While packing my makeup stash, I came across Lancôme Color Focus Palette 4 Ombres in 100 OZ!, an unusually colourful eyeshadow quad from Lancôme. Part of the Lancôme Spring 2002 Oz collection which promised to put beauty lovers over the makeup rainbow, 100 OZ! captured my attention with its combination of cheerful hues. Made in [...]
Although Zoya Freja is a nice gunmetal, it doesn’t have much oomph (its multi-coloured micro-shimmer bits don’t show up well), so I applied the ultra-glittery Tins The Lucky Star Jet as an overcoat to jazz it up. That gave my nails full-on bling, to say the least! I call this nail look ‘Astro Nails’ because [...]
One of the nicest things about Christmas was the annual Merry Emakemeup (MEMMU) gift exchange that I’d taken part in for a decade. Emakemeup is now defunct but its fabulous forum, The Grapevine, has since evolved into The Beauty Grapevine, where my makeup-mad friends and I continue the chatter and beauty traditions of the previous [...]
