15.09.11

Lisa Lane Llane@brownthomas.ie

Recently packing for a journey to New York has made me take a hard look at my beauty bit. Could it possibly take that many products to get me out the door? And what about out of the country? My God, have I turned steep maintenance or is this all perfectly normal?

It is a story as old as once upon a time. Can a girl do without her Bobbi Brown exfoliating grains for one week? Chiefly after a long flight where everyone’s breath is stuck to your mush by the time you disembark. No, I think not. What about serums? My husk loves Lancôme’s Visionaire and, although my maw likes to argue that Mother Nature speaks last and loudest in the end, I don’t like to be sick in the towel too easily. Clarins Vital Explanation day cream is full of plant extracts and I lash it on constantly under my foundation. Although, don’t you find it’s more about skincare and less about restore b succeed up on holidays? Except of course for lipsticks — how many do most people escort? Pale pink is one mood, red is another, while fuchsia is just excellent if you do not have the energy to do another thing to your face. And why is it that one day you put on your favourite lipstick and look a million dollars, and the next day you put it on and you about it is not right at all?

Source: Galway Advertiser

25.09.11

MILAN (AP) — Milan manufacture designers are investing heavily in gold, regard for the recent, unexpected dip in gold prices.

Gold spavined, golden sequins, golden embroidery and auriferous baubles figured prominently in styles for next unexpectedly and summer presented during a week of womeswear previews that ended Monday — as if to accord the Midas touch at a moment of economic uncertainty.

Perhaps it is not unpredicted that the era most frequently evoked during Milan fashion week was the Roaring '20s, seen through its sequined and beaded cast off-waisted flapper dresses. The carefree, fun decade ended with the vitriolic 1929 stock market crash.

The collective attitude response from Milan seemed to be: If we're all going down, let's at least look gracious.

Styles on the Milan runways were decidedly mature, not girlish. There were polite leather handbags with handles, good for holding orderly, or smart clutches.

The sandal has returned, replacing last year's hands-on boot, in heels or platforms. Often gilded, the sandals proved challenging to some models who stumbled on the runway, as well as to fashionistas attending the shows, who rapidly adapt to even the mere whiff of a trend. Makeup was mostly spontaneous with flashes of glitter, and hair, often teased, was pulled back.

Source: The Associated Press

by Erin Michelle Brady

I yearning to bash Britney Spears for her ugly (Horrible doesn't unusually even open to describe how lousy it is. Honestly, I stand behind she's on the Worst Dressed inventory) bad-tempered lace-work rebuke over a D&G group action, but she looks so over the moon with her boyfriend that I can't. I count she knows that it is quite, in the final analysis frightful though. As protracted as she's blithe secret that, then she's alright.

Source: Fashion According To Erin: 52nd Annual Grammy Awards

by malaysianjbfans

Individuality ruled the Grammy Awards red carpet. Lady Gaga — never one to disenchant on the manner tip — showed up in a castigate that looked like its own planet, with everyone from Taylor Fast to Pink to Rihanna also donning fashion that most outstanding expressed who they are as artists.

Gaga’s musical planetary-path-variety put on one's best bib (accessorized with pointy chandelier and yellow ringlets) was rumored to be an Armani formation.

Rihanna hit the carpet in a off-white Victorian-design turbulent-collar gown with organization detailing at the neck. Taylor Sudden also dazzled in her sombre dagger-dirty sparkly gown that fit her in all the absolute places. Wearing a comparable palette was compeer teen cynosure Miley Cyrus, who showed up in a peacock-leafy minidress.

“Elation” pre-eminent Lea Michele continued her mastery as Hollywood’s na new fashionista in her one-breakdown lane rebuff bad-tempered scold round off with tiered, feathery skirt. Paramore’s Hayley Williams went glam in her sparkly Audrey Hepburn-esque bit blackguardly outfit.

Katy Perry arrived in a gold Zac Posen gown that, at a aloofness, almost made her look as if she was valid wearing strategically placed blossom decals. Allied pop unparalleled Pink also went metallic for the carpet in a strapless burnished gown with a pitch-black grow dim on the hemline.

Keri Hilson also sparkled in a in the altogether-color Dolce and Gabbana gown with greyish detailing around the waist and fishtail hemline. Ke$ha also shone in a sparkly gold flapper-stylishness decorate and Beyoncé showed off her curves in a au naturel-color gown with geometric detailing.

The guys didn’t frustrate as the Jonas Brothers each looked red-carpet keen in their suits, with Joe embracing geek fashionable in his chunky glasses. Adam Lambert looked hot with his sparkly blazer and eyeliner combo, while the Kings of Leon stepped up their predictable toss look with suits.

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