Kissing them Softly with new MAC Mineralize Rich Lipstick Range
If you’ve ever smoothed a bright lipstick onto chapped or cracked lips, then you know how tragic the results can be.
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.
My dad always said a nice pat on the back is sometimes necessary — after all, if you don’t root for yourself, how can you expect others to do so?
Urban Decay has always shown a penchant for fancy and fantasy — nearly three years ago, its Alice in Wonderland Book of Shadows sold within hours of its pre-release, with fans marveling about the intense eyeshadows housed inside a collectable palette with a flip top that revealed a pop-up universe replete with giant mushrooms and a message in a bottle.