Fashionista’s Fashion Week Essentials
The invites have been sent out, the seating charts are being filled, and fashion folks everywhere are resoling their Manolos (and setting their DVRs–can’t miss Girls!): Fashion week is upon us!
Tata Harper
Tuesday January 29th, 2013
Sunday November 6th, 2011
Why You Should Spend Money on Facial Mist (and the Top Five to Invest In)
Contessa Schexnayder is a makeup artist and has been shackled to the beauty industry for over nine years, working for such lines and retailers as Nars, MAC, Bobbi Brown, Blue Mercury, and Space NK. She is a self-proclaimed ingredient know-it-all, and likes long walks on the beach.
With all of the lotions and potions beauty companies are hustling the last thing you need is another useless product to waste money on. Keeping this in mind, I can say with great confidence that you need some facial mist in your life. Not only does it set your makeup, but it also helps with: calming, hydrating, replenishing, adding radiance, and irritation. Mists are beauty lifesavers and can take you from looking tired and lackluster to bright and dewy in seconds. Trust me.
I’ve rounded up the five best misters on the market. And if you can’t get behind shelling out for water to spray on your face, we’ve added some alternative uses (i.e. scolding your cat, warding off zombies, pretending you went to the gym).
Friday September 2nd, 2011
Don’t Put Another Product on Your Face Until You Read our Guide to Skin Care in your 20s, 30s, and 40s
Ed’s Note: Meet our new beauty columnist! (No, that’s not her at the left. That’s Lindsey Wixson.) Contessa Schexnayder is a makeup artist and has been shackled to the beauty industry for over nine years, working for such lines and retailers as Nars, MAC, Bobbi Brown, Blue Mercury, and Space NK. She is a self-proclaimed ingredient know-it-all, and likes long walks on the beach.
When faced with hundreds of bottles of lotions and potions, the drugstore aisle and department store can be overwhelming places. Do you need a seven step facial regimen? How worried should you be in your 20s about an anti-aging treatments? Should you just give up in your 40s?
We’ll attempt to answer these questions with a handy guide for every age group, complete with product recommendations.
Click through for some advice and pointers.
Thursday May 26th, 2011
Must-Have Beauty Products for Your Memorial Day Beach Bag
It’s almost Memorial Day weekend, the official kick-off to summer and beach season. Are you and your adorable new beach bag fully stocked and prepared for any eventuality? If not, we’re here to help.
Here are our picks for the must-have items (most new, some tried-and-true) that should find a place in your tote before you hit the sun and sand. (Need a tote? We love this stupidly expensive yet ridiculously cute Jil Sander silk twill style with a detachable pink strap.)
Wednesday June 30th, 2010
You Can’t Be Tata Harper, But You Can Use Her Products
Yesterday, I walked into the most magnificent apartment overlooking the grounds of the American Museum of Natural History and was greeted by a vision of loveliness, Tata Harper. Tata has launched a 100% natural skincare line. If she could bottle her own essence and sell it, she would make a fortune. She just had a baby three months ago and looks more stunning than Gisele did postpartum. Besides being green-eyed and blonde, she is also brainy; she was an industrial engineer in her native Colombia.
Tata conceived of and started the line five years ago after being unable to find products that she wanted to use. She wanted potions that were luxurious and 100% natural. She was “tired of putting cancer juice” on her skin. Now, while that is mildly sensationalistic, I’m totally on board with her concept of non-synthetic, plant-derived, almost entirely organic ingredients.
