Tomorrow, Nowness is launching a stop-motion video by Chanel global creative director Peter Philips that stars a series of robots he created using Chanel makeup compacts, palettes, and brushes. To tide us over until it goes live, they’ve treated us to an online vignette in which Philips talks about his beautiful life. [Nowness]
Proceedings are now [...]

This week saw the premiere of Megan Fox’s new commercial for Armani Beauty and now Taylor Momsen’s video short for John Galliano’s new fragrance is making the rounds. Yes, the raccoon eyes and over-the-knee leather boots are still present, but the angst-y teen star’s complexion seems to have an uncharacteristic, dare we say, natural glow. [...]

Leighton Meester is gaining ground in the beauty spokesperson game. With an Herbal Essences contract already under her belt, the Gossip Girl star has just signed on as the face of Vera Wang’s forthcoming fragrance. Taylor Swift, watch out. [WWD]
Olay is also looking to woo the twentysomething set with a new round of TV ads [...]

Leave it to Gwyneth Paltrow to bring the controversial vitamin D debate to public attention. After being diagnosed with low bone density, the actress now subscribes to the idea that concentrated sun exposure in moderation can actually be a good thing for boosting vitamin D levels. Using her widely popular Guinness-drinking-during-pregnancy technique as precedent, we’re [...]

The perfectly painted lips, sultry smoky eyes, and polished coifs seen on the red carpet at Cannes over the past week don’t just happen. Hair and makeup teams have been flown to the Riviera from around the globe to attend to the bevy of starlets promoting their flicks there. Dior has even set up an [...]

Naomi Campbell, who once famously told Playboy magazine, “I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out. I work very hard and I am worth every cent,” revealed on Oprah yesterday that she does the master cleanse at least three times a year these days, sometimes for 18 days straight. [...]

The scent of a supermodel? Greed, alleges Naomi Campbell’s perfume licensing company. [NY Post]
A new study provides further evidence that curvy is in, “fashionably thin” is out. Bring on the pumpkin pie. [Daily Mail]
Roy Orbison lives on in fragrance form. Pretty Woman, the scent, is coming to a beauty purveyor near you. [Luxist]
With the Japanese [...]

When we chatted with François Nars last spring after his heralded return to the world of backstage beauty, he was just as excited to talk to us about cameras as concealers. The face painter, who moonlights as a shutterbug, has published two different photography books and will be debuting his third effort next month. “It’s [...]

London is usually all about goth and edge, but Graeme Black, the great Scotsman who was once head of Ferragamo, is a bit of an outlier. As noted by this site’s fashion reporters, he “doesn’t really do ‘relaxed.” Lucky for us, however, hairstylist Sam McNight does. Playing off Black’s unrelentingly elegant and refined sentiment, McKnight—who [...]

First Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, and Eva Herzigova graced the cover of Vogue Korea’s August issue. Now Ms. Herzigova has taken solo control of Numéro Tokyo’s September book. The creative direction for the spread, shot by Alex Cayley, is strikingly similar to something we’ve seen before. A sheer pink lip; clean, perfect skin; that piercing, [...]