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.
Inspired by the many fashion trends that emerged in the 1990s — think of TLC’s oversize clothing in the “Baby Baby Baby” and “What About Your Friends” era, Salt N Pepa’s bright swimsuits, striped cropped shorts, and hot pants in the “Shoop” video, the vibrant colors and prints Gianni Versace employed during this time, or the oft outlandish ensembles donned by the Spice Girls — NARS Cosmetics founder François Nars created the Spring 2013 makeup collection, an assortment of statement-making colors.
No matter how intense your anti-aging regimen, chances are you worry about a few of the tell-tale spots on your body that could very well point to your real birth year — among them the neck and, of course, the hands.
San Francisco-based company Agraria has spent nearly 50 years making their customers’ homes smell lovely and inviting with everything from elegant candles to hand-packed boxes of potpourri and essential oil blends packaged inside vintage-looking perfume bottles and accompanied by reeds that diffuse the selected scent into the air.
