Last month, I raved about China Glaze’s “Stoked to Be Soaked” collection, half of its two-part Off Shore range of nail lacquers for Summer 2014.
In recent years, a growing number of beauty companies — among them Ojon, Tarte, Rahua, Kiehl’s, L’Occitane, and Taya Beauty among them — have ventured into the Amazon region in search of the most nourishing natural ingredients to incorporate into their skincare and haircare formulas.
Usually, if a publicist were to describes one of the brands he or she represented as “life-changing,” I’d take it with a grain of salt — or, rather, a boulder of salt.
Jump in the pool, splash around in the ocean, go skinny dipping at the lake, and twirl in the sprinklers!
Fashion designer Phillip Lim describes the clothing within his 3.1 Phillip Lim line, envisioned to provide style connoisseurs with wearable and edgy pieces at entry-level price points for designer goods, as “everyday classics with accented with a sense of madness.” Just browsing through the 3.1 Phillip Lim Fall 2014 collection, you’ll find that his description is remarkably accurate.
Like sand through an hourglass…I know it’s only a brief period of time before Hourglass Cosmetics tantalizes me with yet another makeup bag must-have.
Merging the realms of fashion and beauty, Lancôme enlisted three Parisian haute couture designers — Yiqing Yin, Alexandre Vauthier, and Jacquemus — to create their unique interpretations of a luxury makeup bag, one that could double as a luxury clutch and which could house three key Lancôme products: the L’Absolu Rouge Lipcolor, the Hypnôse Eye Palette, and the Hypnôse Star Mascara.
When L’Occitane founder Olivier Baussan travels to different destinations, he does so with an insatiable curiosity and a voracious appetite for knowledge but also with the utmost respect and humility, wanting to honor cultural traditions and to experience the sounds, scents, and flavors endemic to the region in question.
Summertime is all about brightness and sunshine, so why shouldn’t your fingertips get to enjoy some of that vivacious energy?
Without a doubt, the beauty essential that should top your list all summer long doesn’t involve a mascara wand, a tube of neon bright nail polish, or a crayon-like lip pencil.
