Shavata Pointed Precision Tweezers, Magnifiying Mirrors, and when photos go wrong

I have had a pair of Shavata's Precision Tweezers for a while until they were stolen from me by my daughter - she is 19 by the way.

These are not the same in that the tips are slightly rounded off - that is fine, but the original design were pointed all the way to the finest of tips and as such removed the thinnest of thin fine hairs, accurately and effectively.

This replacement was purchased recently and came with a 15x magnification mirror. Somewhat on the small size, any magnification mirror is a godsend, for tweezing, checking whether foundation settles into pores, checking for errant hairs from eyebrows or noses, just don't focus on pores per se because they look huge, what is new, but for all the above especially as one's eyesight fails, and it does, to us all, a magnifying mirror is essential.

I tried to photograph it....

Result is some weird sort of sideways look at my distorted face.

Tweezers are round £20 and magnifying mirror around £13. Mine was around £26 for both from QVC

Beauty Blender

I really am a bit late to the party on this one. I vaguely new that to apply foundation with a sponge was to render the finish sheer and veil like and smooth, but all that faffing around with water and dampness and smeariness, well frankly I couldn't be arsed, so I ignored in favour of fingers or brushes at a push.

But in all honesty fingers were fine but I could look a bit caked and brushes, well I have never really found one that I have wielded with aplomb, and at least I always know that my fingers are clean.

I knew about the Beauty Blender but when I would see it in use on You Tube videos (as an aside I find it so strange that we no longer use videos as in those cassettes that one sticks into a machine to view, they are obsolete, but the word is still in circulation because there is no updated word to describe the recordings) I would slightly shudder at the discoloured pink sponge.

SpaceNK has started to stock the Beauty Blender and on a whim I decided to purchase and I fancied a white one - because that is going to be really easy to keep clean....

I love this. I love its shape, I love its bounciness, I love the dense spongeyness of it. And most of all I love how it seems to sheer out my foundation. One day when I am feeling brave I may well video it in action.

£16 from SpaceNK - it does come in other colours which maybe have other properties?