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How to look like a beach babe: Summer beauty tips and tricks

    Whether summer arrives here on British shores or not, we want to look like beach babes! Tousled, beachy waves, sunkissed, glowing skin and gloriously bright and waterproof make-up shall be ours! Cue our Beach Babe Round Up, a two part guide on our faves for skin and make-up (part 1) as well as hair and body (part [...]

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Summer Waves with Paul Mitchell, Part 1

Modern summer hair is all about easy, natural (looking) and flattering waves. We enlisted Nicole Hewitt, hairstylist on the Paul Mitchell media team to help you get the look. In the first part of the Summer Waves Tutorial, we show you how three different ways to set your waves after prepping them with the Paul [...]

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Racing Style – Five Rules To Rocking At Ascot

ROYAL ASCOT – Tuesday 18th to Saturday 22nd June. Want to put together your own Ascot look? Enter our competition here. Ascot’s dress code can seem as simple as ‘oversized headwear’ to the casual observer. But race-goers should know there’s a strict dress code to adhere to, especially when the ignominy of being told to [...]

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Beauty And The Bump: A guide to beauty products for pregnancy

Ah, pregnancy. That word makes me smile. One of life’s most exciting, daunting and confusing journeys to set sail up on, requiring navigation of a series of complex physical, emotional and often exhausting changes. Whilst there is no doubt that every pregnant woman is a beautiful woman, we aren’t all lucky enough to bloom from [...]

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Box Preview: What’s Inside Your June 2013 Glossybox?

  The June Glossybox theme is ‘Summer looks’ and we are excited to give you a preview into what you could find inside your box this month! We’ve included great skincare products and also make up for you to experiment with. Come back to our blog soon as this month we will be having step-by-step [...]

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Beauty News: The Red Lippy Project

This week marks cervical cancer screening awareness week (9-15 June) a subject that should be close to all women’s hearts and nether regions. We’re encouraging you lovely Glossy girls to do what women do best: start debate, raise awareness and bring word-of-mouth momentum to a very important message. And what better way to do that [...]

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Beauty In Print: Island Beauty by India Hicks

As beauty aficionados (read junkies), we look for beauty everywhere. While the beauty aisles of department and drug stores are the places we hit up for a quick fix, sometimes our busy lives, propelled by technology, need something more. Often times, this ‘more’ actually turns to be out to be ‘less’: less stress, speed and [...]

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The Beauty Doctor Will See You Now

Introducing London Beauty Doctor, Rabia Mali There are two types of women in this world: skin women and make-up women. Here at Glossybox, we strongly cater to ‘make-up’ women but as a ‘skin’ woman, I felt it was time to introduce a hard-hitting skincare category on our blog. Obsessed with my skin and not needing [...]

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Beauty News: Cheeks Swatch

  Bourjois are officially on fire. No need to call in a lorry-load of buff firemen to put out the flames though (mm, or is there…?), we’re talking about a string of recent releases from the brand that have set our beauty pulses racing. Whilst the Summer make-up and nail collection, including a rather fantastic [...]

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Make The Most Of Your Box: Paul Mitchell Awapuhi Shine Spray

Picture gleaming glossy tresses falling like silk over your shoulders… Dreamy if they were bestowed by nature (that’s you Rapunzel, Nicole Scherzinger and Kate Middleton), but a near nightmare to achieve in real life without targeted products. But no fear, we’ve been playing with the full-size Paul Mitchell Awapuhi Shine Spray you lucky Glossy girls [...]

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