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Who: Nonie Creme, the nail art phenom who plays creative director for hip
lacquer brand Butter London.
What: “For my best girlfriends: Sephora makeup. Each girl gets a [...]

L.A. has long been an enclave for beauty, with its storied movie lots serving up screenstar-caliber primping and priming (and its scalpel-wielding doctors performing all manner of nipping and tucking). But the City of Angels has recently put itself on the map as a destination for new, improved services that meld luxury and convenience. With [...]

In the latest edition of “new ides to stump your nail tech with,” we give you Nonie Creme’s ombré tips from Yigal Azrouël’s Cut25 presentation this afternoon. The Butter London founder started with a bespoke mix of her Salmon Pink lacquer, which she topped with a dripped dollop of eighties Turquoise, followed by a similar [...]

After much talk—and even more spectacle—Diane von Furstenberg officially launched her signature scent, Diane, yesterday on a billion-dollar yacht that sailed around lower Manhattan. Aside from the woody, violet, and frangipani flacon created by von Furstenberg for “all the woman you want to be,” a bust of the designer herself—sculpted by Anh Duong—was also on [...]

With the royal nuptials growing ever closer (April 29, in case you’ve somehow managed to avoid the worldwide media blitz), plenty of brands are rushing engagement ephemera onto shelves. That navy Issa wrap dress and stunning sapphire and diamond ring the bride wore to the couple’s press conference announcing their plans to wed will be [...]

“He’s going back to his roots,” Redken creative consultant Guido Palau said of Alexander Wang at the designer’s show yesterday. Gone was the high-concept, Jean-Michel Basquiat-inspired clay-dipped knots Palau treated us to for Spring; in their place, piecey strands with a “messy” middle part that he prepped with Redken’s Sculpture Wax, incorporating a slight bend [...]

We started our fashion week bright and early this morning with a cameo at Lincoln Center before heading down to Milk for Vena Cava, where whatever grogginess was left from a late dinner and an ungodly wake up call was promptly squashed. There, amidst a general “nineties grunge” backstage inspiration that yielded one hell of [...]

Tomorrow, Nowness is launching a stop-motion video by Chanel global creative director Peter Philips that stars a series of robots he created using Chanel makeup compacts, palettes, and brushes. To tide us over until it goes live, they’ve treated us to an online vignette in which Philips talks about his beautiful life. [Nowness]
Proceedings are now [...]

This week saw the premiere of Megan Fox’s new commercial for Armani Beauty and now Taylor Momsen’s video short for John Galliano’s new fragrance is making the rounds. Yes, the raccoon eyes and over-the-knee leather boots are still present, but the angst-y teen star’s complexion seems to have an uncharacteristic, dare we say, natural glow. [...]

After last season’s East London-fueled nail art explosion (think Gareth Pugh, Henry Holland, PPQ, and J. Maskrey), we had a hunch that Spring would prove equally exciting in the lacquer department. Having seen two shows already today, it appears as though the trend will indeed continue on. At Vena Cava, Butter London’s Nonie Crème broke [...]