Pascal Dangin is the retouching genius for the worlds top glossies
So surprise, surprise — it’s not just great genes, talent and contacts that help budding starlets and their more famous friends grace the covers of the world’s glossiest magazines. According to The New Yorker, they have another secret weapon: retoucher extraordinaire Pascal Dangin.
With his painterly [...]

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There’s a new wonder cream in town - and this time you can afford it.
There is a scene in Marian Keyes’s hugely successful novel Anybody Out There? in which the beauty PR is forced to present yet another face cream to yet another jaded beauty editor, to somehow convince her that it is worth the [...]

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Are you exfoliating properly or punishing your skin with lasers and peels? Our correspondent reveals the dangers behind modern beauty treatments
Cast your minds back to the 1980s, to shoulder pads, Spudulike, and, more important, Aapri facial scrub. The television advert showed a fully made-up model gingerly rubbing a greyish paste onto her skin, then washing [...]

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How can you be certain a lotion that claims to be organic really is? Our correspondent helps you find your way to truly green creams
It’s 7.30am in New York, and Lynn Mazzella, the vice-president of global product development at Origins, is on a conference call to me in London. We haven’t met, but as she [...]

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A bad carpenter blames her tools. A good one makes sure she buys the right ones in the first place. Here’s a look at what the pros wouldn’t be without
A is for antibacterial tongue scraper The plastic strips of the Breath RX Daily Tongue Care Kit look like something to tie back plants with, but [...]

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