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Product Review: Benefit Badgal Mascara in Plum
As far as cult beauty buys go Benefit's Badgal Lash mascara, (£14.50), has long been a contender for the prize for the best mascara out there. If you want big, bad lashes in the darkest coal black this is your girl. Now in the wake of the coloured mascara trend, they've launched a version in deep plum.
Product Review: Benefit Posietint
I have been hearing good things about Benefit's new Posietint, (£22.50) for a while now, but it wasn't until my friend, the Femme Fatale went for a Benefit make-over, in store, that I was really tempted. Despite having only had four hours sleep, she'd never looked so fresh. I was a little jealous, to say the least.
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Fancy Femme Fatales Enjoy Fendi Fete
The Rodeo Drive Fendi store underwent a redesign and threw a little party to celebrate it in LA last night bringing out starlets, a pregnant model and one person whose dress matched the scenery. Lindsay Lohan looked older than her 21 years (not anything new) in her asset-enhancing dress while Mandy Moore went with something a little more loose-fitting to go with her cute smile. Camila Alves was the pregnant model in question, taking a night off from her man Matthew to look at some pretty clothes.
How-To: Wear Black Lip Gloss
A month or so back, I told you about the black lip trend this Fall and gave some options for lipsticks and glosses, should you care to venture onto the dark side. I spent the better part of yesterday deciding whether there were any circumstances under which I could wear black lip gloss (Halloween withstanding).
Especially for small lips, it helps to layer a pearly shade on top of a black lip gloss, which is not an easy feat as the result is usually a weird shade of greige, which is even more zombie looking than straight up black.
Bella Brand: Armour Beauty
In addition to model, writer, performer, and former member of all-female band The Lunachicks, Theo Kogan can now add "beauty entrepreneur" to her resume (assuming that total rock stars have resumes). Kogan teamed up with another woman of many trades, makeup artist/ accessory designer Allison Burns, to launch Armour Beauty, a 14-piece collection of lip glosses that include natural ingredients like avocado oil and mango butter.
"The thing that's been missing are great colors that are moisturizing and protecting and stay on," she says.
Milan Fashion Week, Spring 2009: Gucci Blue Eyes
There was a definite femme fatale mood at Gucci's Spring/Summer 2009 show in Milan. Frida Giannini didn't put a foot wrong with asymmetric cuts, leafy prints and rich-girl-on-safari taupe creations. Fab US has plenty to say about the clothes, while I was more concerned with some of the most beautiful hair and makeup looks I've seen on the runway for a while now.
Backstage Pass: Proenza Schouler's Wartime Glamour
While most of you love the blue eyeshadow trend that was revived by Proenza Schouler this summer, next spring is going to be all about a 40's wartime look with deep red lips and matte skin.
At New York Fashion Week the duo showed rock chick-meets-femme fatale clothes while the beauty look took it's cue from the World War II era with matte red pouts and polished hair. Diane Kendal created the runway look for MAC, and according to WWD she got that vamp lip look by mixing a red pigment with a neon pink sheen.
Alan Ball on Immortality and Why Vampires Are Sexy
This weekend, writer/director Alan Ball of Six Feet Under fame returns to HBO with True Blood. The vampire saga, based on the novels of Charlaine Harris, follows Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a waitress who can read minds — except for the one of Bill, a vampire who's new to town.
I've checked out the first two episodes of the show and will give you my reaction before Sunday's premiere.
Trend Alert: Goth Glam
This season we're descending to the dark side for inspiration.
Chanel sent out grunge goths with washed-out skin and matted hair, whilst the Yves Saint Laurent models had blood-bitten, black or burgendy stained lips and Viktor & Rolf's girls sported almost cartoonish black ringed eyes.
This is a far cry from the teenage goth looks of yore.
What's Your Desert Island Beauty Essential?
On a trip last week I lost my DiorShow mascara, somewhere between the Jubilee line and La Rambla. Devastated? You bet.