The mineral craze has officially hit the nation with full force! I’m willing to wager that almost everyone is familiar with the idea of using minerals in a loose foundation (and if…
Beauty
All the latest in beauty products, skin care, hair & nails, fragrance, as well as our monthly BeautyScopes with our astrology themed beauty recommendations.
At fifteen, Marie Antoinette, the impractical, scandal-loving future queen of France, became a bride. At twenty, she became a legend for her lavish lifestyle. But her beauty – luxurious and enigmatic —…
An online ad for KAMA Miraculous Fluid promises “new skin in 21 days”. If you can get a “new” skin in this number of days, I wonder how many days it would…
With the premiere of perennial TV favorite “American’s Next Top Model” (which now airs in 107 countries) came the launch of Manual Override, the cosmetics line from makeup artist and photoshoot art director, Jay Manuel.
“And she was fayr as is the rose in May” – Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women, Cleopatra. When I came to Massachusetts to do my M.A. in Chaucerian Literature, two…
According to the Professional Beauty Association, the average price for a haircut in the U.S. is about $45. Manhattan is a whole other story. With prices ranging up to $800, it’s not…
Fragrance has reinvented itself, turning up unexpectedly on many a scented body part. There’s really no need to limit your dabbing and spritzing to hot pulse points anymore, since new products have…
Jason Ascher, behind the Chantecaille counter at Barneys New York The late, great Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, once said, “In our factory, we make lipstick; in our advertising, we sell hope.”…
I know I shop during a time when new products are sprouting up like mushrooms, and it’s hard for me to stick to something more than a few weeks. Before you can…
Of all the constellations, Orion is one of the most spectacular. The hunter is comprised of some of the cosmos’s brightest stars. It’s fitting, then, that Orion Willis would choose this name…
