posts by: SickaThanAverage

The Fantastic Number Four — Check Out Anastasia Beverly Hills’ Illumin8 With Youthful Synergy Complex Eye Shadow Palette No 4

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Eyebrow expert Anastasia Soare has built a career on grooming, shaping, and tending to those valances over the resplendent windows to your soul — doing so via her full-service salons in Beverly Hills and Brentwood, her brow studios at select Sephora.com and Nordstrom locations, and her namesake collection of beauty products.

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Molton Brown Body Remedies Collection — An Easy Solution

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Talk about a body of evidence!

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Orange You Glad To See These Lips? — Our 10 Favorite Blaze-Colored Lipsticks And Glosses

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Last year, coral was trumpeted as the “new pink,” with makeup brands reviving a beleaguered color once associated with oceanic formations and tacky Hawaiian print blouses, infusing it with new undertones and creating yummy textures that propelled it into modern times, transforming it into a must-have beauty buy.

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Sophie Theallet for Nine West Collection — Tres Jolie or Pas Chic?

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Striped awnings and curtains in two-color juxtapositions are an intrinsic part of the Parisian landscape, adorning the façades of quaint bistros and patisseries, concealing the interior of hotel rooms, and shielding the sun-drenched balconies of luxury apartments.

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Time Warner Center “Fashion Blogger Forecast” Webisode!

Last week, I chronicled my day of shopping at The Shops at Columbus Circle as part of Time Warner Center’s “Fashion Blogger Forecast” campaign.

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Happy Mother’s Day! Shower Your Mom With Gifts And Praise

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It’s almost 11 a.m.

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Mamma Mia! It’s Our Mother’s Day Gift Guide!

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When a woman bears children, she doesn’t automatically join some global network of disheveled, perpetually mismatched, scrapbook-obsessed, Slanket-adoring, “Jag”-watching, Reader’s Digest-subscribing frumpsters.

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Illamasqua Toxic Nature Nail Varnishes — The Sweetest Poison

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When I first saw the visuals for the new Illamasqua “Toxic Nature” campaign, I automatically thought of Camille Rose Garcia’s artwork, which features creepy, child-like cartoon characters in apocalyptic yet fairy tale-worthy scenarios that critique humankind’s destructive tendencies.

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Green Means Go — Eco-Friendly Goodies To Celebrate Earth Day!

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Today is Earth Day, ladies, but we plan on celebrating all weekend long, bringing you the scoop on some of the hottest eco-friendly products out there (hey, the party doesn’t stop til we say it does!).

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Couture Colour Pequi Oil Treatment Establishes A New Haircare Pecking Order

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Until recently, there were only two hair oils on which I bestowed the most effusive praise, essentially describing them as anointed oils sent from Samson-like gods with luscious, power-harnessing tresses: the Shu Uemura Essence Absolue and the Moroccanoil Moroccan Oil Treatment.

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