B ack in the day I never understood eyeshadows. That was when people would use a million shades and textures and resemble extras on a dodgy 80s music video. These days, neutrals offer a really modern approach to eye (and lip) makeup.
The low-key shades of taupes, browns and plums are perfect for anyone who shies away from complex eyeshadow looks and wants ease – I tend to use just fingers to be honest(with a cotton bud dipped in makeup remover on standby). And they are easy on the eye – yours and everyone else’s. The Guardian’s journalism is independent.
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Ilia The Necessary Eyeshadow Palette £40, iliabeauty.com 2. Blink Brow Bar x Priya Alhuwalia Eyebrow Pencil £22, bbb-london.
com 3 . Pucci x Guerlain Powder £68, guerlain.com 4.
Jones Road Lip and Cheek Palette £28, jonesroadbeauty.com 5. Lisa Eldridge Rouge Experience Refillable Lipstick £49, lisaeldridge.
com I have always been a bar soap kind of girl. There is something really special about this weighty, solid thing that has the power to not only clean you but also make you feel as if the prosaic act of washing yourself is a luxury ritual. Shower gels never made me feel that way.
Even the nicest smelling ones always managed to feel perfunctory. That has changed. I have discovered some wonderful liquid body washes – usually developed by perfumers – that are just a delight.
Like the new bodycare line from Escentric Molecul.