After adding a bit of hype to the launch of its Kohl collection with the announcement that up-and-coming actress Felicity Jones would be the face of the intensely pigmented color range, Dolce & Gabbana The Makeup has unveiled the big reveal. The line finally hit shelves this week, and with it comes five shades of [...]

Ever since Redken creative consultant Guido Palau championed the ponytail at the Fall 2011 shows, the easy, girl-next-door style has become perfectly acceptable runway—and red carpet—fare. But in an exciting first, the simple technique turned up backstage at Valentino yesterday, making an unlikely appearance at Couture week. Palau was after a “beautiful, innocent” vibe, which [...]

In case it wasn’t clear from the flick of black liquid liner, rows of fluttery lashes, perfectly pink cheeks, and moisturized lips, the goal at Christian Dior Couture was pretty, minimal beauty. “Very fresh” is how makeup artist Pat McGrath described the soft, ingenue look that encompassed a light veil of foundation, glowing, slightly rosy [...]

3-D makeup strikes again! After Pat McGrath crafted eyeliner out of hot pink paper and sequins backstage at Viktor & Rolf and Givenchy, respectively, it appears as though the act of putting shiny material to face is taking off. Australia’s Russh magazine already capitalized on the trend last month, and now it looks like Elle [...]

And the short list for the Best Makeup Oscar is in! Albert Nobbs, Anonymous, The Artist, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Hugo, and The Iron Lady have all received nods from the Academy for excellence in face-painting. We couldn’t help but notice that Pat McGrath’s impressive turn in [...]

Alexa Chung is headed back to U.S. television next week with a new show, 24 Hour Catwalk. The jury is still out whether or not we’ll be tuning in, but we will 100 percent be charting Chung’s every fashion and beauty move as she hits the promotional circuit for the program. Her first stop came [...]

Pat McGrath is a woman who wears many hats. A backstage revolutionary who can dictate the width of brows for an entire season with the simple flick of an angled brush, she recently took up film work, devising Rooney Mara’s otherworldly, stone-cold killer makeup for David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. But it’s [...]

The suspense surrounding the release of the film adaption of the Swedish thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has been almost as gripping as the novel itself: First we learned that David Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network) would be directing the project, then it was rumored—and later confirmed—that the not-so-Swedish Daniel Craig would [...]

That Scarlett Johansson is a beauty icon is not up for debate. Her pinup curves, high cheekbones, and pouty lips have made her a huge star. There are those serious acting chops, too, of course, but we’re pretty sure it’s the former combination that caused Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce to recruit her as their [...]

This past weekend, we ran into a fellow beauty enthusiast from Into the Gloss at a holiday party in Brooklyn, where she was taking the idea of holiday makeup to another level. “I only did them on the bottom,” she said, referring to the halved sequins she had centered and affixed below her lower lashline, [...]