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

Clarins Palette Eclat Face Blush and Powder, €37

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.

Max Factor Liquid Effect Pencil, €8.99

The main Irish arm of consumer products group Procter & Gamble swung back into profit last year after revenues increased by 69% to €90.3m.

Celebrity Salon mentor and beautician Elaine Butler Doolin tells Kirstie McDermott her make-up secrets and favourite products

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is to front a new advertising campaign for cosmetics giant Max Factor to celebrate its forthcoming centenary.

WITH the manufacturing sector in steep decline, the loss of 280 more jobs, almost half the workforce at the Procter and Gamble plant in Nenagh, is a psychological blow to the Irish economy and a body blow to a region where more than 1,200 workers have been made redundant in recent times.

Up to 600 jobs are under threat at a multinational cosmetics manufacturer in Co Tipperary, it was revealed tonight.

The fugitive heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune has been sentenced to 124 years in prison for drugging and raping three women.