Ask any eyeliner junkie or all-around beauty buff who makes the best, most long-lasting, easy-to-apply, highly pigmented, waterproof, colorful, eye pencils, and the response will likely be almost unanimous: Urban Decay.
Sure, she nagged you about eating your vegetables, reminded you incessantly that she was neither a maid nor a short order chef, and monitored your every utterance in case a curse word slipped out, but she also cooked you chicken soup when you had a cold, kissed every scraped knee and tiny boo-boo, read your favorite bedtime story so many times she could recite it from memory, stitched up your favorite stuffed animal for the 100th time, cut the crust off your sandwich, drove you to ballet or baseball practice at obscenely early hours, and displayed every excellent report card or sports team trophy with the pride others would reserve for Nobel Peace Prizes.
Springtime: that magical season when blades of grass break through soil once covered by snow, when perky birds begin to perch on once barren tree branches, when the sweet fragrance and vibrant hues of newly blossomed flower petals lifts our collective spirits and blesses us with a renewed sense of optimism.
One of the most prevalent beauty trends for Spring/Summer 2013 involves bright, bold, statement-making lips — matte fuchsia pouts at the Giles Spring 2013 runway show, cherry red lips at Jason Wu, blood red lips at Burberry Prorsum, vermilion ones at Prada, punky orange lips ta Betsey Johnson, neon coral lips at Richard Nicoll, fluorescent orange ones at Paul Smith, and a matte magenta look at Dries Van Noten.
If you’ve ever smoothed a bright lipstick onto chapped or cracked lips, then you know how tragic the results can be.
They’ve taken us to Germany, Russia, Mexico, Holland, Spain, Switzerland, India, Hong Kong, and France and, now, the globe-trotting, wanderlust-stricken folks at OPI have embarked on a journey back to Europe — this time to Central Europe, with a particular focus on Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Austria.
Dry hair is my beauty Achilles’ heel — though, admittedly, it’s a problem that I largely brought upon myself via a decade of dyeing and highlighting my hair, blowdrying and flat ironing obsessively, and washing my hair entirely too often, thereby stripping my scalp and strands of the natural oils needed for optimal hair health.
Yesterday was an insanely busy day but, fortunately, the sun was beaming in New York City, so I took the opportunity to wear a bright shift dress in the hopes that my Field of Dreams-inspired, “if you build it, he will come” ethos and basically will springtime to stay for good this time around.