Beauty Notes Daily

By Amy Lawrenson

This week I headed to Harrods, not to do some Christmas shopping (note-to-self: must start that soon), but to chat with Claudia Schiffer.

The supermodel was there as the face of the first Alberta Ferretti fragrance to sign bottles of the scent. Unlike other celebrity personal appearances I’ve been to, where the A-Lister is normally wheeled out and then away in the blink of an eye, Claudia and designer Alberta spent over an hour signing autographs and talking to fans. Impressive dedication.

I hung around to talk perfume with the fragrant pair.

‘My first scent memory is Shalimar by Guerlain, my mother’s perfume,’  said Alberta. ‘Perfume is like a business card, very often you will remember a person by the perfume she wears. It is an important choice that you need to use with extra care.’

But while she’s clearly a one-scent woman, Claudia’s more of a fragrance flirt. ‘Always choose a fragrance that suits your mood; a perfume should enhance and compliment how you are feeling,’ she told me.

This probably explains why Alberta has a signature scent, while Claudia is not just the face of Alberta Ferretti’s debut fragrance, £35 for 30ml (edp), but also 18 La Lune, £35 for 100ml (edt), part of Dolce & Gabbana’s Anthology perfume collection.

by Georgia Collins

On Monday I met with MAC’s Director of Make-up Artistry Terry Barber who gave me a sneak preview of the brand’s SS10 trend round-up (incidentally, Terry is the man behind some of my favourite trend-isms; describing the crop of toffee-washed eyes last season as ‘tea-bag eyes’ was a personal favourite).

Once he had finished giving me the low down (it’s going to be an exciting season FYI) he pulled out a present, a sample of one of MAC’s forthcoming products, the Cremeblend Blush in Joie-De-Vivre. A beautiful but bright coral colour, I was hesitant about whether it would suit my olive complexion (I usually go for a more blue-toned cherry blush) but Terry assured me it would be really flattering and make my skin look as though it was ‘glowing from within’.

Well, he was right. I’ve been wearing it ever since and I have never had so many compliments on my complexion. The colour sort of sinks into the skin leaving just the lightest hint of a soft flushed stain that really perks me up. What’s more, I haven’t had to re-touch it because the colour lasts all day. Put it on your wish list now.

 By Georgia Collins

Okay so I caved. I went with the green and I love it. What do you think?