Monday, October 31, 2016
15 Halloween Beauty Ideas Fresh From Instagram
As any costume procrastinator knows all too well, the importance of a carefully planned outfit can hardly be overstated come October 31. And yet, the weekend’s best Halloween Instagrams proved the holiday is ultimately a beauty girl’s game.
Inspired makeup jobs ranging from the ghoulish to the glamorous ruled our feeds this weekend. Emma Roberts proved that classic Día de los Muertos skull makeup is a costume all its own, while a horned Taylor Hill looked her diabolical best with the help of fearless amounts of black grease paint—just as Alessandra Ambrosio had us suspecting that her turn as Jessica Rabbit was born out of a fellow obsession with Pat McGrath’s glitter lip kit.
And let’s hear it for the power of a good wig. Martha Hunt’s platinum bob transformed her into Scarface-era Michelle Pfeiffer, while Jasmine Tookes channeled her namesake Disney princess with a cartoonishly thick embellished ponytail—and Beyoncé paid tribute to Salt-N-Pepa with an unmistakable asymmetrical chop. Meanwhile, Katy Perry left the Trump costume to the horror-obsessed, undergoing an hours-long transformation into Hillary Clinton down to the pantsuit—and power coif.
Here, 15 beauty-centric Halloween ideas to put you in the mood for one more round of dress-up.
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Behati Prinsloo, Liv Tyler, and More Chic Moms Reveal the Baby Products They Use Themselves
Having grown up in the beauty industry before eventually taking over her family’s namesake line of plant-based cosmetics, Olivia Chantecaille has always been particular about what she puts on her face. But when she became a mother for the first time to daughter Delphina, now 2, Chantecaille became even more obsessed with sourcing quality, safe, natural ingredients. “Once you have a child,” she says, “you become so much more aware of what’s potentially harmful around you.”
This passion led her to create Chantecaille Bébé, a new four-piece line of mild skin-care staples that made its official debut in the November issue of Vogue. Vigorously formulated to meet the European Union’s stringent Cosmetic Organic Standard (COSMOS), each product works to gently nurture little ones’ sensitive complexions—and they’re a boon to any grown-up’s beauty regimen. “I use the tamanu and apricot body oil after bath time on Delphina, and it gives my skin a pretty glow, too,” Chantecaille says. She’s not the only parent to discover that sharing really is caring when it comes to baby products. Here, seven savvy moms sound off on some of their surprise favorites.
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Wavy vs. Sleek: 6 Celebrities Settle the Middle-Part Debate
The street style set may be in agreement that a night out calls for (literally) letting your hair down, but the ’70s-inflected middle parts spotted from New York to Los Angeles over the weekend fell into two equally photogenic camps: wavy versus sleek.
Making the case for soft waves that are haphazardly split down the middle, Emma Roberts’s long finger-raked pieces promised to look even better with a little morning-after texture, while Zoe Saldana’s rippling layers channeled pure Gucci-girl whimsy. Even Bella Hadid put down the fine-toothed comb in favor of a swingy, head-to-toe Charlie’s Angels moment.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley found herself on the other side of the hair debate, offering up a sharper sense of symmetry with a meticulous center part and Old Hollywood waves. Gwyneth Paltrow also reached for the shine serum with a poker-straight blowout, while Lais Ribeiro made every inch count with the help of a flat iron.
Here, six case studies in the new evening polish.
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9 Makeup Removers the Pros Recommend for Halloween Night and Beyond
When Halloween festivities kick off in earnest this afternoon, weeks of meticulous costume preparation and hours of special effects–worthy makeup—whether for a look inspired by your favorite French royal, ’50s Hollywood film star, or iconic scream queen—will finally come to fruition. But what about the end of the night—when the fake blood, vampire fangs, and Harley Quinn tattooed hearts need to come off? Years past have involved much scrubbing with little success—so this Halloween, we’ve consulted the pros.
To instantly melt away even the thickest product, makeup artist Alice Lane suggests smoothing on RMS Beauty’s raw coconut oil balm and removing it with a hot towel. Sir John, the man behind Beyoncé’s transformational tour looks, swears by Chanel’s formula for removing long-wearing stage makeup and false eyelashes (“It has saved my life on multiple occasions,” he says). Backstage whiz Charlotte Tilbury’s oil-rich fluid—spiked with organic cornflower water and a soothing plant extract—is designed to take off “every last lashing of mascara” and “even the hardest to remove makeup in one swipe,” while makeup artist Yadim relies on the tried-and-true Fashion Week favorite known as Bioderma Créaline H20 for sensitive skin. Here’s to waking up fresh-faced and fright-less on November 1.
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Suki Waterhouse Reveals the Secret to It Brit Morning Makeup
“What do we have here today?” Suki Waterhouse wonders aloud, peering into the gilded mirror at the Plaza Hotel. The It Brit model and actress is here in New York City, bright and early, to reveal her morning makeup routine—an entirely loose, on-the-fly approach that evokes Waterhouse’s signature brand of easy cool.
That means a slick of clear brow gel brushed upward “because I look like . . . Lorax,” Tom Ford foundation blended a little too freely on the back of the hand, and Chantecaille cream run along the cheekbones and nose bridge to craft a next-level glow (“How does she get it?” Waterhouse jokes). A pretty pink Charlotte Tilbury lipstick is dabbed on the mouth and the apples, as well, for a bit of color play, while a thick stick of contour cream gets smeared directly across the face. “I just like to whack it on,” Waterhouse explains. “It’s fine, right?” With that perfect smudge of cat-eye liner—a Waterhouse trademark—everything’s fine.
Filmed at the Plaza Hotel in New York City
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
The 10 Best Beauty Instagrams of the Week: Rihanna, Olivia Wilde, and More
This week’s best beauty Instagrams proved that memorable looks are all in the details. Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin shared a snap of Bella Hadid, the model’s modern beauty choices evidencing her recent successes: a glitter-coated cat-eye and nude lip, abbreviated fringe, and on-the-mark jewelry converging, coloring her 2016’s ultimate It girl. Mary Charteris shouted out London’s The Braid Bar, her blonde lengths woven into a seemingly impossible array of taut, snaking plaits. Constance Jablonski’s relaxing bubble bath offered the ultimate parallel to Jasmine Tookes’s how-does-she-do-it fitness routine, which will prompt even the most gym-averse to amp up their workout regimen. Karlie Kloss presented a playful sample of Harajuku-inspired beauty during her trip to Tokyo—her duo of blonde, quirky knots paring well with her light lager—as, elsewhere, the sisters of Say Lou Lou embraced a full-on 1970s aesthetic for an evening of dress-up.
In the mini-me arena, Rihanna proved her prowess as a manicurist, painting the diminutive nail beds of a tiny client a pale shade of lavender. And Olivia Wilde’s new-mom snap presented an au naturel take on motherhood: a bare, glowing face; a satisfied smile; a breastfeeding babe; and the apt hashtag, #neverunderestimatethepowerofawoman. Because when the makeup comes off and the hair is let down, the inherent strength of a woman is what remains.
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The 10 Best Beauty Instagrams of the Week: Rihanna, Olivia Wilde, and More
This week’s best beauty Instagrams proved that memorable looks are all in the details. Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin shared a snap of Bella Hadid, the model’s modern beauty choices evidencing her recent successes: a glitter-coated cat-eye and nude lip, abbreviated fringe, and on-the-mark jewelry converging, coloring her 2016’s ultimate It girl. Mary Charteris shouted out London’s The Braid Bar, her blonde lengths woven into a seemingly impossible array of taut, snaking plaits. Constance Jablonski’s relaxing bubble bath offered the ultimate parallel to Jasmine Tookes’s how-does-she-do-it fitness routine, which will prompt even the most gym-averse to amp up their workout regimen. Karlie Kloss presented a playful sample of Harajuku-inspired beauty during her trip to Tokyo—her duo of blonde, quirky knots paring well with her light lager—as, elsewhere, the sisters of Say Lou Lou embraced a full-on 1970s aesthetic for an evening of dress-up.
In the mini-me arena, Rihanna proved her prowess as a manicurist, painting the diminutive nail beds of a tiny client a pale shade of lavender. And Olivia Wilde’s new-mom snap presented an au naturel take on motherhood: a bare, glowing face; a satisfied smile; a breastfeeding babe; and the apt hashtag, #neverunderestimatethepowerofawoman. Because when the makeup comes off and the hair is let down, the inherent strength of a woman is what remains.
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4 Sunday Braids Chic Enough to Take to Work Tomorrow
When Sunday morning rolls around, the brunch-bound may find a denim-friendly hair solution in air-dried waves or a hastily twisted topknot, but the Insta set is turning a new page in the off-duty playbook with sleek, nimbly woven twin braids that are as photogenic as a plate of eggs Florentine.
Need inspiration? Model Josephine Skriver celebrated every inch of her brunette lengths with the type of plaits that give a favorite sweatshirt a made-the-effort boost. Yara Shahidi’s extreme pigtails are the kind of style that one might only find time to craft on a lazy Sunday but that lasts longer than a blowout, a side benefit that’s hardly lost on Princess Nokia. Meanwhile, Ruby Aldridge took the schoolgirl favorite all the way to the red carpet—leaving no doubt that when it’s time to get it together for the office come Monday morning, it’s the hair gift that keeps on giving.
Here, four reasons why long hair is fun again.
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The 10 Best Beauty Instagrams of the Week: Rihanna, Olivia Wilde, and More
This week’s best beauty Instagrams proved that memorable looks are all in the details. Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin shared a snap of Bella Hadid, the model’s modern beauty choices evidencing her recent successes: a glitter-coated cat-eye and nude lip, abbreviated fringe, and on-the-mark jewelry converging, coloring her 2016’s ultimate It girl. Mary Charteris shouted out London’s The Braid Bar, her blonde lengths woven into a seemingly impossible array of taut, snaking plaits. Constance Jablonski’s relaxing bubble bath offered the ultimate parallel to Jasmine Tookes’s how-does-she-do-it fitness routine, which will prompt even the most gym-averse to amp up their workout regimen. Karlie Kloss presented a playful sample of Harajuku-inspired beauty during her trip to Tokyo—her duo of blonde, quirky knots paring well with her light lager—as, elsewhere, the sisters of Say Lou Lou embraced a full-on 1970s aesthetic for an evening of dress-up.
In the mini-me arena, Rihanna proved her prowess as a manicurist, painting the diminutive nail beds of a tiny client a pale shade of lavender. And Olivia Wilde’s new-mom snap presented an au naturel take on motherhood: a bare, glowing face; a satisfied smile; a breastfeeding babe; and the apt hashtag, #neverunderestimatethepowerofawoman. Because when the makeup comes off and the hair is let down, the inherent strength of a woman is what remains.
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Saturday, October 29, 2016
How Lily Aldridge, Sara Sampaio, and More Turn Nude Makeup Into a Bombshell’s Game
Seasonal beauty gestures like a swirl of in-from-the-cold blush are hitting their autumn stride, but let’s not count out the perennial appeal of sunny makeup just yet. Sure, soft nudes can smack of 9-to-5 drudgery—that is, unless a simple tweak lends them an evening-ready spark.
Take Joan Smalls, who treaded the red carpet this week wearing matte neutrals that felt, well, inspired, with the help of a row of fluttery faux lashes, while Martha Hunt found her time to shine with little more than a dab of gloss supercharging her gilded lids. Sara Sampaio, too, reached for metallics to upgrade her natural makeup with light-catching swoosh of 24-karat pigment traced along her lower lash line and dotted on the inner corners of her eyes. Always one to keep a light hand in the makeup department, Lily Aldridge kept things neat and graphic with a feline flick of liquid liner lending major impact to an otherwise muted palette.
Just in time for Saturday night, here are four split-second strategies for transforming a basic face into a bombshell’s game.
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Friday, October 28, 2016
5 Korean Models Reveal the Best Sheet Masks for Perfect, Poreless Skin
The Korean models who rule Seoul Fashion Week share one singular trait—a perfect, poreless complexion, looked after with religious devotion and a full lineup of next-level K-beauty products. Though there are countless tricks and tools of the trade to dive into, the hydrating sheet mask is a nonnegotiable part of the routine, thrown on as often as possible to hydrate and brighten. Here, five of Seoul’s most sought-after faces discuss their go-to packs, and, from an enriched pearl serum to soothing gel pads, they’re worth darting off to the nearest K-beauty emporium for stat.
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Which Witch Are You? Shopping Halloween’s Most Magical Beauty Looks
Come Halloween, last-minute partygoers can find relief in those costumes that are easy to accomplish: a black cat, a blood-drenched vampire, and, of course, the ubiquitous witch. But, this year, instead of donning a pointed hat and calling it a day, why not delve into the coven a little further?
The oft-replicated Wicked Witch of the West gets an upgrade with canary yellow talons courtesy of Yves Saint Laurent, while Tilda Swinton’s ice queen calls for By Terry’s shimmering glosses and a Dolce & Gabbana crystal crown. Sorceresses-in-training, like Hermione Granger, would do well to soak in Susanne Kaufmann’s Witch Hazel bath oil, while a star-printed Charlotte Tilbury palette and luxe, lacy Givenchy face mask, formulated with skin-renewing black algae sap, are just what the more refined enchantresses among us (we’re looking at you, Anjelica Huston) require.
So whether you go the traditional route—a green face, complete with warts and rotting teeth—or prefer a more au naturel look to cast spells on unsuspecting passersby, there’s inspiration for everyone. The only question left to ask yourself is: This All Hallows’ Eve, which witch are you?
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Iggy Pop Holds the Secret to Maintaining Ageless Abs Forever
Today, Jim Jarmusch’s documentary on Iggy Pop, Gimme Danger, premieres nationwide, drawing Stooges fans to theaters to watch their favorite live wire take a walk down memory lane. From Pop’s teenage days with the Iguanas to this year’s Post Pop Depression tour, ever present is his trademark lust for life, energy, and shirtlessness—the latter a prime platform by which to observe Pop’s seemingly carved-from-marble abs. While the footage speeds by, throughout his lurches, stage dives, and craning torso arches, Pop’s stomach remains in tight, chiseled, six-pack formation, inexplicably unaffected by time or gravity—a sort of bodily equivalent of Pharrell’s ageless face.
Flipping through photographs of performances from San Francisco to Amsterdam, 1970 to 2016, Pop maintains an impossibly fresh-from-the-gym physique. Behold his 1973 Speedo-clad frame at Los Angeles’s Whisky A Go Go, where the singer could have just as easily been a collegiate water polo player were it not for the throngs of fans reaching out to touch him. His 2003 onstage ensemble of flared light-wash jeans and stone-cut pecs would have found an enthusiastic audience in any pop heartthrob’s fans, save for his anarchist lyrics and penchant for rolling around in glass. Or consider the fact that earlier this year, Pop posed nude for a live drawing class at the New York Academy of Art. In the news, conceptual artist Jeremy Deller explained of his decision to spearhead the project: “His body is central to an understanding of rock music and its place within American culture. His body has witnessed much and should be documented,” but he could have simply said, “The man looks incredible.”
Chalk it up to great genes or proof that punk performance is the world’s greatest workout, but Iggy Pop is peacocking Michelangelo-worthy abs at an age (and hour) when most grandparents are placing their dentures in a fizzy glass of Polident. Hats and shirts off to you, Iggy. Here’s to having beach-ready abs year-round forever.
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Chilly Air, Don’t Care: Bella Hadid, Hailey Baldwin, and More Prove Gleaming Legs Beat the Best Tights
In a perfect world, the fashion set would find itself mock-complaining about the ultimate luxury problem right about now: an Indian summer temperature spike that makes a closet filled with fresh woolly tights and cozy cashmere feel like a sartorial joke.
But here we are with temperatures steadily descending toward the freezing point—not that this has stopped Bella Hadid from embarking on a chic act of seasonal defiance with bare legs unencumbered by Wolfords in chilly Paris today. Her bestie Hailey Baldwin also resisted the cool weather with New York City this week, putting the last bronzed remnants of a summer spent outdoors on full display with the help of a few drops of body oil, while fellow model Nina Agdal also showed that a warm coat dress can offset naked limbs so long as a close shave and a good moisturizer are involved.
Here, three gleaming reasons to make peace with the cold months—or, at least, meet them on your terms.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Why Body Soufflé Is the Secret to Transitional Skin Care
It’s that tricky time between fall and winter, when your skin has sadly begun to peel and flake, but the weather does not yet call for an ultra-rich cream. Consider the body soufflé a smart skin-care tool for this transitional season, one that manages to amp up the moisture without adding grease.
There’s Kiehl’s soy milk and honey balm, which whips shea and jojoba butters into a pleasantly light cream, while Rituals’ take on the recipe comes infused with sweet orange and cedar oil. La Prairie has spun off an ultra-luxe version with the brand’s signature hydrating caviar extracts, and an all-natural raw cream from Babe comes in your pick of three bright floral scents—teacup rose, verbena, wild daisy—that evoke memories of spring. Here, seven soufflés to roll into your regimen now and keep your skin soft from fall into winter.
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7 Halloween Costumes From the Spring 2017 Shows
With Halloween only days away, those who still find themselves costume-less are down to the wire. But inspiration may be closer than it seems. This year, why not look to the Spring 2017 shows, with their ’80s beat, flair for Technicolor, and romantic spirit, for some last-minute inspiration?
Pair bell-bottoms with Roberto Cavalli’s small face-framing braids for a look straight out of the ’70s, or if ’80s New Wave is your thing, grab the mousse and set out to replicate Topshop Unique’s sideswept perm-inspired hair. Braided crowns and floral wreaths à la Bora Aksu are fit for a fairy, while Jacquemus’s French countryside look—rosy cheeks and wide-brim straw hats—left even die-hard New Yorkers wishing to feel like a farm girl for a day. Above, seven beauty moments from the Spring 2017 shows that are primed for Halloween reinvention.
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How 6 First-Time Victoria’s Secret Models Are Training for the Show
A flood of congratulatory videos and selfies took over social media today as a fresh crop of models discovered they would be walking the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for the first time. Yet a quick sweep of Instagram reveals that many of them have been dutifully training for weeks, pushing their bodies to peak physical condition.
There’s Georgia Fowler, pushing back into Warrior II stance on a Saturday night, keeping her sculpted arms parallel to the Reformer jump board, while Megan Williams hopped and swung her body through a jump rope at New York’s Dogpound—a favorite workout spot among Victoria’s Secret Angels like Jasmine Tookes and Josephine Skriver. Elsewhere, at ModelFIT, breakout Saint Laurent model Jourdana Elizabeth meticulously toned her abs with isometric movements, as Keke Lindgard boosted her heart rate with a round of high-intensity boxing and Luma Grothe used her own body weight to whittle her core. For Herieth Paul, even a seaside trip to Montego Bay couldn’t keep her from stretching into a high yoga pose—true dedication. Judging by these up-and-comers, next month’s show will be one to remember.
Victoria’s Secret Angel Jasmine Tookes Reveals the Fantasy Bra:
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Yes, Crystal-Infused Tights Are a Thing. One Vogue Editor Tests Fashion’s Latest Health Craze
Crystal-infused tights. It sounds like a punch line from a Saturday Night Live Goop parody, which is precisely why, when this wellness-mad editor found out about Beauty Tights, the newest product from German legwear company Item M6, I ordered a pair faster than I could finish my reishi-and-maca-spiked smoothie. True, for those of us who keep a hunk of rose quartz at our bedsides just in case, the concept sounds irresistible purely as a placebo. Yet as it turns out, there’s nothing spiritual about it.
Compression legwear, long the province of postsurgical patients and people with poor circulation, has lately crossed into the athleisure realm, with fitness fanatics and frequent fliers touting their benefits for combating fatigue and swelling during sports and long-haul flights. The Beauty Tights take the principle a few steps further. First, there’s the compression itself: Not only are they tighter at the ankles so that blood flows evenly throughout the legs, but this tightness is precisely calibrated to stimulate an acupressure point, the spleen 6 meridian. Also known in Eastern medicine as the “three yin intersection,” this point is traditionally stimulated to relieve stress, insomnia, and anxiety; ease digestive concerns; and boost energy. It’s even said to alleviate symptoms of PMS. (Try asking that of your Wolfords.)
The crystals themselves are ceramic based and so tiny as to be invisible, melted into the stretchy yarn itself. According to the company, they exhibit heat-triggered photoluminescence, which means they turn body warmth into far-infrared radiation. “Yes, the same principle as an infrared sauna,” says Item M6 director Sanaz Alagha. This type of electromagnetic energy, as sauna devotees know, penetrates deep into body tissue to detoxify and heal. While the tights aren’t nearly as strong (or toasty) as a 60-minute sweat session—the company recommends wearing them up to eight hours a day—“they gently increase blood flow and also increase oxygenation and regeneration of the blood,” Alagha says, resulting in “lighter-feeling legs with fewer blemishes and spider veins, and reduced cellulite.”
When the opaque black stockings at last arrived at the office, I hustled to the restroom to put them on under my jeans. Perched flamingo-like, I attempted to slip a foot inside and nearly toppled over, slamming into the stall wall. These tights are tight—like a corset for the lower body. After wriggling mightily to pull them up, I not only felt slimmer but somehow taller and straighter, more secure in my body. The jeans seemed to have slackened substantially.
For two weeks, I contorted into them every morning and washed them every night. I can’t tell whether they made any measurable difference in the circumference of my thighs once removed (they certainly did when on), but—and perhaps this is because the company told me this would happen—I could have sworn my skin felt softer afterward. The tourniquet effect was pleasant—calming, even. As for the results of all that spleen meridian stimulation, it’s hard to say. But I was mostly happy and productive during that fortnight, and after wearing them on a six-hour JFK-to-LAX flight, I noticed a conspicuous absence of jet lag. If that’s not enough for skeptics to justify the $98 price tag, another thing might be: They didn’t snag once.
Beauty Tights, $98
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Kendall Jenner and Karlie Kloss Turn Courtside Seats Into a Front-Row Beauty Moment
A Lakers game may call for little more than a dab of lip balm and a low-key athleisure moment, but who could blame Kendall Jenner and Karlie Kloss for treating courtside seats with the same camera-ready zeal as a front-row spot at Fashion Week?
Dressed in full model-off-duty regalia—leather pants, velvet over-the-knee boots, and a shoutout to Led Zeppelin—Kloss opted for ladylike above-the-neck polish with a smooth blowout and a neatly painted crimson mouth. Jenner, too, did her street style icon status justice with neatly woven twin French plaits and a pop of hibiscus lipstick offsetting worn-in jeans and a Lakers tee. Not a bad way to kick off a girls’ night. After all, if post-game cocktails call for a bit of extra polish, isn’t it easier to throw on a new top en route to the bar than attempt a rearview mirror makeover?
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The Best Celebrity Looks at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Show: Ciara, Kristen Stewart, and More
The front rows at fashion month offer a wellspring of wearable hair and makeup inspiration, and just when it seemed that patience was in order until the February shows, the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund presentation at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles yesterday attracted enough glowing, well-coiffed star power to prove that a simple tweak is all that’s needed to keep a low-key beauty routine interesting.
There’s no doubt that artfully applied nudes simply can’t be beat for a daytime affair: Ciara took her seat with her contoured features updated by way of a powdery beige lip that played nicely with her golden ombré, while Alessandra Ambrosio erased all doubt that neutral makeup can feel as stunning as taking a beauty risk.
But while everyone seemed to agree on a muted palette, hair was a different story. Kristen Stewart marked her first official outing alongside girlfriend Annie Clark with her bleached pixie slicked back clean, while her date took her seat with a pressed-on warm-red lip stain and a tumble of pinned curls. Still, it was Jourdan Dunn who exemplified the most forward-thinking alternative to the bedhead chic of seasons past, with a glossy set of waves that testified to the power of a good hair serum.
Above, 10 case studies in easy elegance good enough to take to the office—and beyond.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
From David Bowie to Gwen Stefani, the Best Musician-Inspired Halloween Costumes Are All About the Beauty
This Halloween, instead of standing in exhaustive lines or scrolling through pages of stomach-turning incorrect costumes, why not simply open your makeup bag and unearth a bottle of hairspray from the back of your medicine cabinet? Paying dead-ringer homage to your favorite musical icon is as simple as flipping through your playlists for inspiration and choosing a pitch-perfect shade of lipstick to match.
Fans of face paint—and group getups—could look to Kiss, whose white-washed complexions were ever-elevated by graphic, over-the-top touches of black paint that framed eyes, brows, and lips alike. Debbie Harry’s namesake mane is easily achievable with heady doses of dry shampoo, the look further defined by a smudging of extended onyx liner; while Courtney Love’s mussed blonde is individualized by way of spidery lashes, crimson lips, and a tiara topper.
Graphic pops of pigment can turn holiday revelers into either Grace Jones or Boy George—the separation found in application, accessories, and trademark ’dos—just as similarly striking liner (and a static-shocked mane) instantly echoes Siouxsie Sioux. Gwen Stefani’s cotton candy blue, double-knotted chop, and facial adornments; Madonna’s bouncy blonde ponytail and power brow; Tina Turner’s out-to-there hair; Marilyn Manson’s off-kilter color contacts—all costumes that require attention focused above-the-neck. And those wishing to honor David Bowie this season are invited to channel Ziggy Stardust’s otherworldly air by way of cosmic-inspired metallic additions, washes of eyeshadow and blush, gilded lips, and—if you dare—burnished mullets. Here, 11 musicians who prove icon-inspired Halloween costumes are all about the beauty.
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Inside the Tattoo Phenomenon Sweeping Seoul
Tattoos are illegal in Seoul. Rather, a pesky law technically forbids anyone without a medical license from wielding the needles required to craft them. Among polite Korean society, a shock of ink has long been viewed with open disdain, a sign that its bearer was up to no good. Yet the underground body art scene has been quietly gathering steam here, erupting on the Seoul Fashion Week runways this month as the season’s ruling trend—a powerful assertion for individuality that expands the country’s narrow beauty standards.
Everywhere you looked, there were models boldly revealing their etchings—a subtle flash of cursive script along the neck, or a kaleidoscopic canvas of leaves and blooms unfurling across the chest. “One of my forearms is Kate Moss,” Noma Han told me, pointing to a vivid portrait of the supermodel which shared bodily real estate with a Banksy and Totoro; on his back, a traditional Korean dance unfolded. The 26-year-old, who moonlights as a tattoo artist at Black Fish parlor in New York City, first drew eyes as one of the country’s only inked models eight years ago. “Back then, I was this rebel, this bad-kid Asian boy,” he said, laughing at the memory. “Now, they’re more open to tattoos in Korea—and everywhere, really.”
It ties into the celebration of personality that has swept fashion this past year, but these changing attitudes strike a deeper chord in South Korea, which has largely been defined by its uniform, trend-obsessed way of life. Watching Hye Seung Lee splay her charm-dotted fingers for the camera, or Sung Jin Park graze the curling buta beneath his ear, anyone would find beauty. “I have to say I’m happy,” Han adds, of the local tattoo movement. “People have opened their minds.” A fine thing.
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How Bella Hadid Got Ready for Dior’s Big Night Out
A fashionable crowd filled New York’s Milk Studios last night to celebrate makeup artist Peter Philips and Dior: The Art of Color, a new photographic tome from Dior Makeup. Yet the actual belle of the ball may have been none other than Bella Hadid, the model and makeup muse, who appeared in a sheer spotted frock that was one of Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first designs for the house. To offset the tulle confection, the 20-year-old sported a thick set of mussed clip-in bangs and an iridescent glint of liner that popped prettily against her porcelain skin—a careful blend of high and low. Here, Hadid shares an inside look at her getting-ready process. From a casual slick of lip pomade to shimmering specks of glitter fallout, it’s the perfect bit of inspiration as we head into party season.
Bella Hadid’s jet-lag beauty survival guide:
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Sienna Miller Raises the Bar on Brit-Girl Waves
The secret behind Sienna Miller’s perfectly imperfect Brit-girl waves, which at once suggest both a masterful styling routine and a laissez-faire approach, may remain a mystery—but the actress’s slightly more polished iteration of her signature look in New York City yesterday offered a few clues.
Falling into thick, bendy pieces too sleek to be the result of a lucky air dry, Miller’s blonde layers at the Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program’s annual luncheon had all the markers of a salon blowout and capable hands yielding a curling iron. Still, the style felt instantly lived-in thanks to a few random strands tucked behind her ears—while the blustery weather outside promised to deliver a final blast of wispy texture.
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Is Exercising While Angry Dangerous? 5 Healthy Hacks for Emotional Rescue
Wage inequality. The cancellation of your favorite podcast. The election and all its nasty turns. The modern world is spilling over with reasons to make us irate. Think a long run or sweat-soaked double session at SoulCycle will be cathartic? Not so fast. A new study shows that both strenuous workouts and emotional upheaval can negatively impact your heart—and it’s especially perilous to combine the two.
The study, out of McMaster University in Canada, looked at nearly 12,500 men and women who had experienced their first heart attack. Researchers interviewed subjects about their circumstances before having cardiac arrest; 14.4 percent reported feeling angry or emotionally upset and 13.6 percent said they were engaged in physical activity. The scientists determined that those who pushed themselves physically doubled their risk for a heart attack, and those who were dealing with heavy emotions as well as engaging in rigorous exercise tripled their chances of suffering from one. Most shockingly, taking into account people’s age and general fitness level didn’t alter results.
Andrew Smyth, M.D., a researcher with McMaster’s Population Health Research Institute who led the study, says that the biggest cause for concern was when people broke from routine and pushed themselves harder than they were used to. “The key point here is that any kind of physical exertion that is outside of a person’s usual routine likely carries a risk,” he says. “For example, someone who cycles 10 miles a few times per week may think that a seven-mile cycle does not constitute heavy exertion, but someone who hasn’t cycled for quite a while may consider that to be heavy exertion.”
Anger’s physical effects include raised blood pressure and heart rate, and sweating it out isn’t always the antidote. Here, five habits to take up when you need to calm down.
Meditate
In addition to reducing stress and keeping our brains young, meditation has been shown to lower blood pressure. A recent study showed that people with heart disease who regularly practiced Transcendental Meditation were almost half as likely to have a heart attack, stroke, or die as non-meditators. One of the most popular classes at New York meditation studio MNDFL is called MNDFL Emotions, designed to help people deal with negative feelings. “One thing you want to do when working with anger is drop the story line and feel the energy of emotion itself,” says Lodro Rinzler, the studio’s cofounder. “We tend to act out and want to text someone, or tamp it down and ignore it, or distract ourselves with drinking, sex, or binge watching Netflix. The middle way is to feel the emotion itself. If we look at it, we can realize it’s not as solid and real as we thought.”
Take a Few Deep Breaths
Breathing exercises lower blood pressure as well as cardiovascular risk. MNDFL’s Rinzler says he uses this hack when he needs an instant reset. “Just focus on in through the nose and out through the mouth,” he suggests. The Apple Watch Series 2 comes with a Breathe app that reminds wearers to take a time-out and engage in a one- or five-minute round of controlled breathing, guided by a blue icon that grows and shrinks with each inhalation and exhalation.
Try Acupuncture and Aromatherapy
“In Chinese medicine, anger is a symptom of an underlying disharmony that could have any number of origins like stress, overworking, or eating an improper diet,” says Oceana Baity, an acupuncturist and integrative wellness practitioner in New York City. “Liver 3—which is a pressure point on the top of the foot—is a good choice. A home treatment I often recommend to patients is to rub therapeutic-grade lavender on that point or the soles of their feet. Lavender calms the nerves and soothes the emotions.” (Baity recommends DoTerra lavender oil.)
Do Yoga—Unless You Hate It
Yoga’s benefits go beyond improving our flexibility and headstands. It lowers the heart rate and provides a sense of calm. “Your yoga mat is like a microcosm of the macro,” says San Francisco yoga instructor Lesley Desaulniers. “It’s a safe and powerful way of experimenting with having resilience and staying calm in the face of what might be perceived as stressful situations. Whether it’s putting your foot behind your head or dealing with a big emotion like anger, if you can practice witnessing it rather than feeling it, you can stay cool.” Desaulniers recommends seated-forward folds, back twists, and child’s pose for their calming powers. Those averse to yoga might not want to bother seeking solace on a sticky mat, however. “Some people do not like yoga, and it may only further increase the anger or frustration,” Dr. Smyth says.
Read a Novel
A new area of research is looking at the myriad ways fiction stimulates the brain. A fiction habit has been proven to increase our empathy (young Harry Potter fans are more tolerant of immigrants and gay people), and brain scans reveal that engaging with books can alter our state of mind. Calming authors to try: Rachel Cusk, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, Laurie Colwin, Barbara Pym, and Sharon Olds.
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Watch Ciara Take Her Look From Day to Night in Five Minutes Flat
Ciara may be an otherworldly beauty with a career in the stratosphere, but in at least one respect, she’s just like any other woman: She often has to squeeze in a quick touch-up between a full-throttle workday and a big night out. Which is why the pop star, new global ambassador of Revlon, and, as announced this morning, expecting mom, has invited us to her suite at the Standard, High Line en route to a party—after a series of back-to-back business meetings—to demonstrate her favorite tips for an end-of-day beauty reboot. After all, working frequently with glam squads has its benefits: “I’ve been studying my thing”—hair and makeup techniques, that is—“for years,” she says. “I’m a five-to-10-minute get-myself-together kind of girl.”
First things first: “I need some music to get me in the mood!” Ciara says, cuing Bruno Mars on her iPhone and leading the Vogue crew in an impromptu dance party. Then it’s on to her eyebrows, which she pencils in and brushes diligently. “Once you have them in place, you’re like 24 karat gold,” she quips in a nod to the song. Next come under-eye highlighter—“it makes your eyes pop out more”—and a three-step lip: Her son’s Aquaphor ointment, followed by a dark neutral lipstick and Revlon’s Ultra HD Matte Lipcolor in Seduction to “lift the color and keep your lips full.” Bronzer brushed across the T-zone and around the perimeter of the face is “another key to giving dimension,” as is a coat of mascara on both the top and bottom lashes. (Just “don’t look down so fast,” she warns, or you’ll smudge it.)
The finishing touch: those lavish ombré waves. Ciara preps them with a soft-bristle brush before curling haphazardly with a flat iron at different angles for a result she calls “a bit more rock ’n’ roll.” “Sometimes it’s better when you’re trying not to be a perfectionist,” she says. “Find your thing and make it work for you!”
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Bella Hadid Lands the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show: Why She’s a Natural for the Job
Considering that Bella Hadid has carved out a slick-haired space as modeling’s favorite beauty minimalist, it’s easy to forget that she can do bombshell hair with the best of them.
Topping off a spectacular year that included a run as fashion month’s MVP and a Christian Dior cosmetics contract, Hadid nailed her Victoria’s Secret callback in New York City yesterday with the breezy elegance of a seasoned off-duty Angel. Her windblown waves, barely there makeup, and a casual flash of athletic abs left no doubt that she’s a natural for the job—and might inspire those missing the beachy textures of summer to give an autumnal air dry a go. Congratulations are in order: Looks like this rookie just got her wings.
Bella Hadid’s jet-lag beauty survival guide:
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Watch Ciara Take Her Look From Day to Night in Five Minutes Flat
Ciara may be an otherworldly beauty with a career in the stratosphere, but in at least one respect, she’s just like any other woman: She often has to squeeze in a quick touch-up between a full-throttle workday and a big night out. Which is why the pop star, new global ambassador of Revlon, and, as announced this morning, expecting mom, has invited us to her suite at the Standard, High Line en route to a party—after a series of back-to-back business meetings—to demonstrate her favorite tips for an end-of-day beauty reboot. After all, working frequently with glam squads has its benefits: “I’ve been studying my thing”—hair and makeup techniques, that is—“for years,” she says. “I’m a five-to-10-minute get-myself-together kind of girl.”
First things first: “I need some music to get me in the mood!” Ciara says, cuing Bruno Mars on her iPhone and leading the Vogue crew in an impromptu dance party. Then it’s on to her eyebrows, which she pencils in and brushes diligently. “Once you have them in place, you’re like 24 karat gold,” she quips in a nod to the song. Next come under-eye highlighter—“it makes your eyes pop out more”—and a three-step lip: Her son’s Aquaphor ointment, followed by a dark neutral lipstick and Revlon’s Ultra HD Matte Lipcolor in Seduction to “lift the color and keep your lips full.” Bronzer brushed across the T-zone and around the perimeter of the face is “another key to giving dimension,” as is a coat of mascara on both the top and bottom lashes. (Just “don’t look down so fast,” she warns, or you’ll smudge it.)
The finishing touch: those lavish ombré waves. Ciara preps them with a soft-bristle brush before curling haphazardly with a flat iron at different angles for a result she calls “a bit more rock ’n’ roll.” “Sometimes it’s better when you’re trying not to be a perfectionist,” she says. “Find your thing and make it work for you!”
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Model Grace Hartzel on the Power of a Gutsy, Game-Changing Haircut
What’s one ticket to a supercharged modeling career? A daring, identity-shifting haircut. Vidal Sassoon famously bared Grace Coddington’s swanlike neck with his Five-Point Cut in 1964. Julien d’Ys took scissors to Linda Evangelista’s chestnut waves in 1988, launching a pendulum swing of hair changes. And in 2013 Guido Palau reimagined golden girl Edie Campbell with a jet-black shag that brought the mullet back into the conversation. Of course, such transformations call for a double dose of artistry—both the visionary wielding the shears and the person boldly inhabiting the new role. So when Vogue set out to document an about-face cut for the November issue, the casting came easy: Palau took his spot behind the chair, and model-of-the-moment Grace Hartzel sat as his willing coconspirator.
The result—which followed a volley of inspiration-centric texts between them and a couple of days on set in New York City this summer—skirts the line between punk and ultramodern, the sort of thing that calls to mind a CBGB-era Joan Jett while also catching the discerning eye of Tom Ford: The newly shorn Hartzel opened his show in September and stars in the Fall campaign. Now, after she turned heads on runways and sidewalks during fashion month, the Vogue story has landed, accompanied by Lena Dunham’s essay [link] on the liberating power of no-rules, no-fear cuts.
For another insider’s perspective, we caught up with Hartzel by phone during a music-fueled trip to Berlin to talk about her own self-administered hair experiments, the march toward gender fluidity, and her road-tested wellness remedies.
Given the history of legendary models getting legendary cuts, has there been a point in your career when you wanted to break away from the pack?
Totally, because I’m a person who always needs to be reinventing and changing my look. I originally had normal, long hair with a middle part, so I cut my fringe because I was feeling, like, really stuck. That’s what kind of launched my career with Hedi Slimane.
Did you actually take scissors to your own hair?
Yeah, I was 17, on spring break in Florida with my family. I was reading an anime book about this girl who had bangs, and I was like, “Wow, I want to be her.” So I went to CVS and bought cheap scissors and cut my bangs in the bathroom. My parents were like, “You ruined your whole career!” They were really upset and had a whole talk with me, like, “Grace, is this your inner conscience saying that you don’t want to model?” And I was like, “No, I am just so bored with my hair right now!” They look back at it now and laugh.
When did Hedi Slimane come into your orbit?
After that, in September. I had done the show for him before, when I didn’t have the bangs, but then when I had them, I was exclusive to Saint Laurent. He flew me to L.A., and I did the Pre-Fall campaign, the denim campaign, the Fall/Winter, and it went on from there. It was a ’60s thing with the big, fluffy bangs. I felt confident with my bangs. I felt more like myself.
Fast-forwarding a few years, how did you react when you heard about the Vogue shoot?
I was so excited, because I had wanted to change my hair for so long—and to be able to do it with Vogue was something that I needed. It’s good to have someone who backs you, like Hedi backed me with my bangs. I would have cut my hair anyway, but it’s more difficult now in modeling; we’re not as free, necessarily, just because we’re afraid of not getting jobs, afraid of being too editorial, too commercial. And I really trusted Guido.
What sort of discussions did you and Guido have beforehand?
We had been texting and [sending] Instagram photos. We wanted it to be a collaboration. He had this one photo of Blondie that was really cool—it’s a lot like my hair—but we wanted to mix that with Joan Jett and a bit of the Chelsea cut, where they shave the back of their heads and the rest of it is long in front of the ears, with short fringe. But we definitely wanted to create something new. We would sit and talk, cut a little bit, talk some more. Then the next day he cut some more. It was a process.
You seem game for anything—but was there a knee-jerk reaction when he chopped off your hair?
It’s just hair. It’s going to all grow back!
Why do you think renegade cuts are having a moment? Are people craving a sense of identity with social media?
With social media and everything nowadays, it’s actually pretty cool, because when I was going to school everyone would wear Abercrombie; everyone would be in unison. Right when I started [modeling], the models that were doing well all looked the same. You would go to the castings and everyone was wearing all black, long middle part, baby blonde hair, same boring black bag. Now I think it’s changed, where the models who are more unique and have their own personal style are doing better.
What has the reaction been to your new haircut?
Really good. My best friend, Lili Sumner, is here in Berlin, and Lily McMenamy, too. I just saw them the other day, and they were like, “Oh, my gosh, it’s so crazy. It suits you so well!” I feel really good in this hair; it doesn’t feel forced. For a moment [with my old bangs] I was super into Jane Birkin, and I still am. But now I’m starting to create something new. I feel like my hair is a bit futurist, because differentiating between male and female is not really relevant. Androgyny is more popular now.
Do you fit in better in Berlin with your new haircut?
Totally. I am actually probably pretty boring here! We went to our friend’s concert last night, and it was all these people with incredible style, so unique, so retro-punk. The girls had spiky hair, shaved heads. It was really cool.
What’s the latest with you creatively?
Right now I really want to do music, and I have, like, 10 songs I’m working on. I’m studying this music system, Ableton—it’s good for making electronic music or recording live music. And I’m singing on the new track from La Femme. It’s their first full English song. I kind of want my music to be a mix of electronic, synth-wave, punk, but a bit retro disco.
That’s a list of words that could maybe describe your hair. Are you finding freedom in the way you are styling it lately?
If I go out, I can gel up the top part, which is shorter than the rest, and make it into kind of a Mohawk. But I’ve been a bit lazy! It’s cool, because now I don’t have to wash my hair [that often]. It’s healthier for your hair to let all of the oils do their thing.
Speaking of health, how do you manage to stay well with your travel schedule?
I take a lot of really good vitamins, like B complex, which is all energy stuff. And I take this reishi mushroom mix that you can find at Whole Foods—it’s a powder that you mix into water, and it gives you energy and boosts your metabolism. I also have this extract from green coffee that I put in my yogurt. I feel so good all day. And I eat a lot of greens and stuff. In this business you can’t feel like crap—you have to be on all the time!
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
5 Courtside Snacks to Keep Your Health Game Strong
Sports fans are in for a treat this month: Tonight marks the first game of a historic World Series, while the NBA season kicks off with the Knicks playing in Cleveland against the Cavaliers. Whether you’re a die-hard enthusiast or quietly following along from the sidelines, chances are, at some point during the game, you’ll want an indulgent yet satisfying snack. Here, nutritionist Jessica Katz, R.D., shares her five rules for eating right at any sporting event.
Fill up first.
If there’s time, Katz strongly suggests filling up on a protein- and fiber-rich meal before tip-off or the first pitch. “It’s important to have something satisfying when you arrive, so you don’t overeat the first thing you see,” she says. And that way, you can control what you really want to indulge in.
Hydrate.
Drinking alcohol is often a part of the experience—but if you’re going to partake, do so carefully. “Stick to a 1 to 2 drink maximum,” says Katz, “and opt for a glass of wine, light beer, or club soda and clear alcohol with tons of ice.” But perhaps the most significant piece of advice she heeds is to buy a water bottle on the way in. “Stadium food is super-salty,” adds Katz, “and you should combat the sodium by drinking a lot of water.” Having a large bottle at your seat will help keep hydration levels up, but Katz also urges clients to drink a full glass of sparkling water with lemon in between alcoholic beverages in order to slow down consumption.
Keep your eyes on the game—not the concession stands.
When the group needs a drink or snack refreshment, “offer to stay and watch the stuff,” says Katz. “If you’re walking around, chances are the sights and smells will get the best of your stomach,” and lead you to overeating. By having another person bring the snacks directly to the seat, you won’t easily be tempted to get more than one.
Indulge carefully.
Rather than denying yourself a snack, “pick one indulgent food ahead of time and stick to it,” says Katz. “It’s part of the fun to eat foods that have a nostalgic association and take us back in time.” Whether it’s vanilla ice cream in a plastic helmet cup or a salty pretzel, just be sure to keep the portion under control by ordering an individual size.
Katz does mention that the most waistline-friendly bets, despite the sodium content, are popcorn and peanuts. While popcorn is a fiber-filled snack, she points out, “a stadium-size tub can cost you upward of 1,000 calories and is often loaded with butter.” Her rule of thumb is to buy one size and share among friends, and fill up a plastic cup to keep portions under control. As for peanuts? “A large handful will do,” she says.
Bring your own snack.
When in doubt, pack ahead. If you already know that the choices available will send you on a downward spiral of sugar cravings and bad decisions, Katz recommends bringing along a small bag of nuts or a plant-based protein bar, like an RxBar. “Bring an option that’s non-perishable and small enough to fit in your purse,” she says—no matter where you’re headed this fall, it’s a winning strategy.
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6 Supercharged Face Powders to Perfect Your Skin
When it comes to quickly touching up your complexion, it’s hard to beat the ease and speed of face powder—one pat can tone down shine, minimize your pores, conceal redness, and illuminate dull skin in seconds. The newest formulas are also conveniently easy to apply on the go with micro-size particles that effortlessly absorb (without their ancestor’s cakey finish) and smartly pressed compact options that mattify your skin with a touch of moisture and a shot of anti-aging ingredients for good measure.
For multitasking on the move, Hourglass’s limited-edition Ambient Lighting Edit Surreal Light is a curated palette that contains a sheer nude to even out your complexion alongside blushes, a bronzer, and a highlighter. Givenchy’s Prisme Visage Perfecting Face Powder, meanwhile, combines four skin-correcting powders (the green cancels out redness; the blue balances ashy undertones) in one pressed quad—so you can spot correct when applying the shades solo, or swirl them together for an allover, complexion-enhancing result.
And for perfected skin that’s also well protected, Ilia’s plant-based, semi-organic Radiant Translucent Powder SPF 20 shields against the sun while also wicking unwanted shine. Plus, it comes in a clickable brush applicator that you can toss in your bag en route to the office or gym. Here, six supercharged powders you’ll want to keep at the ready to stay radiant this season.
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5 Halloween Costume Ideas for the Beauty Obsessed
For the hair- and makeup-obsessed, Halloween is one of the few opportunities we get to really go for it—no amount of glitter, powder, or pigment is off the table. Which is why we dove deep into the Vogue archives to find the most haute, high-impact costumes in print, from ethereal, rosy-cheeked swan princesses to infamous historical figures. One thing’s for sure—you’ll need plenty of makeup remover at the end of the night. But if you don’t go through at least half a bottle of Bioderma micellar water, was it even worth it? Below, scroll through five of our favorite looks from the past few years, plus the products you’ll need to make them your own.
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Watch Model Grace Hartzel Transform Into David Bowie for Halloween
“We’re going to use all of these!” That’s Grace Hartzel, the famously free-wheeling model who ruled the Spring 2017 runways, holding a pack of blue spangled stickers to dot across her ears. Hartzel has arrived at a suite at the Standard High Line in New York City to undergo her ultimate Halloween transformation—a high-fashion incarnation of David Bowie, done with a few simple tools in her makeup kit. “I have some spots, but don’t we all, baby,” she says, digging through her bag for her custom mix of porcelain-toned concealers.
Happily, Hartzel’s trademark mullet, recently chopped by hairstylist Guido Palau, is already full-on Ziggy Stardust. To complete the look, there’s a thick ring of peacock blue shadow around the eyes, lined with white pencil and trimmed with glitter (“You can never have enough glitter, though,” Hartzel adds), along with candy-pink blush applied along the temples to the forehead. “Spacesuit, or dress?” she ponders, lifting a gleaming silver spandex number to the light. Either way, it’s a Halloween knockout.
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Kristen Stewart Nails a Tricky ’80s Beauty Trend
With her penchant for elevating ’80s-inspired makeup statements like neon lips or frosted lids into a thing of modern beauty, is it any surprise that Kristen Stewart’s latest obsession is fuchsia blush?
After turning heads with a punkish slash of electric pink rouge on the red carpet recently, the actress doubled down on the trend in Los Angeles last night. This time around, Stewart refreshed a rich, autumnal palette of bronze smoked eyes and nearly nude lips with a swirl of bright pigment swept from the apples of her cheeks to her temples. A layer of matching eyeshadow clinched the subversive take on monochromatic makeup, while her shellacked bleach-blonde pixie offered another stellar argument that the darker months are the time to go bright.
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Monday, October 24, 2016
Spot On! Why Asian Models Are Embracing Their Freckles
Poreless, porcelain skin has been the ruling beauty standard for decades in East Asia—as the proliferation of whitening products crammed onto shelves and lasers used to zap off moles will attest. What a pleasure it has been, then, to watch a new wave of top Asian models embracing their freckles and making the case for perfectly imperfect skin.
There’s Korean model Yoon Young Bae, who debuted on the Prada runway after grabbing the eye of casting director Ashley Brokaw with her full lips—and a cluster of moles on her right cheek. “When I was 3, they just appeared out of nowhere!” she says, laughing. “When I started modeling, I was told to get rid of them, but I said they make me happy, so why would I want to?” Smart move, given the way the doll-faced stunner stood out at shows like Chloé, Dior, and Loewe—following in the freckle-faced footsteps of Devon Aoki, who’s in the midst of her own career renaissance, having walked Moschino in June and appeared in the September issue of Vogue. Meanwhile, Bae’s fellow Koreans like Sora Choi and Min Jung Kim have allowed their own spots to shine through, layering a paper-thin sheen of BB cream over them and doing little else.
The trend has brought with it a greater appreciation for originality and a more expansive definition of beauty in Asia. For Jing Wen, who has fast become one of China’s top models, it is the feather dusting of freckles across her cheekbones that sets her apart from the likes of Fei Fei Sun and Liu Wen, allowing her to chart her own individualistic path toward countless runways and editorials. “When I was little, I really hated them because normally Asians don’t have them,” she says. “In high school, I always tried to cover them, but now it’s okay. I like them, and that’s enough.” There’s nothing more beautiful than that.
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Is Jessica Alba Taking Hair-Color Cues From Her Daughter?
With her perennially sun-kissed honey-brown waves that manage to tick the boxes of stellar mom hair, maddeningly chic SoCal ease, and sweater-weather goals all at once, there’s hardly a star who makes the case for a signature hair color quite like Jessica Alba.
Naturally, this raises the question of just how she found her pitch-perfect shade. The sight of Alba out and about with her daughter, Honor Marie Warren, in Los Angeles yesterday, may yield a clue: It seems the actress turned lifestyle powerhouse may be simply re-creating her mini-me’s naturally multidimensional lengths—the result of a child’s life spent running around outdoors. If North West can dispense lessons in vampish lipstick—and Harper Beckham inspires balayage dreams—why not?
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5 Face Masks for Dewy, Radiant Skin Right Now
Judging by the creativity associated with #masking, it might seem that applying a face mask is more about fun than function. But in fact, masks are some of the most effective ways to sink high levels of moisture into skin—a good thing during this drying time of year. And the next generation of options are more advanced than ever, making it easy to find one tailor-made for your exact needs.
For those with combination skin that can be frustratingly oily and dry at the same time, Philosophy’s When Hope Is Not Enough Gel-Oil Mask balances quenching botanicals (argan, grape seed) and a light, non-greasy texture. Those in need of more intense hydration should look to Korres Greek Yoghurt Advanced Nourishing Sleeping Facial, a rich soufflé-like cream with proteins to strengthen and heal parched skin, or Polatam’s Water Gel Extra Force Moisturizing Sheet Mask, a K-beauty import loaded with hyaluronic acid and brightening oak tree sap. Ultra-sensitive types, meanwhile, will benefit from Julisis Rose Pearl Hydra Mask, formulated with cold-water seaweed and French rose to up skin’s moisture-retention capabilities and soothe redness.
And when those truly cold days come, all complexions will take comfort in Farmacy’s Honey Potion Renewing Antioxidant Hydration Mask—a balm infused with honey (a natural humectant that draws moisture from the air) and a proprietary variant of echinacea that’s teeming with protective phytochemicals. When massaged in, the dense salve transforms into a warming cream that slowly melts into skin—leaving you not only replenished, but also relaxed.
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Sunday, October 23, 2016
The 10 Best Beauty Instagrams of the Week: Gisele Bündchen, Emily Ratajkowski, and More
This week, our Instagram feeds were colored by a welcome dose of glitz that has us looking ahead to the holiday season. Elle Fanning celebrated sparkle with a pink-themed snap—replete with a disco-like blush clutch, posy-inspired bauble, and bubblegum paint job—a moment whose inspiration she attributed to a certain fellow Elle. Aureta Thomollari offered a contemporary take on the time-honored Goldilocks, while Hailey Baldwin brought some glimmer to her grin with a set of rose gold canine caps. Jamie Bochert and Mica Arganaraz painted lids in an ethereal opalescent blue for a night out, the pale hue juxtaposing their matching raven manes.
Elsewhere, Emily Ratajkowski embraced a different kind of blue, traversing a set of tiny Mediterranean waterfalls and adding a caption—courtesy of TLC—discouraging others to follow suit. The sports arena found fans in Joan Smalls, who put in serious work for a rope-toning session, and Vivian Brady, who cheered on father Tom Brady in a set of bouncy pigtails, the honeyed color matching that of her mother, Gisele Bündchen. And leave it to Lena Dunham to offer an updated, preelection answer to the classic “I Voted” sticker: The activist captured friend Sarah Sophie Flicker’s “Vote” barrette, the ideal trinket for women who want to wear their cause on their sleeve—or, rather, in their hair.
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Saturday, October 22, 2016
A Brief History of Big Hair: Catherine Deneuve, Cindy Crawford, and More
Tom Wolfe began his 1964 New York magazine profile of Baby Jane Holzer with a list that began with “Bangs, manes, bouffant, beehives . . .” His famed New Journalism It-girl profile went on from there, but clearly her infamous big hair left a lasting impression. He goes on to describe Holzer as “gorgeous in the most outrageous way.” Her signature balloon-like coif fits the description perfectly.
The Warhol superstar celebrates her birthday this weekend back-to-back with Catherine Deneuve, another ’60s blonde who embodied the more-is-more philosophy when it came to hair. Throughout her famed performance in Belle de Jour in 1967, as a housewife who becomes a call girl, her blonde lengths are always piled on high in a glamorous mess. Unlike sleeker, straighter looks that are all about practicing control while projecting precision, big hair seems to be followed naturally by its famous qualification, “don’t care.” Even though in practice it usually means loading up on hairspray, using teasing combs, and applying hairpins, the effect isn’t fussy—it’s freeing. It’s no wonder it was the preferred mode of spirited, take-no-prisoners performers like Amy Winehouse, the Supremes, and Dolly Parton.
It’s also a timeless provocation. High volume was the calling card for mid-century voluptuous sex symbols like Raquel Welch and Brigitte Bardot, as well as ’80s and ’90s icons of excess such as Cindy Crawford and Debbie Harry. The same is true by today’s logic: If straightened strands signify Instagram-ready composure, big, vertical hair is a small rebellion—if only because it might not all fit in a square frame. Here, 17 women who wouldn’t be tamed.
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Sienna Miller, Hailey Baldwin, and More Take on No-Makeup Makeup
The makeup-free movement—or at least, the practice of not looking like you’re wearing any—appears to be spreading from selfies to the streets. Hailey Baldwin—known for her lined eyes and painted lips—eschewed both for a coffee run in Tribeca earlier this week, her blanched blonde mane tucked behind her ears to further showcase her naked complexion and naturally full pout. That evening, Elizabeth Olsen viewed the Kenzo x H&M show through a set of unadorned eyes, allowing the pops of pigment on her pajama suit from the collection to take center stage.
Alicia Keys has transformed her oft-bare complexion into a statement, investing in skin- and self-care rather than covering up. Her smiling face at the Keep a Child Alive Black Ball showed off the type of from-within glow that comes only from honest self-confidence. And last night at an off-Broadway opening, Sienna Miller jumped on the nearly naked train: The actress was event-ready with only a swipe of mascara, her trademark blonde lengths raked into an easy updo with a few rebellious strands left to fall in her eyes. The message: This season, wherever you’re going, come as you are.
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Friday, October 21, 2016
The Handmaiden Is an Exquisite Period Portrait of Korean Beauty
Director Park Chan-wook is best known for Oldboy, the cult revenge film that helped catapult Korean cinema into the international spotlight, and Snowpiercer, his post-apocalyptic train caper, both works beloved for their gritty, often graphic imagery. Yet his latest release, which comes out today, takes a surprisingly romantic tone. The Handmaiden is a twisting love affair between two women in occupation-era Korea that happens to be an exquisite portrait of ’30s Korean beauty.
Here, Kim Min-hee plays Lady Hideko, a young Japanese heiress who oozes fragility—the soft pink color dabbed on her lids, paired with a matching full lip; the loose strands falling from the intricate braided bun of that period. It is later, in front of Kim Tae-ri’s titular servant, Sook-hee, that the lady of the manor literally lets her hair down in a bit of nightly beauty ritual, looking languid and lovely in repose with a straight curtain of shining strands. Witnessing Tae-ri’s own shift from humble handmaiden with a bare face and austere single plait, to polished companion is equally compelling—the transformative effect of a sleek chignon, or an emerald earring dangling just so. And the image of the pair dressed in matching lace corsets, low braided buns, and petal-pink lips is so breathtakingly beautiful, it alone might be worth a trip to the theaters this weekend.
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Happy Birthday, Kim Kardashian West! Tracing Her Beauty Evolution
Today, Kim Kardashian West turns 36. The mother of two has a lot to celebrate: her growing family, her booming Kimoji business, a hallmark television show (now in its 12th season), and 85.5 million Instagram followers. These are accolades she’s earned, in part, through a lifetime of leaning into beauty transformations that have kept audiences watching. When the world first met Kardashian West in 2006 as Paris Hilton’s assistant, she was already sporting a can’t-be-missed head of ebony hair flat-ironed to glistening glory—shining with that surefire sign of star power. Not soon after came the warp speed makeovers she’s made her signature, with no set of bangs or shade of blonde unturned.
By 2010, Kardashian West was practically the definition of the bombshell Angeleno beauty equation: Tousled, voluminous hair, out-to-there lashes, deft contouring that sharpened her features against an unbelievably sinuous frame. When soon-to-be husband Kanye West came into the picture, Kardashian West embraced a new kind of experimental severity that won her a high-fashion following: crisp slicked-back ponytails, modern Veronica Lake waves to cement her place in Hollywood, and icy, front-row-reveal dye jobs. Her makeup has taken the form of exaggerated cat eyes, subversive dark lips, and supernaturally glowing nudes. And as Kardashian West makes a victory lap through her mid-30s, it seems she’s only getting more confident with her aesthetic risk-taking, not to mention passing her forte for liners and lipsticks on to her mini-me, North. In honor of the star’s 36th birthday, here, a look back at her beauty evolution.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West on eating reindeer at Met Gala 2016:
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