This month...
Glitter, frost, shimmer… now happily twinkling atop my tree but rarely making its way onto my actual personage. This year, however, I’m excited by the many new takes on beauty bedeckery available – and how a~ ordable and easily applicable it is. From metallic body art to lash crystals, I’ve also been inspired by make-up artist Lan Nguyen-Grealis, whose exquisite book Art & Makeup (Laurence King, £28) takes beauty to a newly creative level. Twenty years ago, I delighted in bindis, shimmer and face paint and, says Nguyen-Grealis, that’s always permissible (at any age) during party season. Now in my thirties, it’s less playgirl and more one-woman-play… no longer taking things so seriously, but still shy of the whole spangled shebang.
Emine