Beauty Tips

Since my love of film matches my passion for beauty, the Oscars are not to be missed. I binge on sweets and caffeine and stay up to watch the whole interminable shebang, trying to guess simultaneously which nominee will triumph and ...

You spend a week’s salary on a proper posh hair dye, at a place where they offer you cava while it develops, and then two weeks later it’s all washed off. What was glossy, chestnut, dark is now a mousy ...

The April issue of British Vogue boasts the cover everyone in publishing wanted. Newly divorced and intact from the very public court hearing of the Grillo sisters, Nigella Lawson gives the magazine an exclusive interview and poses in an altogether ...

The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial, but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients. Essential oils such as jasmine, rose, vetiver, ilang-ilang, iris, ...

Every so often I indulge in an act of heroic self-sacrifice and commit shoe leather and patience to a trade show. My heart sinks slightly whenever I feel it necessary to join the crowds at an exhibition, and I say ...

I have the face of a 1980s Belgian van driver. When shut, my eyes are too small. They are in danger of completely healing over. They’re not exactly identical twins, either – more members of the same family. My face has ...

I am given the hard sell on so many ludicrous-sounding ingredients (hear “Boswelox” and try to keep a straight face – I still can’t a decade later) that I’m almost disappointed if they turn out actually to work. L’Oréal Elvive Fibrology shampoo, conditioner (£2.99 ...

Colour has changed. No longer are we chasing the pinks and roses of a flushed cheek or bitten lip, today the colour that feels right in beauty is the slightly heightened lilac, or uncanny peach. It’s ­colour as seen through ...

Sometimes nothing feels better than giving yourself a rough, hard scrub. The older you get, the more time you seem to spend patting and smoothing and cossetting your face, futile hours battling the sag and droop. The right facial scrub ...

The Consumer Products Inventory lists over 1,600 products which are identified by the manufacturer as containing nanoparticles – particles between one and 100 nanometres (between one and 100 billionths of a metre) across. So let’s take a look at what’s ...