Beauty: Slap it on

0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Jan 21, 2001 | by with Abby Knight

Everything's coming up roses

Winter's cold, damp weather brings out more moisture from your skin than the hottest summer's day and the best way to restore it to kitten- soft condition is with one of these rose-based skin treats.

Freshen and soften skin in one go with Bloom Aromatherapy Facial & Body Mist with rose extract, pounds 6.95 for 120ml (020 7625 7373). Add a few drops of Cariad's Rose Otto Oil to your favourite body lotion for extra moisturising benefits, from pounds 15. Or try Benefit's "Touch Me, Then Try To Leave" Cream, pounds 15 for 116ml (0901 113 0001). Wallow in a tub full of Marks & Spencer's Rosewater Blooming Bath Oil, pounds 6 for 500ml, then waft around in a cloud of the Rosewater Body, Room And Linen Spray, pounds 5 for 100ml. Bronnley's With Love Celebration Soap infused with real English garden roses extract smells heavenly and is good for your skin, pounds 2.95. Add a rosy glow to lips with Prescriptive's moisturising Lavish Lipstick in Gusto, pounds 12.50.

Hairwatch

My little pony

This season's answer to low-maintenance, high glamour styling is the good old ponytail. Gorgeous model Gisele wears hers low into the nape of the neck. Jennifer Lopez prefers the Sixties' prom girl look, with a tail worn high on the crown. And SMTV's Cat Deeley opts to look plain cute. To get the look, scoop hair into a band and fix at the back of your head with clips. Separate individual tresses with wax or gel. Then for catwalk-style impact, secure with a slinky chain mail tie, available in silver and gold, pounds 9.50 each. To order log on to www.HQhair.com

Sorted

Always on the look out for time-saving beauty ideas, I've just discovered eyebeauty.com - a website and product line in one that lets you scan before you buy all the latest trendy products. The new baby of cult cosmetic brand Hard Candy's inventor, Max Leykind (so you know it's got to be good), this virtual store brings you the hottest names from around the world, including Sugar Baby, Pupa, and Gwyneth Paltrow's favourite Poppy range as well as news, tips and trends. You can either order on line or pick up at one of 10 stockists around the UK.

And if you log on to Zoom Beauty Wizard at www.zoom.co.uk you get a free Martha Hill Moisturiser and a chance to win more beauty goodies.

Spice up

your life

Warm up a

chilly bod by dropping Lush's Fizzy O' Therapy Bath Ballistic into your tub,

pounds 1.25.

Or, try Origin's new Ginger Essence

with a cocktail

of feel-good notes, including ginger

and refreshing

orange and

grapefruit,

pounds 22.50 for 50ml.

THE KNOWLEDGE

Going high brow

Hmm, I wonder if Michael Douglas would have been as quick to rush Catherine up the aisle with her pre-Tinseltown brows? Big and bushy, she looked sulky rather than sexy. And she wasn't alone: Madonna and Liz Hurley have both boosted their looks since having a brow make- over. According to top US tweezer Robert Halke, whose clients include Jennifer Aniston, you should always go with the natural shape of your brows rather than make them too thin. "To open up your eyes," he says, "create an arc by plucking the hairs at the highest point above the edge of where your pupil ends."

Can't take the pain of plucking? Remove stragglers with Surgi- Cream Brow Shapers stick-on patches, pounds 1.95 for 21, at Superdrug.

If you have any beauty queries, email them to abby- knight@supanet.com She can't promise to answer every single one - but she'll try.