Mac Attack

I do like Rhianna and her ever changing look. Sometimes, though, I get distracted from her lovely face by all the drama. I am very pleased to be reminded of just how very pretty she is by her campaign for Mac.

Lip Service

I watched Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland yesterday and I am now obsessed with Anne Hathaway's make up as the white queen. The dark lip, dark nail and even darker eyebrows with the porcelain skin and white hair. So good.

I am trying to work the lip today and really enjoying, except for how high maintenance it is to keep it looking perfect.

Lip Service

I am loving these pictures of Keira Knightley, Scarlett Johansson, Mia Wasikowksa and Rooney Mara on the four different covers for W magazine's November issue.

Particularly loving the dark lips.

 

 

 

 

Blood Sweat and Tears

As a lady gets a little older the old slap becomes a bit more of a constant companion, I get that. While I used to happily galivant fresh facedly around or be perfectly happy with just my trusty mascara and blusher I now feel in need of a bit more daily refurbishment.

My daily essentials consist of:

Under eye concealer x 2
Foundation
Cover up for the less perfect bits
Eyebrow kit
Blusher
Eyeshadow
Mascara
Lip balm/stick/gloss

Which I know to some of you will seem excessive, (yes, I am talking to you, Miss Knitslow) and indeed sometimes even to lazy old me. But generally if I am putting on make up then that is what I am putting on.

There is one place I definitely don't want to be covered in make up though and that's the gym. I sweat a lot, I go very red in the face, I don't want to have make up flying everywhere to make matters worse.

But there are women, clearly more together and less sweaty women, who do wear make up at my gym. A lot of it. One woman I saw, who had more than a passing resemblance to a lither Gemma from TOWIE, was even wearing bright pink lipstick like this gym bunny below.

How do they do that? How does is not all just run like a torrent off their faces like it would do on mine? And why would they want to? I get that not all of us feel that great in lycra, and that we might like a bit of a boost, but my boost comes from wearing clothes that make me look as though I belong there and don't show my wobbly bits, rather than feeling clogged porees and the risk of panda eyes.

What about you? Do you try and look pretty at the gym or bow down defeated in the face of sweat like me?

(Images via Fabulous magazine)

Heart's a Flutter

For the wedding I will be taking inspiration from the Louis Vuitton catwalk, peachy skin with a peachy flush and lip and then a serious a-fluttering around the eyes. Isn't it pretty? I just have to pin down the right falsies that will look prettily full not Desperate Scousewives full.

Eyelites do a set that are top and bottom. I'm not sure how they would work. Has anyone ever used them? Are they worth a try?

Otherwise I could use Clinique's bottom lash mascara. If I use regular mascara on my bottom lashes I look completly insane, like a Kewpie doll. And that is not something I want to look like. You know?

But pretty skin and a full lash, that's so desirable, wouldn't you agree?

(Images via Style.com)

MACGuinness

How glorious does Daphne Guinness look in the MAC ads? Loving every minute. Slightly strange collaboration as I would imagine MAC to be a bit mainstream for Little Miss Couture. But whatever the justification, I like it.

Pay Lip Service

Is it inappropriate/undesirable to wear red lipstick on a second date?

Lip Service

(Via Violent Lips)

Have you seen these? Temporary lip tatoos.


(Via the Daily Telegraph)

Could you actually imagine going on a night out with these? No. Me neither. I'm quite curious though. Maybe for a costume party.

Tickled Pink

(Via Cosmopolitan)

I fairly urgently want to start rocking a pink lip. I would usually go for something loud and fuschia, but I think this more subtle shade really works on Kate Bosworth and I might take my cue from her.

Red Sky at Night

Shepherd's DELIGHT! I'm all for it princess. You know I love to match a nail to a lip to a toe. Today though I have black painted toes and a black frock and a black belt and black smudgy eyes (see how well I have stuck to my plan to embrace colour?) so I thought a black nail might be just a bit too Elvira for the workplace.

If you are going to tackle a red lip I would recommend a Bourjois one. Although the packaging is revolting IT is a really good lipstick. It stays on for ever and doesn't go all chalky.

So are we basing our AW09 look on the Addicted to Love video? I think we might be because I am all for a sheer black tight which I would usually turn my nose up at but now I'm really liking. Especially ones with little dots. They make me think of Paris although I do not know why.

In the Red

While perusing Oasis's website I found this picture advertising their A/W collection. Now, I know we aren't talking about that yet, strictly speaking, but I just wanted to let you know of my inspiration.

This autumn/winter I will be wearing a matching red lip and nail. Hope you're ok with that.

Kiss and make up

Man alive, if there is one thing I want from a celebrity, particularly a delicious French celebrity, particularly Monica Bellucci, it is perfection. I want them to be so pretty and chic and delectable. I want them to have perfect figures and perfect hair and great clothes. I don't need them to be real. I want some glorious example of womankind that makes me feel that if someone is out there rocking it, then maybe its ok for me to relax a little and not worry so much about my own attempt at perfection.

I know that some women might feel jealous of beautiful celebrities and like to see their flaws but they actually hold little interest for me. So this cover seems utterly pointless. I mean, if you are buying a glossy magazine you have already bought in wholesale to the idea of female perfection and like pretty clothes and make up and don't mind who knows. So way to push the boundaries, and good for the women involved, as that must take cojones, but are they really selling it to the right market?

Now, let me remind myself of just how gorgeous Miss Bellucci is with all the slap...!





Admittedly she is still very beautiful without it, but they aren't doing her any favours with the dull lifeless top and backdrop. It seems to be the magazine equivalent of a hair shirt. And if ever there was something that fashion is not about, it is suffering. Except for the sweatshops and stuff, but we'll gloss over that...






Oops, I forgot to respond about your own cosmetic conundrum. Darling, honestly, you always have the full eye, I really don't think it is appropriate to alter your make up style. You own that look at 8am on the train into work, you can certainly do it at the wedding. Plus - nightimey? what part of getting dolled up to the nines for a wedding isn't a bit nightimey? All the regular rules go out the window. There will probably be a lady there with a full length white gown, I'm not sure that an excess of eyeliner will shock the assembled hoards. I really feel you might be over thinking the whole thing.

Gaga Antoinette

I too love the hat, but wouldn't it jostle for attention alongside the bow?

I also love the lip, though. I have always dug that 18th Century hugely exaggerated make up look. I confess I once went to a party with my make up like that and a corset. Woo-wee! It was so much fun. I think Her Ladyness should go the whole hog and rock up to something wearing this. I honestly couldn't think of a cooler thing for her to do. And we know she's not shy. Do it!