In June, Burberry will launch a collection of 100 color products for eyes, lips, and skin with Inter Parfums SA, the holder of Burberry’s beauty license. The line will be carried in only 30 stores globally, including Nordstrom.

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Model Charlotte di Calypso is featured in the latest beauty spread for Vogue Italy, shot by Richard Burbridge.

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Check out this awesomely complicated hairdo at Diego Binetti…this perfect Grecian-inspired updo adds a touch of disarray to structured braids for a modern twist. The asymmetrical pattern and haphazard positioning of the braids represents unique individualism and carefree youth.

Created by Sebastian Professional lead stylist Thomas Dunkin

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There’s nothing like having high quality prints of Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Steven Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel and several other established photographer’s work in the confines of your own home. I had the opportunity to snag a copy of Dolce & Gabbana’s collaborated photo compilation, Extreme Beauty In Vogue, before it hit’s shelves in October, and I must admit, I feel like a child staring at a picture book, completely mesmerized by every photo. Edited by Phyllis Posnick with an essay by Eva Respini, Extreme Beauty In Vogue exposes photographic, stylistic and journalistic perceptions of female beauty and opinions on allure. Featuring two centuries of work, the evolution of cultural attitudes on women is exposed in this coffee-table must have. And for those of you hung up on Vogue’s typical conservatism, there’s enough nipples, asses, bestiality and blood to suit your fancy. Shove your Beatles anthology to the side folks, because this $55 investment is what your dinner guests should be snooping through!

GALLERY: Extreme Beauty In Vogue

For more information, check out Extreme Beauty In Vogue here!

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I have to admit  I’m a little skeptical sometimes when it comes to contests. Just thinking about the odds of winning usually turns me off to the idea of even trying for that gold medal. But I’m looking to make a change, especially when I hear about Neutrogena’s latest sweepstakes. The contest is called Flaunt Your Inner Celebrity, and if you win you get your makeup done by celebrity makeup artist Matin, and your very own photo shoot!  

LINKAGE: Fashionista

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Guess seems to have linked arms with a new partner, Coty Inc. Why do we care? Well, the partnership not only brings Guess further success, but it bring us Guess beauty products! First on the list, a fragrance line. Get ready people!

LINKAGE: WWD

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Today’s tutorial features a look from Christian Lacroix’s Fall Couture show, which we felt would get the praise of Justin Tranter…totally want to see him rock this!

Tutorial:
-Start with a blank canvas or very light make-up, this look is all about the elaborate eyes so you don’t want to distract from them with bright lipstick or heavy blush
-With a black eyeliner, lightly line the bottom and top creases and go over it again with liquid eye liner for a bold look

-Next, trace your eyes with green eyeliner and sweep out at both corners

-Lastly, use shadow to darken the creases, highlight the green with a lighter color or shimmery shadow and complete the look with a quick swipe of mascara over top lashes

*Also, instead of green you can try other colors.  Purple usually brings out brown eyes, Gold illuminates hazel eyes and for Blue or Green eyes blues and greens are best!

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

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Lipstick lust can easily turn into lipstick love with theses Lust Lipsticks that are on super sale. Pop Beauty’s Lip Lust collection featuring dewy toffee, flirty fuscia, petal pink and naughty red are now $3.99 on Beauty Ticket.

SOURCE: Trend de la Creme

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Just when you’re about to scream “fuck the recession” at the top of your lungs, BeautyTicket.com appears out of left field BECAUSE of the recession. The two beauty-savvy founders didn’t see the need for people to trade down to drugstore brands during a credit crunch (or ever, for that matter) so they pooled their life savings and launched this online beauty mecca.

So, here it is in a nutshell: Premium beauty brands (like Smashbox, YSL, Pop Beauty, etc.) at deep discounts. How do they do it? They buy overstocks of products from current collections and closeouts of products from the previous season. It’s all unopened, fresh, and dirt cheap. There’s only one catch — if you see a deal you like, snag it because it probably won’t be there the next time you check back! (And, to make sure you don’t miss out on what’s coming down the pipeline, be sure to sign up for their weekly email and Twitter announcements.)

SOURCE: BeautyTicket.com: Can You Say “Dirt Cheap Premium Cosmetics”?

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We might always relate models like Helena Christensen, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Campbell to the definition of “beauty”, tall, skinny, long hair and angelic conditions.

You can definitely find pretty girls anywhere in town, from Bondi Beach to small alleys of Paris, but only a few in the world resemble real beauty, which is often as its best removed from glamour and adornment.

Beauty is more than just one type and that it comes in different shapes and sizes as well. “Many might find pretty is the same as beauty” quoted by Alexandra Shulman, Editor of British Vogue who recently wrote in ‘Beauty British Now”, “but actually their enemies, as the blandness and acceptability of pretty cancels out the greatness of beauty.”.

Emma Pei

Most people will define Chinese top-model Du Juan’s round face, creamy flawless skin, and gorgeous bone structure as the “real” beauty of China, less would look at rising star Emma Pei’s alien-like quality and immediately comes to mind that she is strikingly beautiful.

What majority thinks is beautiful is always the right answer, which is wrong! Embracing individuality is the real beauty as people like Kate Moss have challenged and created a whole new beauty aesthetic. She was the very few in the early 1990’s who were different, oppose to Linda, Christy and Naomi who had the bodies and polished stance.

Kate defined a new type of beauty that is recognized and accepted now in this generation. She defines beauty, as beauty demands a kind of originality that makes you pause and admire. Beauty is not being perfect, as the strange and peculiar quality makes beauties what they are.

Since then, there have been models who have epitomised a moment, like Lily Cole who almost didn’t make the list, as bookers find her over dolly. Models and people like her depict a more fragile, bizarre, unusual specimen of beauty, the technical term – ‘Alien Beauty’.

Sudanese goddess Alek Wek immediately broke the Western beauty standards and blew the fashion industry away, as she dominates the runway from Galliano to Calvin Klein. Polley Fey is an icon in defining Alien Beauty, as she conquers the fashion stage without sacrificing a bit of her individuality. In the 90’s Fey was one of the biggest models in the fetish scene, as she appears frequently on Torture Garden fliers.

Sasha Vs Gemma

The fashion industry have mistaken model Sasha Pivovarova as Australian gem Gemma Ward. Sasha started off in the industry with just negative feedback, no one liked her. She is more than just a Gemma-clone; the fact that the crowd sees them alike is so ironic.

I have found indie model/music agency label very interesting to interview, as they only represent 20 models and a couple fellow musicians oppose to larger agencies who casts more commercial girls who could earn the cash for the company. As I interviewed their Model Manager, Lance Labreche, we both discuss about how the fashion industry have adapt the notion of ‘beauty’ in the last years. As he comments that “The standards of beauty tend to swing back-and-forth like a pendulum along a certain amount of seemingly already agreed upon parameters”.

Part of Lance’s job as a model manager is to balance what consumer wants and how to introduce new forms of beauty that as he says “can increase a particular demographics size and scope for the fashion entertainment and scope we service”.

Away from the fashion industry and yet, in general women and even men still gage themselves against an image of impossible perfection. Nothing is really going to change unless people accept that “flaws make you beautiful”, and that there is more than one type of beauty in the world.

Not being blonde and blue eyed, five foot tall, slender with perfect silky skin would not put you in the category of being ugly. ‘Ugly’ is a terminology used for those who don’t accept diversity. Some people might be more beautiful than others, but no one is truly ugly. Brutality, cruelness and war is real ugly.

Our eyes have always blindfolded our hearts, as we always look at the physical beauty but not necessarily see the beauty quality of a person through their personality or accept another kind of beauty.

True beauty should be more widely recognized by those shallow people out there who just go for looks, former top model Cheryl Tiegs also recognises that “true beauty really does have to do with an inner light that does shine”. Even though looks might play an important part of where you stand in the community, without a positive and genuine personality, a person will not go far.

Even though I may not be a fan of Cate Blanchett , I admire her message ‘you don’t need plastic surgery even though you are 39 years old that starts to gain wrinkles’. Cate does not intend to alter her natural beauty, as she felt that “one could not run away from the passing of time, which leaves its marks inevitably, even if one’s skin or one’s mind”.

No offence but Mrs. Playboy a.k.a. Pamela Anderson used to be beautiful and had striking features before she had plastic surgery. Her cheeks are bulbous, her lips are insanely puffy and her skin waxen and shiny. We should not blame her actions, as this world can be quite crucial to you. But people should consider and try to be who they are. They should not change because of other people, even though if someone told you that you look disgusting, if you find yourself beautiful, that’s the most important.

Not long time ago, I was the kid who read fairytales. Most of the books describe heroes who were handsome and heroines who were beautiful. Since then, I believed that one of the qualifications to be a great person is to be “beautiful”. Time to time, as a teenager, I will look at the mirror, comparing myself to the models from Fashion TV and say “why am I so fat?” or “why am I ugly and they aren’t?”

Labreche reckons that “Ugliness tends to come from the same thought process as beauty”, as I question him if he feels ugly or not and when? He responds with a big yes, “I would have to say, yes, there are times when I feel ugly. I would even go a step further and admit that there are times when ugliness becomes an active choice or impulse”.

At 17 and half years old, writing this article right now, I am fully confident to tell everyone that I have realized outer beauty was not so important to make someone good. Though I somehow understand why people could be so materialistic and depthless. Shouldn’t we accept who we are as an individual, isn’t our natural “beauty” enough to fulfill ourselves?

If others can be confident, why can’t you. The beauty looked at with the eyes doesn’t last forever. Or should I say, you should now try to accept the new generation of beauty.

Nine Daughters and a Stereo are created by Eva Gödel the Art Director of the model agency, and Kira Bunse prominent freelance fashion photographer who runs the company together. Agency named after a David Bowie/Iggy Pop song lyric and originally conceived as a thesis project, now becomes one of the most interesting and successful agency based in Germany. They’re casting methods are different than other fellow competitors, they don’t walk around shopping malls and find the next “it” girl, but they target to a niche of poor, young and pale youngster, mainly guys who dwell the streets of Germany.

From my own observations and from the response of Bunse and Gödel, we discovered that Europe in particular embraces diversity. Diversity of humans, got more open, both of them said that “There is a bigger variety of looks and styles and personality got more important”. Girls don’t find macho jocks in high school that attractive anymore; ever since Adam Brody introduced Nerd Chic and made girls go crazy about their nerdy boyfriends.

Gödel have made a really simple yet powerful statement that “Beauty is relative. It is a subjective experience – Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Time changed and passed and like Europe and other parts of the world we should embrace who we are and openness guarantees a long term beauty.

SOURCE: Ugly Beauty (our perspective in 09)

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• Estée Lauder’s third-quarter profits were down 69.8 percent.  [WWD]

• Jessica Biel is the latest face of Revlon.  [WWD]

• Lindsay Lohan doesn’t get high tan of her own supply. [NYP]

• Sarah Chalke of Scrubs suggests making your own exfoliating scrub…with strawberries.  [StyleWatch/People]

• Valentino is launching a new fragrance for a younger consumer called Rock ‘n’ Dreams, Siri Tollerød rumored to star. [Now Smell This]

LINKAGE: Estée Lauder Profits Plummet; LiLo May Not Use Her Own Tanning Products

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A “no-poo” movement is putting the kibosh on shampoo! Check out this post on what’s going down and whether you should lather, rinse and reform.

LINKAGE: In A Lather: The Evils Of Shampoo [Hair Apparent]

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Lifetime is putting its best face on for a potential companion series to its soon-to-be-acquired “Project Runway.” The cabler has given a six-episode order to the reality competish “Blush: The Search for America’s Greatest Makeup Artist.” Hourlong skein, exec produced by Laura Fuest (”The Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious”), will bow on the net in November. IMG Entertainment is producing.

Pickup of “Blush” reflects the ramp-up of unscripted development at Lifetime as it preps for the arrival of its pricey “Project Runway” acquisition this fall. “Blush” will follow eight aspiring makeup mavens as they compete for the grand prize of a one-year contract as a professional makeup artist with Max Factor, $100,000 in cash and a shot at doing the makeup for a major glossy magazine cover shoot.

What a great idea, this show will def be a hit amongst the young beauty savvy crowd who will watch just for makeup tips and ideas.

Keep reading on Variety

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Take one dirty looking strung out sort of celebrity and give her a campaign with leading hair care brand Sebastian and what happens? She turns into an almost model.

“Of course I feel pressure!” confesses Kennedy on being the new face of the iconic hair care company. “I’m always into experimenting and trying new things, but always being myself no matter what I’m doing or wearing or whatever. I think the people at Sebastian get that and like that about me.”

The brand has been creating cult products since the’70s, but is now resting an entire relaunch in Kennedy’s hands, or rather, her hair. Whipped Crème is a non-sticky and sweet-smelling shaping cream.

Wait, a styling tool for a D.I.Y. icon? “I’m always switching it up and playing with different looks.  This product is actually something I can use,” Kennedy explains.

I’m going to bluntly come out and say this, I really really dislike this girl. But I have to admit that she looks pretty good in these photos. But again, anyone can look great if given the right tools (make up artists, hair dressers, and the right lighting). I just don’t understand why she looks like trash most of the time when she CAN look like this!

Quote source: NylonMag

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Many of the most creative hairstyles that appeared on the s/s ‘08 runways, from Marc Jacobs to Prada, were due to the handiwork of renowned hairstylist Guido (yes, it’s just one name), who has been a creative consultant for Redken since 2005. Guido’s wildly inventive looks have always inspired us so we decided to track down the hairdo guru—mid-jaunt between New York and LA—for a conversation about his approach to styling, the importance of “suitability” and, of course, products.

Do you think you have a distinct style when it comes to doing hair?

Guido: I suppose that I do. I prefer a deconstructed look, something that can make you question what beautiful hair is. I work a lot with classic shapes, even something as classic as a ponytail, and then use an irregular texture—a texture that you may even consider to be bad. But then I fuse that within a particular context and it throws everything into question. I like that.

What makes a good hairstyle?

G: Suitability makes a good hairstyle. What I find is that a lot of hairdressers might do something to somebody’s hair simply to make a statement or to shock. That’s fine as long as it suits the person that is wearing it.

How can women translate runway styles to reality?

G: It translates in so many different ways. I think it’s up to the individual to take an idea from what they see on the runway and dilute it down or simply play around with the idea to suit them.

What are the current trends in hair?

G: For spring, hair is rougher with a matte finish. This season, we’ll see everything from full, exaggerated shapes to reinterpreted classics from the 1940s to natural, unfinished looks. You can see the evolution of a woman from playful-and-quirky modern to sophisticated feminine.

What are the must-have hair products?

G: For this season, I would really recommend Redken Thickening Lotion 06 Body Builder for those pumped-up shapes we did at Marc Jacobs, for example. Spray Starch 15 Heat Memory Styler also by Redken for that soft, matte texture we did at Prada, and Forceful 23 Super Strength Finishing Spray to hold those soft romantic shapes together—a good example of that would be the hair that we did at Roberto Cavalli.

Tell us your best hair advice for women.

G: Don’t be afraid to experiment, get a good relationship with your stylist and through time and trust have fun with your hair, make it sexy—say something!

This interview was conducted by Jessica Dang of JCReport

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There are a lot of terrifying choices out there for the eco-savvy beauty addict. “Organic” when it comes to lip liner usually can fall into a couple of different categories and the selection in the bath and body aisle of Whole Foods at times is leaves a bit to be desired.  Well, green beauty loves a new site promises to offer a few more options for the dedicated granola with a bit more cash to spend.  FutureNatural.com is a new player on the eco-scene that has been compared to the “Sephora” of green.  Check out the site today and stock up on goodies from Kiehl’s, Jo Wood’s, John Masters’ skin and haircare line, and 25 other organic and/or natural brands from around the world.

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