As professional makeup artists, we’re expected to have certain standards of hygiene; clean, short, laquerless nails, groomed clean hair, a clean kit, clean brushes, and a selection of disposable products for using cosmetics that have built in applicators – liquid eyeliners, lipglosses, mascaras etc. However, as good as we can be with having throwaway lipgloss wands or lipbrushes, the applicator... 

So everyone’s talking about it.  The Clinique Bottom Lash Mascara, about how fantastic it is for bottom lashes, making them long but not clumped, pretty but not spidery! Its definitely a favourite here, but is it really just for bottom lashes?  It certainly works very well on long thin fine lashes, keeping them separated when otherwise they could clump into 6 great spider legs!  It works particularly... 

Sam Donald www.SamDonald.com As we all know, you have to have great products to achieve a great look, but you also need good tools behind you to get soft yet clean lines, without fallout and wasteage. I’m a brush junkie.  I find it irresistible to walk past a cosmetics counter without having a good look at their brush range and buying at least one. I have a brush kit with around 100 brushes... 

It doesn’t take a genius to work out that I am a clean queen as far as makeup hygiene is concerned.  If you’re in the dark, just take a moment to read the Safe Beauty article at the top of this page. In the last 2 weeks, I have been the makeup artist at 4 weddings (total number of faces 21) and attended a Leukaemia Research Fundraiser offering makeovers and the like (total faces made over...