About & Press

Who are these Product Sluts?

Kirstie (left) and Aisling (right) are sisters in product obsession as well as actually sisters in real life. Both have a long-running love for all things cosmetic and both will admit to being complete suckers for a glossy advertising campaign.

In addition to ensuring that Beaut.ie is Ireland’s number one daily resource for all things gorgeous, they’re busy ladies. Aisling is the author of the best-selling Beaut.ie book, which is the essential tome for anyone interested in getting gorgeous – it’s in all good bookshops right now, or you can buy online.

Kirstie is a freelance beauty writer and currently contributes to Confetti and Prudence magazines as well as the Sunday Times Style Ireland edition. Previously to that, she’s held the positions of Image magazine beauty editor, Sunday Tribune beauty editor, Evening Herald columnist and Irish Independent Weekend beauty editor. The pair are ably joined in their Beaut.ieful endeavours by contributors who add their own personalities, product recommendations and tips and tricks to the mix.

Since September 2006, Beaut.ie has been Ireland’s premier online resource for women who are into cosmetics and makeup, and who enjoy a bit of banter in a welcoming, supportive environment, making the site a buzzy, fun place to be. Witty editorial voices, engaging content and telling-it-like-it-is add up to a site that draws in more than 20,000 visitors a day.

It’s an unmissable stop-off for anyone looking to find out what’s new, what’s coming up, and what’s good. Plus, Beaut.ie is your number one resource for the best bargains, the best competitions and the absolute best beauty writing in Ireland.

Disclaimer

Beaut.ie regularly receives product from brands for testing and evaluation purposes. This is absolutely no guarantee of any form of positive coverage. We’ve also got info for you on how grew the blog and manage it on a day-to-day basis, and how we make money.

Press & Media Appearances

We’re leaving out millions of them – but here’s a sample for your viewing pleasure.

THE BOOK BUZZ!

The book has garnered a huge amount of very lovely press for Aisling this October. You can check out what Laura Bermingham thought of it via a video clip on the TV3 website or read an extract in the Evening Herald. The book was also featured on Ray Darcy’s show on Today FM, in the Sunday Tribune, the Irish Sunday Mail, The Irish Examiner, Stellar magazine and Image magazine. Phew!

October 14th 2009

Ethnobotany is a hot trend in beauty, and flowers are the latest source to be plundered. We take a look at the power of flowers in our Herald column.

October 7th 2009

Smile, yer Irish. Home-grown beauty brands were the topic at hand in the Herald this week.

September 30th 2009

Beauty and the Offbeat was the subject of this week’s Herald column. Permanent manis, sweat solutions, foot fixes and candle wax massages were all under scrutiny.

September 23rd 2009

Bightening, whitening and removing dark, blotchy patches was the focus of our Evening Herald column. Read the results in Bright and Beautiful.

September 16th 2009

We were preoccupied with looking fab for under €50 in the Herald this week, finding buys that performed for the whole body for under half a hundred.

September 9th 2009

Products aren’t worth the packaging they’re in these days unless they come containing all manner of extras like antioxidants, shea butter and wotsits. No, not literally wotsits.

September 2nd 2009

Do you believe the slebs when they say they use the products they endorse? Hmmm, funny that, cos neither did we, and we reveal what they actually use in What Stars Really Wear.

August 26th 2009

Festivals are the one time you can go a bit bananas with the auld slap. Electric Picnic and the gloop you could creatively slap on was the subject of this weeks Evening Herald feature.

August 19th 2009

Bespoke beauty is a smart choice in a recession: you get to bag a beauty buy that’s absolutely tailor-made for you. With that in mind, we spent a day on the Prescriptives counter in Brown Thomas Dublin, learning the foundation-blending ropes.

August 12th 2009

We tackle that most holy of Holy Grail items: foundation. How do you pick one, what steps should you follow, and what brands are the ones to buy? Our foundation feature in the Herald will sort you out, fear not.

August 5th 2009

Stressed? Seems you’re not alone. Sleep deprivation and money worries are giving lots of us sleepless nights, so this week’s Herald column tackled just that issue.

July 29th 2009

Just browsing? Not if you’re Adriana Lima for Givenchy, you’re not: we examine the worrying no-brow trend in the Evening Herald this week.

July 22nd 2009

A double-whammy of fabulous media appearances today: Kirstie checked in with Gerry Ryan for part two of a series on recession-friendly beauty. All went swimmingly barring an unfortunate comment about Silcocks Base / Sil Fox’s cock. Kirstie is still recovering.

This week’s Herald feature was all about myth-busting. Can you use arse-cream on your noggin? Does skincare suddenly stop working? Find out in Beauty Myths and makeup.

July 15th 2009

Bit nippy out there? Posh Spice is rumoured to have had hers adjusted to shed the WAG image, but are Irish women following suit? We reveal all in the Evening Herald.

July 8th 2009

Buying performance skincare is a pain in the rear, isn’t it? Well, no, we argue in this week’s Evening Herald column. All you need is a bit of insider info on who owns what, and you’ll be away.

July 7th 2009

Kirstie was in the hot seat with a very beauty-informed Gerry Ryan on 2fm today. Herself and G chatted about fake tanning, at-home hair dyeing and the hairy issue of depilation. The nation listened, enraptured.

July 1st 2009

Do you really need 45 makeup brushes for a good result? Not at all, says Kirstie in a Herald feature entitled, ‘Brush up your Makeup’.

June 24th 2009

Power rangers! The latest, greatest hi-performance products are the topic at hand in this week’s EH column. And Ferris Bueller makes an appearance, too.

June 17th 2009

Nutraseuticals or nutricosmetics? We explain in the Evening Herald that they’re the same thing and give pointers on which ones to buy – plus, if you were thinking about trying Alli, read this first…

June 14th 2009

Woo woo! We featured in the Sunday Times Style mag in a feature called Cool Hunting, all about the rise of Irish fashion and style blogs. Go us!

June 1oth 2009

Hair dye is having a field day recently – it’s only delira that everyone’s writing about it. But of course, our take was a little different: read How to have a good hair day without breaking the bank, and then check out a trio of summer fragrance recommendations, too.

June 8th 2009

Radio Teilifis alert: Kirstie headed out to RTE to gas on-air with Gerry Ryan’s summer sub, Eoin Sweeney, about the beauty bloopers we all make.

June 3rd 2009

Fancy getting your rocks off? Mineral makeup was the subject under scrutiny in the Evening Herald this week.

May 27th 2009

Faking it – sigh, it’s something we all find ourselves doing at some point. Kirstie employs the services of crack tanner Nichola Joss from St Tropez to put us right on this awful fake tan mistakes.

May 20th 2009

Snail slime, emu oil and muck. Er, just what is lurking in your moisturiser? Kirstie gives you the low-down in the Evening Herald, plus you can read about a few relaxing beauty treats, too.

May 13th 2009

Erm, just how do you go about keeping skin looking great? Start young, says Kirstie in this week’s Herald piece.

May 6th 2009

Want an in on what the top ten beauty buys are for summer ’09? Kirstie’s catalogued them in her Little Miss Sunshine feature in the Evening Herald.

May 5th 2009

RTE Radio One’s Dave Fanning asked Kirstie questions about orgasms (from NARS, natch), vibrators (mascaras, of course – get your mind out of the gutter) and sundry other sell-out beauty buys that have had women scrambling for purchase since time immemorial.

April 29th

Are cult beauty buys worth the money? That was the subject of this week’s Evening Herald column.

April 29th 2009

Newstalk came a callin’ to find out all about the new Boots No7 Protect & Perfect Intense product, and Kirstie went into the studio to give the inside scoop to Eamon Keane.

April 26th 2009

Kirstie gave some quotes to the Sunday Tribune for a fashion feature on Irish red carpet style.

April 22nd 2009

Buy or DIY? That’s the question we ask in this week’s Evening Herald column.

April 15th 2009

We dissect the whole long-wear makeup phenomenon in this week’s ‘Love You Long Time’ Evening Herald column and rate five products worth buying.

April 14th 2009

The Independent’s Ed Power wondered if it was Last Orders for Lad Culture, and Kirstie helped him along with a couple of choice quotes.

April 8th, 2009

Kirstie chatted to Spin’s Clare McKenna and Jonathan McCrea, who present The Spin show, about faking it and the dangers of sunbed tans.

April 8th, 2009

Our weekly Evening Herald feature was all about the new names in the Irish beauty bizz who’re bubbling under – but sure to graduate to guru status.

April 7th, 2009

Hair mousse for €8 that’s “as good as salon colour”, bargain buys that are as good as ‘spensive spends and the cost of running your body for a year were just some of the things discussed by Kirstie and Dave Fanning on his Radio 1 show.

April 1st, 2007

It’s (not) grim up north: Beaut.ie broke for the border in the Evening Herald this week and flagged all the best buys that are only available in Northern Ireland.

March 5th, 2009

Ever wondered about the ethics of real hair extensions? Kirstie chatted to Dave Fanning about this very issue, during his March 5th show on RTE Radio 1.

February 26th, 2009

Aisling was quoted in an Evening Herald piece entitled, Who Let The Blogs Out? Read all about it on DeeHerdddilds website.

February 21st, 2009

Ahead of the Irish Blog Awards 2009, The Irish Times’ Shane Hegarty profiled the country’s essential top 20 blogs. Including, we’re delighted to say, us!

January 18th, 2009

Dave Fanning and Kirstie had a bit of a chat about Smurfs, Hello Kitty and Dame Edna for MAC during a segment on celeb beauty lines. You can listen to it here.

November 2008

Kirstie featured in a piece for the Off The Rails magazine about Ireland’s top style bloggers. Aww, so flattered!

September 13th, 2008

Aphrodite wrote an absolutely fabillis piece, entitled Blog Her, about women and the Irish Blogging scene, which appeared as a feature in the very wonderful Irish Times Magazine.

April 14th, 2008

Lovely Laura Bermingham name-checked us in a feature on her favourite sites in the Irish Independent, and you sure can even read all about it, too.

January 20th, 2008

Aphrodite was interviewed by the Sunday Times for a feature on business blogging. The article, titled ‘Discover the real beauty of blogging’, featured her thoughts on the matter, as well as a rather large pic of ours truly. Oh Sunday Times, how you spoil us!

December 29th 2007

The Sunday Tribune marked us out as one of 50 to watch in 2008! Yay! We have scanned said piece for your viewing edification. Thanks guys!

December 20th, 2007

The wonderful Niamh O’Dea asked us what were our essential products for Metro’s Christmas beauty feature. You can read our tips and advice here!

November 2007

We were on de telly! Yup, Off The Rails, featured us in a beauty slot where we chatted about our favourite products – in a sisterly way. This may have resulted in a duel, featuring mascara wands.

September 2007

The lovely Triona McCarthy namechecked us in her 17th September column in the Sunday Independent. Thanks miss!

August 2007

• Sunday Times (26 Aug 2007)
  The Style Magazine has spoken. Beaut.ie is one of its three Must Read Blog Sites. Read the article here. Pleased? We’re delira!

• Newstalk (25 Aug 2007)
  Aphrodite chatted to Roisin Ingle on Weekend Blend about The Difference Between Women and Men. No, not THAT difference! Register for the newsletter at weekendblend@newstalk.ie and find out what pearls of wisdom she spake.

• Irish Times (25 Aug 2007)
  Aphrodite was interviewed about the things that make her happy for the Magazine. Want to know what they are? Cats, Daniel Craig as Bond, lipgloss, coffee, antiwrinkle creams, champagne, travel and the love of a good man.

• Sunday World: We gave some tips for staying fabilis at forty and Beaut.ie readers selected their top Irish Fortysomethings in the hilarious and democratic process that is the Blather.

• Newstalk: So exciting! The Weekend Blend Beauty Room launched with loads of prizes and chat about Products of Yore, surviving the crap summer weather and still looking beautiful – and what to do with the gruaig in all this rain. If you missed it, not to worry, email weekendblend@newstalk.ie and we’ll send you the Beauty Room newsletter!

• Newstalk: Aphrodite finally worked up the nerve to go on the radio as she felt guilty about making Kirstie do it all the time! Luckily for a first time it was on Weekend Blend, Roisin Ingle’s fantastic show, and they couldn’t have been nicer to her! We chatted about sun screens, fake tans, exfoliation and pedicures.

• Irish Examiner: Beaut.ie wrote two articles for the Examiner, on skincare and makeup, sharing our favourite budget and bling products and gave some fabilis tips to the nation.

May 2007

May 31st
The lovely Niamh O’Dea from Metro asked us all about our favourite products, treatments and beauty haunts and published it in a lovely article – you can see the scan of that right here.

May 7th & May 9th
The wonderful Charlotte over at kissandmakeup.tv interviewed the pair of us for her Beauty Insiders feature. Yay! Read what Aphrodite and Kirstie had to say.

May 5th, 2007
Kirstie made another appearance on Spin FM’s Plan B programme, where she discussed the best fake tans, teeth whitening, nude gloss and how to get the latest looks affordably.

May 2007
Kirstie was a judge for Image Magazine’s 2007 Beauty Awards and was pictured and quoted in the Beauty Awards supplement inside the May issue of the magazine.

April 2007
Edel Coffey on Phantom FM interviewed Kirstie about her Surviving the festival season guide and the hilarious consequences of being ill prepared for a music festival spent in a tent. (2nd April)

March 2007

A busy month at beaut.ie headquarters!

• Aphrodite was on the telly: RTE Six One News (2nd March) talking about Beaut.ie in the run up to the Irish Blog Awards! Thanks very much to Philip Bromwell for the report. Watch it online.
• Page 5 of the Irish Times (5th March) contained a larger then life picture of Beaut.ie and our newly won trophies at the Irish Blog Awards. Read about the reaction to the photo.
• In Dublin and Living In featured a full and frank interview with “cult beauty site” Beaut.ie in which we revealed our best kept beauty secrets and routines.
• The Irish Times featured us in Our Online Life in which we chatted to the gorgeous Fiona McCann about our favourite websites, our jobs and how the Internet has changed our lives.
• The Leinster Leader ran a lovely profile on us, congratulating us on our double Blog Awards win.

3rd February 2007
The wonderful Ms Roisin Ingle wrote about beaut.ie in her weekly column in the Irish Times Magazine on Saturday the 3rd of February. She told the nation that beaut.ie is “an Irish website run by two pampering-savvy and witty women” and that she yearned to “go on the beaut.ie message board and bond with others over Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat“. Aww! Well we say she’s more than welcome to come and chat any time!

24th January 2007
IMAGEine that! We’re in IMAGE magazine this month (February issue) dispensing advice on how best to conceal blemishes on your big day. Check out page 24 of the Wedding supplement to see what we had to say.

10th January 2007
Here’s Something Kinda Oooh – Prudence, the fab Irish bi-monthly mag, asked us to tell them our fave beauty haunts, tips and products for their Jan/Feb issue. And they put our recommendations into their ‘Star Beauty Secrets column’. Stars, eh? Why Prudence, we’re blushing!

16th December 2006
Kirstie was on Spin-ning form again whilst chatting to Michelle on Plan B about beauty buys for Christmas for the men in your life. She also found time to get in a few things she’s after herself, but unfortunately her boyfriend was in bed with a hangover, so didn’t get to hear her not so subtle desires. Ah well, she’ll have to resort to the old chestnut of leaving post-it notes around the house so, saying things like ‘I want Urban Decay’s glitter eyeliner trio, please‘.

18th November 2006
Kirstie (again!) talked to Michelle on Spin FM’s Plan B Saturday show about cheap vs big brand cosmetics, beauty must-haves, celebrity watching and the joy of Rimmel and Constance Carroll.

15th November 2006
The Evening Echo ran a really nice piece on beaut.ie in their Women on Wednesday supplement. It sang our praises! We love a bit of flattery, us. We’ll be scanning it ASAP but here are a few excerpts to be getting on with:

“Beaut.ie is an antidote to the fussy, posh, expensive side of beauty, the side that most Irish women don’t identify with.

Instead, the website is sassy, funny, down-to- earth, and infused with a certain Irish brand of irreverent humour. There’s also a touch of the ‘rock chick’ about the blog that gives it an edge that most beauty magazines don’t have.”

“The sisters’ irreverent sense of humour is also what marks Beaut.ie out from many other beauty-based blogs.”

Huge thanks to Aoife Barry for the article.

15th November 2006
Kirstie chatted to the lovely Ms. Edel Coffey on Phantom FM about beaut.ie, those pesky airport restrictions, her beauty must-haves and cheap vs expensive cosmetics.

8th November 2006
Our favourite DJ, the delicous Ray D’Arcy, featured us on his Today FM show this morning. He read out the post specially written for him by Aphrodite the day before, on the new naughty Play range. Oh Mr D’Arcy!

7th November 2006
Kirstie spoke to Ray D’Arcy on his Today FM show on the 7th of November about being a nerdy blogger, beaut.ie, her favourite products and of course, Ireland’s top model.

5th November 2006
The Irish Daily Mail on Sunday published a two page feature article on the brilliance of Beaut.ie. Describing our “blend of wit, wisdom and one-liners” as “hilariously frank”, and an approach which has “seen contributions to the kitsch pink website steadily increase”.

31st October 2006
We were featured in the Sunday Tribune’s Hot Shots section on Sunday 29th October 2006 – read what they said below: