Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday for getting girly, so here are a dozen of Beautopia's picks for the best nail polish for that special night.
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In the run-up to Valentine's Day, Heineken made this ad for a beer lip gloss. Typical stuff: hot lady applies gloss, regular Joe dude kisses her (and is it just me, or does she look very uncomfortable?). I thought the whole thing was a gag, but turns out that in Italy at least, you can actually buy the stuff for just under five euros. Which begs the question: would you ever wear a beer-flavored lip gloss, for your own enjoyment or your makeout partner's?
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Jennifer Garner was working her signature soft waves last night to fabulous effect at the Valentine's Day premiere. I think the look would be gorgeous for actual Valentine's day, too, (or any night out, for that matter) so here's the low down on how to do it from the man who creates the look, Frederic Fekkai stylist Adir Abergel. To find out how he does it, just keep reading.
Gothic Lolita? That look is soooo last century. In Japan, the latest thing among trendy young women is to look like living dolls. The Mori/forest girls go for simple makeup and earthy fashion, but the Ageha girls aim — as the New York Times puts it — to look like blow-up dolls. As Tim Gunn would say, that's a lot of look.
Ageha is heavily influenced by hostess clubs, places in which young women entertain men by flirting, lighting their cigarettes, laughing at jokes, and so forth. The job, like the Ageha look, focuses almost exclusively on appearance. Nineteen-year-old Naoko Kamijyo is a typical Ageha girl. "I'm no great beauty, but I love to be made up," she says. "I want to change myself, to be unrecognizable. Who wants to go through life just being themselves?" To that end, she wakes at 5 a.m. and spends at least two hours applying false lashes, hair extensions, and makeup. Every day.
Magazines like Koakuma Ageha (subtitle: "Seduction and Desire Book for Beautiful Gals Who Want to Become Cuter") and shops like Jesus Diamante capture the Ageha aesthetic. Sadly, it seems much more important for these women to be seen than heard. As one Ageha girl told the Times in a depressing display of frankness: "Dolls shouldn’t need to talk, much less explain anything."
Here's a look at some publications for and about Ageha and Mori style. What do you think?
"Color plays center stage in my collections," says Michelle Smith, and now, the designer of Milly has something playful, chic, and bright to offer up for her second collaboration with Clinique. The Milly For Clinique 8-Piece Gift is full of skin and makeup favorites, all packaged up in Milly's floral foldover clutch bag, which to me has somewhat of a retro, Miami-glamour kind of vibe. Free with any Clinique purchase of $25 or more, the vividly-hued bag of goodies is available at Bloomingdales exclusively from Feb. 7-21. So while it may be a while before we see real flowers outside, consider this clutch a harbinger of blooms to come.
Cat Deeley looked casual and cute outside the BBC Radio One studios in London. She wore Hudson black skinny jeans and kept warm with a feminine white pom pom scarf and soft green leather jacket (similar in color to this one by Tory Burch), adding a Pauric Sweeney python bag and tough combat boots to give the look more of an edge.