As the build up to Kanye West’s premiere womenswear collection finally came to a head last night in Paris, the question of whether or not the rapper-turned-designer could deliver was answered—as were our burning questions of whether his unquestionable savvy for style would translate in beauty terms. “He knows what he wants,” makeup artist Val [...]

If the original video of Willow Smith’s chart-topping song “Whip My Hair” didn’t get you, perhaps this at-home video of Snooki whipping her own highlighted tresses to Smith’s tune will. [Washington Post]
Glee star Lea Michele is a proud vegan (she was in Paris for the shows, but on principle
only attended Stella McCartney’s no-animal-byproduct presentation) and [...]

Hip-hop and R&B stars are quickly usurping It girls and professional athletes as the sought-after faces for a new round of celebrity fragrances due out next year. As we reported this past spring, Parlux Fragrances scored major spokesperson points when it got Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Rihanna on its roster of perfume poster children. Not [...]

Kinky-haired girls, rejoice: Texture is back. As celebrities and designers alike embrace tresses with character, the pressure to go straight is slipping away. Beyoncé and Leighton Meester went wild at the VMAs this past weekend, while hairstylists Bob Recine and Orlando Pita created similarly raw hair backstage at Hervé Léger and Diane von Furstenberg, respectively. [...]

Nooka is set to upstage Cadillac as the “least likely company to dabble in perfume” in the contest we’re personally conducting at the moment. The watch company known for its kooky colors and trendy shapes—not to mention those luminescent timepieces it gifted Kanye West after his Glow in the Dark tour last year—just launched a [...]

Ever the business tycoon, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has just inked a deal with Parlux Fragrances that will join the company responsible for turning Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson into sniffable entities with his licensing company, Iconic Fragrances. This means a ton of royalties, profit sharing, and stock options for the rap mogul, plus new fragrances [...]

Clamor over Kanye West’s new line of sneakers for Louis Vuitton is defeaning, but he’s not the only rapper busy diversifying. We hear 50-Cent is putting the finishing touches on a new skincare line that will include a moisturizer, night cream, and body-building supplements. No word on when the collection is set to debut, [...]

By now beauty junkies across America know that Bobbi Brown is at the Democratic National Convention as a member of the New Jersey delegation. We spoke to the makeup pro yesterday by cell phone as she made her way to the Bidens’ hotel suite, where she would be doing Jill Biden’s makeup for the first [...]