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Oooh I love this time of year! Makeup is lighter….skin is glowier and hair is wavy and light. Bobbi Brown has taken her beach formula to a new level with her latest collection Miami. I routinely wear long wearing creamy, and shimmery formulas when it gets warmer. These are all beautiful and a great accent [...]
One thing I REALLY love, is when MAC takes cult faves and does something new and innovative. Enter MAC’s latest, Fashion Sets. They took 7 classic colors and made them work across three platforms, lipglass, lipstick and nail lacquer. My favorites are Spice, Russian Red and Chestnut (The Russian Red lipglass is INSANE)!! Take a [...]
Summer is nearly here (at least the summer collections are!!) This is one of the first to hit my desk and I love the bronzey, apricot, grape and plum of it all. The Summer 2012 campaign was designed and photographed by NARS Founder and Creative Director François Nars. Once again, the inimitable Ginta Lapina personifies [...]
Have I ever told you the story of how I first was introduce to Geurlian? My Nana bought me my first Terra Cotta bronzer compact from Saks when I was 16 after I had seen an ad for it in Vogue. I always kept it on my dresser and NEVER took it with me (it [...]
Did you watch Mad Men this past Sunday night?? Guess what….all the makeup looks were from NARS! Can’t beat that, right?? Lana Horochowski, Department Head of Makeup for Mad Men, used NARS to help bring the 1960s to the small screen for Sunday’s season premiere. “We looked at a lot of ‘60s magazines, and photos [...]
I LOVE Bobbi’s longwear cream shadows…and now she has come out with a WHOLE collection so you can go from work to dinner and not bat an eyelash. These are some fantastic new editions to the line and the new colors of the cream shadows are BEAUTIFUL! Every modern woman wants to know how to [...]
I am glad you asked!!! The short answer is yes…but. The longer answer goes something like this. I have seen BB Creams around for YEARS, especially in Asia where they have risen to cult status. They are essentially tinted moisturizers with added goodies like anti aging skincare, primer and SPF . The “BB” stands for [...]
NARS worked with celebrity makeup artist Leslie Lopez to create presenter Gwyneth Paltrow’s red carpet look at the 84th annual Academy Awards! Paltrow looked radiant in Tom Ford dress complete with a cape to keep her warm on what proved to be a chilly night in Los Angeles…. “It’s elegantly bronzed,” said celebrity makeup artist Leslie [...]
Bobbi is at it again, this time with a shimmery collections of nudes that are more glowy than they are sparkly. This is a Bobbi signature that I just love, even her glosses that actually say GLITTER are not your typical discoball glitter. They are soft and glowy…never harsh. Glowing skin, sparkling eyes and lush [...]
More red lips and beautiful skin, this time at Marc Jacobs Fall collection. Dick Page who is the Artistic Director at Shiseido Cosmetics. The look has been coined as a “Sophisticated 80s” and it was created for the Fall 2012 Marc by Marc Jacobs collection, which was full of iconic 80s references, jewel tones and [...]
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