When words like “safari” and “Africa” provide the backstage beauty inspiration, there’s really only one way to go: “I’m exploring the different sides of bronze,” Shiseido artistic director Dick Page said of the golden finishes he was serving up at Michael Kors. Assigning a selection of Shiseido’s bronzing powders to complement individual complexions, the makeup [...]

Cream eye shadow was something of a staple at the Fall shows, where makeup artists used it to create washes of color that ranged from sheer finishes, like Lucia Pieroni’s greasy brown lids at Rochas, to the kind of opaque iteration Peter Philips employed at Chanel. But Shiseido’s makeup artistic director, Dick Page, took it [...]

Never mind the pompom earrings at House of Holland on Saturday. It’s what was going on from ear to ear—specifically, the blush that makeup artist Lucia Pica conjured up using loose shadows and a lipstick—that has the London fashion set buzzing. Pica used a mix of MAC Pigment in Neo-Orange and its Eye Shadow in [...]

“We usually do a bronzy thing,” makeup artist Dick Page said backstage at Michael Kors yesterday. “But this is more healthy—windblown,” he said of his makeup look, which focused on a mix of Shiseido’s Luminizing Satin Face Colors in Orchid, Tea Rose, Petal, and Carnation, all of which were also used to create “the top-down, [...]

It’s been a busy month here on the blog. With a whole new crop of A-listers signing beauty contracts, pop stars dyeing and straightening their hair, and one very prominent face painter dabbling in fashion to write about, we barely had time to do our own makeup. In case you missed them, we’ve compiled a [...]

“What a week!” Michael Kors quipped as he ascended the podium last night at the 38th Annual FiFi Awards—the Fragrance Foundation’s equivalent of the Oscars. The “tan and talented” designer, as he was introduced by Allure editor in chief Linda Wells, picked up not only a CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday night, but also [...]

Marc Jacobs took home the prize at last year’s FiFis, and this year’s winner will be—drumroll, please—Michael Kors. The Fragrance Foundation has just announced that the designer will be honored with its annual Hall of Fame award at the ceremony in June “in recognition of his major contributions to the American perfume industry.” With his [...]

Michael Kors’ Very Hollywood makeup range for Estée Lauder has finally hit shelves, and since we were pretty excited to see what exactly the designer meant when he told WWD back in October that he was aiming for “attainable glamour”—the kind that doesn’t frown upon wearing flip-flops and eating grilled cheese sandwiches—we got our hands [...]

Michael Kors is the latest designer to embrace the world of color cosmetics. The Project Runway judge has inked a deal with Estée Lauder to bring his Very Hollywood concept from fragrance to makeup. Scheduled to launch in January, the 19-piece line is awash in beige, corals, pinks, and shimmer. Less about “heavy makeup” than [...]

Michael Kors called his new Very Hollywood fragrance the “most glamorous, indulgent scent we’ve ever done” in a recent WWD interview, and as it hits shelves this month, we’re beginning to see why. The designer has apparently pulled out all the stops for the opulent white-floral scent, which is intended to evoke the diamonds and [...]