And so the parade of pastel product launches continues. Today, in new spring debuts, we bring you the latest offering from Essie Weingarten, whose penchant for candy-colored lacquers far precedes her; we have many a friend who has sworn undying loyalty to Essie’s Mademoiselle (a “grown-up” pink) and clamored over her Mint Candy Apple, the [...]

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 [...]

The Fall shows saw their fair share of in-your-face nail art (think: Prabal Gurung, Ruffian, and Topshop), but things took a turn for the subtle during the second half of the season, with foundation-inspired hues turning up at Jean Paul Gautier, Yves Saint Laurent, and Giambattista Valli. Unlike picking out a classic crimson or muted [...]

Two weeks ago, there was a rush on the TOMS Shoes Web site. Some of that traffic was probably fashion types in search of the perfect pair of canvas wedges for Spring, but most of it was click-through visitors, navigating their way to TOMS One Day Without Shoes site, a satellite destination where limited-edition bottles [...]

Sand, flesh, taupe—whatever you want to call it, the nail color that cropped up on many a fingertip at the Spring 2011 collections wasn’t much of a color at all. At Marc Jacobs, Creative Nail Design crafted foundation-hued manicures; at Narciso Rodriguez, Deborah Lippmann topped beige nails with a coat of shiny shimmer; at Erin [...]

Last night, I made a beauty discovery in the unlikeliest of places. There I was, at Crewcuts, about to spend way too much money on a miniature Saint James striped shirt for a two-year-old, when I spotted a collection of kid-centric Essie nail polish colors amidst other similarly child-friendly accessories (there’s a navy, bow-cum-rabbit ears [...]

The bold, colorful Spring nail story that started in New York at shows like Ruffian, Cushnie et Ochs, Prabal Gurung, and Jason Wu, and continued in London at House of Holland, Giles, and Topshop Unique—all courtesy of manicurist Sophy Robson—has slowed down a bit since the fashion set relocated to Milan. (Those magnificent cherry red [...]

I took the ferry to Nantucket for a friend’s wedding recently and found myself a bit unprepared for the chilly island temperatures. In search of a scarf or something woolly to wrap around myself, I popped into Jack Wills, a quirky British apparel shop that recently opened in a former hardware store there. The brand [...]

With perfect temperatures setting up a stellar Labor Day weekend, there were plenty of outdoor activities to be enjoyed. We put in a beach trip, a backyard BBQ, and some dog park time; our only regret is that we didn’t make it out to Flushing to catch a U.S. Open match. We did, however, watch [...]

Essie, the Queens-based independent nail polish monolith, has officially gone corporate. L’Oréal U.S.A. announced yesterday that it has acquired the brand. What can you expect from the new partnership? A line of Essie cosmetics, to start. [WWD]
Where have Andrew Jackson’s laugh lines gone? And what happened to Abraham Lincoln’s bulbous nose and drooping cheeks? As [...]