Bella Donna: Frida Kahlo


Updated 02/22/11 9:59 AM · Posted by BellaSugar · 4 comments

Beauty Biography of Frida Kahlo

While many women dash to electrolysis or maintain a standing appointment with a waxer, Frida Kahlo proudly— and beautifully, we might add — skipped out on hair removal treatments. In fact, when she was photographed for the cover of French Vogue in the late 1930s, she wore her signature braided hairstyle, red lips, and a unibrow. This unconventional beauty was famed for her artistic talents, Read more

Picture It: What Are You Looking At?


Updated 04/29/10 5:53 PM · Posted by TresSugar · 4 comments

Pictures From Frida Kahlo Exhibition in Berlin, Germany

A visitor looks at Frida Kahlo's "Self-Portrait as Tehuana or Diego on My Mind" in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition, which is the biggest showing of Kahlo's work in Germany ever, is open to the public from April 30 to August 9. If you find yourself in Berlin, check it out! View 5 Photos ›Photo 1Photo 2Photo 3Photo 4Photo 5 Read more

Frida Kahlo Launches Makeup Collection . . . From the Afterlife!


Updated 03/25/08 1:30 PM · Posted by BellaSugar · 26 comments

Frida Kahlo Launches Makeup Collection . . . From the Afterlife!

I have, uh, grave feelings about this makeup and skincare collection. The Frida Kahlo line has launched, complete with a boutique in Staten Island. Kahlo, a Mexican painter whose work is appreciated by art historians and feminists alike, has inspired the collection of mineral makeup, body lotions, and antiaging and antiwrinkle face creams. Frida died in 1954, and recently the Kahlo family granted Read more

Link Time: Frida Kahlo Is a Beauty For the Ages, Unibrow and All


Updated 11/23/11 10:00 AM · Posted by BellaSugar · 0 comments

Beauty News For November 23, 2011

Frida Kahlo's ageless beauty makes her an unexpected icon — Stylelist Find your perfect fragrance here — Real Simple Snow White or Katniss: whose braid is better? — InStyle Is Gisele the new face of Givenchy? — The Cut Could your hair's pH balance be off? — Beautylish More evidence that some men are totally ignorant of makeup's purpose — Glo Did Sweet Valley High cause our current Read more

Mara Hoffman Spring 2012


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Mara Hoffman: Spring 2012

For Spring 2012, Mara Hoffman's neon-injected, tribal-print "Mexican Mamas" collection drew from icons like Frida Kahlo with nods to Mexican style — and complete with a Mariachi band serenading the crowd. Neon hues and mega statement jewels dominated the presentation with head-to-toe looks that took the designer's affinity for print to another level. A mix of exotic tribal-inspired patterns on Read more