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It makes perfect beauty sense that the tricks, techniques and colours that we once applied to our fresh faced 16 year old skin, no longer holds the same promise to our now 35 year old and counting pixel perfect profile. When we were younger and spent many a night wishful 'makeuping' as we tried time and time again to pass unnoticed at our local pub, to now hoping to bear witness to a look of shock and “no way, you’re not that old – are you” as co-workers receive your 40th …

Makeup brushes are very like a drawer full of fancy cutlery – there’s so many of them but you really only know what one or two are actually for. And unlike a silver service you can’t just start with the smallest one and work your way in (like who hasn’t done that at a Wedding or Swishy Event?), there are various brushes designed for a specific use in the pursuit of pixel perfection and sometimes it can be hard to know where to start. But becoming your very own makeup professional …

“If I want to knock a story of the front page – I change my hairstyle”, so said Hilary Clinton, and such is the power of hair! But what happens when your hair starts to thin, break and fall? An Irish survey conducted this year by hair loss specialists Viviscal has shown that up to 68%* of all women surveyed revealed that hair loss was their biggest fear and 54%* said that thinning hair or loss made them feel less confident, sad, self-concious or worried, and over 68%* of women confir …

As the Christmas markets spring up around St Stephens' Green and beauty gift sets go on sale at Beautyfeatures, it’s safe to say the party season has officially arrived. Yes, just when you thought it was safe to curl up on the couch in your reindeer patterned onesie watching this years hopefuls on the X Factor, your social calendar has suddenly become jam packed with events and invitations. The question is, are you ready for the party season? Have you prepared your body for the festi …

Who doesn’t love a beautiful palette of sparkly, shimmering shadows? And who doesn’t love a beauty product that can multi task? The sophisticated (and highly pigmented) Clarins Eyeshadow Palette has winged its way into the BF office in all its pearlescent, luminous glory and we pondered the question, what else can this collection of show stopping colours and tones do? We know there’s a gorgeous and on trend smoky eye in there and it offers a dazzling selection of 10 wearable shad …