L'Oreal True Match Le Blush

Photo by: Deirdre Crowley/Le Blush True Rose

Le Blush by L’Oreal from the True Match range is the most visibly softening of all powder blushers I’ve used. Softening contours as it builds the cheekbones, it’s effect is enhanced by the colours it comes in - True Rose (a lovely, dusky pink I tested), Nude Pink, Rosewood, Old Rose, Nude Brown and Sandalwood Rose - warm, cool and neutral colours formulated to suit every skin tone. The surprise of this product is its two tier design – the compact blusher first and beneath that a mirror and a miniature, useful blusher brush. Oil-free and non-comedogenic (it doesn’t clog the pores causing acne), Le Blush by L’Oreal provides the finishing touch for a perfected, matte complexion. £7.69 from Boots and Superdrug stores nationwide or see the product online at www.loreal-paris.co.uk

Site Statement Think Beauty Try Beauty

i-D Magazine September 2012 issue

Beauty is filtered through to the consumer when the beauty product becomes available. Backstage at the international runway shows and in fashion magazines, for example, as beauty products, cosmetics and beauty tools are used and become more refined, the beauty industry presents an approach to the beauty ideal and it develops. Trends and glamour are identifiable in beauty and popularity translates into sales, sustaining this huge industry. The future of beauty is skincare, cosmetics, beauty tools and beauty applications and technologies, and these are continuous. The idea of your beauty routine is to sustain it, dream a little and absorb its effects. Consume. Synthesise. Absorb. Enhance.

Max Factor Mastertouch Under-Eye Concealer

309 Beige

The new Max Factor Mastertouch Under-Eye Concealer is a concealer pen with a unique absorbent tip for the precise application of concealer under the ultra-delicate eye area. Functioning as a concealer which blends away dark circles, it’s fluid light-diffusing cream can be applied elsewhere on the face to hide the usual blemishes. It gives excellent coverage. Moisturise your skin before applying to maximize the glide-on movement of the absorbent tip. This product dries quickly for efficiently delivered perfecting effects. Excellent alone or apply after your foundation and before your powder, a tip suggested by the international Max Factor makeup team whose Creative Design Director (Beauty) is the makeup artist Pat McGrath, formerly of i-D magazine. From the company who invented Erase, the original concealer, in 1954, the Max Factor Mastertouch Under-Eye Concealer is available in three shades - 303 Ivory, 306 Fair, 309 Beige. £7.99 from Boots stores nationwide or buy online at www.maxfactor.co.uk

Neal's Yard Remedies Organic Beauty Oil

Neal's Yard Remedies
Organic Beauty Oil

It’s a beauty oil. You drink it. Containing essential nutrients and anti-aging antioxidants including Vitamin E and botanical antioxidant lutein which is present in dark, leafy vegetables, the Neal’s Yard Remedies Organic Beauty Oil is a nutritional dietary supplement formulated to enhance the beauty of your skin, hair and nails. Essential nourishing fatty acids (omega 3, 6, and 9) required for biological processes are vital but cannot be provided by the body itself. Omega sources golden flax seed oil, hemp, avocado and evening primrose combine to renew, maintain and repair hair, nails and skin because radiant skin is more than just a surface – it’s needs nourishing. I add Neal’s Yard Remedies Organic Beauty Oil to fruit juice every day. My complexion looks extremely clear recently suggesting good health. This is a unique beauty product. £12.50 200ml. Available to buy from Neal's Yard Remedies stores nationwide or online at nealsyardremedies.com.100% organic.  

L’Oreal Color Riche Lipstick

Crazy Fuchsia 370 

L’Oreal Color Riche tested in Crazy Fuchsia 370 is a lush shade of highly glossy dark pink lipstick for light brunettes from the Made For Me range, a feature of its difference from other lipsticks. The casing is glamorous in silver gold. Enriched with moisturizing Vitamin E and nourishing omega 3 oils, L’Oreal Color Riche is a favourite high shine lipstick, enhanced with light-reflecting waxes. Another cosmetics success from the world’s largest cosmetics company. Other shades are available to enhance your own natural colouring. £8.19. Available from Boots stores nationwide.

Dunhill Custom Eau de Toilette For Men

Dunhill Custom Eau de Toilette For Men

Dunhill Custom as described by Dunhill, the designer menswear, leather goods and accessories company, is “a perfectly tailored fragrance” for men. Designed for the individual, and accompanying the Dunhill fashion line, Dunhill Custom is a fragrance in a square glass flacon that has weight and a cap that can be customized using the Dunhill Monogram service available at www.dunhill.com. Containing English Pippin Apple, Cedarwood and Spicy Black Pepper, Dunhill Custom is “a head-turning scent”, and “a scent that really suited me”, as tried by Mr Peter Andrews. With over one hundred years experience, Dunhill Custom by Dunhill is a covetable product. Eau de Toilette 50ml £42.00. Eau de Toilette 100ml £54.00. Launched exclusively at Harrods.

Japonesque Pro Brow/Lash Comb

Precision crafted with a wooden handle designed for a weighty in-hand feel, the JAPONESQUE Pro Brow/Lash Comb with natural bristles creates a fuller, groomed looking eyebrow in tune with current trends created by beauty professionals backstage at the international runway shows who are known to favour JAPONESQUE beauty tools. Less inclined to pluck your eyebrows as a result of using this brow/lash comb, you will find the eyebrow’s natural shape is enhanced, while the lash comb expertly separates lashes after the application of mascara. For professionally shaped, separated and defined eyebrows and eye lashes, find the JAPONESQUE Pro Brow/Lash Comb online at www.japonesque.com $12. JAPONESQUE beauty tool tutorials are available to view online.

Max Factor Miracle Touch Creamy Blush

14 Soft Pink

The advantage of cream blusher over powder blusher is its finish. Applied to bare skin or over a foundation, its cream texture beautifies the complexion. Max Factor Miracle Touch Creamy Blush in 14 Soft Pink, a warm pink, is not much bigger than a 10p coin. It appears small at first but containing an expert amount of colour, it’s the best cream blusher I’ve ever used particularly for Summer days when the skin is more naturally radiant. Preferably blend with a blusher brush to perfect coverage and to complement your own colouring choose also from 03 Soft Copper, 07 Soft Candy, 09 Soft Murano. £6.99. A rosy tone that lasts all day. Available from Boots or order online at www.maxfactor.co.uk

Max Factor Miracle Touch Creamy Blush Update 19 February 2013  

After I posted this review in September 2012, the product was used

extensively a month later in October 2012 during the Spring/Summer 2013

runway shows to create a number of looks that are current. Makeup Artist

and Max Factor Global Creative Design Director Pat McGrath used the 

Max Factor Creamy Blush in Soft Copper and in Soft Pink at the Stella 

McCartney and Givenchy shows and at Versace, Bottega Veneta, 

Dolce & Gabbana and Valentino. "I haven't seen this much blush since 

the nineties", she says, "and it's good to see it back!".