Great new moisturisers and shimmering makeup shades arrive in stores this week. Rachel Marie Walsh reports.

The buzzwords for spring make up? Healthy, radiant, and glowing – the ‘I just woke up like this’ look. Bobbi Brown’s PRO Make Up Artist, Amy Conway, shows us three s/s trends – and how to achieve them.

Make-up for October includes richer colours and a serum to tone down wind-flushed skin. Rachel Marie Walsh shares her top buys for the month ahead.

As A/W trends land on cosmetics counters, it’s time to streamline your beauty regime. From classic pieces to the best new season launches, Weekend’s Beauty Editor Rachel Marie Walsh creates the perfect make-up bag.    

Rachel Marie Walsh is all about that base this week. Her pick of this season’s foundations work to improve and protect skin while making your face look flawless.

There are sound biological reasons why women’s bodies are naturally curvy and voluptuous. Deirdre Reynolds gets the skinny on essential body fat.

February’s new releases keep you looking naturally beautiful with barely-there makeup, tinted lash primer and rosy pops of colour. Rachel Marie Walsh reports.

All you want for Christmas is here, three weeks early and ready for wrapping. 

Kelly O’Brien did what one should do at the airport departure lounge in Dublin airport ... she lounged about the place.

Whether you’re at a beach barbecue or a summer wedding, natural, bare-skinned makeup trumps a full face every time. 

Acne is an equal-opportunities menace, capable of affecting teens and adults of both genders and any race. Rachel Marie Walsh debunks some of the myths surrounding this tricky condition.

Baggage restrictions should not stop you from looking your fabulous self. Get all your beauty booty on board with Rachel Marie Walsh’s lightweight picks.

Christmas Compacts

Enter the glamorous Halloween spirit via your make-up bag. Lisa Haynes reveals how to pull off wickedly dark beauty.

Lisa Haynes takes a peek inside the cosmetics bags of three very famous faces and finds some interesting products.

Want to hightail it away for a last minute weekend break? Esther N McCarthy fits in two counties, two hotels and lots of shopping.

In the dock this month: red lipstick, hand cream and eye makeup remover.

Best Skin Perfector

MAC honours Antonio Lopez

JANUARY is about frugality. Money is tight so beauty products take a hit.

Chanel Poudre Signée Illuminating Powder, €55

RIGHT around this time of year I get ready for my beauty New Year’s resolutions: take care of my hair, wear less mascara, defuzz my legs more often.

Get ready rock around the Christmas tree with the right primer or radiance booster.

Bring your body in from the cold this winter with a good cream to protect against dehydration or dryness.

One unforeseen downside to all this unseasonal weather is it has encouraged the lazy amongst us to extend our winter beauty regime, ie, no regime at all.

MAKE-UP is tricky in summer. The light is different, so heavier wintry foundations feel completely out of place. I know this because I used a small compact mirror out of doors the other day and my skin looked like I was gearing up for pantomime season.

Take a leaf

Want to instantly update your look for spring? Get your paws on a palette, says Kirstie McDermott, who’s got her sights set on ten of the best

I LOVE liquid eyeliner. I’ve worn it since I was 18, when I used to slick my short hair back with Brylcream, and lash on the liner.

COMPLEXION PERFECTION

OIL BE BACK

COSMETICS company Estee Lauder forecast fiscal year earnings below Wall Street’s expectations after turning in a better than expected quarterly profit and its shares fell 6.2%.

AS THE editor of Prudence magazine, Tipperary native Annette O’Meara has been championing the spend-it-wise lesson we’ve all hard to learn, long before it became a necessity.

Bobbi Brown Cleansing Oil, €40