Yesterday was a busy one for Peter Philips. In addition to choreographing the sensational smoky-eye display at Chanel, the makeup artist headed up face-painting duties at Alexander McQueen as well, a show that couldn’t have been more different, beauty-wise. “Light, luminous, gothic” is how Philips described the clean, glowing skin that Sarah Burton wanted to [...]

It wasn’t necessarily an intentional homage, but the similarity was undeniable. At last night’s Threeasfour show, hairstylist Ashley Javier’s matted-down finger waves and side-swept updos encased by a fishnet stocking cap screamed Alexander McQueen circa Spring 2009. Javier explained that he chose the graphic style to incorporate the curvature and snakelike patterns of the collection [...]

We often give Dita Von Teese love on this blog for her perfectly curled-under raven locks, her powdered ivory skin, and the crimson-lip-plus-black-cat-eye combo that she’s made her everyday look. But her devotion to her fingertips also deserves some props; the burlesque queen is rarely spotted without a moon manicure, a 1940’s-era look that had [...]

The trend of injecting collagen into your feet could make those S/S 2010 Alexander McQueen lobster claw platforms practical yet! [Daily Mail]
The curly-hair gene has been isolated. Next up, a straightening pill. Go ahead and toss your hot irons. [Telegraph]
According to a recent study, an obsession with being thin might be causing stress-induced hair [...]

“Gone is the day of the perfect updo,” Redken creative consultant Guido Palau recently declared over a preholiday lunch to discuss next season’s biggest hair trends. Palau has said goodbye to the pristine twists and turns of yesteryear and is advocating instead a new era that utilizes these same classic shapes with unexpected textures and [...]

Last night, we bore witness to one of the more epic beauty-and-fashion parties we’ve attended to date. Together in one room were supermodels old and new and rag-trade megastars (see Theyskens, Olivier, and Jacobs, Marc), not to mention one very bedazzled Amanda Lepore—all of whom gathered to celebrate the launch of François Nars’ new photo [...]

There are times when conceptual art, rather than actual wearability, can resonate backstage as much as on the runway. Yesterday was one such occasion, when Alexander McQueen presented his Plato’s Atlantis collection, enlightening his hair and makeup team on the wonders of alien movies, Art Nouveau, and Darwinism—all of which informed his Spring presentation. In [...]

While we’ve been waiting for our local newsstand to get its stock of our favorite Euro glossies’ September issues, we’ve had plenty of domestic offerings with which to busy ourselves. One of our favorite spreads thus far comes from Bazaar’s take on fall fashion, for which the mag enlisted something of a power trio to [...]

For those of you with beauty-centric memories, images from yesterday’s Malandrino show may have called to mind those from last season at McQueen, where netted face masks also accessorized the hair and makeup scheme. But whereas Art Deco inspired Peter Philips and Paul Hammond in Paris, it was 1930’s Surrealism that did it for hairstylist [...]

To echo the themes that guided his collection, the look backstage at Alexander McQueen was intended to proceed on a continuum—beginning with the natural and organic and evolving into the darkly post-industrial. As per the makeup artist for McQueen (and also Chanel’s creative director of makeup), Peter Philips, this kind of undertaking was only possible [...]