Preen Cosmetics

Bette Davis Eyes

So with all the hoopla about eyelashes in general at the moment, I got to thinking about mine.

I have blonde eyelashes, which is a desperate situation to be in if you want the lovely long lash look – mainly because no one can see them!  So I have always, always worn mascara.  And it has always, always been black mascara.

I have never had a bottle of mascara that wasn’t black, or very black, or the blackest of black mascara.
But then, the other day I was reading a blog interview where someone with luscious eyelashes swears by brown black mascara.

What?  I always thought that brown black mascara was for toning down your eyelashes, not maxing them up, but then I got thinking.  Read more

OK, this may sound a little off the wall, but how would a cake stand do for make-up storage?  I was reading this post by Aquamarine, and she got a lovely vintage cake stand from eBay and it got me thinking.  Although my vintage vanity case storage idea is great, and would be wonderful for storing all my bulky items – like hair products, what about all my little iddy-bits of make-up?

I need something that’s easy to get to, Read more