This summer hair trend is all about duality. Two textures are used to provide interest and new dimension. Textures are sleek and frizzy, straight and curled, wet and dry. At Moschino hair was frothed up into cloudy quiffs, while at Louis Vuitton slicked hair burst into teased ponytails as fluffy as candyfloss. The eighties were [...]

Well, it is almost the weekend, but if 5 o’clock seems like it’s too far away, take a few moments to enjoy our Friday Fun post. This week I have chosen a video of the lovely Pat McGrath, an internationally acclaimed make-up artist best know for creating extrovert looks for Dior and Galliano’s catwalks. In [...]

Missoni clothes are always modern, fresh and undeniably sexy and the spring/summer collection as no exception. It’s no surprise then that the accompanying beauty look was ultra feminine yet polished and wonderfully sophisticated. Base layers of bronze and coffee shades were blended gold, mocha and beige highlighting the eyes and cheekbones and down the nose. [...]

Every season there is a trend for metallics, though they differ in appearance. Sometimes it is a subtle metallic infused with a smokey eye – gun metals and burnt copper, last summer we had bright flashes of fiery gold and bronze, this season the beauty world has shunned the dark and bold metallic in favour [...]

At Vivienne Westwood Gold Label it was made abundantly clear that statement lips are  back in a big way for spring/summer 2009. The matte, black Pierrot style lips showcased on the catwalk there were unmistakably shocking, but signal a shift from heavy eye make-up to bold lipstick. The lack of any sheen on the lips [...]