FACE Stockholm founder Gun Nowak looked to her native Sweden when musing about the colors she’d integrate into the Summer 2012 collection.
This season, powder blushes, bronzers, sculpting powders, and illuminating beauty powders are taking a backseat, allowing their creamy counterparts to take the wheel and spearhead the mission of providing women with a natural-looking, Jennifer Lopez-esque glow that seems to radiate from within, luring onlookers as efficiently as fireflies do when they woo their insect mates by flaunting their bioluminescent lower abdomens.
Celebrity coverage has always centered on fantasy, with movie stars and musicians being depicted as virtually flawless, trouble-free creatures cavorting from one Hollywood hot spot to the next, lounging on yachts in Saint- Tropez, and vacationing in Hawaii or Turks & Caicos.
Taste, as we all know, is subjective — and yet there do tend to be commonalities in the aesthetic values and norms of specific regions, notions of beauty or style dictated by everything from climate to historical minutiae and cultural phenomena.
Back in the late ’80s, my Miami-based tío’s wife decided she wanted to have her eyeliner permanently tattooed onto her lids.
I generally think of nude eye shadow palettes as being as bland and unexciting as white button-down blouses, V-neck cardigans, and ecru paint jobs.
After introducing us to the skin-nourishing properties of Amazonian Clay, eco-friendly makeup brand Tarte Cosmetics has moved on to another as-yet-untapped natural resource with astounding beauty benefits: the maracuja, a species of passion fruit native to Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina, commonly harvested in late August.
If you read my boisterous, effervescent, praise-loaded review of the Make Up For Ever Rouge Artist Intense lipstick collection back in Fall 2010, you can imagine the pinch-me-now brand of excitement I experienced when I heard that the geniuses at Make Up For Ever had launched the Rouge Artist Natural lipstick collection ($19 per lipstick at Sephora.com), a range of creamy lip products meant to deliver sheer, unintimidating color and to keep your pout soft and moisturized.
BB Creams are putting the “b” in buzz-y this season, with everyone from Dior, Dr Brandt, Dr.