Once you’ve aced your base with clear skin and sculpted features, dare to experiment with unexpected yet edgy eyeshadows and barely there brows which, coincidentally, ruled the runways. CHIC AND SLEEK Up, down—however you style it, the success of this look hinges upon high-shine lacquered locks with nary a flyaway or frizzy end in sight….
Red Corn Cookies – Memorable Recipes
I love these corn cookies because they are part shortbread, part sugar cookie, and all delicious. They are sure to surprise anyone who tastes them because corn is an unusual ingredient in a cookie. I love adding a topping of lemon-lavender icing or hazelnut brittle—or both!—to bring the cookies to a new level. Enjoy with…
Cartier’s Latest High Jewellery Collection – Nature Sauvage
It always begins with a love story.” I’m in Vienna for the launch of Cartier’s new high jewellery collection and Jacqueline Karachi, the brand’s director of high jewellery creation, is telling me about the creative process behind itshigh jewellery collections. Karachi explains, “When we decide on a theme, we research the stones, then present the…
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy – Mental Health
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): A Powerful Contextual Approach to Promoting Youth Mental Health in Schools Young people spend much of their lives at school, and school has many significant impacts on their well-being and mental health. Schools are educational institutions with the primary aim of providing a formal learning environment and space to stu-dents…
Perfecting your mid-flight beauty routine
Perfecting your mid-flight beauty routine is both an art and a science. Here is everything you need to know-and pack. If you’ve ever travelled on a long-haul flight, you know what it’s like to arrive at your destination feeling less than fresh—and that’s putting it mildly. Between the chapped lips, puffy undereyes, greasy hair (seriously,…
L’Eau De Parfum Intense – Perfume
The original Chloé Eau de Parfum was such a simple, short formula, made with very few ingredients,” says perfumer Romain Almairac of the classic scent that his father, Michel, helped develop. “Nobody was expecting it to be such a success.” Following the perfume’s 2008 launch, its pale-blush bottle (and its soft fragrance, with notes of…
The beauty and the resilience of the 244-year-old French jewellery brand in a new era
Chaumet’s Charles Leung talks to BAZAAR about the beauty and the resilience of the 244-year-old French jewellery brand in a new era. It was a hot June summer, and the city of Paris was bustling with Olympic preparations. But the sophisticated vibe at the biannual Haute Couture week and Haute Jewellery presentationss was somewhat in…
How safe is your pension? – Life Insights
Pensions seem constantly to be in the news, usually making bad headlines. Scandals are typically of two types: defined-benefit schemes breaking their pension promises, and individual savers in all types of scheme being scammed out of their money. Although big news when it happens, most defined-benefit schemes do not fail and, where they do, there…
Fragrance Files
With a soft focus on the world of fragrances this month, come explore our curation of scents and notes that were championing this season. Eternal YouthLa Prairie’s new Life Matrix Haute Rejuvenation Cream is a luxurious skincare innovation that harnesses the power of High Longevity Science to elevate skin health and youthfulness. Inspired by Dr….
Alexconsani – List of essentials for her on- and off-duty beauty beat
1 & 2 My three must-have make-up products. My favourite all-time make-up is by Pat McGrath Labs. I have had the honour of getting to know her well and her products don’t hold back. My favourites are the Divine Cream Blush: Legendary Glow Color Balm in Divine Rose Glow, and Mothership XI: Sunlit Seduction. They…