There were white-tusked wild males, with fallen leaves and nuts and twigs lying in the wrinkles of their necks and the folds of their ears; fat, slow-footed she-elephants, with restless, little pinky black calves only three or four feet high running under their stomachs; young elephants with their tusks just beginning to show, and very proud of them; lanky, scraggy old-maid elephants, with their hollow anxious faces, and trunks like rough bark; savage old bull elephants, scarred from shoulder to flank with great weals and cuts of bygone fights, and the caked dirt of their solitary mud baths dropping from their shoulders; and there was one with a broken tusk and the marks of the full-stroke, the terrible drawing scrape, of a tiger's claws on his side.

What rings true and is remarkable to me is at the 85-percent scale, you can still get all of your fingers on the grip, instead of having your little pinky floating out in space or wrapped under the magazine floorplate.

Called Little Pinky, by Philosophy, pounds 29 from Liberty (020-7734 1234), they're designed to get your fingers sticky with a cute and shimmery Fingerpaint, for lips, eyes and cheeks, and a Lip Lacquer - for those grey days when you're sick of being a grown-up.

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