As anyone who saw Vena Cava’s presentation on Thursday knows, the nineties are still having a moment. And as it turns out, one of the decade’s most popular beauty tools is making a repeat appearance, as well. We’re talking about lip liner, that handy colored pencil that can hold pigment in place or simply provide [...]

It wasn’t necessarily an intentional homage, but the similarity was undeniable. At last night’s Threeasfour show, hairstylist Ashley Javier’s matted-down finger waves and side-swept updos encased by a fishnet stocking cap screamed Alexander McQueen circa Spring 2009. Javier explained that he chose the graphic style to incorporate the curvature and snakelike patterns of the collection [...]

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 [...]

The much discussed Yoko Ono-Threeasfour collab that finally debuted last night at Milk Studios extended beyond the covetable printed pieces that were inspired by Ono’s dot drawings. That pointillistic body art that graced models’ faces? Also all Ono. Referencing pieces of paper printed with a number of different Ono originals, makeup artist Andrea Helgadottir and [...]

There’s something about incipient Spring that brings on a shift toward a more neutral color palette. And while you’ll see it in all of the new collections on shelves now—with eyeshadows in “Sand Dune” and lip shades of the “Almond Kiss” variety leading the charge—short of pale pinks and sheer creams, the kind of true-to-flesh [...]

Backstage at last night’s Threeasfour show, M.A.C Cosmetics’ Vice President of Makeup Artistry, Gordon Espinet, was in good spirits. “I love doing shows in September,” he effused, mentioning how little makeup heneeded to apply to his models’ already radiant skin. “By the time we get to Paris in October, though, everyone is…not good,” he laughed. [...]