Kate Demolder: A look inside my beauty bag and my everyday skin and make-up must-haves

"...with this column, I hope to provide a space where you don’t feel you have to buy products to succeed, but enjoy where you are with whatever you have — be they Biologique Recherche masques or ice cubes from your freezer..."

Kate Demolder with her make-up bag. Photograph Moya Nolan

Beauty, to me, is fascinating; the way it informs us about where we are in the world, and what we deem as important (including the Succubus Chic era, or the old/new crimson hair trend we seem to be returning to). 

It’s also, for me, a fine line to tread — given that much of the beauty industry is founded on insecurity abuse, while a lot of it is also based on health and happiness.