Simone Kitchens: "
Narciso Musc. It's kind of powdery and paper-y, in the best possible way."
Heather Summerville: "
CB Perfume To See a Flower. Smells like cut grass and wildflowers, with enough earthiness that it doesn’t fall into the trap of being too sweet. Also, in the dead heat of the subway in summer it doesn’t become grossly overpowering...unlike most people I’m crunched up against."
Me: I just came out of an epic meeting with the French fragrance company
Esteban, which means I'm wearing abundant amounts of three perfumes (not a recommended course of action, but each of them separately is pretty amazing):
Colere d'??pices on my knee (gingery/peppery, unsweet),
Tonka Bean in the crook of my left elbow (vanilla-ish, dark, woodsy), and on my right elbow,
Fureurs d'Agrumes (like the exuberant love child of an orange tree and a violet. Does that make sense? Clearly I've been sniffing French perfume for too long).
Tell us: What perfume are YOU wearing?
Dear Kate,
It must be weird when the world is your
SWF. Well, except for the whole having millions and millions of dollars part, but whatever.
But can you blame us? NO. If you weren't you, YOU would want to be Kate Moss. Just like us, you'd douse yourself in
Kate Moss perfume and pile on the
Kate Moss-endorsed YSL lipstick and the
Rimmel mascara and wear Kate Moss for Topshop hotpants to slag around the second floor of the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART looking like a Francis Bacon-curious
fille de joie.
So you understand why we're upset about the new hair care brand that you developed with your hairdresser/business partner, James Brown (our dentist is named George Michael—COINCIDENCE?!).
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My entire morning routine has now whittled down to a liberating, 1-minute enterprise:
tinted SPF moisturizer and
cream blush (both Stila) and
gloss (Benefit), with some gradual self-tanner thrown in every few days. That's it!
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I've somehow failed to get swept up in the Twilight mania
seizing the Lucky
offices but this piece of news caught my eye and interest. It seems that
the movie's hair colorist is recreating the
"Twilights" (the rich
multi-layered highlights he gave Pattinson, Stewart and co. for the movie)
in his
L.A. salon, Gavert Atelier. The appeal of his method is that the color
manages to look deeper and hold longer than typical highlights. With
airfares dropping and the promise of four months of lasting color, this just
might be worth the price of a ticket to L.A. And if you're a
real Twihard,
you can even book a layover in Phoenix.
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I typically use these in one of two circumstances: I desperately need to wash my face and cleanser and a sink are nowhere nearby, or my face is looking terrible, and I feel like if a salicylic acid drenched acne pad can’t fix it, then nothing can. But I’ve never thought of using them all the time, as my everyday cleanser. But somebody probably is. Is this you? And do you have
clearer skin because of it?
On a side note, my face has been looking, sort of, terrible recently, so I have been thinking of going on a week-long cleansing pad challenge to see if there are any real changes.
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Ugh. I get why Europeans flee whichever cosmopolitan city they live in for the month of August; I get why
Congress is recessing now. August is downright crappy, and that's all there is to it (
"Let's Get Rid of August.") Even this year, where June felt
weirdly like March, I'm still sick of the muggy/dirty/party's-over vibe of August. Things are bleak. I mean, the death of
John Hughes.
But here ends my Eeyore moment: If you are feeling in any way similar, go RIGHT NOW to
Luckyscent.com, THE BEST perfume website in creation.
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I am definitely experiencing “25 Things About Me” and “ The Austen-Riggs Personality Test” fatigue on Facebook. I just can’t absorb any more random, uninteresting facts about acquaintances—I can’t. But
Bath & Body Works has come up with a test that’s just for you, and it’s fun and actually useful: It’s sort of an online equivalent of a mood ring, where you drag cute little icons that represent how you’re feeling into a giant perfume bottle, and it spits out fragrance recommendations for you.
It picked something called "Dancing Waters" for me, which sounded appealing. It gave me the option of alerting friends to my choice (and my "type": romantic); I refrained.
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I packed many moisturizers in anticipation of the incredibly dry air on my Colorado vacation, but the only—and I mean only—product that actually helped was
Josie Maran’s
argan oil stick. The small stick form made it through security with no problem, and it completely cured all my dryness, plus it gave my skin this glowiness that lasted for hours.
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We in the beauty department are rabid,
fanatical proponents of the Covergirl mascaras—
Lash Exact,
VolumeExact,
LashBlast—and await the release of new iterations the way
Twihards anticipate
New Moon. The latest, LashBlastLength,* doesn't actually roll into drugstores until September, but for a limited time starting today, they can be bought
here.*Not a half hour after I put it on, another beauty editor accosted me at an event: "Tell me. You got extensions, didn't you. Tell me the TRUTH."
It's a
FANTASTIC-smelling cologne, so no one would ever NOT want it. It just has a lovely little message, like a fortune cookie. Not that an EGOISTE would notice the message. He'd be too busy talking about how he swaggered into a bar in Soho and demanded a free Pellegrino and they just GAVE it to him, or mulling over his 'art career'.
I know at least one man who--even if he doesn't know it--is begging for this particular birthday gift. You?
