Every so often a product comes along that promises to revolutionise our beauty regimes. So can spring’s most talked-about launch do just that? Top make-up artist Mary Greenwell puts Chanel’s new ...

For our mothers, a powder compact was the most essential item in their make-up bag. And as teenagers struggling with spots and shine, we clung to pressed powder, which promised to mattify our skin. We ...

The natural look of the `70s has taken a powder, so to speak. And the glamorous look of the `80s has reached into the deepest corners of women`s pocketbooks: The revival of the compact is here.

Buying your first pressed-powder compact is a coming-of-age moment, like a bar mitzvah or first kiss, or the day you realise God probably doesn't have a beard. It's such a grown-up thing. It's the non ...