Ginge of The Week: LUCY JONES!

This week's highest Ginger honour goes to the Telegraph's Lucy Jones .

With her glorious shade of vintage copper (not to be biased!) and fabulous taste in music, Lucy gives me a serious case of 'red envy' every time I colour her locks. To add to her ginger credibility, she recently interviewed fellow Ginge star Tori Amos! So if you want to know what's what in the music world, you simply must check out her blog:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/author/lucyjones/
Mx

Marple's Makeup Must Have.... Illamasqua Pressed Powder

TBH (aaaaah, just joking, please feel free to send messages of abuse if I start blogging in abbreviations! I can't bear them and I think I may of written that purely to annoy myself!)
Anyway, let's start again:
To be honest, I am usually a little bit sceptical when it comes to powders as my skin tends to be on the dry side as opposed to oily. However a friend of mine gave me the Illamasqua Pressed Powder to try and I have been using it daily ever since!

It has a soft velvety feel and evens out my complexion without drying or caking, also gives my skin a radiant glow that I haven't seen with any other pressed powders before.
Illamasqua pressed powder is a great way to finish your makeup look, but be sure to add a dusting of your favourite bronzer or blush to avoid looking too ghosty! (at this time of year, I'm becoming quite dependant on my bronzer!!)

Illamasqua also do great mascara and lip glosses too and if you are in the trade, they also have a fab professional discount scheme so you can stock up your kit.

Rating: 9/10


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Ginge of the Week: Zoe Cornwell!

To celebrate this week's British Hairdressing Awards, I am delighted to announce Zoe Cornwell with this week's highest Ginger honour.

This beautiful image and foxy shade of red was created by the totally talented super stylist Angelo Vallillo of Zullo & Holland, who is certainly one to watch in the hair world. (This collection made it through to the BHA finals on Monday!!!)

If there had of been an award for BHA's Model of the Year, it would of surely gone to Zoe who was featured in numerous award nominated collections this year!
From the ruby red she sported in Akin's collection to Christel's rioja hue, she certainly knows how to rock the ginger colour pallette in many ways.
MX

Topshop Makeup

Have you tried Topshop makeup yet? If not why not?

Created by the fabulously talented Hannah Murray, who I have had the pleasure of assisting at numerous Fashion Week's. Given the fashion cred and experience behind this collection- I am not surprised at the quality of this range, the great thing is it is all reasonably priced!

It covers all your bases and makes catwalk looks simple to recreate at home.  I love the range for it's fun products such as lip marker pens and crayons for eyes.  The nail varnishes come in every colour imaginable too. And with a fan base that includes Ellie Goulding, I think this range is here to stay.

My favourite so far is the kohl pencils, (I have them in both black and white) Which are honestly the best I've ever used! The texture, application, clarity of colour and longetivity of these kohl pencils is definately something to rave about.

Spring 2010 cover makeup by hannah murray

MX

Ginger treats and best friends

Big love to one of my favourite friends ever, Floss for supplying me with Ginger treats to give me strength to get through a very stressful week.

Oh I am known to have a sweet tooth, and Green & Blacks is so decadent without being sickly sweet. To make it even better, they say dark chocolate is good for you- it's full of antioxidants! I think anything that makes you feel happy has got to be good for you anyway.

Note to self: don't forget how many amazing friends you have in this world & when times are tough: eat more chocolate.
MX

Hair Heroes -Part 2

A big, big congratulations goes to the wonderful Akin Konizi, Creative Director of Hob Salons on his big win, reclaiming his crown of British Hairdresser of The Year at Grosvenor House in London last night. Having been privileged to work alongside AK this year and watch his beautiful collection come into a reality, I can tell you now, it is well deserved.

Also to my Swedish love and partner in crime Christel Lundqvist for winning British Colour Technician of the Year, which places her in the Hall Of Fame! So this proves I have been lucky enough to be trained by the best of the best and it's fantastic that Christel can keep the profile of colourists right up there.

If that wasn't enough for Hob.... On a roll for sure, we took home the British Artistic Team of the Year too. Well done team, Daz, Andrea, Claire, Stan, Christel I am proud to have shared the journey with you all. Much deserved!

What a nice birthday surprise for me!!

And to many other talented finalists and winners- in particular Bruno from Marc Antoni, Angelo Vallillo from Zullo and Holland and the talented Mr Gary Gill from Monroes- I'm so proud of your achievements and I hope you all had a wonderful night.


MX

Baby, it's cold outside....

I admit, I do like the colder climate- it may well be the reason why I'm still in London. Don't get me wrong, I suffer from my share of the winter blues like anyone else but there is always a flip side. For me Winter fashion is far more stylish than Summer dressing, as the thought of exposing my legs minus anything less than 50 denier honestly gives me a panic attack.

Oh and any excuse to wear fur makes me happy! (before I get any complaints from activists- I mean faux or vintage of course)

Top tip to nourish your Winter complexion, or any time your skin needs a boost, such as after a long haul flight:

Apply a rich amount of CLARINS BEAUTY FLASH BALM on your face and neck for 10 mins, then rinse and moisturise for baby soft skin in a flash.

This is exactly what I plan to do right now!
MX