Beauty’s already getting artsy with MAC makeup and Logics hair products; why shouldn’t fragrance follow? KENZO has teamed with designer Ron Arad for their new scent Unidentified Fragrance Object. Aurélien Guichard’s exquisite fragrance rejects the traditional olfactory pyramid and instead balances a powerful heart with four natural ingredients. The UFO bottle designed by Arad is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Only 1,000 of these unique hand-polished bottles will be produced for the US!
Top notes: orange blossom, Bulgarian rose
Heart notes: Frankincense
Base notes: Vanilla
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Posted in Fragrances, Makeup Reviews | Tagged floral fragrances, fragrance, Fragrance Reviews, Kenzo, perfume
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Check out these looks for proof that money doesn’t always equal style
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If attending charity galas and going to designer ateliers for fittings is your idea of being a “real housewife,” then we know a certain cable channel that would like to hear from you. The “Real Housewives” have all the resources needed to look fabulous. Yet they frequently, and rather spectacularly, miss the mark. Here are some of the best and worst of the “Real Housewives” looks.
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Posted in Celebrities, Hairstyles, Makeup | Tagged beauty, Celebrities, celebrity makeup looks, hairstyles, makeup
Listen up, ladies! I will have a unique opportunity soon to ask the haircolor experts at L’Oreal anything my little heart desires about coloring your hair at home. But I’m a generous blogger, and I want to involve you lovelies! Sooo…whaddya want to know?
Seriously: anything and everything you ever wanted to know about DIY hair color but were afraid to ask. Just leave me a comment on this post with your question by Monday, August 24th and I’ll pass ‘em on to the bigwigs at L’Oreal. Who knows? Maybe I’ll make a video of the L’Oreal Q&A and your question will make the cut!
Posted in General, Hairstyling Tips | Tagged beauty, hair, hair coloring, haircolor
Ashley Greene, the actress lucky enough to portray Twilight pixie Alice Cullen, showed us a nifty eye makeup trick at the Julie & Julia premiere: Match your eyeshadow to your highlights!
See how Ashley’s shimmery copper eye makeup brings out the light coppery tones in her hair? While matchy-matchy usually isn’t the way to go, here it’s so subtle it works. To make the look work for you, match an eyeshadow shade to the lightest strands of your hair (this works even if you don’t have highlights — even virgin hair has a few different hues in it).
Choose a metallic version of your highlight color to give your makeup a stronger impact for evening wear. Once you’ve matched up the shade, just apply it to your lids and up into crease. You’ve got a pulled-together look in seconds!
Posted in Celebrities, Makeup | Tagged Alice Cullen, Ashley Greene, Celebrities, edward cullen, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, twilight makeup
The Twilight saga continues this November with its next big-screen installment, New Moon — and its starlets look delish even if you’re not a vampire. Bloodsucking babes Nikki Reed, Rachelle Lefevre, Ashley Greene and Noot Seear got together with Glamour to give us mere mortals some tips on making your look oh so very after-dark.
Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen
If Forks had a resident undead cheerleader, it’d be Alice. This bubbly vamp understands that looking nighttime sexy doesn’t have to be severe, so try smoky brown eyes instead of black like Ashley Greene has here.
To get that sexy smudge-y effect, blend your eye makeup with a spongy applicator. Try using Dior 1-Colour Eyeshadow in Trendy Taupe ($28 at Sephora), then top with black eyeliner, light blush and a light pink lipstick.
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Posted in Celebrities, Makeup | Tagged Ashley Greene, Celebrities, Nikki Reed, Noot Seear, Rachelle Lefevre, twilight makeup
Let’s hear it for the boys — specifically, the boys who won our AXE giveaway!
1st place winner: Sean Williams
2nd place winner: Travis A.
3rd place winner: Pete Wright
Congrats, guys! You’ll be receiving an email from me shortly with instructions on what to do next. And if you didn’t win, don’t worry your pretty little head about it — TBB’s always got new giveaways going for ya!
Posted in Giveaways, News | Tagged AXE, beauty, giveaways, hair
I’m an art fanatic, so I was SO stoked to see this season’s M·A·C collection is chock full of artsy goodness for graphic designers and Dadaists alike. M·A·C celebrates the idea of makeup as art form with three artists who exemplify this idea through both the subjects they choose, and the wildly individual styles and colours used to convey them. Check it out!
MAC COSMETICS FALL ’09 AS SEEN BY RICHARD PHILLIPS, PAINTER
Using his skills of a photo-retoucher, Richard gave his own painting a M·A·C makeover with new eyeshadows, blushes, & lipsticks that just leap off the canvas!
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Posted in General, Makeup | Tagged beauty, eyeshadow, lip gloss, mac cosmetics, makeup, Makeup Tips
For promoting a film called The Ugly Truth, star Katherine Heigl sure sported some pretty hair. Austin, Texas-based celebrity stylist Alan Ruiz calls the look “a messy, disheveled updo with lots of texture” and offered Glamour some tips on recreating this style yourself:
- Use a nickel-size amount of a liquid non-hardening gel like Aveda Confixor Liquid Gel on wet hair.
- Turn your head upside down and blow-dry with a paddle brush in a downward motion so that you get lots of va-va-voom volume at the root.
- Once the hair is dry, use a large curling iron to create a few loose, gentle waves, especially on the sections that edge the forehead.
- Next, take a dab of wet styling lotion like Aveda Volumizing Tonic and apply it by “scrunching” through the hair. This gives hair a subtle wet look while maintaining the sexy body we’ve created.
- Pull or pin the rest of your hair into a soft chignon. “I think this is the perfect evening beach-chic look–cool and elegant with body, but the wet effect keeps it casual,” Ruiz raves.
Posted in Celebrities, Hair How-Tos, Hairstyles | Tagged beauty, Celebrities, hair, hairstyles, Katherine Heigl
On a list of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, Eva Longoria Parker doesn’t need a number — she’s the reason you write the list. Her enchanting looks can’t all be credited to her flawless genetics, though: even frustratingly gorgeous celebs like Eva need a little help from their makeup artist friends.
Here’s a step-by-step guide how to get Eva’s makeup look yourself at home:
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Posted in Celebrities, How-tos, Makeup, Makeup How-Tos | Tagged Anastasia Beverly Hills, beauty tips, eva longoria, eye makeup, Makeup Tips
Are you or is someone you love a man suffering from a full-on hair crisis? Fear not: perennially cheeky men’s grooming brand AXE Hair has debuted a line of hair-saving products for the coiff-challenged male, and they’re giving three TBB readers the chance to snag them for FREE. That’s right, kids: it’s another giveaway!
1st place prize — Two full-sized AXE Hair products (see product list below)
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Posted in Giveaways, News | Tagged AXE, beauty, Contests, giveaways, hair, hair products, Hairstyling, male grooming, sweepstakes
