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Best Beauty Buys of 2015
This list is a response to a reader request and I’ll do vol 2 next week, about non-beauty stuff. I love Best Of lists, but they are a pain to put together. To make any progress at all, I had to lay down some ground rules: only things that I bought for the fi..
6 (OK, 8) Favourite Foundations for Autumn
Considering my flighty nature, I used to be surprisingly loyal to my foundation favourites: I mostly wore the beautifully dewy YSL Le Teint Touche Eclat, occasionally switching to Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua and Laura Mercier’s classic tinted moisturizer. But th..
Cool Girl Beauty
I have no first-hand knowledge of this topic, as I’m way too enthusiastic to be a cool girl. But I have enough experience observing cool girls in their natural habitats (by which I mean Paris and Instagram) that I feel like I can make educated guesses about ..
Eye Make-Up, Revisited
It’s been long since I’ve found eye make-up exciting – for something like 10 years, it’s been all about the lips. And a good base. But eyes? I got to a point where I thought that if I see another smoky eye, I’ll just die of boredom. I even got tired of masca..
YSL Touche Éclat Blur Perfector
There is a saying that if you sit by the river long enough, you’ll see the body of your enemy float by. It’s sometimes attributed to Sun Tzu, the legendary Chinese general and strategist whose Art of War is a masterpiece and who most likely had nothing to do..
12 (13) Things You Must* Have In Your Office
For obsessive list-makers, September is the best of times. As I said yesterday, this is the month of making plans for a new, improved version of oneself and that of course requires multiple lists. Lists of books to read, films to watch, languages to learn (O..
Summer 2015: Make-Up Edit
Life is cruel: I was delaying this article until the weather here would at least vaguely resemble summer. This finally happened last weekend, so I got the post ready for today and… now it’s horrible and grey again. But this important matter cannot wait any..
So Fresh and So Clean
“Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony,” said Morpheus and he was right, I can tell you. I used to be the girl who thought that taking make-up off in the evening is for wussies: cool people fall straight to bed, drunk, and smear their fuchsia lipst..