Makeup

Check out these gems of beauty genius from other beautyheaven readers: Apply soothing anti-redness eye drops to your brow area after waxing. It works. –    Katrina Kendell, SA For a handy hair cure, try coating your hair in vegetable oil before wrapping it in a towel. The oil will do … Read more

Top tip: Curl your lashes straight out of the shower The warm water will have made your lashes softer and more pliable, so set to work with your curler or mascara straight away. Haven’t got either on hand? Use your fingers to curl your lashes back toward your brows instead. … Read more

To stop glossy colours ‘bleeding’ into fine lines around your mouth, dust a little face powder around your lip line to create a seal. If the feathering persists, try using a ‘flat’ base colour and concentrating gloss only on the centres of each lip. 

To line your eye with intensified colour, try wetting a bright powder shadow. Simply brush your eyeshadow onto the back of your hand, add a touch of water and draw the wet colour along your upper lashline with an eyeliner brush. Warning: Never add water directly to your product, it … Read more

Start off with a hint of colour, building it in layers until you’ve created the right effect. To avoid splashing on too much at once, dip your brush into your blush or bronzer and then tap your brush on the heel of your palm to release excess powder.

To create the illusion of bigger eyes, avoid heavy eye make-up – you want to open the eye right up, not weigh it down. Stick to lighter, more neutral shades from your lashline up to your brow, keeping darker shadow at the crease and below. Darker shades should extend from … Read more

“My favourite trick for brightening a mature face is to apply blusher on the brow bone,” says make-up artist Nikki Lovrich. “Many women are scared of blush, after over doing it in the ’80s, yet a warm, rosy tone across the cheeks and eyes can work wonders for a sallow … Read more

“My secret is to apply foundation after your make-up and lip colour. You can still use an eye or lip base first and, once you brighten your face with some colour, you might see that you don’t need that much coverage after all. It stops you going overboard on foundation, … Read more

It’s weird how you’ll tell your hairdresser things you haven’t even mentioned to your mum, isn’t it? Maybe it’s all those hours we spend with them over the years, or perhaps the fumes from all that hair dye just get us loose-lipped and giddy. Who knows?  But one thing’s for … Read more

What not to do on a frizzy, rain-soaked Monday morning when you got up so ridiculously early that you dressed in the dark and actually forgot mascara: meet up with the make-up artist who beautifies Cameron Diaz, Sharon Stone and Christina Applegate and has his own What Not To Wear-style … Read more