Easy Breezy Beautiful Brows in a Box
Apr22

Easy Breezy Beautiful Brows in a Box

Permit me to rave about a newly discovered product that is now an everyday essential. It’s the Anastasia Beverly Hills Beauty Express for Brows and Eyes — a pretty little palette that includes five brow stencils, a brush, brow wax, two shades of brow powder and two shades of under brow highlighter/eyeshadow. Anastasia Soare is the brow queen of Hollywood who counts a number of celebrities and VIPs as her clients, and if...

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A Cosmetically Colorful Way to Celebrate
Feb15

A Cosmetically Colorful Way to Celebrate

It looks like an artist’s toolbox, and if you want one, you’re going to have to hurry. To celebrate its 15 years in the business of making trend-setting cosmetics, Orange County-based Urban Decay has come out with a limited edition set of its amazing 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencils—15 of them, of course, for an amazing price. Normally $18 each, the set runs $92. Do the math, as I just did, and that’s only a bit more than $6 each—and you get...

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The Best Eyeshadow Primer Just Got Better
Oct11

The Best Eyeshadow Primer Just Got Better

Cosmetic queens everywhere have long agreed that Urban Decay’s Eyeshadow Primer Potion is the best product of its type on the market. Why? Unlike jars of cream or powders, it comes in a tube with a great applicator, and results are stellar: no creasing. Aside from being ultimately portable and fast and easy to use, the product lasts for months. Now, UD has gone to another level with Primer Potion in Sin, a shimmering champagne color...

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Spectacular Suds — and Conditioner
Aug09

Spectacular Suds — and Conditioner

Juan Carlos Obando is best known for his gorgeous ready-to-wear clothing designs. But his genius also shines through in the hair care line he created, Number 4 High Performance Hair Care. Your first clue is the packaging for the shampoo and conditioner that look like bottles of high-end fragrances. But the real test comes in the shower. These products are probably the best we have ever tried, leaving our tresses beautifully, gently...

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It’s a Cover-Up

We’re coming up on bikini weather, and even as you’re uncovering formerly clothed parts of the body, well, you may want to cover some things up. That’s where a product called Smart Cover comes in. Developed as a camouflage makeup, it covers everything from stretch marks, spider veins, blemishes and even tattoos.  And of course, dark circles. Makeup artist Christina Smith says she’s used it on clients including Julia Roberts, Jane...

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