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The LA Times has a story this week about blondes with roots, and it’s so insane it actually makes sense: Writer Monica Corcoran asserts that brown roots with blonde hair is “the latest way to feign indifference to your appearance” – if $300 shredded jeans, threadbare designer t-shirts, and anything by Martin Margiela doesn’t really [...]

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As any Gossip Girl fan can tell you, Blair and Serena wear more lip gloss than all of the Spice Girls combined. This makeup trend is also embraced by actual socialites, whose various Patrick McMullan poses require a Sephora overdose for maximum glamour and don’t-you-want-to-be-me power. Today, WWD acknowledges these women as aspirational inspirations for [...]

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The Times UK has a very funny roundup of “The Year in Fashion,” proclaiming Sienna and (pregnant?!) Lily Allen as favorite style icons and Kate Moss as a major fashion trooper. But the bottom of the story is where it gets interesting, as our idol Lisa Armstrong proclaims lip gloss to be dead. She compares [...]

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Checking out the Beauty Flash spread in next month’s W makes us think of the ongoing conversation we’ve been having with friends for years- beauty products that actually work. It’s no secret that advertising drives a lot of what’s found in magazines, and that publications with a luxury perspective tend to showcase the glitziest and [...]

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The LA Times has a step-by-step guide to getting cat-eyes today. The demonstration on using liquid eyeliner to wing-tip your lashes is brilliant… if you’re still into the trend. The problem is, the look is everywhere, and sometimes it looks perfect – on Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse, on the Versace runway, on the Lower [...]

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Karl Lagerfeld isn’t the only one taken by Amy Winehouse: We hear after his Chanel Paris-Londres show, which he claimed was alight with Winehouse’s style, the Bumble & Bumble University team crafted a special hair class to teach their hair flock how to make a modern beehive. “It was amazing,” tells a model from the [...]

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It’s that time of year again- beauty companies are repackaging their shades into giftable palettes, big and gigantic, so they can charge you $65 for eight shades of makeup you would never use all at once anyway. In theory, makeup palettes are a great idea. They keep all your makeup in one place, and they [...]

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Things that could go wrong while wearing red lipstick: * You might want to kiss a boy – too bad! * You might forget to re-apply post holiday cocktail. * You might have to answer to Marilyn Monroe all night (yes, this happened once). However, you will feel insanely glamorous, or at least we do. [...]

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We never realized how cool false eyelashes could look until Fashion Week, when girls became sex bombs with a little bit of glue. Now that the Sweet Charity vibe has transcended fad and become the way some girls want to look all the time, it’s getting even more tempting to visit Shu Uemura and see [...]

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Remember back in fifth grade when, dying of boredom, you would paint your nails with Wite-Out? Well, if you were a fan of the look (and even if you weren’t,) brace yourself- Chanel is bringing it back with their new nail color, White Satin. Peter Philips, Chanel’s Creative Director for makeup, had the flip side [...]

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