Trend Alert: Naked Is the New Thing in Fragrance


Updated 11/07/11 2:51 PM · Posted by BellaSugar · 6 comments

New Nude Fragrances

If your dream perfume smells exactly like a naked person, then you're in luck, because there's a whole crop of new scents designed for closet nudists. Most recently, Nasomatto Nuda ($144), a scent that's supposed to embody "the translucence of our senses, nude desire," and Nudité Intense ($48), which smells like "a sheer, diaphanous wisp of nude skin," became available. And that's not Read more

Fragrance Review: Memoire Liquide Vacances Liquide


Updated 11/07/11 2:51 PM · Posted by BellaSugar · 1 comment

Memoire Liquide Vacances Liquide Review

Vacances Liquide ($95) is like a more grown-up, luxe-smelling version of the popular Harajuku Lovers "G" scent. If you love coconut, tropical florals, and vanilla, you'll eat this one up. It opens up with a bright burst of very real jasmine, sashays its way into a mix of beachy floral and coconut water that smells like the best parts of sunscreen, then dries down to a soft, slightly woody Read more

How You Can Avoid Powder Problems on Your Big Day


Updated 04/09/11 11:08 PM · Posted by · 4 comments

How to Keep Face Powder From Looking Cakey and Chalky

Yesterday while signing copies of her new book, All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir ($14), Ashley Judd experienced a common makeup mishap: visible face powder marks. While many celebrities have also had similar incidences, chalky-looking makeup on your wedding day (or any other day, for that matter) is easy to avoid. Find out five tips for powder perfection when you read more. Read more

Someone's Been Naughty: When Good Fragrances Go Cannabis


Updated 11/07/11 2:50 PM · Posted by BellaSugar · 9 comments

Cannabis Fragrances

Why is it that every time I turn around lately, it seems there's a new perfume with a cannabis note being launched? I realize that to some extent it's just good marketing; people will buy anything that sounds illicit. But on the other hand, how many women sit around wishing they could smell like something typically associated with directionless twentysomethings who look like Seth Rogen? I have to Read more