No7 Decades

No 7 is 75! And so they've created the limited No7 Decades Collection, out in May, with seven looks to represent each decade they've existed. There's a three-colour eyeshadow, lip gloss and nail polish for each era and they've plundered the archive to reintroduce the starry silver logo. That's the 1950s nail colour above, Bobby Socks, a really nice superbright corally-pink. My other picks - Dusty, the 60s, a very pale pink lip gloss, and the Electric 80s Anniversary Eye Trio which has turquoise, coral and lime green shadows. Nice to see No7 doing something a bit different.

Hybrid cheek colour

I'm all for multi-tasking products but unfortunately, for me Cargo Cheek Activator, £18 (from Boots from April) doesn't really deliver. It's a hybrid skin-adapting cream cheek colour that purports to lift, plump and sculpt your cheeks, which I think is a bit much to expect one product to do. It goes on a bit like a greyish PVA glue - a tiny bit goes a long way - which adapts colour with the warmth of your skin, on me the Rose Flush shade became a rather unexpected terracotta-coral. Trouble is, I think cream colour demands a light and sparing touch, but to get the lifting benefits you need to spread it over a bigger area than you'd want to put blusher on, if you see what I mean. Has anyone else tried this yet and had a better result?

Threading at Boots

I posted on threading not long ago, and now Boots is offering the service -but only at its High Street Kensington, Birmingham and Glasgow stores, in association with Jannat – The Brow Studio, including "Jannat’s bespoke three step eye brow renaissance therapy, offering intensive treatment and consultation to rejuvenate neglected eye brows." 5% of all sales will be donated to Children in Need. I haven't tried it yet, if you do, let me know how it goes!