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In case you hadn’t heard, beautifully subtle golden skin is definitely in! Glowing, exquisitely natural skin is the base of all things beauty, and – as seen at Stella McCartney’s Paris Fashion Week runway show 2014 ­– it’s barely there with merely defined eyes and balmy lips. Preparing your makeup for a night on the town doesn’t always have to involve the glam girls go to ‘smoky eye’ or the statement bold, bright lip. However by combining t …

Well there isn’t a difference I hear you cry! Well um, surprisingly yes there is! Many of us find ourselves perplexed by these two skin terms, often because the symptoms such as tightness, flakiness, dull, lifeless, rough, to the more serious- severe redness and cracks in the skin that are prone to bleeding – are one and the same, or so we thought! However there is vast clinical variance between these two terms - dry skin is a  skin type and dehydra …

Some of the worse mistakes I’ve made have been haircuts! 1986 I sported long white hair (a love affair for bleach was born) but so was an ongoing battle with split ends, flyaway frizz and the perennial pain in the hair follicle that is “natural growth”. Foregoing upkeep for the natural look, the next 20 or so years saw long, wavy hair, the occasional colour and a hair romance that remains until this day! However not all of us are blessed with an Armenian heritage (aka Kardashians) or have …

There are only so many ‘buns’ you can wrap those lustful locks up into! For me, winter = cold weather = equals ‘bun’. Suffice to say my makeup bag is a warm if not colourful home for many a bobby pin, some twisted, some ready for the casual pin up, but always, ready for the flurried twist of the hair and haphazard pin fest that ensues! But this is not hair love my friends, it is out and out hair abuse! So as Spring struggles to break through over Dublin, it’s time for some hair care, time …

The trinity of skincare (cleansing, toning and moisturising) is a beauty ritual that millions of woman the world over could achieve in their sleep. Well-manicured hands spreading the elixir of youth from the t-zone out, and smoothing lashings of self-confidence liberally over the neck and up! But mention the word ‘Serum’ and that’s where the confidence stops. Serums whilst not new to the skin care industry still have a shroud of mystery surrounding them. Do you know what a serum does …