This month marks Lesley Keane’s 20th year as a MAC Senior Artist. She gives Corina Gaffey the lowdown on working with celebs like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell — plus she reveals her top make-up tips.

Men in the UK are already spending up to €840 million on grooming and marketeers are adamant that men will yet take to cosmetics in the same way that they’ve taken to moisturisers. Caomhan Keane decided to give man make up a twirl...

Seventies Bombshells at Matthew Williamson

THE grey ceiling has shattered; passing 50 no longer means fading into invisibility.

TEN minutes came the shout from a heavily tattooed, hipster stylist as he races through the backstage area at Maria Grachvogel, at the opening day of London Fashion Week, nimbly avoiding concentrated knots of makeup artists, nail techs and hairdressers who are beating the clock to fine-tune the polished beauty look the designer expects out on the runway in double-quick time.

Bobbi Brown’s new offering, the Ultra Nude Eye Palette, is part of spring’s Neons and Nudes collection.

EVERY year the MTV European Music Awards behemoth rolls into town and this year it was the Northern Ireland capital’s turn.