Swatchgirl.com – celebrating 2 years of beauty goofiness
Swatchgirl.com turns two today, and I wanted to say thank you in the form of 60 seconds of pure awkwardness. Thank you so much for supporting this blog over the past two years,…
BY REQUEST: depotting MAC eyeshadows
This tutorial for depotting MAC used to exist on another since defunct website of mine, and is being reposted on swatchgirl.com by reader request! There are a lot of different ways to depot…
JK Jemma Kidd: Five minutes with Korben
I recently had the absolute pleasure in catching up with Korben, international make-up artist and training manager for JK Jemma Kidd, the fun and funky streetsmart arm of the now-legendary Jemma Kidd Makeup…
RAFW 2011 – Napoleon Perdis for Rachel Gilbert
Phreeeeeeeeow. The make-up styling by Napoleon Perdis for Rachel Gilbert this morning was the bee’s knees – think clean, elegant and sophisticated but never dull or stuffy. (Don’t forget the magic word: wearable.)…
On adult acne: a confession
My name is Lara, and I have adult acne. If you’re female and reading this, there’s an approximate 50% chance that you, too, are cursed with spots well past your teenage years. It’s…
Skincare State of the Nation
So I’m a bit of a skincare buff, no news there. It’s something I have offical training in – the kind with lots of curly ornate certificates with official government stamps – and…