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Sheer and Natural Everyday Makeup

A very sheer and natural makeup look for you in this video – dewy textures, glowy formulas and a healthy, youthful sort of finish. Those thinking of investing in either the Hourglass Illume Trio or Becca’s Aqua Luminous foundation might find it particularly interesting as I use both items here! I’ll try and do an…

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Easy Festival Makeup and The Quickest Smokey Eye

I’ve been a bit out of sorts for the past few days, so apologies for the lack of post yesterday, I know how many of you look forward to the Sunday Tittle Tattle! I’ll be back into the swing of things shortly, but for now here’s the latest video – a very quick and easy smokey…

makeup tutorial
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Get Ready With Me: Jimmy Choo Dinner

I had a (mostly) baby-free afternoon last week and so I thought I’d film myself getting ready for a Jimmy Choo 20th Anniversary dinner that I was attending. This sort of video is widely known as – rather unimaginatively, but we’ll let that pass – a Get Ready With Me video, or a GRWM. I’m not sure about…

makeup beauty basics videos the telegraph
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Sunday Tittle Tattle: Going Back to Basics

I have a new series of beauty videos running at The Telegraph; the Beauty Basics. They take some of the makeup tasks we tend to take for granted – applying mascara, grooming brows – and very simply describe how to do them. Great if you’re totally new to beauty and always at a loss as to how…

makeup tutorial video new mum
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Glowing Makeup for my Tired Face…

The baby has started sleeping through the night. Hurrah, you might think, but no: I have developed, for the very first time in my life, a kind of strange almost-insomnia that sees me spend much of the night in quasi-dream-mode and the rest of it listening out for the baby monitor. Sod’s law, eh? So I’m…

how to contour for daylight
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Makeup How-To: Subtle Daylight Contouring

If there’s one makeup trend that has completely divided us beauty-obsessed people it’s the trend for drawing brown stripes on our faces and then rubbing them in as though we’re trying to remove stubborn patches of dirt. AKA “contouring”. One of the problems with this contouring business, I think, is that lots of demonstrations and tutorials…

top budget buys for glowing skin
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My Top Five Affordable Makeup Finds for Glowing Skin

I filmed this video before I discovered the Soap & Glory Glow All Out stick, which is very annoying, because it definitely would have been included. Especially as the Topshop one I show is no longer available. Also (multiple errors alert!) the Rosie for Autograph Amazing Radiance Cream I use at the start of the video costs £18, so…

five makeup tips for a more awake face
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Five Makeup Tricks to Look More Awake…

Last week I had the pleasure of spending the day filming videos with mega-makeup artist extraordinaire, Caroline Barnes. Caroline works on the biggest A-listers and is an absolute mine of information when it comes to makeup tricks and tips – everything from plumping out lips to creating the dewiest skin finishes. I asked Caroline to…

new foundation launches
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New Flawless Foundations: Which One’s Right For You?

For regular readers, this video is just something a bit extra; I’ll be doing far more in-depth reviews of the foundations shown on the video here on the website. You know how I like to keep you all in the Youtube loop! See all recent videos… There are quite a few new foundations launching at…

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Glowing Face Powders and the NARS Steven Klein Palette

I’ll be back with more shade details on the new Steven Klein/NARS collaboration when it comes out in a week or so – it’s very, very covetable. Though I seem to be a sucker for things featuring the work of great fashion photographers – must be something to do with my job… I loved the Norman Parkinson…

max factor lipstick ruby tuesday
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Summer Lipstick Shades: Take Your Pick! | AD

Many of you will know that I make videos for the brilliant Beauty Recommended* channel – lots of you follow it and comment and ask questions, which is great. I very much enjoy the challenges I get set and creating my filmed responses to viewers’ beauty questions, but my favourite so far has been the Summer Lip Trends video,…