Tag: laura mercier

Laura Mercier's Under Eye Perfector

My under-eyes are the colour of stagnant water. After really memorable nights they are even darker, like stagnant water with Ribena poured in. I need help. Some concealers are too dry for the eye and make you look congealed. Some are too dark – you want a shade or two lighter than your foundation, one you can apply in light layers. The ones that click up into little brushes are good, but I like Laura Mercier's Under Eye Perfector (18.50, spacenk.co.uk), which comes in two highly pigmented shades and makes you look like you've had your full eight hours.

Alternatively…

Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer Kit 23.50, bobbibrown.co.uk
Clinique Airbrush Concealer 16, clinique.co.uk
Givenchy Mister Light Concealer 21.50, 01932 233824
Rodial Glamtox Eye Light Pen 35.90, asos.com

Getting fresh: fake it with fig. Photograph: Alamy

What fig fragrances do is make things smell like the outdoors is meant to. The outdoors is meant to smell of wet wood and things cooked on fires. Instead it smells of Red Bull and dirty hair. So you fake it with fig. It's like sweetness soured, or organic pudding. When you burn it in a candle (Wild fig and cassis candle 38, jomalone.com – also, see their cologne below) it makes the room smell like a boutique hotel (best smell ever) and when you rub it in as a body cream (Diptyque Philosykos body lotion 28, johnlewis.com) you feel like you've been for a bracing walk.

Alternatively...

Space NK Mediterranean Fig Candle 30, spacenk.co.uk Korres Fig Body Milk 9.50, feelunique.com Jo Malone Wild Fig and Cassis Cologne 72, jomalone.com Tommy Guns Fig, Plum and Marshmallow Conditioner 5.50, asos.com Laura Mercier Fresh Fig Hand Cream 13, selfridges.com