Is it just me, or are some of today's styles leaving you with a deep sense of déjà vu? Between holey jeans and the return of acid wash, I'm getting unpleasant flashbacks of my junior high days.
These shoelace hair bows bring back awkward memories of spiral perms and wearing Electric Youth. Not a look I'll be returning to, but I can see a certain cohort bringing this back. Will you be among the shoelace-headed? While you answer, I will wait here with my plastic charm bracelets at the ready.
December is upon us and you know what that means — time for the Sugar Network's Best of 2008! It's time to look back at the biggest news, the most important photos, the breakout stars and all your favorite products you couldn't live without in 2008.
Each site on the Sugar Network will be polling you the readers about what you loved — celebrities, news, trends, movies, products, designers, stores, and more — before announcing your choices and the editors' favorites for the year to win the Sugar Awards in their categories. This year we also want to give a big thank you to our sponsor for all our Best of coverage, the AT&T Palm Centro!
Along the way we'll be giving you slideshows and quizzes highlighting the biggest headlines and most exciting stories in all our categories. Should be a fun ride, so stick around!
Our friends at Sephora really know how to pick some radiant colors for the holidays, and they've done it up right once again. All this week we're giving away two festive makeup kits with colors galore. If you're chosen the lucky winner of these sets, you'll receive:
The Vanity Limited Edition Palette — A palette of eyeshadows, glosses, and brushes which also includes the best-selling Lights, Camera, Lashes!, Mascara, and Mineral Powder Bronzer in Park Avenue Princess.
Très Cheek Limited Edition Mini Cheek Stain Set — A trio of three mini cheek stains in a purple and gold pouch. Shades include: Posh, a soft plum; Fierce, a light strawberry red; and Chic, a golden coral peach.
To enter, just take the quiz by 5 p.m. PST today, and one winner will be selected at random. Your eligibility is not based on getting the answers correct, just on taking the quiz after you are logged in. You do, however, need to be a TeamSugar member to enter. So if you're not already one, register for an account. One quiz entry per person; all repeat quizzes will be ignored. Prizes can be shipped to US destinations only. Remember: You must be logged in to TeamSugar for your entry to count. For the complete rules, click here. Good luck!
It's a regular Winter wonderland these days. Well, maybe not in the traditional sense here in San Francisco, but the decorations, displays, and people-in-a-better-mood attitude has me getting in the spirit. For this final month of the year, I've got some festive beauty products that are sparkly, but not over-the-top. Ring-a-ding.
If you did a lot of cooking over the Thanksgiving holiday, I'm sure you did a lot of dishes. And if you did a lot of dishes, I'm sure your hands are feeling the effects. Even if you weren't scrubbing away, the cooler months often produce dry hands that need some extra TLC. So, if you're looking for an easy do-it-yourself treatment, I learned this great combo while holiday shopping at an Aveda store last year.
In your hands, mix the following, work in for an invigorating massage, and rinse away: about a quarter-sized amount of Hand Relief ($19), a scoop of Soothing Aqua Therapy ($28.50) bath salts, and a few drops of your favorite essential oil. Currently, I'm really digging Patchouli Oil ($13). Psst — you can use drugstore ingredients, too. The results are still luxurious. Aaah.
Messy, textured updos are all the rage these days, and Molly Sims was in on it at the recent CNN Heroes ceremony. Lorenzo Caldaron, a stylist with Warren-Tricomi Los Angeles, created this beautiful, easy look. The good news for you: he says that this look's quite easy, especially for a reader who's not trained in hair. "Make it look fun and flirty, softly pulled back and messy or use less texture for a more smooth, classic look," he said. "I's very versatile and up to you. If you think about it too technically and overwork it, it's going to go to a whole different place and look too done."
Kick off this look with clean, shampooed hair and get his step-by-step instructions when you read more
Here's a dose of recession realism: There are things we need that we'll buy ourselves and there are things we want that we won't. When times get tight, the things we need kinda become the things we want. So, for the latest installment of our Holiday Gift Guide let's treat our sporty pal whose biggest splurge is that gym membership.
Next time you're at her house, check out what products she uses (not in a creepy way). Then, pick a pretty beauty bag (this Kate Spade splurge is on sale for $52) for her gym locker and stock with her fave drugstore deodorant, travel toothbrush and paste, shower cap, and possibly some of her fave makeup. She may not treat herself to a spare set of her essentials, but you can.
Pick one special item, like two- or three-in-one products as a treat, and mix it up with elastics and headbands to keep her hair out of her face. After all, it truly is the thought that counts, right? Right.
Rachel Zoe was photographed walking down Robertson, Starbucks in hand, looking ready for some serious shopping. She looked chic in her round sunglasses and Chanel bag, which she wore with of-the-moment thigh-high boots, a denim Current/Elliott biker jacket, and printed scarf.
Is it just me, or are some of today's styles leaving you with a deep sense of déjà vu? Between holey jeans and the return of acid wash, I'm getting unpleasant flashbacks of my junior high days. 
Christian Louboutin
Casadei
Dolce & Gabbana