Beauty Bus

It can certainly be a little tricky to stay looking super fresh and right on trend whilst squatting in a field for a weekend or more, but here are a few handy tips to help you on your way! One such tip is to stay ‘au natural’ for the weekend, especially when you only have a miniscule compact to work with. This certainly doesn’t entail a complete make-up ban, but instead just pick a few easy to apply products that are both low maintenance and light weight.

With less to carry, less to apply and less to work with, there will certainly be more time to catch all those must see singing acts for 2010! Lipstick is one such make up product that won’t take up hardly any room in your bag but will also instantly update and refresh a look. Throw a few in your handbag in statement summer hues, hot oranges and dramatic reds are big for this season and as summer is here, both shades are perfect for day and night. They can easily slip in your back pocket and can be re-applyed when and as you require.

Team with a little highlighter and a cheek blush in a bronze shade, adding a little colour to a tired complexion will create a healthy sun-kissed glow. Throw on a pair of shades and you are good to go!

Tom Ford is already an influential fashion designer and over the last few years his status has only risen and not only in terms of fashion. The past few seasons have seen him produce a range of prestigious and bestselling perfumes, direct the critically acclaimed A Single Man and now the designer has turned his focus to the world of make-up.

The Tom Ford Private Blend Lip Colour collection launches on April 24th and will be available from all Tom Ford Private Blend beauty counters. These defining luscious lip shades are available in a total of twelve enticing shades, including bare nudes, deep plums and a statement feisty red. Each lip colour boasts to have the ability to ‘define a woman’s whole look’.

The formula of these lipshades is extremely creamy and offers a slight scent yet the entire Private Lip Colour range doesn’t house any artificial fragrances, the slight scent echoes the Murumuru butter and chamomilla flower oil ingredients that are found in this product.

This is a bold collection thats certainly suitable for the daring and those who aren’t at all reticent of trying out strong colours. Each lip colour is priced at £35 and come in an aesthetically pleasing chunky gold and off-white packaging with the designers initials embossed on the lid. Once applied to the lips a bold look is achieved due to the lip colours strong pigmentation and light sheen finish. This powerful lipshade boasts to last hours whilst creating the appearance of extremely luxurious lips.

The new Smooth Minerals Lipstick from Avon really gives your lips a boost of multi-tasking minerals. This product is created using only 100% natural and mineral pigments and boasts to provide an intense lip colour. Not only does the Smooth Minerals lipstick provide full lip coverage, it also replenishes, comforts and adds moisture to chapped and dry skin. Extra protection is achieved through the addition of SPF 15.

The rich yet lightweight formula moves smoothly across the surface of the lips and can create both a daytime or evening look. For a more dramatic and bolder shade the product can be applied numerous times until the perfect shade has been achieved.

The Smooth minerals lipshade contains a variety skin conditioning ingredients and is free from any harmful substances such as dyes, talc’s, fragrances and preservatives, making it suitable for even the most sensitive of skin. Elements found in this particular product include Shea and Cocoa Butters which both offer smoothing and hydrating properties as well as moisturising vitamins and aloe.
Smooth Minerals Lipstick has been created with Avon’s exclusive Mineral Complex; this includes a variety of anti-oxidant ingredients such as Tourmaline, Malachite, Copper, Magnesium and Zinc. Lips will appear both refined and radiant as the Mineral-Glow pearls found in the product will add brightness, giving the illusion of bolder and fuller lips that appear both dramatic and healthy.

The smooth minerals Lipstick is available in twelve different shades so therefore suits a variety of styles and can be picked up from any stockists of the Avon brand.