This beauty bible gives new treatment to the serious business of looking gorgeous. By Alison Boleyn
Once upon a time, a glamorous beauty editor was bemoaning the lack of good product in this world. “How is it,” she wailed, “that they can cure cancer but they can’t make a decent waterproof mascara?” “Sweetie,” her editor replied, [...]

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A new self-help book shows you how to fight ageing, but our correspondent would rather have new shoes and her myopic husband
I PROMISED to shoot anyone who gave me a copy of Nigella Lawson’s How to be a Domestic Goddess, and I’m not sure that the bearer of Kathleen Baird-Murray’s book How to be Beautiful [...]

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