Megan Conner How to keep those blonde highlights. Photograph: Alamy Fellow blondies, I’m going to educate you. Let’s go back to school. Remember the colour wheel? The complimentary colour for yellow is purple. What does this mean for you? When your icy-bright blonde highlights turn crabby, you need violet shampoo. Three words: Davines Alchemic...
‘I love the way lipstick makes me feel, I love the ceremony of applying it.’ Photograph: Image Source/Alamy I remember it so well. I was sitting on the floor playing with Daughter No 2 when I became aware that three-year-old Daughter No 1 had become mysteriously silent. Oh, the horror when I discovered what...
Maddy Costa The performance artist Scottee’s Burger Queen contest is now in its second year. Photograph: Sami Knight You’ve heard of Burger King. Prepare for Burger Queen. Now in its second year, the beauty pageant with a difference is the brainchild of 27-year-old performance artist Scottee, a “second-generation fattie” who wants to challenge the...
Eva Wiseman Modern monochrome at Ashish. Photograph: courtesty of MAC Cosmetics What will our faces be wearing this year? A thin sheen of sweat, sure (see: recession), but under that a rainbow of make-up. Lips will be strong and lacquered, cheeks chalky with pastel colour, eyeliner will parody the 1950s swoosh, and hair (when not...
John O’Farrell John O’Farrell: ‘My plan is to ignore this ageing business and hope it goes away.’ Photograph: Alamy When I was 20 I must have settled on what I thought I looked like, and now every day I’m surprised that I don’t still look like that 30 years later. There must have been...
Ruth Jamieson Spending hours in shoe shops – a direct result of too much choice, or just a fondness for shoe-gazing? Photograph: Getty Images Dear friends, family and colleagues, I have a confession to make. When I say I’m late because of public transport, at least 90% of the time it’s actually because I...
Kim Willsher in Paris Chantal Jouanno, the report’s author, said ‘mini-miss’ beauty pageants encouraged children to dress up as ‘sexual candy’. Photograph: Ruslan Krivobok/RIA Novosti A French government report is calling for a ban on “mini-miss” beauty pageants and children‘s lingerie to combat what it describes as the “hyper-sexualisation” of children. The moves follow...
Eva Wiseman Fabulous but quite serious: YSL’s new gloss. Do you know what, I’m thinking about getting back into lip gloss. I know! Sure, it can make your mouth look like an overripe melon, and sure, I know it’s hard to walk down the street without getting flies and hair stuck to your glistening lips, but...
Edmund White Edmund White: ‘The worst thing about being fat is it gives your enemies an obvious thing to ridicule.’ Photograph: Dan Callister for the Guardian When I look in the mirror, I see someone I don’t feel is attractive but that many other people do. I see age lines, a heavy jowl, a big...
Anna Chesters The three new Chanel nail colours for spring What’s the story? In beauty terms, it all starts with Chanel No5. It is the best-selling fragrance in the world. The world! That’s a lot of people all going around smelling the same. It started life back in 1921 when Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel was...
