Latest articles by Cassie Steer
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Tools Of The Trade: Making The Most Of Your Make-Up Bag
To create a masterpiece you need the right tools, so ditch those iddy-biddy applicators that come free with eyeshadow palettes and compacts and swot up on the make-up tools every girl should own.
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Northern Delights
If there’s one thing us beauty journos excel in, it’s crisis management. Work woes? I can proffer the perfect MAC lipstick for it. Having a down day? It’s amazing what an uplifting fragrance (or let’s face it, any fragrance) can do. But when a friend (who shall remain nameless) was going through a particularly rough break-up, I knew that a beauty bag just wasn’t going to cut it - this was a case for some serious spa intervention
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Summer Hair 2013: All You Need To Know
The good news is that SS13’s hair forecast is looking decidedly low-key compared to some of the overly-elaborate coifs of season’s past
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Nail Art: Top Five Trends To Try Now
Forget the 'Boy Brick Bag', this season’s must-have fashion accessory is at the end of your fingertips
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Crazy Chic
For us beauty journos, delirium may have set in circa Day three of Milan but if we were feeling a tad 'out to lunch', the hair and make-up teams were positively unhinged judging by today's bonkers beauty offerings.
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Day One At Paris Fashion Week A/W 2013
Fuss free effortlessness is not usually a trait one might attribute to French women. And yet the overriding trend to emerge from today's offerings is as intimidating as a seven step skincare regime.
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Berry nice round off to MFW
My last day of Milan Fashion Week was tinged with an ecclesiastical glow, partly because I was going home to my own bed, partly because I’d just interviewed the ridiculously handsome (and eloquent) David Gandy at Dolce&Gabbana’s HQ (more of that to follow) and partly because of the rapturous make-up looks we’d been privy to backstage at Dolce&Gabbana whose collection was inspired by the mosaics of the Monreale Cathedral in Sicily.
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Peachy, perky and panettone
....that just about sums up day two of Milano although not necessarily in that order (and the panettone may have featured more than once).
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Bugs and nails and beaver tails – London Fashion Week wraps up
After some spooky goings at yesterday's shows (Wednesday Addams made more than one appearance throughout the day as well as several other mysteriously macabre references), today’s highlights were a little more earthly even if they were set in the transcendental bowels of the Tate Modern.
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'Take a Bow' for Rihanna
There's always a degree of buzz backstage (excluding one show, which shall remain nameless, where the designer had a full on meltdown declaring everything, including his clothes, a pile of s****!).
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Day one of London Fashion Week: Rave on
So, it was 'see ya' NYC and 'well hello there' London and from the outset it was a clear case of 'Toto I don't think we're in Kansas anymore'.
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Mars Attacks at Nanette Lepore
When it comes to hair styling I admit to feeling a bit of a fraud. Oh, I know exactly how to do it, I can even write about how to do it but when it comes to, well, actually doing it myself, I'm afraid dear reader I fail rather miserably.
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NYFW day 4 hair and beauty trends round-up
Designers can be a nostalgic old lot, and today I found myself being teleported from the forties to the twenties and back, all by way of 2013.
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NYFW day 3 beauty trends round-up
It's dee three of NYFW (I always feel the need to put on a Geordie Big Brother-esque voiceover whenever I say that) and already there seem to be a couple of trends bubbling away nicely, thank you very much.
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Sexy and the City - Day 2
Let's face it, if we were rating cities on sex appeal NYC would score pretty highly. With this in mind, it was no surprise that of the six shows I did today, the majority referenced 'sexy' – whether it was Guido's effortless locks at Victoria Beckham or the fiercely feline eye at Ralph Rucci (Ms Beckham, a sexy kinda girl albeit in a slightly Helmut Newton way, loves that Bardot-esque bed-head sexy apparently).
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Tibi or not Tibi....
Having worked the fashion week circuit for more seasons than I care to divulge, you still forget quite what a solitary existence it can be – especially when your flight is delayed by three hours so all your beauty buds are two shows ahead of you.
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NYFW kicks off with a trio of hot hair trends
The weather may be icy, but the cool factor was definitely turned up a notch with today's smorgasbord of shows. Having got to NYC by the sheer might of the fashion Gods (even as we were flying over the Atlantic the captain said he was 'hoping' we'd get to JFK ok!), I was three hours late but it meant I got to start off with a goodie.
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Green peace
Ok, I know it's terribly British to hark on about the weather but faced with 'the beast from the east' and the inevitable onslaught of facebook posts featuring children/animals in snow there’s not much more to proffer than how blimmin cold it is.
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Day 2 of Milan Fashion Week (aka ‘pasta & pizza week’)
Milan tends to be the city that the fashionistas get all maudlin about, but with pasta, pizza and trend-setting beauty looks aplenty, what’s not to love I say?
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Better after the break-up: How celebs like Robert Pattinson channel the 'breakover' effect
Robert Pattinson has been looking better than ever since Kristen Stewart cheated on him, our beauty writer Cassie Steer discusses the breakover technique
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Winning weekends: Archery in Nottinghamshire
Is Olympics fever inspiring you to try a new sport? Or just do something active? Marie Claire goes for gold in the great British countryside
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Lynx launches first ever female fragrance
Angels will fall and now cherubs will too, by the looks of it as the Cillla Black of the deodorant world is set to release their first ever fragrance for the fairer sex
