Make-up adverts featuring the airbrushed images of actresses Julia Roberts and supermodel Christy Turlington have been banned by the advertising watchdog following a complaint from an MP... more
Matching your handbag and shoes is historic, syncing your nails with your outfit passé. This summer, the trendy set are tailoring their nail shade to complement their tan... more
Market round-up: Knight Vinke has been on a pre-Christmas shopping spree at Kesa Electricals, fuelling talk that a break-up of the electricals giant is imminent... more
Stuck in the make-up rut? Whether show-stopping red or sophisticated nude, for autumn/winter 2010 there is a stunningly stark new choice to be made for your lipstick... more
With her signature chestnut locks gleaming as she smiles into the camera, Cheryl Cole has the "X factor" as she gives us the first glimpse of her new campaign for L'Oreal Paris... more
As a society photographer faces trial for allegedly swindling France’s richest woman out of a fortune, Kim Willsher reports on a very French feud... more
Former L'Oréal and LVMH man Geoffroy de La Bourdonnaye seems to be winning the battle to turn Liberty into a must-visit place for the upmarket designer crowd... more
Consumer: Liberty, the iconic Regent Street store, is defying the carnage in the retail sector and offering hope that the High Street could enjoy a better start to the new year than expected... more
A bitter row has split the L'Oreal family after the company's matriarch allegedly gave a €1 billion slice of her fortune to a photographer - "because he was worth it"... more
L'Oreal denies lightening Beyonce's skin tone, but she's not the first black or ethnic model to appear in a make-up advert looking bleached out. Here, TV presenter Mica Paris, 39, argues that the campaign is a betrayal of black women. ... more
The furore over Beyoncé Knowles, recently unveiled in an ad for L'Oréal looking far whiter than a pop star with an African-American father and a Creole mother ought, perhaps, to look, has prompted allegations that the cosmetics giant artificially lightened her skin - a fact strenuously denied by L'Oréal... more
When she was hired as the face of L'Oreal, Beyonce Knowles signed a contract pledging she would not make any 'radical changes' to her appearance. ... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows