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Valentine’s Day Beauty – High Street Edit

Valentine's Day makeup

I often have to provide grovelling apologias to my well-worn purse strings, and recently these have become risible palimpsests. So enough is enough! I am going to embrace high-street beauty with open arms (in the hope that my purse will soon greet me in a similar fashion).

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Glamour On The Go Exhibition

Glamour on the Go exhibition

I wrote this for the Essential Surrey website – essentialsurrey.co.uk.

Our choice of make-up reveals interesting little things about us, while paradoxically covering us up. Trends in cosmetics reinforce current beauty ideals, social attitudes and economic conditions. With this truism in mind, an exhibition that explores the evolution of make-up and its shifting form and function is surely the most glamorous way to track and digest these changes.
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