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I am a total breakfast failure: I either skip it or carbo load. Can you offer up some guidance for how I can start my [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal has always championed the lip color/cheek stain combo, so it came as no surprise that the actress sported her signature rosy look to the Nanny McPhee Returns premiere in New York last night. What was a surprise, however, was the lipstick that makeup artist Molly Stern used to give Gyllenhaal a good helping [...]

If you ask us, there are two kinds of blogs in the world. The essential—those would be of the fashion, gossip, and cooking varieties, natch—and the gratuitous, i.e., those devoted to personal vacation pictures, cat diaries, and hard news (just kidding). Hairstylist-to-the-stars Mark Townsend’s new online destination belongs to the former for two reasons: It’s [...]

Now here’s a novel idea from Maggie Gyllenhaal on how to beat the heat in New York. The actress went with the elements at last night’s 2010 Fresh Air Fund Salute to American Heroes, curling her chin-length hair into a twenties-era bob shape—ringlets, of course, look better the denser the air gets. Her signature watermelon [...]

We talked about her draped, asymmetrical Vionnet dress on Style File yesterday, but today we’d like to delve a little deeper in our quest to understand Maggie Gyllenhaal’s love of the watermelon lip, which she wore yet again at last night’s premiere of Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang in London. “Maggie loves a throwback [...]

Minimally glamorous beauty accessorized what seemed to be a never-ending assortment of one-shouldered dresses at Sunday night’s rainy Golden Globes ceremony. Chloë Sevigny, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Drew Barrymore fought the weather with sleek, pulled-back chignons, while Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock worked lower, looser side-parted adaptations of the same style. There were some updo dissenters [...]

We’re not going to claim that Maggie Gyllenhaal is a Beauty Counter reader (although she does strike us as a Style.com type), but the actress appears to have been on the same tip as us yesterday, when we were waxing poetic about pink products and delighting in their ability to evoke a feeling of spring. [...]

After a careful perusal of some of her recent public appearances, we’ve decided that Maggie Gyllenhaal is officially on 2009’s Statement Lip team. Her color of choice? Watermelon pink in a range of opacities, including the transparent take that she wore to the Louis Vuitton 2010 Cruise collection launch at Saks Fifth Avenue yesterday. Hey, [...]