Category: Beauty

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How to get natural-looking eyebrows: 5 definitive YouTube brow tutorials

Eyebrows have gone berserk over the past few years. And while the craze for Cara-inspired caterpillars is cooling off, there’s still a huge demand for fuller, shapelier brows – and just as much mystery around how you actually achieve them. So we found five of the best YouTube tutorials to boost every type of brow.

New beauty products for Summer 2015 from Too Faced

The Too Faced Summer releases are a mix of functional and fun, with a little bit of novelty thrown in for good measure.  The focus is mostly on palettes, with some additional shades of their Melted lipsticks being added with a metallic twist; not sure I can pull off a metallic lip without looking like…
Favourite food, fashion and beauty Instagrammers

15 of our favourite beauty, fashion and food accounts to follow on Instagram

Sometimes you need inspiration, sometimes you need hot tips – and sometimes you just want to gaze at impossibly beautiful photographs of sunsets, lipsticks, full skirts and flat whites while you’re standing in someone’s armpit on the bus. So we’ve rounded up our favourite fashion, beauty and food Instagrammers to give your feed a spring boost. Flex that scrolling thumb and enjoy.

Summer-ready beauty: 10 summery nail polishes

Suddenly the sun is out, winter is over, and it's time to put away your moody blues and deep, dark berry shades of polish in favour of something lighter, brighter and more tan-friendly.  To help you pick out your next favourite shade, here are nine great Summer nail polishes plus one brilliant top coat to choose from:…

Researchers have created a trackpad that fits on your thumbnail

This isn't a stick-on nail decoration: It's a tiny trackpad. As in, the kind you have on your laptop instead of a mouse. It's called NailO, and it's been developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an easy way to "let users control wireless devices when their hands are full — answering the phone…

Drake knows his makeup – namechecks NARS Orgasm blush in ‘Fancy’

Drake and Swizz Beats' song 'Fancy' isn't new (in fact, it came out in 2010, on Drake's debut album) – but a Reddit user just spotted an interesting namecheck in the lyrics. Skip to 3.34 and you'll hear the words: Say go Cinderella Go Cinderella Orgasm blush Lipstick and concealer Yep, that's a reference to NARS'…

3 of the best massage candles: scented candles that double as massage oil

We love the idea of massage candles: luxuriously-scented candles made with massage oil, so that as the wax melts, the warm oil can be poured onto skin. (The wax is designed to have a very low melting point so it doesn't burn your skin – A&E trips are not good for romantic atmosphere). They come…

The Best April Beauty Launches

This month is jam packed full of exciting beauty launches, from fragrance, to base products, to all things colour, there's something for everyone coming out this April! Starting with the gorgeous new range of lipsticks from Clinique, the Pop Lip Colour and Primer, which contain 16 beautiful new shades of creamy, comfortable lipsticks in stunning packaging and fun…
Michelle Phan has started a new online network called Icon.

YouTube star Michelle Phan has launched her own online network, Icon

As if further proof were needed that sitting in your bedroom talking to strangers can make you rich and famous, YouTube’s favourite make-up expert Michelle Phan has launched a new online network called Icon. She’s partnered with Endemol Beyond on the new project, which will distribute content on YouTube, Dailymotion, and Roku, as well as…