Estée Lauder 7 Day Free Foundation Trial

Estee Lauder

Did you know that you can visit any Estée Lauder counter and they will give you a free foundation sample that will last you for up to seven days? I only found that out this week (tut tut)! I have been wanting to try Double Wear Light Stay-In-Place Makeup for ages, but I can’t stand my foundation being applied in store, under those harsh fluorescent lights, with the massive pressure to buy straight away. Dreadful. Fast forward to payday, and I was happily dropping cash left, right and center in Red Square when I spotted the Free 7 Day Foundation Trial…be…

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Favourite Five: Winter Nail Polish

Favourite Five: Winter Nail Polishes

1. Essie Nail Polish in Sole Mate – R99 The perfect deep, rich plum colour for cold, drizzly days. 2. Revlon Brilliant Strength Nail Enamel in Beguile – R89 An intriguing, blackened blue-purple duochrome in a hard-wearing formula. 3. Inglot Nail Enamel in 965 – R99 Unusual, high gloss, blue-toned gunmetal shade with no nasty chemicals. 4. Nails Inc Nail Polish in Porchester Square – R110 A sophisticated, muted, mushroom colour – this bestseller is the perfect winter nude. 5. Ciaté Crème Nail Polish in Main Stage – R99 A bold but chic purple-pink creme for those unready to take…

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Flu Beauty: A Helping Hand

Flu Beauty

I am battling the flu at the moment and it is awful – pounding head, runny nose, high temperature…I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I can’t afford to take time off work at the moment, so I’ve had to ramp up my beauty routine to make sure that I don’t arrive at the office looking like death. Here’s my pick of the best products to help you look better than you feel…

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Charlotte Tilbury’s Make-up House of Rock ‘n’ Kohl

Charlotte Tilbury's Make-up House of Rock 'n' Kohl

London department store, Selfridges & Co., is arguably the world’s finest beauty destination, so it seems only appropriate that they should play host to a one-of-a-kind beauty event in partnership with Charlotte Tilbury, one of the world’s best make-up artists. Conceived as an early promotional event for Charlotte’s much-anticipated make-up line which is launching in Selfridges later this year, the beauty festival ran for the past five days, drawing hundreds of beauty lovers to the iconic Oxford Street location. The event centred around a custom-built concept store where visitors could get a ‘Tilbury Transformation’ makeover with members of Charlotte’s personal…

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Hero Product: Environ Derma-Lac Lotion

WARNING: This is a very unglamorous post. Let’s be frank, winter is not kind to us girls – particularly if, like me, you have to wear stockings and high heels to work…ingrown hairs and dry heels for days! But don’t despair – help is at hand, and you have my mother to thank for this one. I was back home a few weeks ago and was happily ensconced in my Vogue when a rogue foot was suddenly thrust into my face. “Feel my feet – just FEEL how soft they are!” she said. So I did. And they were! When…

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Lisa Eldridge’s Foundation Course

Lisa Eldridge

Make-up artist extraordinaire and one of our biggest girl crushes, Lisa Eldridge, recently created a series of videos to help women with the common challenge of selecting the right foundation. The videos cover basic information about choosing and shopping for foundation, advice on picking the right shade for your skin tone, product recommendations and application techniques. Having fallen victim to the curse of the artificial department store lighting and buying the wrong shade of an expensive foundation myself, I can’t tell you how invaluable these videos are. Here is one of the videos but you can click here to see them…

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Kiehl’s Change Your Skin Challenge: Week 1

Kiehl's Change Your Skin Challenge

Last week I started using Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate on my face every night, as part of the 28-day Change Your Skin Challenge. Kiehl’s kindly gave both Camilla and me a full-size bottle of the overnight anti-ageing elixir (which, if used every night would last us three months at least) to test and report back on. I already used KMRC as part of my night-time beauty routine but alternating it in a three-day cycle with Alpha-H Liquid Gold and a regular moisturiser. I had a suspicion that it was causing me to break out so I was somewhat hesitant to…

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Youth Day Five Product Face

Happy belated Youth Day beauties! We hope you are making the most of this well-deserved day off and that you’re huddled up somewhere cosy with your loved ones. If you’re anything like me, on days like these you don’t want to spend ages putting your face on, but you still want to look pretty and fresh. Here is my simple, speedy solution: The Five Product Face. Bourjois Healthy Mix Gel Serum Foundation: Gives you a lovely glow with light-to-medium coverage – great for evening out your skin tone and making you look youthful and fresh. MAC Eye Brow Pencil in…

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