it…