Yesterday I talked myself into a classic bad idea: a home waxing kit from Parissa. I've had a lot of generally difficult to handle life events lately, and instead of over-eating, drinking rotgut tequila or picking up sailors for stress-relief, I've been over-indulging in beauty products and spending a lot of time with globs of fruit acid goo on my face and the like. My goal with the home waxing was to waste time, and possibly to ...
Make Up Secrets
Marketing directors, new media directors, and others who are in charge of corporate beauty sites, take note:
We've banged this anti-Flash drum for quite a while now, and told you exactly why it is customer-hostile and translates into online retail that bleeds money at a phenomenal rate, but a picture really is worth a thousand words.
via Adriana
How do I know it's spring? I start wanting to wear green eyeshadow. Today I mixed two shades I've had around for years (having just last week, in a fit of epic procrastination, sorted all my eyeshadows by hue and filed them in little plastic bins). The light green is Makeup Forever's Star Powder in Celadon, the dark at the corners is MAC Steamy Frost, described on the MAC website as"bright bluish green with golden shimmer." ...
...but I love him. I had a horrible day, and went shopping in the afternoon, ostensibly to return something to a store that has been in the trunk of my car for weeks, but really to clear my head. At Ulta (which I'd never visited before), I grabbed a couple of Peter Thomas Roth Max Complexion Correction Pads, and tried, I think, to scrub my face off. It's now two hours later, and my face still ...
Yes, it's the ginger girl from the original lineup of the Sugababes.
She left that group when it got too cheesy for her (though, honestly, they're one of the most tolerable girl groups in decades) and has carved out a nice niche for herself as a...well, I don't even know what label to put on Siobhan. Her latest single, Don't Give It Up, is like Portishead meets Kylie.
Like the cover for her upcoming album, Ghosts (shown ...
I should read the generic emails sent to me by PRs more carefully. There are some real howlers in there. Just from today's batch of mail, there are these two gems, from two different PR companies:
[Product X] is a proprietary blend of ingredients from earth, air and water...
Wow, I'm only used to open source blends of ingredients from the moon! Please, though, can we cut the meaningless PR-speak? It might sound big and clever to your client, but ...
I'm pleased to see that my beloved Terre d'Hermès won the Best New Prestige Male Fragrance award last night in London. Nadine says it is:
surely the most wonderful men’s fragrance to be formulated for years.
It's great on women, too (and I'm not the only one who thinks so; the guys on the floor at Harvey Nichols told me that they get more women buying this for themselves than for men). It's a real comfort fragrance for ...
Thanks to the generosity of Summer Soles, we can now offer a 20% discount on this fab product to Jack & Hill readers. Woo-hoo!
Now, when you shop for Summer Soles online, just enter the discount code jackandhill at checkout for 20% off the regular price. This discount applies to both the absorbent dress insoles and the suede dress insoles. (Go for the suede when you're wearing high heels in particular; the absorbent wool line is ...
Portrait of an african girl wearing a tradiionnal boubou style hat
Originally uploaded by anthonyasael.
The less words I use here, the better, but: Have you ever seen such a stunning mix of regalness and innocence?
Don't get too excited: Beauty edior Bethan Cole just refers to Hillary's comment about Bobbi Brown's Maoist ethos, without crediting her, in this year's edition.
And now for the diatribe:
The awards themselves are determined by readers' votes. I find it somewhat depressing that with all of the innovation going on and the explosion of so many fabulous brands over the last several years, boring old Clinique ended up the brand Sunday Times readers voted for most. While ...
I usually like London's Sunday Times' beauty writing, but this piece on how French women manage to look so good is astonishingly stupid. It's full of tired, scientifically bankrupt tips that amount to nothing at all worth reading. Nice picture, though.
Speaking of pictures, here's one of my favorite photos of Claire, my fiancé's French mother (shown feeding Antoine as a newborn in 1965). Now she knows from chic.
I am a Project Runway addict in withdrawal, and I am apparently not alone. The show is so popular it has prompted Bravo to launch several spin-offs like Top Chef and Top Design, and now Shear Genius, which pits hairstylists against each other to win... I don't know, a bunch of stuff that's all less appealing than just being on the show.
I downloaded the pilot for free on i-tunes (you can also watch it for ...
Thinking of cutting my hair this short
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
My last cut was this one, which I got in Paris last October. Since then, my hair has grown rather a lot, as you can see here (though even that doesn't really show you, since that style is the result of hot rollers). Anyway, it's grown out.
Thing is, that last cut was a really ...
Salt + pepper shakers + Kenzo Amour
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
Those two orange things are vintage salt and pepper shakers, for which I paid a pretty penny at Mark Fisk's Mainly Art, the best store in the whole WORLD. The tall, curvaceous creature next to them is not a pricey sculpture, but a bottle of Kenzo Amour, which was gifted to me by Kenzo's PR people. ...
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