Makeup

• 21 How to shine like a star on New Year’s Eve…
  The festive season is the one time of year when we can really go to town with our make-up and glitter becomes a legitimate artistic device in the glamour stakes – especially as it also made the catwalks,...

• 22 Sparkle like Cheryl Cole in two easy steps
  It was indeed a glittering X Factor final, not least as far as the judges were concerned, with Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue both layering on sparkly make-up to dazzle the cameras on television’s...

• 23 How to be a natural beauty like Kate
  Kate Middleton remains a suitably regal companion to Prince William, maintaining a dignified distance from the media glare while also always ensuring she looks impeccable when the camera does catch her...

• 24 London beats Paris to house Europe’s largest Dior counter
  London’s title as the capital of cool just had one more jewel added to its crown with the news Selfridges on Oxford Street has been chosen as the home for the largest Dior counter in Europe with...

• 25 Fashion Week trends point to a bright future for beauty
  We may be heading into autumn, but fashionistas are keeping their eyes firmly on the future with London Fashion Week and its predictions of ‘splashes’ of colour in cosmetics for spring/summer...

• 26 Back to beauty school: quick tips for getting ready in a rush
  It’s back to school time for children, with consternation for some London parents facing bumping into celebrity mothers Claudia Schiffer, Elle Macpherson and Stella McCartney at the school gates....

• 27 You’re a fake! Top beauty myths busted
  There are enough tips, tricks and techniques we need to learn to make the most of our natural beauty without wasting time on the old wives’ tales that can get in the way of a good, basic routine… Chocolate...

• 28 Autumn trend alert: grab a sneak preview of tomorrow’s hot looks
  We may all still be desperately clinging on to the hope that we will yet experience a proper summer. But as the weather becomes increasingly patchy, at least the prospect of autumn moving ever closer...

• 29 The latest trend in beauty: make-up takes on the art world
  We all need cheering up when the financial outlook’s so gloomy, which is why the ‘lipstick index’ is a true reflector of the economics of our time – lipstick sales always go up...

• 30 She’s got perfect skin: how to achieve a flawless complexion
  Slapping on a bit of base is only the first step to achieving a flawless complexion; the rest depends on hiding imperfections and making sure your make-up stays exactly where it should throughout the day,...

• 31 Scarlett Johansson brings a touch of Hollywood to Oxford Street
  In town to shoot a campaign for the new luxurious Dolce & Gabbana cosmetics collection, Scarlett Johansson popped into Selfridges on London’s Oxford Street where she was mobbed by hundreds of...

• 32 Get Lily’s dramatic new look: popstar gets lippy with berry shades
  Lily Allen has gone for a far more grown-up, classic look than usual to mark her first foray into jewellery design with her Coin collection – influenced by her gypsy grandmother. “Lily’s...

• 33 You don't have to be a Calendar Girl to look good at any age
  Joining the cast of Calendar Girls to appear in the West End from the end of the month, June Brown, 82, Anita Dobson, 60, and Jerry Hall, 53, prove you don’t have to be in the first bloom of youth...

• 34 Get the look: Lucy Liu’s just peachy with a natural approach to make-up
  At the opening of a design exhibition in New York, Lucy Liu certainly took an almost architectural approach to her own make-up, using just one peachy shade to contour her face so her bone structure is...

• 35 Get the look: Emma Watson’s smoky sexiness for Burberry
  The teen actress’s smouldering sultriness in the new Burberry campaign would send even Harry Potter for a cold shower. So we asked celeb make-up artist Chase Aston to tell us how to recreate the...

• 36 Bring summer colours to your eyes with a selection of electric brights
  It’s a stop-start summer so far, with blasts of fierce sunshine interspersed with concrete-grey skies that are enough to dampen the brightest of outlooks. But there is a mini-trend emerging from...

• 37 The best on test: find out which are the top three maximising mascaras on the market
  They’re the staple of most women’s make-up wardrobe, instantly widening eyes, thickening lashes and making the whole face appear ‘lifted’. But after a fabulous five-year period...

• 38 How to recreate this summer's must have 'natural' look as worn by Kate
  The trend for natural-looking make-up started with Kate Winslet at a screening for Away We Go in New York and gathered pace at the Glamour Awards. There, fresh-faced beauties from Joanna Page...

• 39 Beauty secrets from the Soap Awards
  It was a night of glitz and glamour at the Soap Awards so we asked celebrity make-up artist Cassie Lomas to share with us her favourite trick for transforming the stars… “I loved the way...

• 40 How to… make small lips look fuller
  1. Exaggerate Make your lips look larger than they are by slightly extending the natural lip line. Use a lip pencil to create a new line just outside the real one, but stick fairly close – within 2mm...