Sunday, November 28, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Dolce & Gabbana The Sicilian Lace Collection for Fall 2010
Dolce & Gabbana present their signature collection of versatile colour cosmetics- magically and meticulously conceived by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. Each season’s colour direct from the runway inspires each collection anew, to be re-interpreted afresh. The design duo salute their treasured past with a timeless present… and anticipate the future.
Introducing the Sicilian Lace Collection… lingering romance, deep intimacy and sun-splashed sensuality in nuanced naturals that exude a warm glow. Inspired by a key element of the Dolce&Gabbana collection: lace, the classic symbol of pure femininity, encompassing the transparency of desire and the sleek aura of modernity.Introducing The Make Up’s inaugural limited-edition product, the Sicilian Lace Bronzer. Imprinted with a delicate floral lace pattern, exuding both femininity and luxury, the Bronzer becomes a coveted must have for Summer 2010. Created for the Dolce & Gabbana woman who seeks a life of passion, spontaneity and style, the bronzer imparts a touch of golden sensuality to the skin.
For the Lips
- Caramel (105) Classic Cream Lipstick (New) ($30.00)
- Perfection (50) Shine Lipstick ($30.00)
- Caramel (135) Ultra-Shine Lipgloss (New) ($30.00)
For the Eyes
- Nude (110) Smooth Eye Colour Quad ($59.00)
For the Face
- The Sicilian Lace Bronzer (New, Limited Edition) ($49.00)
For the Nails
- Perfection (220) Intense Nail Lacquer (New) ($20.00)
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Jo Malone for Holiday 2010
The door opens and you’re greeted by flickering candlelight and uplifting aromas…essences of warm amber, sweet orange, verdant pine and embracing eucalyptus. Pristine cream boxes, tied with crisp, black grosgrain ribbon, nestle beneath the tree. The holiday season has begun.
Customized Fragrance Combining Collection ($325.00 U.S. / $380.00 CDN) (November)
This beautifully presented, elegant collection of iconic Jo Malone fragrances celebrates the ar tistr y of scent. Choose two of your favourite Colognes from the complete Jo Malone por t folio of scents to become your ever yday essentials. Be inspired to mix, match and blend colognes and really enjoy tr ying many dif ferent fragrance combinations on the skin. Cologne 100 ml (x2) of customer’s choice, Cologne 9ml (x6) in Grapefruit, Lime Basil & Mandarin, Orange Blossom, Pomegranate Noir, Red Roses and Vanilla & Anise.Deluxe Tea Box ($425.00 U.S. / $485.00 CDN) (November)
Elegantly understated, the Tea Box Deluxe Candle Collection brings a sense of refinement to the home. A suite of three Deluxe Candles are nestled in a beautifully textured cream-coloured box accompanied with a silver-plated wick trimmer and candle snuf fer. The Collection features Eau De Cologne, Parma Violets and Sweet Almond Macaroon.Bath Oil Collection ($85.00 U.S. / $95.00 CDN) (October)
The Bath Oil Collection is an invitation to unwind. Beautifully presented in glass decanters, six distinct scents may be used singly or combined to capture the senses. The collection includes Grapefruit, Lime Basil & Mandarin, Orange Blossom, Pomegranate Noir, Red Roses and Vanilla & Anise.Coloured Travel Candle Collection with Farrow & Ball ($95.00 U.S. / $138.00 CDN) (November)
This holiday season Jo Malone continues its par tnership with Farrow & Ball, colour exper t and supplier of elegant decorative paints. The limited edition collection combines three refreshingly scented coloured travel candles in Pomegranate Noir in Eating Room Red (No. 43), Wild Fig & Cassis in Pelt ( No.254) and Pine & Eucalyptus in Green Smoke (No. 47).
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Chanel Les Tentations de Chanel Holiday 2010 Collection
LES TENTATIONS DE CHANEL offers a sumptuous collection of tempting chocolates and fuchsias for the holiday season. Warm, vibrant tones punctuated with pops of festive colour create effects that are at once charming and sensuous.
Les Tissages de Chanel / Blush Duo Tweed Effect ($45.00) (Limited Edition)
- Tweed Fuchsia Pink
Les 4 Ombres / Quadra Eye Shadow ($56.00) (Limited Edition)
- Tentation Cuivre Copper brown, light beige, shimmering pink, plum copper
Ombre d’Eau / Fluid Iridescent Eyeshadow ($32.00) (Limited Edition)
- Splash Smoky pewter
Le Vernis / Nail Colour ($23.00) (Limited Edition)
- Pulsion Fuchsia
Rouge Coco / Hydrating Creme Lip Colour ($30.00) (Limited Edition)
- Magnolia Soft pink
- Patchouli Copper
Levres Scintillantes / Glossimer ($27.00) (Limited Edition)
- Charming Iridescent pink
- Pink Pulsion Sheer fuchsia
- Pleasing Golden brown
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Guerlain Les Ors Holiday 2010 Collection
Or Imperial Sublime Radiant Powder Face & Body ($85.00)
A silky loose powder creating a light-reflecting veil with a subtle golden iridescent finish. This year, this irresistible face and body powder comes in an iridescent gold copper shade, beautifully packaged in a reinterpretation of the mythical Guerlain Bee Bottle (50 ml).Midnight Star ($73.00)
The perfect ally for all evenings out! Midnight Star helps to dispel signs of fatigue and stress built up during the day. Use 1 mini capsule after a long day to revive the complexion and refresh your look — a skincare primer for the busy holiday season.Meteorites Perles d’Or ($56.00)
A new enchanting color composition of the Meteorites Pearls that illuminates skin with an irresistible pure glow. Enriched with a golden shade to light up the complexion and a violet specially created for the season to catch the light and soften shadowy areas.Meteorites Poudre d’Or ($170.00)
A stunning collector compact decorated with real black Swarovski crystals. A surprising new powder design featuring imperial bees: 6 pearly shades for a fresh & luminous finish.Ombre Elcat 4 Shades in 410 Velours d’Or ($59.00)
A new harmony of Ombre Eclat 4 Shades Eyeshadow Palette with new royal colors, embossed with a honeycomb pattern and a royal bee.Le 2 Volume in 13 Or 2 Nuit ($36.00)
Le 2 Volume mascara with the baic brush 1 in black and a special brush 2 in a gold copper lacquer.Rouge G Le Brilliant in B64 Bee ($46.00)
A new royal shade of Rouge G le Brilliant in an intense and subtly shiny, violet shade.Kiss Kiss Strass ($31.00) (Limited Edition)
- Rouge Imperial (323) Vibrant dark red
- Rose de la Reine (363) Luminous rosy beige
M.A.C A Tartan Tale Collection (Colour) for Holiday 2010
U.S./Canada Launch Date: October 28th, 2010
International Launch Date: November 2010Do you hear the bonny bagpipes on the moors, or Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols? One in each ear? We’re telling a slightly twisted Tartan Tale to celebrate holiday 2010, in all its posh, punk, ancestral, anarchic, noble and naughty glory. Royal and raunchy, colours and patterns collide, fantasies come true, punk faeries take flight, with poetic new looks for Eyes to gaze long upon Glamora Castle: Dazzleglass Creme like Radiant Jewels; Lipstick kisses from The Faerie Glen; Black Swan Pearlglide Intense Eye Liner; Family Crest Pigment; My Highland Honey from the heather in Powder Blush; Sexy Style Clan Nail Lacquer; and forever Zoom Fast Black Lash mascara, for the Dark Prince, or Princess. Enter A Tartan Tale, and be transformed!
Lipstick ($14.50 U.S. / $17.50 CDN)
- Cut-a-Caper Mid-tone peachy pink (Lustre) (Limited Edition)
- The Faerie Glen Pale neutral pink (Lustre) (Limited Edition)
- Deepest Wish Deep creamy reddish brown (Amplified) (Limited Edition)
- Full Fuchsia Bright blue fuchsia (Amplified) (Permanent at PRO)
- Courting Lilac Sheer lilac mauve with soft gold pearl (Glaze) (Limited Edition)
Dazzleglass Creme ($18.00 U.S. / $21.00 CDN)
- Radiant Jewels Dark sparkly magenta (Limited Edition)
- Soft Dazzle Mid-tone peach pink with gold pearl (Limited Edition) (Repromote from Dazzleglass Creme, ’09)
- Passing Fancy Bright orange coral with soft pearl (Limited Edition)
- Lightly Prancing Light peach with gold pearl (Limited Edition)
- Romancin’ Mid-tone lavender with multi-dimensional pearl (Limited Edition)
Dolce&Gabana Beauty
Dolce & Gabbana Ethereal Beauty Collection for Holiday 2010
Ephemeral and delicate yet daring, the Ethereal Beauty Collection showcases captivatingly sensual Scarlett Johansson lying draped in shimmering black silky sheets. Scarlett, shown with David Ghandy, the ultimate Dolce & Gabbana man, looking down upon her, is a vision with smooth skin like polished alabaster. Scarlett radiates sheer desire and sensuality as she gazes at the viewer with longing andThe holiday collection was used at the Vogue Fashion Fund Show; Desert and Coffee on the eyes and Rosebud on cheeks. Tan blush was used to sculpt and Dahlia lipstick blotted on lips.
Celebrated make up artist Pat McGrath collaborates with Dolce & Gabbana to create a mesmerizing look that captures the joyous serenity of the holiday season. A mixture of subtlety and finesse, a play of stellar nudes, neutrals, blushes and pinks culminates in a singular beauty that’s extraordinarily exquisite and discreetly dramatic.
The look lends an air of subversive sensuality and magnetic romance that is seamlessly sophisticated and deeply intimate. A rarefied almost unearthly glow radiates, informed by a play of creamy nudes, and neutrals in slight gradations with equally subtle pinks and translucent blushes to produce a face of transcendent beauty to honor the spirit of a season unlike any other.
The lips are luscious, silky smooth and moist in Rosebud, a new Shine lipstick… almost imperceptively defined in nude lipliner Cashmere and glazed with a whisper of shine in Shimmer, a new lip gloss. Eyes convey a deep mystery, a dark romance in Desert, a new eyeshadow quad of rich browns, emphasized further by black mascara. A hint of delicate Rosebud, the new blush, illuminates and enhances. Nails in Pink add a winsome feminine finish.
“We were into exploring the power of nuance, creating a mystique that, while ephemeral, speaks with authority. I love working with a select palette of neutrals and blushes; it’s such a fantastic challenge to try to create a potent mood and something really glam and sexy,” says Pat McGrath. “It’s quite simple really-an almost neutral lip with a bit of color around the eyes can be so gorgeous-but it’s also daring.”
Lipstick ($30.00)
- Glitz (107) Classic Cream
- Desert (109) Classic Cream
- Rosebud (170) Shine
- Shimmer (52) Shine
Lipgloss ($29.00)
- Shimmer (55) Ultra Shine
- Honey (137) Ultra Shine
Lipliner ($30.00)
- Cashmere (8)
- Cashmere (9)
Eyeshadow
- Desert (123) Smooth Eye Colour Quad ($59.00)
- Desire (105) Smooth Eye Colour Duo ($36.00)
- Mystery (106) Smooth Eye Colour Duo ($36.00) (Existing)
Eyeliner ($29.00)
- Shimmer (12)
- Coffee (2) (Existing)
Blush ($44.00)
- Rosebud (33)
Bronzer ($47.00)
- Cashmere (15)
Nail Lacquer ($20.00)
- Pink (100) (Existing)
- Nude (210) (Existing)
Chanel Cote d’Azur Collection
Debuting at the CHANEL Cruise Collection 2010 – 2011 fashion show in Saint Tropez on May 11th, Peter Philips, Global Creative Director of CHANEL Makeup, was inspired by the location to create a playful collection that flirts with the sun. “Effortless, natural beauty, relaxed girls who are enjoying their holidays. That was the main idea behind the look for this show. And we added a touch of playfulness by applying a pastel baby blue nail polish”, says Peter Philips.
In CHANEL COLLECTION CÔTE D’AZUR, lips are adorned with Rouge Coco Hydrating Crème Lip Colour in four soft, summery shades: Perlé, Chintz, Taffeta Rose and Sari Doré. The playful spirit is accentuated down to the fingertips with the pastel blue lacquer, Le Vernis Nail Colour in Riva.
Le Vernis ($27.00) (Limited Edition)
- Riva
Rouge Coco Hydrating Creme Lip Colour ($30.00) (Limited Edition)
- Perle
- Taffeta Rose
- Sari Dore
- Chintz
Beauty-Armani
Giorgio Armani Holiday 2010: Gold Rush Collection
Giorgio Armani Cosmetics celebrates the holiday season with the exclusive Gold Rush Collection. This season’s ‘must have’, the Gold Rush Palette is an all over gold platinum topcoat that sublimates the eyes, lips and skin with a touch of elegant Armani glamour.
Gold Rush Palette ($55.00) (Limited Edition)
A soft, universal beige, sheer, shimmer powder that lights up the face and décolleté with an irresistible gold cut glow. The sleek, pale gold and black lacquered signature compact adds a sparkling note to this seductive collection.
Rouge d’Armani Gold Rush ($30.00) (Limited Edition)
Lipstick Comparisons
Lipstick Comparisons: $26 to $34 (Part 1)
Though often lumped into high-end, this is a tier made up of designer brands like Chanel, Dior, and YSL. Most higher-end/designer lipsticks are scented, usually with floral or fruit. Rose seems to be the most prevalent scent found in brands across the board; sometimes it’s subtle (Chanel), while other times it’s heavy (Dolce & Gabbana). I find designer range lipsticks to be non-drying to moisturizing with more opaque formulas overall. Packaging is often nicer, but it’s not always the case and is, inevitably, very personal.Burberry Lip Cover ($30.00)
- PROS: Creamy, opaque, long-wearing (4 to 6 hours), universally wearable shade range
- NEUTRAL: 0.13 oz., no out of the box shades, heavily rose-scented
- CONS: Hard to find in stores
- MY REC: One characteristic that I think is noteworthy is Burberry Lip Covers are exceptionally well designed with a lot of attention paid to the details, from the gunmetal packaging to the magnetic closure to the etched check pattern on the lipstick itself. The shade range seems very flattering across skin tones with a good variety of pinks, nudes, and reds.
Chanel Rouge Allure Lipstick ($30.00)
- PROS: Semi-opaque to opaque, moisturizing, long-wearing (4 to 6 hours), nice shade range
- NEUTRAL: 0.12 oz., slightly rose-scented
- CONS: Mostly cream/satin finishes
- MY REC: I love how pigmented Rouge Allures are, and I find them comfortable wear; they wear for several hours and never leave my lips feeling dry. Sometimes I wish they’d make more (or some) Rouge Allures with shimmery finishes, too; it is a range dominated by satin/creamy finishes.
Chanel Rouge Coco Lipstick ($30.00)
- PROS: Lightweight, smooth, semi-opaque, many shades available but mostly wearable shades, wears 4 hours on average
- NEUTRAL: 0.12 oz., slight rose-vanilla scent, no out of the box shades
- CONS: Mostly shimmery/frosty finishes
- MY REC: This is probably the least moisturizing lipstick by Chanel, though it’s not at all drying, but it won’t heal up dry or cracked lips by any means. Rouge Coco excels in being a very wearable shade range with a lightweight formula that doesn’t quite feel like your average lipstick.
Chanel Rouge Allure Laque ($32.00 for )
- PROS: Glossy, creamy, opaque, long-wearing (4 to 6 hours), easy to apply
- NEUTRAL: 0.20 oz., slightly rose-scented
- CONS: Short shade range, limited finishes
- MY REC: I almost didn’t include these, as they’re more of a liquid lipstick than the traditional bullet lipsticks that dominate this series. It’s one of my favorite lip formulas of all time, though, because it’s very comfortable to wear.
Dior Dior Addict Lipstick ($26.00)
- PROS: Creamy, semi-sheer to semi-opaque, wears for an average of 4 hours
- NEUTRAL: 0.12 oz., heavily rose-scented
- CONS: Short shade range with mostly pinks/reds
- MY REC: The lipstick doesn’t feel drying but not overly moisturizing, and it only wears for an average length of time on me (4 hours), so for a higher-end lipstick, I’m not totally sold on it.
Dior Serum de Lipstick ($32.00)
- PROS: Creamy, glossy, moisturizing, semi-opaque, several shades available (mostly wearable)
- NEUTRAL: 0.07 oz., scented but it’s quite faint (indeterminable)
- CONS: Very little for the money, wears off within 1 to 2 hours
- MY REC: These are comparable to Cle de Peau’s Extra Silky Lipsticks (which retail for $52); they’re not quite as good (particularly when it comes to wear), but they’re still very similar. It’s a moisturizing formula, but given that you get very little in each (just 0.07 oz., a little over half your average lipstick) and it needs frequent reapplication, it’ll add up quickly.
Dolce & Gabbana Classic Cream Lipstick ($30.00)
- PROS: Creamy, opaque, long-wearing (4 to 6 hours)
- NEUTRAL: 0.13 oz., heavily rose-scented
- CONS: Mostly cream/satin finishes
- MY REC: Not as moisturizing as the Shine formula but more pigmented in return. It also wears a little longer on average. The Classic Cream formula has the same heavy rose-scent, though.
Dolce & Gabbana Shine Lipstick ($30.00)
- PROS: Creamy, glossy, semi-opaque to opaque shade range with wearable and some “fun” colors, moisturizing, wears 4 hours on average
- NEUTRAL: 0.13 oz., heavily rose-scented
- CONS: May be difficult to find in-stores
- MY REC: Other than it being harder to check out in person (and worse yet, Saks doesn’t have a great cosmetic return policy last I checked), I’ve had a lot of success with their Shine Lipsticks. They’re moisturizing and have lots of color pay off. I think the biggest complaint I’ve seen from others who have tried this lipstick is the scent (very strong).
M.A.C. Toasts Industrial Designer Marcel Wanders’s New Beauty Collection
MAC & Marcel Wanders Collection
“If I have a basic motivation, it’s to inspire people to make their life a Masterpiece!” Is that not what we do every day at M·A·C? So it is that the Dutch industrial designer – known for everything from his “Happy Hour” Chandelier to his “futuresonic” way with old Delft porcelain, and for co-founding now-iconic design collective Droog AND the amusing, classicism-meets-futurism objects of his own group, Moooi (from the Dutch word for “beauty,” but with an extra “o” for extra-beautiful!) – wandered HERE…It had to be! M·A·C partners with Marcel Wanders – his first foray into the world of cosmetics – and design sophisticates (and people with innate and irreverent tastes) will be bonkers for these limited-edition Lipstick, Lip Gloss, Sheer Mystery Powder, Air of Style Scent Concentrate and his signature brush and clutch creations, not least of all for their arresting packaging – fine collectors’ items all! But also for the rich palette, inspired by 17th Century Flemish painting, and particularly Vermeer’s – “Girl With a Pearl Earring” – and the idea of an artist painting a portrait, and falling in love. “Always, with a sense of love in the product…” he says. Marcel speaks our M·A·C language.
Black lacquered display stands, created by the artist to recall his new brush handles and lipstick cases for M.A.C., at last night’s celebratory dinner. Right, M.A.C. & Marcel Wanders Sheer Mystery Powder, $60, and Lipstick in Catharina, $22;
M.A.C.& Marcel Wanders Brush, $75,Lip Gloss in Aleydis, $22, False Lashes in False Black, $18
The industrial designer Marcel Wanders has a confession to make: “I love watching people do their makeup on YouTube,” he says with a laugh. “It’s really kind of fun.” That may have a little something to do with his new beauty collaboration with M.A.C. cosmetics, which Wanders celebrated last night with a seated dinner at Scarpetta in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. An eclectic group of guests, including Cecilia Dean, Lorenzo Martone, Richard Phillips, and Todd Eberle, nibbled on braised short ribs, duck–and–foie gras ravioli, and banana budino with pecan gelato while taking in Wanders’ sleek collection of black lacquered makeup accessories (out later this month). The antique-meets-modern carved lipstick tubes (which any fan of the designer’s will recognize from his recent chairs and tables for Cappellini), multifaceted powder compact, slim-handled makeup brush and talisman-like solid perfume concentrate, says Wanders, were inspired by fellow Dutchman Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring, which he found himself re-contemplating at The Hague last year. “I was thinking about him painting this girl,” he says of the seventeenth-century artist’s subject, “and about how before he painted her, she had actually painted herself.” The result is a collection of “simple artist’s tools that are also objects of pleasure”—made to turn the ritual of applying one’s makeup into something extraordinary. In the ultimate marriage of form and function, the entire collection can be tucked into a glimmering brocade brush roll which, if the reaction of Wanders’s party guests provided any indication, may just as easily double as a clutch.
M.A.C. and Marcel Wanders collection, November 24, at all M.A.C. locations and maccosmetics.com.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2010: New mom Adriana Lima returns to the runway, Katy Perry performs
Adriana Lima made her return to the runway in Victoria's Secret's $2 million Fantasy Bra. Agostini/AP
The weather is getting chilly, but it was hot, hot, hot inside the Lexington Ave. Armory Wednesday night at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
The annual lingerie spectacular featured veteran "angels" like Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Selita Ebanks and Jessica Stam - plus an estimated 100 pounds of glitter.
"Every year, every girl hopes that it's her. It's so special to wear it, especially during my comeback," Lima said.
But one model was sparkling more than all the rest: new mom Adriana Lima, who gave birth to a daughter almost a year ago, made her return to the runway in the company's Fantasy Bra, bedecked with $2 million worth of jewels."It's a huge honor to be chosen to wear the fantasy bra," she gushed backstage, while being primped by two different make-up artists and a hair stylist.
Selita Ebanks takes a walk on the wild side ...
.. but watch out boys, it's Emanuela De Paulo who rules this kingdom!
Alessandra makes these pretty pastels looks whimsical ...
Liu Wen gets cheeky in this sheer number.
Magdalena Frakoiwiak looks white-hot from head to toe AND front to back.
As if beauty wasn't enough, the show is topped off with lingerie that is truly a work of art.
Lais Ribero makes a splash with this swimsuit piece.
Katy Perry helps sweeten things up with her performance.
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