where the science and art of style collide
always shiny .Niamh was looking through some old photo albums, you know, the ones with pictures of me in my primary school classes, she was going through and picking me out of the sea of faces in each class. When I asked her how she knew it was me, she said “see, your face is [...]
.. Do you wear makeup? A lot? A little? Everyday? Only to work? Never at work but on the weekend? Only going out somewhere special? My ex-husband would have preferred I wore no makeup. He said he liked to see the face that he got to wake up to each morning. I once worked with [...]
.. When I was away recently a few times I wanted a tinted moisturiser, and of course I didn’t take one with me, and I often find it hard to find the right shade of tinted moisturiser for my skin anyway. Then I remembered the old trick of mixing in equal portions your regular moisturiser [...]
As mascara is the makeup product that has to be disposed of most frequently (every 3-6 months), it’s the product I’m least faithful to, and like to mix up and try different ones. I’ve just started sing L’Oreal Carbon Black which claims to give you a ‘false lash effect’. I have to say the claims are [...]
I was asked by one of my lovely Australian readers if I could do some posts on my favourite beauty products, as many products reviewed on the blogsphere are not available in Australia, though we do get lots. So I thought I’d start with some of my favourites that I use daily. Cetaphil Cleanser – [...]
. . It’s 2010, and I always find the promise of a new year cleansing – a new beginning, a fresh look a the world, the opportunity to try something new or different. Sure, 1 January is an arbitary date and I could do the same thing any day of the year, but I suppose [...]
. Ok, so hopefully you now have some idea of whether you are warm or cool and your undertone vs overtone from the past two days posts. Now it’s time to figure out your intensity – what is intensity? It’s the saturation or brightness or dullness of the colour. Albert Munsell was the man who [...]
So, I’ve made another little video after Maria from Colour Me Happy had a request about how to choose foundation colours. My tip is, as you will see is to try on every colour, don’t limit yourself to two or three colours. Put them along your jawline, then look for the colour that disappears into [...]
I received a reader request to explain about concealer and foundation colour choices. You may have seen green concealers and wondered what they are for – well, if you think about going back to your colour wheel and looking a the complementary colour on the colour wheel, the opposite of green is red, thus [...]
Continuing on the makeup theme, I thought I’d share my current favourite book on makeup techinques. It’s Makeup Makeovers: expert secrets for stunning transformations by Robert Jones. What I like about it: The pictures – it’s very simple and the pictures clearly state where to put shadow or highlight. Advice for each face shape [...]
