Some things I have liked and some things I have not

That’s it! That’s the article!

by Claire

I am always trying to percolate good trowel article, usually successfully, but this last fortnight has been…oof. Full time job, multiple projects coming to deadline, house conveyancing, kids being sent home from childcare with various ailments (mystery bum rash anyone?). I mean, I know I’m in good company with every other working parent out there but JESUS this is hard work. It’s like a treadmill I can’t get off. So, no clever concept this week, just some things I am thinking about different products I’ve been using, strung together like a beautiful mother’s day pasta necklace. May we all have a lovely rest soon.

Liquid eyeshadow from Lisa Eldridge and Ilia

I think Lisa Eldridge is a genius and I will try anything she suggests. Lisa Eldridge could literally say to me : ‘Claire, let’s invest in bitcoin together and buy a derelict chateau on a contaminated burial ground and do it up ourselves’ and I would calmly agree. So naturally, eyeshadow was not a stretch, and I have owned her liquid silk eyeshadow in ‘Phoebe’ since it launched. It is a bit WARM on me though, a sunny camel colour, and the shade I originally wanted was a cooler mauvey taupe called Ione, which instantly sold out.

It is now back after several months, and boy is it good. If you like MAC Groundwork as a taupey one step shadow, you will LOVE Ione, which blends better and has no drag. Beucase I am impatient, I bought an Ilia cream eyeshadow in the interim, in a purple shade called Aster, and it is LOVELY.

It’s a great lilac that might occur naturally, like on a bruise or a vein or those lovely blue foot mushrooms.

Chanel No 5