Sam’s quintessential tutorial for creating a fresh-faced day look. Or, add a bit of dark shadow, eyeliner, and cream highlighter to enhance your results for an evening out.
View the video below for Samantha Chapman’s how-to guide on Make-up Travel Essentials.
Ali Hewson and I created NUDE Skincare in 2005 after a famous lunch in Dublin with Ali and her husband Bono.
The idea for NUDE came from my experiences running the organic food stores Fresh & Wild across London. Over my career I had been encouraging people to eat foods that improved the way their bodies work, and as the skin is the largest organ of the body, I think it makes sense to feed it well. My understanding of nutrition and wellbeing is that is crazy to put synthetic, artificial ingredients in, or on, your body.
My customers shared my philosophy, and wanted the best organic food, were very motivated to lead a healthy lifestyle and were mad into yoga and supplements. However, when it came to beauty, I felt the modern woman was skeptical that natural skincare actually worked. Hence they were going into Space NK and Selfridges and buying Crème de la Mer for their skin. Women were avoiding natural skincare because, while they understood that it was good for them and their skin, it wouldn’t tackle wrinkles or deliver any of the anti-ageing benefits that conventional skincare would.
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Lanolips™ is the result of eight years work, a lifetime of preparation. And more than a millennia of market testing.
I own a lovely vintage book called ‘The Lanolin Book’, published by Beiersdorf who created mega-brand ‘NIVEA’, which used to contain lots of lanolin.
One of my favourite passages is this:
‘Everyone who has seen the 2,500 year old Paczyryk carpet in the St. Petersburg Hermitage will have noticed not only the fine knots, but also the unusual radiance, the lustre, of the oldest remaining carpet. It is the lanolin on sheep’s wool that gives the plant colours used to dye the wool their unusual brilliance and has survived the millennia’ – Udo Hoppe
While our face is not made from carpet, surely this magical substance can be used to nourish human skin, just as well. And maybe keep it, ahem, ‘preserved’ a little longer.
Lanolin is a substance naturally found on the coats of sheep. The sheep need lanolin to keep their fleece protected and dry throughout the year. The lanolin is removed from the shorn wool, after their annual shear, completely without harm to the animal. Lanolin is 100% developed by nature.
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Annee de Mamiel is one of the UK’s leading authorities on acupuncture, specialising in facial techniques. Annee’s philosophy is centred on the single Chinese medicinal principle that life is entwined in a series of seasons and cycles. Women age in seven year cycles, whilst for men it is eight years. Without realizing it, our bodies reflect the ebb and flow of energy of the seasons throughout the year. The vibrant fullness of summer contrasts with the need to slowdown in the winter urged on by the cold and dark. Spring allows us to emerge and grow and in the autumn we harvest the fruits and prepare for a new beginning.
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