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Some 15 years ago, Clinique launched a brilliant product called Gentle Light Powder. It was a loose finishing powder containing light-reflecting particles which, when dusted over a bare face or foundation, gave the skin a sort of soft-focus glow. It ...

The skincare market has split in two directions: there are the brands which fetishise natural ingredients, and then there are the doctor-led companies, with detailed ingredient lists focusing on dermal science. We asked make-up artist Huda Kattan, Cult Beauty’s Alexia ...

Who entices you into the online rabbit hole ‘Wowwwwww’ on Pinterest? What faces are your algorithms made up of? Mine? I could stare for hours at Boney M album covers or a gliding 70s Diana Ross. These searches are ‘peak ...

This is bad-girl hair. And although it doesn’t need to be worn above a smoking cigarette and a sneer the length of the M1, both help. At Miu Miu they went for texture, backcombing hair into a big beehive and ...

Convention dictates that business and pleasure must be kept separate. But there are several niche fragrance houses that go against this traditional wisdom. They are all run by a husband-and-wife team for whom the line between work and play is ...

Larry David was once asked what he was most proud of in life. “That’s easy,” the creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm replied, “it would be the way I’ve adjusted to baldness.” He reasoned that in a world where ...

Brown isn’t really a fashion colour, is it? It’s the colour of gravy and uniforms. Of the past, of dads and dirt. “She wore brown on the red carpet,” said no one, ever. What football team won the World Cup ...

When Anna Wintour arrived in the editor’s chair at American Vogue in 1988, Ronald Reagan was US president. The White House has seen five further incumbents since then; Wintour, by contrast, has not budged an inch. When the curtain goes ...

Am I just getting old or are young male celebrities dressing really badly these days? Charlotte, by email It is a fact that people’s eyes don’t work properly until they are 25, which is why when they see Justin Bieber ...