Spring/Summer 2012 Beauty Trends Round Up
Spring/Summer 2012 Beauty Trends Round Up Maggie Tran The days are lighter, the trees are blossoming and we’ve finally put our snow boots and faux-fur parkas away for another season. Yep, Spring/Summer is officially here and to get you prepped and preened we’ve rounded up some of the hottest beauty trends for the sunny season...
New season skin: Spring clean
New Season Skin By Maggie Tran Prepare to slough away the flawless, velvet-finish complexion of winter past, and embrace one of this season’s most refreshing and welcoming trends – perfectly, imperfect skin. Breathing a sigh of relief from all us ‘real women’, we can now give our skin a well-deserved break from heavy foundations and...
Nail notes: Trend round up from LFW
Nail notes: Nail trends for autumn/winter 2012 By Maggie Tran Fashion Week is back and as ever, the Jolie crew have been running around town with our kitten heels and note books in tow to bring you the most beautiful trends, fresh from the catwalk. By Maggie Tran Already we’ve fallen in love with...
Ten steps to beautiful lips
Ten Steps to Beautiful Lips Get gorgeous lips in time for St. Valentine’s Day with our ten step guide to having the perfect pout, no matter which runway look you’re trending. The spring summer shows had enough variety in the lip trend stakes to keep any beauty chameleon content for the season – from the...
OPI competition: Glitter nail varnish
OPI competition: Glitter nail varnish All we want for Christmas is gorgeous glittering nails – after all it’s the only season where we have free reign to sparkle. These days we’re not holding back in the trend stakes. While our eye-make up has gone metallic, our footwear has gone wildly S&M and our headgear has...
Evening make-up ideas
Evening make-up ideas Winter is the perfect time of year to experiment with sultry make-up and add intensity to your evening make-up look. Smoky eyes, berry lips and lashings of eye-liner can instantly transform you from day time drab to nocturnal vamp. With soft lighting and shadow on your side, dare to indulge these full-on...
Sixties make-up
With sixties make-up looks found on the runway for autumn/winter it’s time to take these trends in hand and start taking them to the streets. Nothing evokes sixties make-up more than the Twiggy big eyes, eye liner feathering, teamed with matt lips in pale pink. To recreate this look, try Miners new The Matt Factor...
Beauty trends for Autumn Winter 2011
As autumn approaches it’s time to embrace the latest beauty trends, needless to say it’s an exciting time for any beauty addict. Statement make-up shouldn’t have to stay on the runway; so rock a bold new look for the new season. We’ve collected the top four beauty looks seen across the Autumn/Winter 2011 shows, together...
Mii make-up launch
We all want to be beautiful. Yet beauty is hard to define, a concept that changes as often as we change our hairstyle. Essentially beauty can be found in the quirks that make someone unique and utterly individual. So we were intrigued to hear of a new make-up brand whose core philosophy centres on making...
Backpack essential: Mineral make-up
Mineral make-up doesn’t have to be drab. Just look to Sue Devitt’s glamorous skin-conditioning range of naturally enhanced make-up that does your skin a good deed whilst beautifying your best bits. Perfect for globe trotters, Sue Devitt has brought a whole new meaning to ‘holiday make-up’ with her collection of Hydrating Marine Minerals Destination Eye...
Beauty edge: Contoured cheekbones
Cheekbones – defined They’re the epitome of beauty; the architecture of elegance that defines the edge between pretty and other-wordly perfection. Cheekbones. Without them, faces lack impact, features hover in oval space. Whilst always in vogue, the razor edged cheekbone is back, as championed by Matthew Williamson’s autumn/winter ’11 collection, and Erdem too, where shadows...
