Give me skin

Out-of-this world brushes, mascara to make you go oooh and a few name-drops — Triona McCarthy has the newbies on everyone’s wish list

MOST WANTED

The Scandi sister brand to H&M, & Other Stories, has released its first haircare collection. It consists of shampoos and conditioners, a beach spray and a scalp scrub, all of which are categorised into three different lines: Restore, Universal, and Fullness. The formulas are fab, especially the Fullness Thickening Cream, left, €15, but the fragrance — from world-renowned perfumer Jerome Epinette of Byredo fame — is the range’s USP. I don’t need to wear anything else when I’ve got his cream in my hair. OK, on reading that back, I’m lol-ing, but you get me, dontcha?

Nailing it!

I thought I’d give my nails a break from constant Shellac-ing while I was in west Cork over the summer, and go for a more natural nail, like Hailey Baldwin, right, regularly rocks. But judging duties at Schull Regatta and Agricultural Show called, and I thought it best to book in, online, with The Beauty Spot in Skibbereen, which is one of west Cork’s longest established beauty salons.

Amanda was an absolute superstar. She removed, for free — other salons, take note — what was left of my previous Shellac, and did my hands and my feet (€30 each) in just over an hour! So when I shook hands with the legendary Jeremy Irons, I was rocking red nails and not a red face! See beautyspotsalon.com

Triona’s trick

If sweating was fashionable, I’d be a supermodel! Espadrilles make my feet schweat badly; so what did I do recently when I wanted to wear them and had only beauty products to help? I sprayed dry shampoo into them, to absorb sweat and odour.

Moon boy

Will, my husband, is a design engineer. This much I know. But what he actually

does all day at work, I’m wasn’t really sure. Until, that is, I overheard him talking to my brother Brendan, while they were watching the news. The story was about a rocket going to outer space, and Will was saying that he was the one who designed the — how can I put this politely? — package the Nasa astronauts put their, um, personal waste in! Real Techniques Brush Crush Volume 2 is a galaxy-inspired collection that is also, eh, out-of-this-world. I love the Cosmic Sponge Duo, right, €12.99, as they are great for getting make-up into all the contours of the face.

CULT PRODUCT

I slept with Ewan McGregor. On a flight from New York to London. In business class.

Now, by slept with, what I really mean is we slept right next to each other. With just a little partition thingy between us. What a climax to my story, eh?

Which leads me on to a new mascara from Nars, named, you guessed it, Nars Climax

Mascara, left, €25. The, eh, ribbed bristles and potent pigments will give you lashes as full and tall as my tales!