July 31, 2009

Plus-Size Models Wanted: Enter the Competition until August 7th 2009!


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Torrid is Calling Out to Curvaceous Beauties!

 

You don't want to miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity! You could be the star of a LA fashion show or even be the next face of Torrid.com! Torrid, the plus-sized clothing store is having their House of Dreams Model Search, a nation-wide hunt for a diva to rep their brand!

 

Your time is running out! Applications must be postmarked by August 7th to qualify! So if you are at least 16 years old and size 12-26 go to Torrid.com to print out your application and send it in!

 

Torrid HQ

Attn: Model Search 2009

18305 E. San Jose Ave.

Industry, CA 19748

 

For more information and to print an application go to Torrid.com today!

 Via press release

Photo: The Glamazons


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July 29, 2009

Nars Opens New e-Commerce Website {Beauty News}


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A look from the summer 2009 collection

Nars has opened a new e-commerce website to enable beauty junkettes. The main categories are Color, NARSskin, Accessories, gifts, Cult Products, Current Collection and Looks. You can subscribe to their newsletter.

Among their new products you can find their first color palette specially devised for wedding brides and a sunbathing coffret.

New shopping destination: www.narscosmetics.fr

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July 13, 2009

Illamasqua to Debut at Sephora Times Square on July 31, 2009 {Beauty News}

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A little bit of British alternative culture is coming soon to the United States. Creative makeup brand Illamasqua whose motto is "discover your alter-egos" will debut in the United States at the new Sephora store at 5, Times Square on July 31, 2009. Some people must be squeeing right now. The brand has been receiving 50 emails a day from US customers clamoring for their products, a trend that forced them to open sooner than expected across the pond.

Much of the inspiration for the brand comes from alternative cultures and the nightlife concept as they specialize in makeup to be worn "after dark". Their colors are bold, daring, dramatic.

"Illamasqua is the product of a heady mix of influences. Its roots stem from the dark and illicit 1920s club scene and combines a rich heritage in the manufacture of make-up for film and theatre. It also takes inspiration from members of the 'alternative scenes' for whom self-expression is paramount. Alternative cultures have always dared to be dramatic. They have an emotional attachment to making up. It's an expression of their darker side, a release for their alter ego....

Illamasqua is for the bolder person hiding inside all of us. It is an act and an attitude. A symbol of tolerance. A celebration of idiosyncracies. A confident statement of self-ownership."...


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A look from the 1920s Berlin collection

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July 10, 2009

Globalizing Ideal Beauty by Denise H. Sutton: Upcoming New Book {Beauty News} {Beauty Reads}


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A potentially interesting book is appearing on the horizon. Author Denise H. Sutton is preparing to release a new title called Globalizing Ideal Beauty. It focuses on the impact that beauty copy-writing has had on the dissemination of archetypes of beauty and especially through the work done at the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency. The latter founded in 1864 claims to be the oldest advertising agency in the world. It was renamed JWT in 2005.

The argument ties also in with one on gender as the sub-title indicates that what will be considered in this research is the specific action of "female copy writers". This is not surprising considering the fact that Sutton has a PhD in Women's Studies.

Globalizing Ideal Beauty is the forgotten story of a group of women copywriters whose successful ad campaigns went international in the 1920s and spread an American notion of feminine appeal from Bangor to Bangkok. Sutton's approach has all the complexity of the real world and is grounded in a huge body of original archival research that has so far remained largely untapped...


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June 5, 2009

Max Factor Not To Be Carried in the US Anymore: I Think I Know Why {Beauty News}

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Procter & Gamble who bought Max Factor in 1991 have decided to stop marketing the centenarian brand, established 1909, in the US despite its historic Hollywood legacy. Times write that this is going to happen by the beginning of next year.

I have to say that speaking from my own experience I was surprised some time ago to realize that Max Factor was actually carried at all in the US and that it was the same brand as the one I had experienced back then in the UK (my staples then were the 2000 Calorie Mascara and an eye liner). The label lettering looked different with its emphasis on a dotted "MAX" at the incomprehensible cost of leaving "Factor" in the shadows although it's a legendary name (see comparative pictures: the British products are on the left and the US ones on the right). The lettering was way too big and you could almost miss it because of that. What caught my eye one day were the interesting colors on a rare visit to Walmart. It's only once I purchased the items and did some research online that I discovered it was that Max Factor....

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February 16, 2009

Weird & Weirder Beauty Secrets: Upcoming Beauty Series on Beauty & The Salamander {Beauty News}



Weird-Beauty-Secrets-5.jpgHere is a taste of things to come on Beauty & The Salamander: we are going to inaugurate an open series entitled Weird Beauty Secrets, both a historic and on-trend, believe me, series. Like for our Rose Series on the fragrance blog, it will be a mix of critical product reviews and essays (see also more generally the Rose Notebook).

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February 5, 2009

New Study on Identical Twins Shows Stress is a Significant Factor in Aging {Beauty News}


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Famous old twin sisters from the city of Leuven/Louvain by Ange Soleil


A study published by "Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery", The journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and conducted on 186 pairs of identical twins has shown that environmental factors, especially what could be categorized under the umbrella heading of "stress", not just genetics, were instrumental in impacting the aging process...

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January 20, 2009

Michelle Obama Is Wearing Isabel Toledo {Breaking Beauty News - Updated}

 Michelle Obama in a sparkly gold-looking but in fact green chartreuse Isabel Toledo outfit on Inaguration Day 2009

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Dress by Isabel Toledo

An initial inkling of what Michelle Obama will wear today at the swearing-in of her husband Barack Obama has been revealed by WWD: she will wear an outfit by Isabel Toledo, a designer of Cuban descent, like Narciso Rodriguez whose designs Michelle Obama loves to wear as well.

Update: she is indeed wearing a Toledo dress and overcoat in an interesting silverish green chartreuse color which comes off as gold-like. The material looks warm enough, but oh, my! no scarf and hat in this cold weather? Sigh of relief: she is wearing green leather gloves. A very 1960s, Mad-Men look, in keeping with her stylistic preferences expressed during the election campaign. I am wondering if this has anything to do with a homage to the defining era of the civil rights movement? At any rate, Michelle O loves vintage (I looove her huge 50s-60s brooches). She obviously loves interesting textures and hates boring. That color is unusual and I can't zoom on the material but it looks a bit like a cloqué, puffed-up effect, also very 1960s. I think that this sheath has a Venitian, Renaissance flair about it.

It has been speculated that her predilection for outfits by Cuban-American designers carry a cryptic political message, which remains to be clarified and made more explicit than through fashion semiotics. We are all eyes and ears.

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July 21, 2008

LVMH - Dior Accused of Using Lead in their Lipsticks {Beauty News}

Thumbnail image for lipstick-red.jpgFashionmag.fr briefly reports that the world leader of luxury LVMH has become the target of a class action lawsuit from people accusing one of its brands, the Dior label, of using lead in its lipsticks...

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