Beauty Tips

The beauty of Burberry’s new Nail for Spring (Pale Yellow, £15, uk.burberry.com) is in its offness. You can tell it’s posh by its failure to try hard. It’s not a bright highlighter yellow, nor a pretty blonde, neither does it have the ...

Last month, two congresswomen introduced a bill requiring the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and limit the extent to which ads could be digitally altered. Other proponents of the bill, like the Eating Disorders Coalition, argue that digital retouching helps ...

As a near lifelong beard sporter, I was concerned to read an article in the Guardian last week saying that we have reached “peak beard”. What does this mean, exactly?Jimmy, London Well, quite, Jimmy, what does this mean? And more ...

They’re not quite lip glosses and they’re not quite lip stains – they’re called things like “paints” and “extraits”, they’re liquid lipsticks and they stay on for almost ever. Best for the bold colours, the shiny wet-look reds and fuchsias, ...

It’s finally getting warm, so ditch that gray and black for something softer. Every few months Pantone Color Institute releases a selection of colors that their trendsetters say are THE colors for the upcoming season. These are what they’ve determined for Spring ...

Dhemerae Ford and Sarah C. Awad, the artists behindThe Laser Girls, said that “the rise of nail art” has really “captivated them” as a way to express themselves.  These babies completely redefine matte manicures. The Laser Girls These fulfill childhood ...

It was the sign advertising Brylcreem that got me. It can be seen in one of Chalmers Butterfield’s colour photographs of Piccadilly Circus in 1949. Why did it move me? Brylcreem’s range of hair styling products for men is still ...

So, CC creams have survived. Who would have thought? A “beauty innovation” that seemed to be born solely on the strength of the alphabet, the daughter of the BB cream, a couple of letters Sellotaped together and squeezed into a tube. ...

My face has been better to me than I’ve been to it. I tend to ignore it and I am always pleasantly surprised at how much it seems to change from role to role. Today I look like Omar Sharif, ...

When Sam Farmer went to buy deodorant for his teenage daughter Emily, he was appalled by what he found. “Rows of pink, phallic cans, sickly sweet and called things like Entice, Tease and Sinful. Some even featuring the Playboy bunny,” ...