Shop At Maison Bertaux

Shop at Maison Bertaux is Soho's best kept secret...but word's spreading fast! We're now one year old and our regulars can't get enough of our APC, Sonia by Sonia Rykiel Eley Kishimoto and Obey with jewelry by Vivienne Westwood Yura and Princess Tina. You'll love our taste, you'll taste the cakes upstairs and then you'll be HOOKED!

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Name: Madame
Location: London, United Kingdom

You'll find us at 27 Greek Street, Soho, London W1D 5DF. The boutique is open Tuesday to Saturday. Come and visit us!

Monday, August 25, 2008

So.....

I decided to take my eyebrows up a couple of shades....

...this was after a little encouragement from Lektrogirl. I still catch sight of the huge upper expanse now reaching from eyes to hairline and gasp, but I think it's quite summery so as I grasp every last vestige of summer to my breast as it slips away, I think I'll keep it like this....or should I go all out bleached freak white?! The joy of course is you can draw in your eyebrows any shape so it's pretty much a win, win.

Madame x

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Friday, August 15, 2008

I dream of Donna...

The only reason I wore blue eyeshadow yesterday was because I came across this picture of Donna Jordan by chance. I've got a drawer full of pages I've torn out of magazines from the last twenty years or so which I couldn't part with when it came to chucking out the magazines themselves.

I love models who have an extreme style because it goes against the whole idea of them as some kind of passive blank canvas. Donna Jordan was a beautiful freak who hung out with Yves Saint Laurent and his entourage in Paris in the 70's, was the muse of Antonio Lopez, bleached her hair and eyebrows and is probably my favourite model EVAH!!!
Loathe as I am to put a picture of myself anywhere near hers, this is just to prove the point. I mean, I wasn't trying to emulate, in order to do that I'd be bleaching my eyebrows (was tempted....didn't have time!) and carrying the blue right up to the brow....but I just love Donna Jordan. Wanted to share that.


Madame x

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