Grazia’s beauty editor Tracey Withers has been getting paid for playing with and writing about everything gorgeous for the past three years, but has been obsessed with shiny, pretty things since a Saturday in 1987. This was the first time she laid eyes (and very young hands) on Guerlain’s kaleidoscopic Meteorites Powder and fell helplessly in love.
Tracey’s a self-confessed ‘skincare geek’, wouldn’t stand under a 30-watt light bulb without SPF and considers lip gloss a food group. But her truest passion is perfume – it has led her on pilgrimage to the hallowed fragrance houses of Grasse, bespoke perfumeries in Paris and fragrant lands far beyond. Her bathroom looks like a David Jones beauty floor, but she still wants more. More glow, smoother skin, glossier hair, longer lashes. And she promises to leave no beauty product unturned until she gets it.
Here are Tracey's latest favourite five beauty items