Extreme heat and hair have long had a troubled relationship. And this summer’s brutal temperatures have proved to be a challenge to even the most agreeable tresses. So, why fight nature’s course—particularly when there are a plethora of enticing, upwardly mobile summer styles to test- drive? Here, our favorite runway and red-carpet updos for defying [...]

Rossano Ferretti is into empire building. The Italian-born-and-bred hairstylist cut his teeth at his mother’s two-chair salon outside of Parma before heading to London to hone his craft. Then, after spells tending to Naomi and Linda’s tresses in the eighties and nineties and coiffing backstage for Armani and Chanel, he used his scissor skills to [...]

When we reported at the end of last month that the makeup arm of the much-loved Japanese beauty brand Shu Uemura would be shuttering its U.S. operations save for an online store, we wondered aloud what would become of its artistic director, Gina Brooke. This weekend, we found out. Brooke, a.k.a. Madonna’s personal face painter [...]

As we reported yesterday, Shu Uemura, the famed makeup and skincare brand, is exiting the U.S. market. Let it be known, however, that its coiffure counterpart, Art of Hair, is here to stay. “The haircare arm of the brand is alive and well,” Maeve Coburn, general manager/vice president of Prestige Professional Brands at L’Oréal USA, [...]

Bad news for Shu Uemura’s American acolytes: L’Oréal USA, its parent company, has decided to close all U.S. operations, based on a desire to “focus on growing the larger brands in the Luxury Products portfolio.” Lancôme, Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, and Kiehl’s are all cool, but, like, this is Shu we’re talking about—home of [...]

The giddy rush that your regular Beauty Counter correspondent and nail art pioneer, Celia Ellenberg, gets every time a new polish lands on her desk is precisely how I feel about lipstick. I may have makeup cases overflowing with tubes of every shade and brand, but still, each time I twist open a new bullet [...]

Minimally glamorous beauty accessorized what seemed to be a never-ending assortment of one-shouldered dresses at Sunday night’s rainy Golden Globes ceremony. Chloë Sevigny, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Drew Barrymore fought the weather with sleek, pulled-back chignons, while Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock worked lower, looser side-parted adaptations of the same style. There were some updo dissenters [...]

Halloween is quickly approaching, and with it the anxiety of what to “be.” For us, the thrill of dressing up wore off roughly ten years ago, although due to peer pressure from other, more passionate revelers, we still try come October 31. Doing something conceptual—wearing a foreclosure sign and going as the Recession, for example—earns [...]

Chalk this one up to a case of when bad things happen to good people. Foxy Brown’s plan to pull off dramatic fake lashes—à la the gilded set Viktor & Rolf designed for Shu Uemura circa 2008—came unhinged at last night’s VH1 Hip Hop Honors, when her lash glue let her down. It’s a common [...]

“Christopher [Bailey] has a very clear idea of what he wants—he even chose the specific shade of silver for the actual runway,” said makeup artist Wendy Rowe, putting the final touches on Lily Donaldson’s face backstage at Burberry yesterday. With that kind of clear vision from the brand’s creative director, Rowe’s job was relatively easy. [...]