Party makeup without the performance
At this time of the year, there’s a pressure to whack on the shimmer and go all glitzy. Yet grown-up effortless style is chic, not shouty.
At this time of the year, there’s a pressure to whack on the shimmer and go all glitzy. Yet grown-up effortless style is chic, not shouty.
Easy, effortless makeup? Now there’s an ideal to aspire to.
We’re all anti-anti-ageing now. Thanks to bloggers, influencers and savvy consumers of a certain vintage, there has been a much-needed shift in attitudes towards ageing.
When it comes to magazines, newspapers and books, I’m quite old-school. I’d still rather read a physical copy than a digital one.
Faff-free hair and a low-maintenance beauty regime, that’s what I want. Even so, when contacted about a special hair towel with superior drying properties, I have to admit I was sceptical.
I used to be a haircut junkie – happy to spend hours in the chair at the Vidal Sassoon Academy being given crazy haircuts and colours every six weeks, says Harriet (Hat) Margolies. That morphed ...
Sorry, not sorry, I’m just NOT dying to go grey quite yet! – says beauty and lifestyle journalist and author Jo Glanville-Blackburn (Jo GB).
‘If you went into a department store, I’ve developed more than half the beauty products,’ states Colette Haydon matter-of-factly. The French founder of new skincare brand Lixi...
It’s the iconic party look, says Vicci Bentley. But an editor once told me, she’d taken a straw poll round the office on whether anyone over-50 should do a smoky eye.
French fashion journalist and social media star Sophie Fontanel documented her transition to grey hair on Instagram (@sophiefontanel; 134k followers). ‘I was fed up with dyeing my hair.
Here we have a good view of the gronde* situation. Or what could also be described as my best side.
I’ve moved on, people. This summer’s pedicure is light not bright.