We first learned to truly appreciate the concept of pastel skin finishing at London fashion week last season. Backstage at Erdem, St. Tropez’ resident skin-finishing expert, Nichola Joss, was spray-tanning models with an ice blue-tinged glow so that their legs and arms boasted an ever-so-slight iridescent tint. It looked totally ethereal with the designer’s gorgeous [...]

When Guerlain launched its Rouge G lipstick series two years ago, we were legitimately psyched. The 25 shades of crushed ruby-infused pigments were well and good, but it was the white gold bullets that had us switching into stockpile mode. One part keepsake, one part spygear, each objet d’art had a secret flip-door mirror that [...]

While we’ve been resisting the inevitable holiday shopping we have to do over the next week (on our agenda: children’s gifts for two little girls under three and some soccer paraphernalia for our boyfriend’s brother-in-law), there is one thing we’ve been looking forward to since December got under way: holiday parties. We’re happy to report [...]

We had an internal debate this morning over whether or not it was too early to start talking about sparkly makeup, but the Elf on the Shelf toys we saw in a shop window on our way to the office made it abundantly clear that the time to embrace the holiday spirit is now. So, [...]

Model and Duran Duran band-aid Yasmin Le Bon reveals the secret to looking utterly ageless, even as she approaches 50: “The most important thing is to enjoy your life. I know that’s an old cliché but it does make a difference. How you feel inside kicks off the hormones that make your skin look good.” [...]

When we broke the news that the Guerlain Spa had abruptly shut its doors on the 19th floor of the Waldorf Astoria around this time last year, beauty aficionados across New York uttered a collective cry of despair. But that’s all in the past now. Exactly one year later, with a new management team that [...]

Most people traveling to Paris of late are no doubt familiar with the chaos, the anxiety, and the all-over tension brought on by the ongoing Air France strike. The upside? The muscle tightness and exacerbated stress level you’re left with are as good an excuse as any to check into one of the City of [...]

Shalimar, Guerlain’s 85-year-old fragrance success story, has gotten its fair share of updates over the years, although most of them have been superficial. Since the 1925 debut of its original Baccarat-crystal flacon, the perfume has found its way into a tall, blue-tinged cylindrical glass bottle, a more streamlined “bat-winged” vessel, and of course last year’s [...]

As any beauty junkie is well aware, bold lips are back and still going strong—$92.1 million strong, to be exact. According to new market research, women’s love for lipstick can in fact be quantified—and it’s up 11 percent from last year’s numbers. [WWD]
In a sad bit of news, famed coiffeur Vidal Sassoon has gone public [...]

We’re coming off a gorgeous holiday weekend here in New York City, one in which the sun (if you can believe it) shined for four days straight. Out and about, we noticed two things: skin—lots of it—and sunburn. Such is the price a winter-weary populace pays when summer shows up and the layers come off. [...]