Playing with tone rather than a range of different face colors has become one of the prevailing beauty trends to come out of the New York shows. The look backstage at Narciso Rodriguez provided yet another example of the technique’s versatility. “Intensely monochromatic” is how Shiseido artistic director Dick Page described the makeup, for which [...]

All of last season’s starkly bare faces are officially brightening up—or so it seemed backstage at Marc by Marc Jacobs makeup artist Dick Page was conducting a class on what he called “Pretty 101.” Keeping his color palette of golds and pinks transparent, the Shiseido artistic director had one objective before models hit the runway: [...]

As the situation in Japan quickly goes from bad to worse, everyone is trying to do their part to help the citizens of the tsunami- and earthquake-ravaged country recoup–beauty businesses included. Shiseido, the Japanese beauty authority, introduced a no-purchase-necessary initiative this week, donating 100 million Japanese Yen (approximately $1,239,000) outright to aid in the relief [...]

Since lipstick made its triumphant return about three years ago, some brands—more so than others—have been quick to adapt to the demand for vivid, opaque offerings that are a far cry from the early aughties reliance on gloss. Shiseido is one of them, churning out the spectacular Day Lily—a bright orange—as well as the kind [...]

The color purple is reprised pretty much every Fall. There’s something about its rich, jeweled tones that speak to the cooler temperatures and work well in complement to the tweeds, plaids, and—if the shows this season are any indication—the onslaught of fur that will hit stores come September. But smudging on a lid-ful of aubergine [...]

Shiseido artistic director Dick Page is sporting a purple-tinged black eye at the moment, but his own shiner was not in fact the inspiration behind the similarly hued makeup backstage at Narciso Rodriguez. “We just started playing around,” Page said of the greasy, multi-dimensional lids he constructed for the occasion. “We tried something brown to [...]

“It’s the right kind of nothing,” face painter Dick Page quipped backstage at Marc by Marc Jacobs, where, at first glance, it appeared as though models were wearing no makeup at all. While Page isn’t usually inclined to perform facial massages as part of his pre-show routine, he made an exception here, as the relatively [...]

Britney Spears is no stranger to hair extensions, and after a serious gaffe last summer, the pop princess is reportedly seeking out the services of Beverly Hills hairstylist Kim Vo for a new set of extra-long strands down “to her butt.” [Us Weekly]
Speaking of long hair, Emma Watson may have been contractually bound to hers [...]

Bold lipstick isn’t a big story these days, but orange lipstick still has the power to shock. We’ve talked about it before on this blog, when shades of carrot, coral, and melon turned up at the Fall 2009 shows, and again recently, when designers like Victoria Bartlett, Ohne Titel’s Alexa Adams and Flora Gill, and [...]

As artistic director for Shiseido cosmetics, makeup artist Dick Page is no stranger to stellar product development. When the orange lip made its first big splash on the runway at the Fall 2009 shows (think: Karen Walker, Kinder Aggugini, Charles Anastase, Rag & Bone, and Zac Posen), Page released his Perfect Rouge Lipstick in Day [...]