Haute fashion + beauty link roundup

Celebrity Chic on the Cheap: Katy Perry is Polka Dot Pleasant (College Candy)

University of VA has a new class called “GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender and Identity” (The Frisky)

La Mer launches The Eye Balm Intense (Beauty Blogging Junkie)

Define your body WITHOUT making loads of unhealthy comparisons (Already Pretty)

Guide to Gossip Girl hookups - video (Popsugar TV)

Fall’s Cutest Coats - at Prices That Will Give You Warm Fuzzies (One is only $29!) (Lemondrop)

Jessica Simpson’s New Jeans Line: She’s All About Bringing Back the Flare (Glamour)

Annoying ads targeted to women (Crushable)

Fall staple - Olivia Harris by Joy Gryson Staple Pouchette (Handbag du Jour)

3 shoes we want for Fall – from Nine West (What’s Haute Magazine)

7 Sex Truths Everyone Should Know (Your Tango)

Put your web browser of choice on your nails (The Gloss)

10 wedding traditions more popular now than ever (TresSugar)

Zara TRF September 2010 Lookbook (Hot Beauty Health)

Runway-ready makeup: Fall 2010

Summer is coming to an end, and there is a buzz in the air as NY gets ready for Fashion Week. September marks the start of fall fashions hitting the runways, as well as the shelves of our favorite boutiques. I’ve been following the makeup trends that are debuting at Fashion Week 2010, and overwhelmingly, the looks are focusing on nude faces, subdued colors in earth tones, and muted lips.

To start, focus on a flawless, matte look for your face. To achieve this, I’d recommend Dior ‘Diorskin Nude’ Natural Glow Hydrating Makeup. This water-based, gel foundation is light and airy, leaving your skin its flawless best. Follow up with Trish McEvoy Translucent Finishing Powder. Don’t let this white powder fool you! It is colorless and works to create a gorgeous finish to your makeup for all skin tones.

To stick with the nude, earthly look for eyes, pick up the hot new Urban Decay Naked Palette. These 12 shades are anything but boring neutrals. Whether you want shimmer, glimmer, or matte, you will have everything you need in this palette to create beautiful looks for fall. Use some of the lighter shades on your lid, a medium brown shade on your crease, and ramp it up with a darker, glimmer shade in the outer corner and along your lash line. The palette includes both eye shadow primer potion and a double-ended pencil liner, making this the ultimate accessory to toss into your purse.

MAC has a great Leopard Luxe’ Eyeshadow Quad Palette as part of its Fabulous Felines Collection. Camel brown, muted orange, and frosted black round out this palette giving you all you need to recreate the styles showing on the runway. Muted orange added to the lower lash line or outer corners adds a great splash of color to an otherwise neutral face.

To keep your lips neutral, I recommend MAC Lipstick in Siss, a muted golden beige. To rev up your look for evening, add a more provocative lip, such as MAC Lipstick in Drive Me Wild, a warm coral with gold undertones.

Leave boring beige behind, and make a statement this fall with gorgeous neutrals!

Hair color news: Get ‘Ombre’ at Mizu New York Salon

What is the latest and greatest in hair color? A great highlighting technique that actually works in your favor if you have some root re-growth! It’s called Ombre and it’s been gaining popularity among celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker, Lauren Conrad, Gisele Bundchen, and Camila Alves.

Ombre is hair painting and literally means ’shaded or graduated in tone’. When hair is painted in Ombre, it is a gradual dark-to-light, or light-to-dark effect that emphasizes the root area, as well as the tips. Long-lasting, from 3-6 months, Ombre is best achieved when it captures a natural sun-kissed look.

Luckily for those of us in the NY area, Mizu New York Salon has a number of colorists that specialize in color techniques such as Ombre. A client visiting Mizu for Ombre will have a customized consult that will result in a hair color that flatters both their skin and hairstyle.

Ready to get your summer hair in fall shape? Visit Mizu New York online at www.mizunewyork.com and get more information on Ombre as well as other services offered at this full-service salon.

Labor Day Haute Links

Happy Labor Day! Check out our round-up of haute links from around the web:

• 10 Ways to Have Better Sex (College Candy)

• Was summer 2010 your worst summer ever (Lemondrop)

• The worst dating advice from movies (All Women Stalk)

• Would you wear these? (College Fashion)

• Can your shoes clean the floor? (Fashion Pulse Daily)

• Fall’s hottest trends (Hot Beauty Health)

• 8 ways to transform his style (YourTango)

• Fictionary: Nail Fail resulting from a cocktail (Beauty Blogging Junkie)

• Jerry Lewis wants to smack WHO in the face? (The Frisky)

• Fall fashion tips for curvy girls (Fa(s)t Fashion)

• Can you be smart and sexy? (AlreadyPretty)

• Forget beach reads and focus on fall books (Tressugar)

• Who wore it best? (Styleite)

• An open letter to my friends…who are always wrong (Crushable)

• September fashion bloggers to watch (Stylecaster)

• The safe sex fashion show (video) (The Gloss)

• Chanel wants to tattoo you (What’s Haute)

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20% off all makeup at Beauty360.com

The worst part of the end of summer? The cold of winter. The best part of the end of summer? The sales! August and September are the best times to snatch up all those deals you’ve been waiting months for. And that extends to beauty products as well.

Beauty360.com is the online shopping destination for CVS/pharmacy’s beauty retailer Beauty 360 and carries brands including Mario Badescu, Vincent Longo, Warren-Tricomi, Laura Geller, Cargo and many more. Beauty360 offers the best in beauty products, from Makeup, Bath & Body and Fragrances, to Hair Care, Nail Care and Skin Care items. You can even view makeup looks, buy the products and learn how to apply them yourself.

Celebrate the end of summer with an exclusive online makeup sale from Beauty 360. From now until August 23, you can save 20% on all of your favorite makeup products using the code ‘SIZZLE‘ at checkout! Shop now and grab a free beauty gift with your purchase!

Don’t forget to follow Beauty360.com on Facebook and Twitter for more beauty tips and news, event details and upcoming promotions.

Fab Fashion + Beauty Link Roundup

Check out the Material Girl by Madonna official lookbook featuring Taylor Momsen (Hot Beauty Health)

A little tutorial on how to do boho without going overboard … (Already Pretty)

10 Questions You May Have About “Montenegro Style.” (Crushable)

Plus Blogger Gabi Gregg Wins MTV’s Twitter Jockey Contest. (Fa(s)t Fashion)

There is a Sex Pistols fragrance (The Gloss)

How to get Ashley Greene’s look at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards. (Beauty Blogging Junkie)

Check out the 90’s Bracket – second round and help decide between the Rachel Green haircut and the Babysitter’s Club series. (College Candy)

Shiseido Ocean Collection: Summer 2010

This summer get the hottest neutral look with a splash of shimmer from Shiseido. Makeup artistic director, Dick Page presents Shiseido’s ‘The Makeup’ Summer 2010 Ocean collection. ‘The Makeup’ Luminizing Satin Face Color in Shell provides a bronze, natural glow that lasts all day. Brighten eyes with ‘The Makeup’ Luminizing Satin Eye Color in Ocean Sunset. This delicate gold shadow looks great on all skin tones and pairs perfectly with ‘The Makeup’ Smoothing Eyeliner Pencil in Black Sand. Line your upper lids in this matte black liner and then lightly smudge for a just-home-from-the-beach look.  My favorite part of this line is ‘The Makeup’ Luminizing Lip gloss in Rainbow. This gloss is intense! Really shiny, not at all sticky, and this color is a sheer gloss infused with gorgeous glitter. I have been wearing it every day and it has both staying power and great moisturizing properties. Not to mention the sparkle! If you are going out at night, keep the look, but add the ‘Perfect Rouge’ Lipstick in Red Triton.

Shiseido cosmetics are available in most fine department stores, or shop online for the Ocean Collection at Nordstrom
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Interview with Dr. Francisco Colon: Your top skin care questions answered

After my wonderful skincare appointment with Judie at the Peer Group Center for Plastic Surgery, I met with Dr. Francisco Colon for a question and answer session. I felt so lucky to be able to ask all my burning skin care questions one-on-one to a top plastic surgeon.

To start, I asked Dr. Colon to explain the differences between medical facials, as offered at his center, and spa facials. Basically, his reply was that medical facials are results-based, scientific, and the basis for developing an ongoing skincare regimen. Clinicians that perform medical facials are much better trained to deal with skincare concerns including brown spots, wrinkles, and uneven texture, and they have the luxury of a doctor right there when needed. Dr. Colon suggested asking yourself the question ‘What do I want from a facial?’ If you are looking for purely relaxation, then perhaps a spa facial is right for you. However, if you are interested in addressing your skin care concerns and developing an ongoing skin care regimen, then medical facials are the way to go.

As a woman that loves to care for my skin, and now entering my mid-thirties, I was especially eager to learn what young women in their 20’s and 30’s can do to prevent the signs of aging. Dr. Colon said that the best thing you can do is to be healthy, protect your skin, use sun block and don’t smoke. Maintaining healthy, youthful skin can be achieved by managing and preventing acne and scarring, exfoliating and moisturizing. This is yet another benefit to medical facials. A common procedure during a medical facial is micro-dermabrasion, which removes dead cells, thereby allowing better penetration of moisturizers.

With all the buzz about the new Juvederm XC, I wanted to get more information from Dr. Colon. This filler sounds so versatile, and what I learned is that it can be used to change features. Fuller lips and cheeks are possible, as well as filling in lines related to aging. Dr. Colon explained that this HA filler offers rejuvenation without surgery, quick recovery with minimal complications and lasts on average one year.

One of my biggest skin care concerns is dark under eye circles. Dr. Colon explained to me that there is no quick fix for dark circles, and the best thing is to be evaluated by a surgeon. Depending on whether the discoloration is caused by an anatomical condition, hyper-pigmentation, or vascular issues the course of treatment would differ.

How many moms out there long for their pre-baby body back?! It is possible to regain your shape with ‘mommy makeovers’. Dr. Colon stressed that the best way to regain your pre-baby body is to be fit before pregnancy, monitor a healthy weight gain during your pregnancy, and to utilize diet and exercise for a year after your last pregnancy. If after that year, you still are unhappy with your body, you should see a surgeon to discuss your options, including anatomical repairs and restoring normal anatomy. Popular components to the mommy makeover are procedures on the breasts and stomach.

Rounding up my interview with Dr. Colon, I asked what women can do in between their medical facial appointments and he recommends sunscreen for everyone, as well as following your customized skin care regimen. Depending on what your clinician recommends, it can include exfoliating agents, Retin-A, or bleaching agents.

I can’t say enough about my wonderful experience at the Peer Group Center for Plastic Surgery in New Jersey. If you want to make an appointment for a medical facial or consultation with a surgeon, call 973-822-3000 or visit their website at http://www.peergroupnj.com/ for more information.

 

Thursday haute links

Nikki Blonsky talks “Huge.” (The Frisky)

The worst photoshoots. Ever (The Gloss)

A real run-in with John Mayer (Crushable)

American Apparel’s weirdest fashion (College Candy)

24 Things Single Women Wish We Could Tell Men to Make Dating Easier for Everyone (Glamour)

Haute handbag of the week: Diane von Furstenberg Lytton Minaudiere Clutch (Handbag du Jour)

How to make sure that your hairstyle fits with your personal style (Already Pretty)

Runway for Under $25: Erin Fetherston Resort 2011(College Fashion)

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