Beauty Industry
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Where do you draw the line?
This is my third attempt at writing this post. I don't know whether I don't know where to start or just that there isn't enough room to vent everything in...
04/12/2010
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Tales from the other side of the Till
She's orange. She's rude. She's patronising. She complains openly about her job. She talks to her co-workers instead of serving you. She points somewhere and says 'over there' when you...
17/11/2010
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Edward Bess Launch
LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!!! Basically, we were all invited to the launch of Edward Bess by the lovely Zuneta. Months ago. I subsequently 'lost' the pictures somewhere on the XD...
12/09/2010
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MAC Rodarte Collection - The Result.
Update taken from source - Temptalia - original post here. MAC to Donate its Global Profits from the MAC Rodarte Makeup Collection to Benefit Newly Created Women and Girls of...
30/07/2010
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MAC Rodarte Update - What do you think?
STATEMENT FROM M·A·C COSMETICS ON THE M·A·C RODARTE COLLECTION We understand that product names in the M·A·C Rodarte collection have offended our consumers and fans. This was never our intent...
20/07/2010
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MAC Rodarte Collection - Just a bad idea.
Every so often a company makes a mistake.Sometimes it's a big one. This is not one of those situations. Knowing what I know - more of which later - this...
18/07/2010
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MUA Focus - Jamie Coombes, Dior Pro Artist - International and National MUA - UK & Ireland
The very handsome and talented Mr Coombes is the man to know if Dior is your thing - which I know for a lot of you - it is! He...
05/07/2010
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Raise and hold your leg please...
* Don't worry - there are no before and after pictures in this post! But let's set the scene: A bush. I'm not the best at de-hairing myself. I shave...
30/06/2010
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MUA of the week - Chiara Guizzetti
This week's MUA is Queen of the Catwalk Chiara Guizzetti. You know that dream where your backstage at Chanel tending to all the top models faces while Karl Lagerfeld holds...
10/06/2010
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MUA of the week - Katy Messer
This week I'm focusing on one of our very own - Katy Messer has been in the industry for a long time - we first came across each other back...
31/05/2010
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Make-Up Artist Monday - Dorita Nissen
This week's MUA is Dorita Nissen. Dorita has been in the industry for 13 years and working as a full time MUA for 6 of them. Dorita during a hard...
24/05/2010
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Parabens and Animal Testing - a quick word...
After a few comments this week on Twitter about parabens and a post from the lovely Sarah on London Beauty Review about animal testing - (more of that here) I...
22/05/2010
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Make-Up Artist on Monday - Adam 'Medusa' Sidwell
This weeks MUA is Adam Sidwell aka Medusa - the International MUA for Illamasqua. How long have you been a MUA? I have been involved in makeup for 10 years...
17/05/2010
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Make-Up Artist on Monday - Michelle George
I've been fortunate enough to work with some of the best MUA's in the industry - and the majority of them are relatively unknown. These are the people that are...
10/05/2010
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Advertising v Allocation Part 2
After the enthusiastic response to this post last week I thought I had better finish what I started!!! The first instalment of this post can be found here. Let’s get...
03/05/2010
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Tending to the Lady Garden
I would never normally mix business and blogging – but in honour of the Official roll-out of ‘all for eve‘ this week and in place of the usual ‘beauty’ posts...
30/04/2010
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Advertising v Allocation
We all know the power of beauty advertising in the glossy mags - and the pressure then put on the journalists to write about the advertisers products in their beauty...
25/04/2010
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A Family Affair
I have been in the Beauty Business a long time - but thanks to the women in these two pictures below - my earliest memories are ALL beauty related... The...
14/04/2010