A great surprise beauty find in a week of not so great surprises; the Poudre à Lèvres from the Chanel spring/summer Neapolis collection. Look, I’m going to just come out and say it: I don’t find Neapolis to be the most wearable of makeup collections. On paper I’m a fan – the colours look vibrant and utterly beautiful when you lay the products out, especially when they are all artfully arranged on the gorgeous press release, which is huge and shiny and virtually a coffee table book.

 
(There was also a Chanel newspaper in the press pack, which I found wildly impressive, for some reason. We’ve touched on this before, but there’s something about Chanel’s branding that gets me really hot under the collar. In my garage I have a Chanel exercise ball, in my beauty cupboard I have some Chanel cotton wool pads, in my desk drawer, a Chanel pencil. If anyone ever tried to remove them, gently or forcibly, from my possession, I think that there would be blood shed).
Where was I" Colours. They look amazing on paper, but if I try to wear vibrant things upon my face I end up looking like Bobo the Clown. And so it was a nope for the lovely green and blue eyeshadows, especially when worn in conjunction with some of the brighter lip offerings, and even the dark-teal eyeliner made me feel a bit too circus-y once I had a summery red on my lips. The nail polishes were pleasingly opaque and reasonably long-lasting – great summer shad...