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The Irish Sun
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
I tested full-face make-up palettes for your summer getaway – budget option is £1.50 a pan
WHILE I haven't got my summer getaway sorted yet, I've found the solution to when you only have cabin luggage allowance. And that's a full-face make-up palette. 5 Three of the best full-face make-up palettes for your summer getaway Here, I put three to the test . . . BUDGET 5 I found the formulas slightly waxy, which means it's hard work getting them to melt into skin Credit: Supplied By Beauty Bay Make Face multi-use complexion palette, £18 for 48.5g, Cream formulas are my favourite. I find they tend to be easier to apply as you can use your fingers rather than needing any brushes. And they often look more natural than those with a powder finish. READ MORE ON BEAUTY There's an impressive 12 shades in this compact – three concealers, two colour correctors, three bronzer/contour shades, two blushers, setting powder and a highlighter shade. It works out at £1.50 per pan, which is a bargain. But I found the formulas slightly waxy, which means it's hard work getting them to melt into skin. MID RANGE 5 Sculpted By Aimee is so good, I've been using it daily, rather than saving it just for travel Credit: Supplied Sculpted By Aimee bare basics palette, £34 for 22g, I've never used every single shade in a palette, but this clever collection has made that possible. Most read in Fabulous The seven pans contain a suits-all edit of products. Three powder eye-shadows (a champagne-hued shimmer, matte warm-toned brown and a shimmery darker brown), a bronzer and a setting powder alongside a cream highlighter and a cream blush. How to stop sore feet and blisters in new sandals The powders are super pigmented, and finely milled so as not to be chalky or dusty, while the balms are buttery enough to blend out in seconds, yet still deposit plenty of colour. It's so good, I've been using it daily, rather than saving it just for travel. LUXURY 5 Kevyn Aucoin Contour Book is brilliant for sculpting cheeks, but there isn't enough variety to replace my usual make-up Credit: Supplied Kevyn Aucoin Contour Book: The Art Of Sculpting & Defining Vol III, £54 for 23.9g, I am a huge fan of Kevyn Aucoin's The Sculpting Powder, so I had high hopes for this palette. There are only six shades, all centered on the cheeks, which can be repurposed as eyeshadow. But the lack of setting powder is a huge omission for my oily skin. The powders are very pigmented, so a little goes a long way, and they don't look at all heavy on the skin. It's brilliant for sculpting cheeks, but there isn't enough variety to replace my usual make-up. PICK OF THE WEEK 5 The sell-out £35 M&S Summer Beauty Bag is back for another year Credit: Supplied THE sell-out £35 M&S Summer Beauty Bag is back for another year. Launched this week, the edit contains the best of the beauty hall, with four full-sized products and seven travel miniatures, all worth £210. Inside, you'll find Colour Wow Dream Coat, new launches such as REN Evercalm Barrier Support Advanced SPF50, and products from This Works, Arkive, Tangle Teezer and Estee Lauder.
New York Times
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Tori Amos Saw a New Side to Baltimore Thanks to Russell Baker
What inspires the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter? Her first picture book, 'Tori and the Muses,' offers an answer. In an email interview, she shared how her gently rebellious mother made her a reader. SCOTT HELLER What books are on your night stand? 'Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals,' by Jamie Sams and David Carson. It's an interactive book and card set where you can pull a card and read about the healing properties that each animal embodies as it relates to mind, body and spirit. Jamie Sams was of Indigenous heritage, and I feel like some of it was passed down to her as a gift she has channeled for us all. How do you organize your books? Let's put it this way: Being a librarian is a fantasy of mine. In my album 'Tales of a Librarian,' I'm dressed in different imagined librarian costumes, and in the liner notes the tracks are organized by the Dewey Decimal System. My own little libraries don't have a system, but I have dreams of one! What kind of reader were you as a child? My reading was all inspired by my mother, Mary. My father, a pastor, believed that she was reading me Bible stories. But what she was doing, and I'm convinced this was her rebellion — her Methodist minister's wife rebellion, because it was difficult to rebel, especially as a minister's wife in the late '60s if you wanted to stay married and accepted by the parishioners and society at large — was reading to me from the collection of Edgar Allan Poe's works. What's the best book you've ever received as a gift? 'Growing Up,' by Russell Baker, which I got a few years ago from my friend Mary Ellen Bobb. I'd never heard of Baker and I couldn't put the book down. The way he could tell the story of his life made me feel like I knew everybody in it by the time I finished. I grew up in Baltimore and he put the city in a different light for me: more like a shining city on a hill. What's the last great book you read? I'm rereading 'Landmarks,' by Robert Macfarlane. The way this man writes about landscapes, particularly in the U.K., makes the wild tracks and the sea roads come alive. You published a book called 'Resistance' in 2020. Why a children's book now? Francesco Sedita at Penguin reached out and said, 'I've been reading your liner notes for years, since the '90s. You usually thank the fairies and the muses. Do you want to write about them?' That was the jumping-off point. We found the illustrator Demelsa Haughton, who just magically understood and was open to hearing about the muses and their stories. She captured them so beautifully. What's the last book you recommended to a member of your family? 'Making Faces,' by Kevyn Aucoin — a gift I gave to the band, my collaborators, my extended family. People are looking at all of these tutorials online. Some people know what they are doing, and some don't, so I thought let's go to the master. Kevyn Aucoin is and was one of the great revolutionaries in how to paint and light a face. What's the last book you read that made you cry? 'Giving Up the Ghost,' by Hilary Mantel, broke me. I had to just be in my rocking chair and sob till my shirt was wet, it completely cracked me open. I had such empathy for her pain. The last book that made you furious? There are two: 'The Road to Unfreedom,' by Timothy Snyder — I've underlined so many things and have Post-it notes in so many pages. It gave me an understanding of how we as a collective — unknowingly sometimes — are utilized to put authoritarians and dictators in power. And 'Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,' by Jane Mayer, explained things that I didn't understand, though I knew some of it at a cursory level. I certainly had no idea of the machinations that were going on when I was working the piano bars off K Street in Washington, D.C., and the liquid handshakes were occurring in front of my eyes as I played 'As Time Goes By.' When a lobbyist would lower his hand down my back when I was 16 playing some of these swanky hotels, I had no idea what some of them were planning. What's your favorite book no one else has heard of? 'The Dark Is Rising,' by Susan Cooper, which came out decades before another popular series about a boy discovering he can wield magic. I reread it now every year around winter solstice. I'm so envious of anyone who gets to experience these books for the first time. I want to be there with you, having s'mores and hot chocolate.
