Should you have been confused by all the marabou, the cutouts, and that oddly placed neckerchief in look three at Zac Posen’s spring show this morning, his go-to makeup artist, Kabuki, offered up an explanation. “The show is about playful glamour with a touch of eccentricity, inspired in part by the late Seventies and a [...]

Four years ago, a seismic event occurred in L.A. that rocked us to our core. It was the 78th Annual Academy Awards, and the earth shook when Michelle Williams emerged on the red carpet in that canary yellow, accordion-pleated Vera Wang dress boasting lashes out to there, soft bangs, and a perfect scarlet pout that [...]

Coco Rocha was out and about in New York last night, twitpic’ing along the way. The model had caught one of the last flights out of Europe before the Icelandic volcano’s ash cloud shut air travel there down, and managed to hit up both the American Museum of Natural History’s annual spring dance as well [...]

We’ve already talked at length about eye shadow’s dominance on the Fall runways, but after seeing some interesting liner work at Jean Paul Gaultier on Saturday, we thought we’d take a minute to ruminate on pencils and liquid fine-point pens. While cat-eyes in varying thicknesses have shown up at many shows, we were dealing with [...]

Zac Posen shifted his attention from red-carpet gowns to easy-wearing, up-all-night party pieces yesterday at the Altman building, and he instructed his makeup and hair teams to follow suit. For face-painting phenom Stéphane Marais, the new direction conjured images of young women who are trendy and chic. “She’s modern, but her makeup isn’t perfect because [...]

While meandering around the Altman Building this morning, perusing the backstage beauty look at Zac Posen, we got to talking with nail guru Deborah Lippmann. On hand to paint models’ nails and toes with My Romance, a pretty pink from her eponymous collection, she used the cameo to showcase her new Summer collection, which includes [...]

A newfound love for Manic Panic may not have made it to the Europe shows, but brow-bleaching—in all of its weird, futuristic glory—has been the rage from Milan to Paris. Despite the fact that Chanel Iman recently came out on behalf of the long-legged-model set to say that walking sans brows makes her feel like [...]

I was never the hardcore teenage type. I veered more toward the preppy/jocky end of the middle school social continuum, so face piercings and severe black eyeliner never entered into the equation. I did, however, have a brief Manic Panic phase, in which I added an eggplant purple streak to my dark brown hair—the scandal! [...]

Despite the continual barrage of exquisite bone structures and expertly crafted hair and makeup that have been on display over the past few weeks, we’ve remained drawn to a single face. That would be Elsa Sylvan’s, the Swedish-born model who first caught our eye backstage at Zac Posen and continued to hold our attention at [...]

“Much too pretty,” makeup artist Lucia Pieroni said to a member of her team last night at Zac Posen. “She needs to look tougher.” And so the minion headed back to her station, MAC’s Smolder Eye Kohl in hand. “We’re going for a Tim Burton girl,” Pieroni explained: “a tough, moody, but still beautiful” look [...]