What did Harpers say....?

Beauty Diary by Newby Hands
I like beauty that works fast and does what it should
in minutes, hours, or days (at most), because life and
my attention span are too short to wait for shinier hair
or softer skin. This is why I love the enthusiastically
named Hands!Up products.
My hands had become the beauty bane of my life: while the rest of me sticks close to my passport age, my hands looked as though they were heading for early retirement - until I discovered this range. The Day Care, £15.99, and Night Cream, £15, are fantastic (non-greasy, great-smelling), but the star is the intensive Five Day Serum course, £20. After one night, I saw and felt the difference; after five, my dry, crepey hands looked years younger.

Vogue

POINT TAKEN by Carmel Allen
Three-inch heels - especially if they are this summer's Gucci slingbacks - can make walking rather tricky, but three-inch nails attached to the ends of one's fingers can make even the most simple tasks positively dangerous.At Owen Gaster's fairground-themed show - ironically named "Hold On Tight" - the models had nails so long that holding on tight to anything would have been quite impossible without impaling it first. But they did look amazing. "I had this picture of some white cats with one yellow eye and one blue eye, which I used for the invitation to my show," explains Gaster, "and I wanted to carry those colours through to the clothes and the girls. The long nails made them behave so much more daintily."
Gaster's was just one of 14 London shows, including Matthew Williamson, Julien Macdonald and Amanda Wakeley, in which once-neglected nails were given as much attention as the hair and make-up, by German nailcare company alessandro.
One of the people responsible for this sudden interest is make-up artist Sharon Dowsett, who first saw false nails being used on the cover shoot for Bjork's Homogenic album with the photographer Nick Knight. "It was so fascinating to watch the way Bjork moved her hands differently when she had the false nails on that I had to find out more about them for the shows I was working on - I even did a course in airbrushing to get a really professional finish to the nails." Of course, attention to nails doesn't have to mean outlandish extensions (or enhancements, as the nail technicians would say). At the Issey Miyake show in Paris, the girls had just a shiatsu hand massage and natural buffed nails. "They were amazed at how relaxing a manicure could be," explains Colin Laphan, managing director of alessandro UK, "but even we were surprised when three of them fell fast asleep while we were doing them."
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Emma Bunton in SKY magazine - with alessandro nails