Get the look: Lauren Luke discovers her inner Dita von Teese
Well it’s all very well having an inner Dita von Teese, isn’t it.
This make-up look involves frosted eye primer and brow wax. I can’t help but feel that anyone who has these items in their make-up bag doesn’t need to be told how to put red lipstick and black eyeliner on. The beauty spot was a bit of a revelation though. In the past this has been strictly fancy dress territory for me but I gave it a go and drew over my natural beauty spot with an eye pencil. It actually looked kind of foxy and provides an ingenious distraction from acne, I discovered. You’d think it’d just look like too many dots on one face, but not so. Brightest star in the sky and all that.
Dita von Teese
Deep vein Thrombosis
Conclusions:
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Less of a conclusion, more of question raised – do people really own frosted eye primer and brow wax?
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Beauty spots rule OK
I've always found it funny when people write letters to the Guardian's Weekend magazine complaining that the recipe ingredients are too middle class and the fashion only looks good on thin people. After all, it's just a magazine. Or is it? I decided to follow its recipes, fashion and lifestyle advice as closely as possible, to see if the aspirations promoted therein can really be achieved by the average reader who is not especially wealthy, not necessarily model thin and is obliged to work regular office hours. This blog has no affiliation whatsoever with the Guardian but I link to the Weekend magazine website for the purposes of illustration. 
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