Kate Shapland: how to apply the perfect foundation

By Kate Shapland 422PM GMT fifteen March 2010

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The Backstage Secret high-definition foundation

There has been a mini series in make-up recently, with the coming of high-definition bases, a judgment pioneered by the "airbrush" bases professionals make make use of of to give implausible finish underneath lights and cameras to an actress"s skin.

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HD bases enclose visual pigments that both simulate light and emanate a hologram outcome that creates skin flawless, but not mask-like.

Applying this record to consumer bases is a jump (new HD foundations and powders have appeared already), but the spray-on version is catching on fast, and is the majority appropriate key to it.

Airbase Airbrush Make-up uses HD liquid clear pigments to renovate skin. Silicones concede it to cover skin similar to a deceive and notwithstanding being so light you can"t feel it, it has blameless hold.

The Airbase Airbrushing Kit (�134.95; 0115-986 4722) includes substructure and airbrush.

The Scent DKNY Ripe Raspberry Candy Apples

Part of a pick up of scents desirous by sugared apples, this is a surprisingly unsynthetic aroma of developed raspberries with orange and apple at the core, records of peony and magnolia, and a bottom built around a Coca-Cola note. It unequivocally is a bit addictive. Eau de parfum, �30, Boots (from seventeen March).

The Novelty Urban Decay Alice in Wonderland Book of Shadows

Urban Decay"s anniversary palette, desirous by Tim Burton"s movie Alice In Wonderland, opens to exhibit a pop-up stage of Alice in the fungus timberland and afterwards a tip drawer containing sixteen eyeshadows, with shades from fume to hallucinogenic immature and purple; travel-size Eyeshadow Primer Potion and dual 24/7 eye pencils.

This is a collector"s piece, but precipitate - usually 2,000 are accessible (�28; debenhams.com).

The Comeback

Liberty prints have collaborated with MAC to emanate a anniversary pick up that includes elements of the mottled fabrics on the packaging. These Nail lacquers are so poetic you frequency wish to make make use of of them.

But the colours - Vestral White and Blue India - are as wearable as their wrapping is flattering the white is similar to silken Tippex (great on dark-skinned hands), and the blue could be black but but the softness (�8, maccosmetics.co.uk)

Jo Malone Vanilla + Anise Body Creme

Its tawny smell - Sicilian bergamot, frangipani, vanilla scotch and tonka - is one reason because this is a glorious buy; the well-spoken coherence is another.

But I am majority tender by the approach it moisturises and creates skin so movable - keeping it similar to that all day - but being oily or over-emotional (�44; jomalone.co.uk)