With Black Honey being a firm cult favourite, it was a real shame when Clinique got rid of the others from the Almost Lipstick range; Black Raspberry, Black Plum and Black Raisin were incredible colours, however, I suppose they were just a bit too similar to one another to justify having 4 scary looking black lipsticks on the displays! Fast forward 3 or 4 (or maybe even more!) years, and woo hoo, the... 

The next part to our Alphabet Game series is focusing on all things body beautiful. We’ve tried and tested body lotions, bathing products, body creams, body exfoliators, stretch mark creams, contouring products, tints and tans! You may well recognise some of the names of our testers, they featured in our A is for Anti-Ageing article, and are featuring here again, with a few new names to the group! As... 

Fresh. The name says it all. Every bottle or tub that you open simply smells Fresh! Clearly that’s the point, and when you get a product that is inspired by nature, and fragranced by nature, you don’t want it to smell like it’s been formulated in a lab, you want it to smell like it was just picked from the garden and bottled then and there. I’ve tried so many of the Fresh fragrances,... 

Glitter is that item that is both glorious and terrifying in equal measure.  Glorious, because when it’s applied well, it looks incredible.  Terrifying, because when it goes wrong there’s no escaping it.  But glitter really doesn’t have to be scary.  It doesn’t have to be an overload of shimmer, as though Christmas has just exploded over your face, it can be subtle, it can... 

This week, after a conversation on Twitter about the ‘oops’ that was the smooshed lipstick on X-Factor’s contestant from the band 2-Shoes, MAF has been in receipt of a set of Artdeco’s products that claim to stay put on your lips! First up is the Lifting Lip Base.  It isn’t necessarily an essential product, as you can smooth foundation or concealer over your lips, but... 

Its a golden day when you can break out a gold shadow or polish and not look like you’re about to hit the dance floor.  Gold isn’t as hard to wear as you may imagine, and because there are so many golds; rose gold, honey gold, white gold, there is one for everyone. It doesn’t only have to be kept to the editorial or fashion pages, it is wearable… But I love gold, and used... 

Silver isn’t as simple as just being silver.  It could be a chromatic version, or a shimmer wash, a sheer wash of colour, or a wet-look metal.  Wear it all over your mobile lid for a wow impact of colour, as seen here, created by Ellis Faas using her Lights shadow, or just a flash of colour across the inner half of your lash line.  Add it to a lipstick to give that a hidden inner glow, or... 

When Kate met Rimmel, it was a match made in heaven!  Kate put her name to a well known and loved brand that seemed to have halted in its progress, and made it hip and cool. Anyone in their 30s or 40s will have grown up with Heather Shimmer and Coffee Shimmer, those were the 2 colours that any girl in the 80s wore, and apparently, Kate did too! But stepping away from the frosted look of the 80s, she’s... 

There’s something about a product with a food related word in its name that makes it an instant appeal. Many years ago, Clinique released one of their ‘Almost’ lipsticks in the shade of Black Honey. It’s a soft and gentle just bitten berry stain with deep red undertones.  A year or so later, they decided to expand the Black Honey range, and introduced a nail colour (when they did nail colours,... 

Buried deep within the depths of your handbag is a lipstick, or 3.  A lipgloss, or 4.  Perhaps a blusher, maybe a spare eyeshadow, and most likely, a powder. You scrabble around looking for the product you need to touch up your face, and after bringing out a screwed up tissue, a bent cheque book and a half eaten tube of polo mints, you eventually find that item you need to perfect your face.  It’s... 

With the focus on monochromatic eyes and bold vibrant lips, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Autumn collection, Modern Mercury, from Estee Lauder is just another rehash of a collection from years gone by. Not so this one, delivered by the creative talent that is Tom Pecheux. With shimmering molten eyes, the lips are a smack of colour, but matte.  Just matte.  Edgy, cool, and totally... 

With so many differing shades on the market for bronze; golden bronze, taupey bronze, orange bronze, or even bronzey bronze, it’s possible to skip past these metallic shades, thinking that they’re only for cheeks and face in the summer time.  Not so! International makeup artist, and ambassador for NEW CID Cosmetics, Mikey Phillips has created a look just for MAF, right from primer through... 

Black, White, Grey.  Potentially the hardest colours to work with, possibly the most basic colours to start a kit with, definitely the most versatile colours in a kit… International Makeup Artist Kenneth Soh has given MAF exclusively, some suggestions on what to do with black, white and grey.   “White, grey and black are colours that are always with me in my kit. And I use them in... 

It’s that time of year again! As the days of summer and sunshine get closer it’s time to freshen up your make up with the nudes andneutrals of Spring/Summer 2011. There’s a lot to be said for toning down your make up and achieving a fresh, sun kissed look that looks fresh, pretty and enhances your features without going completely bare and avoiding the dreaded ‘washed out’ look. So to ease... 

So many pinks, so little time!  With every shade available, where do you look, which should you use, and which one actually suits your skin tone? Nadira V Persaud,  leading Make-up Artist with over 16 years of beauty expertise, who has generated work in beauty and fashion editorial, celebrity and advertising internationally and most recently worked on Marie Claire UK, You Magazine and Adidas has... 

Available in just a couple of weeks time, the Clinique Chubby Sticks are a trip down memory lane for anyone who’s been a fan of Clinique for some years. There used to be a range of chubby sticks for eyes, thick chunky eyeshadow sticks that would glide on and stay put.  These new incarnations in lip form are just as smooth, glide just as well, and whilst they perhaps don’t stay all day... 

There are so many variants of purple; plum, lilac, bright, muted, dark, light.  Everyone has a shade they ‘refer’ to when thinking of purples.  But really, anything does go!  Jules Cardozo-Marsh, Make-up Artist, has given MAF some of her suggestions on how to wear purples and lilacs  www.JulesCardozoMarsh.com  “This Spring/Summer, lilac and purple hues give a fresh and feminine... 

Is it fair to say that all colours are season specific, or are suited only to one hair colour, skin colour or eye colour?  Is it possible that one can use every colour of the rainbow, assuming the right tones have been chosen? A firm believer in this, whilst I’d love to wear grass green tops and scarves, I know that I can only where yucky manky khakis and sludges, but the same isn’t true...