“When you have a brand with a signature feeling, you kind of just go with it,” Redken creative consultant Guido Palau said backstage at Rag & Bone, referencing designers David Neville and Marcus Wainwright’s signature style. And so, as she has in nearly every season past, the downtown cool girl reared her languid, texturized head [...]

Every international fashion week has its fixtures, and the New York shows just wouldn’t be the same without Gucci Westman. The California-born makeup artist grew up in Sweden, studied makeup in Paris, and cut her teeth working alongside film directors (Vincent Gallo, Spike Jonze) and photographers (Annie Leibovitz) before earning a loyal but understated following [...]

At last year’s Golden Globes, something unusual happened that completely usurped the show’s typical beauty highlights. After the ceremony began and the gaggle of gowns, chignons, and painted pouts were seated, the camera panned to Angelina Jolie, who, at that very moment, rifled through her bag, produced a crystalline pink lip gloss, and proceeded to [...]

The new ads for Madonna’s debut signature scent, Truth or Dare, have hit the Web, and they are surprisingly tame, as far as the Material Girl goes. Just a topless Madge, face to face with her own reflection. Nothing you haven’t seen before. [Just Jared]
Also premiering today: Emma Stone’s first campaign shots as the face [...]

It’s the rare shade of lipstick that works on a vast cross section of women. Even those bullets that do look good with a number of skin tones and face shapes inevitably take on an entirely different persona on every pout they paint. But in that variation lies an interesting conceptual art project, according to [...]

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then there is a lot of mutual adulation going on in the beauty industry right now. The latest tributary effort comes courtesy of Revlon—specifically its new Blue Mosaic Nail Enamel, which looks an awful lot like Deborah Lippmann’s Across the Universe, the smash-hit lacquer that debuted backstage [...]

If the hair at Oscar de la Renta jogged your memory, that’s because you’ve seen it before—two seasons ago at Marc Jacobs. “We’re wrapping the hair around long pins in a zigzag pattern,” Orlando Pita explained of the classic rickracking technique before clamping strands with a hot iron, releasing them, then brushing them out for [...]

“It’s the best Spring collection they’ve ever done,” Revlon global artistic director Gucci Westman effused backstage at Rag & Bone. Mrs. David Neville is admittedly a little biased, but the layered pops of orange, green, and aqua in Neville and Marcus Wainwright’s surfer girls-at-a-rave presentation were certainly eye-catching-which is precisely why Westman chose to keep [...]

For those of you who’ve noticed the striking resemblance between Justin Bieber’s new Someday fragrance bottle and Marc Jacobs’ Lola, you’re not alone. Jacobs himself is also well aware of the similarities. “We just had a conversation about it. Coty said, ‘Do we sue them?’ and I said, ‘You know what? Let everyone else say [...]

While we typically associate blush with Spring—when an onslaught of rosy pigments tend to hit shelves to help the pale masses ease their way out of winter and into the summer sun—the great cheek accentuator is making an uncharacteristic splash for Fall. As one of the trends we’ve noticed backstage this season, blush has [...]