FACT: Nars and cars!

Here's a little factoid for you!

Apparently Nars iconic blusher Orgasm sells the same amount - in weight- as Lamborghini sells in cars.

Whilst that's rather an alarming amount of rosy cheeks, I do wonder if it would have had the same effect if it was called 'peachy bronze.'

Proof - as if you needed it - that SEX SELLS.

TESTY: Nars Crazy Heart lip gloss

Unlike many a gloss set, these beautiful glosses are all genuinely fabulous colours. Admittedly, the palest opaque pink is too light for my skin tone and I'm not into sheer reds or purples. But the others - a metallic berry and a frost pink - are beautiful unique shades.

Nars glosses are so easy to wear and have such strong pigment that they add real glamour to your look. They feel totally luxurious to apply and for £35 this is an ideal pressie!



Nars Crazy Heart lip gloss set £35, HQ Hair.

Lust: Nars Nail Varnish

I'm LOVING these from Nars as featured on the Vogue blog.


They're out now, in a selection of film inspired colours and at £13 each they're a quickety quick way to update your look in a jiffy. Just £13 squids too, but they are limited edish from Selfs I believe!

I love the idea of wearing the orange or green with textured black clothes, really razor sharp black hair-cut, maybe a black cape, winklepicker boots from Underground (amazing punk shoes, they now sell at Office fyi.)

Abort Mission: THE PERFECT RED

I read somewhere that Dita Von Teese uses Ruby Woo red lippie by MAC. It’s a retro matte shade, the most perfect red ever in fact. It's ideal for that 40s look, but I just didn’t think it would work with darker skins (too blue-toned, blah blah.) So off I went on a year-long quest to find THE PERFECT RED. It deserves caps as it's a big mission and of grave importance!

So, after a whole year of searching for THE PERFECT RED, I managed to amass 27 of them. Many seemed perfect at the time, less so, though, when they were smeared all over my face after a night on the town. I thought I’d found THE PERFECT RED in a Kyrolan one, which was the most beautiful blood-red colour but the wrong texture. I went into MAC and was told that a warm-toned Russian Red would suit me the best, I disagreed, but bought it anyway out of sheer hope and desperation (I was right). Next on my list was the sublime Besame lippie, complete with its 40s-style bullet packaging to die for, but alas, the shade was too orange, although the pigment was gorgeous. SO then finally, on a lark, I popped back into MAC and actually tried Ruby Woo and behold – THE PERFECT RED.

Why didn’t I just buy it in the first place? Maybe I wanted to put myself through disappointment (and all those terrible tagged Facebook pictures with red tragedy strewn throughout for all to see). Maybe I like causing myself hassle, resulting in a year of torment and wasted funds. Maybe I just like to be difficult and make life harder than it ever needs to be. That's it, clearly.

The moral of the story is:

A- Darker skins aren’t ‘all the same’ as we're constantly told ('dark skins must wear dark plums and purples…’ Pah! Trust your own judgement and if it looks hot, then rock it!

B- Some things are known as the best products because they actually are!

So, in conclusion, I present my red lipstick the finalists and one winner, in the middle. The quest is over. Time for a rest now.



L-R: MAC Lipmix Lip Pigment in Fuschia; Kryolan LC00A; NARS Red Lizard; MAC Lipstick Russian Red; MAC Lipstick Ruby Woo; Lancome L'absolue Rouge 173; Besame 204 Carmine; Chanel Rouge Allure 09; Autograph Plumping Lip Gloss Scarlet; MAC Longwear Lasting Lust; Maybelline Superstay Red Passion

So you can see the insane the colour is



With chum and stylist Sammie N