The holidays are fast approaching, which means it’s time to take a cue from Santa and start reviewing the names on that “Nice” list — especially since, unlike the red-suited, full-bellied, white-bearded man, most of us don’t have a team of handy elves who can manufacture just about anything or a stable of reindeer to deliver these trinkets.
The girl that follows the beat of her own drum merits a holiday gift that stands out from the yawn-inducing fray.
Earlier today, I stopped by Telemundo NY’s “Acceso Total” to showcase some amazing holiday gift ideas for beauty enthusiasts — everything from luxury makeup brushes and sonic facial cleansing brushes to picturesque eyeshadow palettes, body butter collections, rollerball fragrances, hair care kits, holiday-themed nail enamel sets, and a surprise-filled beauty advent calendar.
Fragrant rose blossoms get all the glory, immortalized as they are in songs like Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose,” Bette Midler’s “The Rose,” Lynn Anderson’s “I Never Promised You A Rise Garden,” and Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” to name but a few, and in such works of literature as William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo, Louisa May Alcott’s Rose in Bloom, and William Butler Yeats’ The Secret Rose, but the rose plant offers many treasures beyond those velvety flowers.
With only one week left until Thanksgiving, it’s officially time to kick off our Holiday Gift Guide spectacular!
When it comes to the blush, most of the time (stage performances, festivals, and runway shows notwithstanding), we tend to covet a believable, just-pinched, post-workout, postcoital rosiness — not a Boy-George-during-the-Culture-Club-era flash of scarlet or magenta.
You may think of Glamour as a top-tier women’s fashion and beauty magazine— not to mention the chief architect of the “Do” and “Don’t” schematic — but the brand has as much substance as it does style.
The Wild Wild West galloped onto runways for Fall/Winter 2015, with Gucci, Tom Ford, M Missoni, Valentino and Tory Burch all toying with cowgirl-inspired pieces ranging from playful denim shirt dresses and fringe leather and suede jackets to saddle bags, cowboy boots, and rugged jewelry pieces fashioned with leather, rope, and concho shells.
Let’s not mince words: in the context of skincare, the word “peel” is just short of terrifying as our minds tend to become flooded with images of Freddy Krueger’s burnt face or Seth Brundle’s mucus-covered countenance as he morphed from human to winged insect in The Fly.
For Rodarte’s Fall 2015 show during New York Fashion Week, designing sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy relied on Sally Hansen to mastermind a memorable nail look that would harmonize with the inspiration behind the garments showcased, as well as with the hair and makeup looks created for the runway.
