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 [...]

The matte nail trend that started at Alexander Wang’s Fall 2009 show and then ballooned into full line extensions and no-shine topcoats at the consumer level over the past year is apparently here to stay—at Wang and elsewhere. Butter London’s Nonie Creme christened the two coats of mauve Yummy Mummy followed by a mattifying layer [...]

We just came from backstage at Vena Cava, where nails were painted a curious shade of cloudy, sparkly eggplant. “Fabulously awkward” is how Butter London’s Nonie Creme described the custom color she whipped up by mixing a handful of dark polishes with a white pigment for depth. “It started out as a traditional vamp nail, [...]

Now that the bleak misery of January is over, I’ve officially commenced daydreaming about a sun-soaked beach vacation. Finances permitting, I try to make a break for warmer climes around this time every year, and right now visions of Puerto Rico, where I spent four glorious days last March, are making it difficult to focus [...]

When we made our way to the second floor of Milk Studios for Vena Cava, our first backstage encounter at the revamped venue, we were greeted by an unexpected sight. Models were walking between the hair and makeup stations sporting deep violet pouts, a hue that tends to be included in the fall color palette [...]

Earth Day will finally be upon us in less than 36 hours. We’ve been bombarding you with plenty of deals and info about charitable partnerships that have already gone into effect in anticipation of the official celebration (see below), but here’s yet another do-your-part initiative that’s mostly self-serving: To hammer home its “three-free” formula—that would [...]

Serving up a mattified nude nail backstage at the Alexander Wang show last night, Butter London Creative Director Nonie Creme was touting the benefits of looking through your makeup bag and discovering all the different ways you can use what you already have. “It’s a really relevant beauty story for 2009,” Creme said, referencing the [...]

Once you get past Natasha Poly’s expertly crafted cat eye, pale lip, perfect skin, and those killer, killer earrings, the discerning observer notices something else on i-D magazine’s October cover girl: Hello, white nail polish. A stroke of genius from manicurist extraordinaire Marian Newman, the color goes beyond the sheer simplicity of once ubiquitous “ballet [...]