What do Oprah Winfrey, Patti LaBelle, Michelle Obama and Chaka Khan have in common? They all swear by makeup artist Derrick Rutledge. “The First Lady comes first,” Oprah says. “When she doesn’t need him, I get second dibs.” [Washington Post]
China Glaze is getting an early jump on the mass hysteria that will surely set in [...]

The First Lady herself didn’t make a cameo at Milk Studios last night to fête Kate Betts’ new book about the well-dressed political powerhouse, Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style, but a gaggle of fashion insiders turned up to celebrate the hardback’s release in her stead. Calvin Klein, Rachel Roy, and the [...]

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 [...]

First Lady Michelle Obama has trimmed her hair, which is only slightly evident in this slideshow about her ever-evolving beauty look. If you ask us, the bigger story is her increasingly, um, expressive brows. [The Cut]
It seems as though Heidi Montag’s recent admission to having an “addiction” to plastic surgery has put her at the [...]

Pamela Anderson’s Malibu fragrance duo has finally arrived in drugstores nationwide, prompting the former Baywatch babe to go on Ellen, where she described the scents as “cheap and sweet, like me.” They’re also PETA-approved, so…there’s that. [Bella Sugar]
Speaking of PETA, Michelle Obama’s stylist, Yusef Williams, reportedly uses Straight Finish from Paul Labrecque to smooth [...]

Call it an obsession with celebrity associations, but we’ve always been fascinated by the House of Creed. A family-run operation since 1760, the perfumery had been adopted as the official fragrance supplier to all of Europe’s royal courts by the nineteenth century—Queen Victoria wore Creed, as did Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie of France, Franz [...]

It’s probably one of a hair stylist’s greatest fears: A woman with frizz-prone, rebellious hair enters a salon on the most humid day of the summer thus far and asks for a smooth blow-out that will last for a few days. Such was the challenge that I posed to stylist Anthony Dickey when I recently [...]

Those J.Crew cardi sets and the Jason Wu inaugural gown may have made headlines, but this right here is front-page news if we’ve ever seen it: The First Lady has appeared to cut her hair, foregoing the increasingly popular “lob” in favor of a shorter, more conservative version of Posh Spice’s early trips to the [...]

In order to get the pulled back, “fairy-tale vibe—but not a Disney
fairy tale,” for the hair he created at Jason Wu, hairstylist and RSession Tools co-founder Kevin Ryan dipped into his newly designed “Pin Up Girl” kit, which was proudly on display backstage. Coming in blond, black, and brunette varieties, each set includes a selection [...]

While most of the fashion world clamors over Michelle Obama’s dress options for the inaugural ball, members of the international beauty community are biting their manicured nails, watching closely for signs of costly regulatory changes to the environmental policy that could be a focus of Barack Obama’s new administration. As reported by Cosmetics Business this [...]