All posts tagged: mascara

The best mascaras for longer, fuller and fluttery lashes: 12 favourites worn and rated by our beauty expert | Mascara

The best mascaras for longer, fuller and fluttery lashes: 12 favourites worn and rated by our beauty expert | Mascara

Published by Sam Flores

If you were allowed to pick only one makeup item to use for the rest of your life, what would you choose? Without a doubt, mine would be mascara. It’s the most transformative beauty staple. Defining your lashes has literally eye-opening results, making them appear bigger and brighter. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. If the questions I’ve been asked as a beauty editor are anything to go by, even those who consider themselves low-maintenance usually own a mascara: requests for mascara recommendations are by far the most common. It seems no one is immune to how effortlessly eye-framing a few coats can be. Recommending the best mascara, however, isn’t straightforward. A one-type-suits-all mascara doesn’t exist, so the performance of mascaras often divides people. The key is to work out what your lashes’ needs are: are you looking for volume, length, lift, curl or something else? Whatever your requirement, you’ll find a recommendation here that suits you. At a glance £28 at …

A moment that changed me: I applied mucous-tinted mascara – and loved the reaction | Beauty

A moment that changed me: I applied mucous-tinted mascara – and loved the reaction | Beauty

Published by Sam Flores

I wore makeup for the first time just after I turned 12: a tube of green mascara from a pound shop in my home town in south Wales. This was not a chic emerald or a flattering forest green. It was a frosted, mucous-tinted green – a colour that looked like the aftermath of a minor chemical incident involving Shrek. There was a reason it cost only a pound. I slicked it on with no real understanding of beauty, but a clear instinct that I loved how it altered my face. The outside world was less enthused. People hated it. Teachers told me to take it off; I’d then reapply it in the toilets. Girls in my year looked at me with genuine repulsion. It wasn’t pretty, or cute – so nobody understood why I would want to look like that. But I loved the way it transformed my face. I loved how polarising it was. I loved that it made people slightly uncomfortable. That was the first time I realised beauty didn’t have to be about looking “pretty” – …

This is the affordable mascara responsible for Demi Moore’s ‘flirty’ lashes

This is the affordable mascara responsible for Demi Moore’s ‘flirty’ lashes

Published by Daniella Wilson

Demi Moore has long been known for her timeless beauty, and her recent red carpet and couture fashion show appearances has got fans desperate to know just what products the 63-year-old relies on for her stunning, striking look. And attention has turned to her mascara, after she showcased some incredibly fluttery, flirty lashes at Paris Fashion Week. AT A GLANCE Demi Moore attended the Schiaparelli Couture Show during Paris Fashion Week.  One product in the actress’ beauty bag is a $30 mascara, available on Amazon. The 63-year-old’s MUA Dimitris Giannetos used Lancôme Curl Goddess Mascara (shop here in the UK) on the A-lister. Demi’s long time collaborator, celebrity hairstylist Dimitris Giannetos, debuted his most recent look on the star, leading full glam on Demi Moore for the recent Schiaparelli Couture Show during Paris Fashion Week.  © InstagramDemi’s stunning look at the Schiaparelli Haute Couture Week show during Paris Fashion Week  “For the makeup, we went with the clean girl makeup aesthetic using Lancôme. I kept Demi’s skin very fresh and dewy and enhanced her cheeks …