Fashion In Living Color — A Rainbow’s Worth of Style Finds
There’s a spirit of liberation and adventure that accompanies the summer season — everything seems brighter, livelier, more exciting and uninhibited…
There’s a spirit of liberation and adventure that accompanies the summer season — everything seems brighter, livelier, more exciting and uninhibited…
It’s officially summer and, here in New York City, the weather has certainly lived up to the season’s expectations, with temperatures rising above the 90-degree mark.
Whereas most hair care brands have undergone major transformations, tweaking their formulas to make them more eco-friendly and less reliant on harsh chemicals that can prove abrasive to strands and toxic for the environment, being green is part of Pureology’s DNA, insisting on natural ingredients, biodegradable and recyclable packaging, and sustainable practices from its very inception.
FACE Stockholm founder Gun Nowak looked to her native Sweden when musing about the colors she’d integrate into the Summer 2012 collection.
Whether you’re celebrating the man who taught you how to ride a bike, who helped you with your math homework, who cheered you on at soccer games and track races or you’re toasting the father of your own children, that special fella who tucks the kids in at night, teaches them the importance of discipline and hard work, tends to their scrapes and cuts, makes them roar in laughter with his silly antics, and treats them to the best BBQ in town, we’ve got a Father’s Day gift that will make the lucky guy beam happily this coming Sunday.
It’s only been three years since Ouidad landed in Sephora stores across the nation, but the woman behind the soon-to-be-ubiquitous line was far from a newcomer to the beauty industry — in fact, before her eponymous line’s Sephora launch, she’d spent 25 years tending to curly-haired gals like herself (in 1984, she opened the country’s first salon catering to curly hair).
Mother Nature seems to be playing tricks with us East Coasters.
This season, powder blushes, bronzers, sculpting powders, and illuminating beauty powders are taking a backseat, allowing their creamy counterparts to take the wheel and spearhead the mission of providing women with a natural-looking, Jennifer Lopez-esque glow that seems to radiate from within, luring onlookers as efficiently as fireflies do when they woo their insect mates by flaunting their bioluminescent lower abdomens.
Celebrity coverage has always centered on fantasy, with movie stars and musicians being depicted as virtually flawless, trouble-free creatures cavorting from one Hollywood hot spot to the next, lounging on yachts in Saint- Tropez, and vacationing in Hawaii or Turks & Caicos.
If, like me, you approach changing your hair color with the same cavalier attitude typically reserved for scooping up under-$10 accessories, then you know that the consequences of your rash action can range from riotously satisfying (turns out you’re a fierce redhead!) to glaringly glib (that blue black dye transformed you into a veritable Addams Family member).