You never forget your first time - your first time with Charlotte Tilbury, that is! I remember mine fondly. It was the summer of 2014 and I was a tired, thirtysomething mum looking for a little glow. Enter CT's Wo...
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Charlotte Tilbury, it's been a while... so for that I must apologise. It's still one of my all-time favourite brands and I still reach for the Instant Look In A Palette every day. But even I can get a bit distracted ...
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In another lifetime, I like to imagine I was a French lady-in-waiting, quaffing macarons and doused in the finest French perfume. In this lifetime, however, I have to make do with a little Yves Saint Laurent to brigh...
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I’m pale. And interesting. Okay, okay, I’m pale and reasonably interesting. Being pale, however, gets a bad rap in the mainstream media where sunkissed lovelies are favoured over us more ghostly types. Admitte...
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After what can only be described as the longest, greyest, rainiest January in Irish history, spring is finally in sight. And with it comes birdsong, blossoms and sunshine! Okay, okay, it'll probably be more grey rain...
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The year 2017 was the year of reckoning. From Hollywood abuse scandals to Nasa revealing the existence of an alien solar system, the truth might finally be coming out. My own year has had its fair share of reckoni...
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I've been politely ignoring the frenzy that is Huda Beauty for ages now. Of course, I follow Huda Kattan - I mean the whole world practically does. And I love her style but I'm not really a Huda Instagram girl, now a...
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If you were a child of the Eighties like me (holla!), you probably wanted to be a mermaid when you grew up. Call it the Splash effect but we all longed to be like Daryl Hannah, the mysterious woman-mermaid in the 198...
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We don't like being left out of anything, us Irish. So despite the fact that we have umpteen different budget brands in this country, we didn't have e.l.f. cosmetics - until now that is! The budget US make-up bran...
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You know how it is - you wait ages for a new lipstick and then three come along at once. And what a magnificent three I have to show you today. Clarins has added three new lipsticks to its Joli Rouge range (and tw...
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