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Twilight Obsessed: L.A. Salon Offering "Twilights"

11:28 AM, August 20 2009 by Hope Greenberg
2009_08_twilights.jpgI'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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BEAUTY NEWS ROUNDUP: Vasco da Gama, Beauty Icon

11:06 PM, June 28 2009 by Cat Marnell
We all know that senior beauty editor Cristina Mueller can't get enough grey-brown nail polish;awesomely, now she can custom-design any number of scurvy-chic shades--or any other less disease-y color, for that matter--with CND's Colour Effects line. (All Laquered Up)

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No child should have a Barbara Walters cut at age six, but then again, it wasn't your mother's fault that brushing out your tangles exacerbated her tennis elbow. If you, too, were told that "20/20" hair would make you better at gymnastics (LIES!) and subsequently never mastered a proper French braid, well, send God the bill! No, just watch this. (Bellasugar)

Our "ginge" top 5, in random order: Conan, Tilda, Axl, Hot Harry on a Horse, and Tarte creator/CEO Maureen Kelly! Watch the latter on the brand's new YouTube channel, which has over 101 makeup tutorials. Speaking of which, check out LUCKY'S YouTube channel--can you spot the 'hotel conditioner hair' in the "What to Pack for a Summer Music Festival" video? (Lainey Gossip, Spoiled Pretty, Lucky on YouTube)
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BEAUTY NEWS ROUNDUP: HEIDI AND SPENCER, KISSIN' COUSINS Edition

3:50 PM, June 13 2009 by Cat Marnell
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Everyone's talking about Speidi's "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" torture allegations and the Al Roker thing and blah blah blah, but what about the real issues: How is our beloved SANJAYA surviving without eye shadow? Would Janice Dickinson eat a lizard (it just SEEMS like she would)? And without makeup, didn't Heidi look like she's related to Spencer more than ever? (luckymag.com)

The number of people going to beauty school is increasing significantly. Fact: Bobbi Brown, Laura Mercier John Frieda, and Ken Paves all went to beauty school. Bad move,A Frenchie from Grease. (New York Times, YouTube)

Going the way of Helena Rubinstein makeup, Max Factor will be discontinued in early 2010 by the US, though not overseas. You know what this means, don't you? BUY BUY BUY! BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! (Bellasugar, drugstore.com)

Britain's Daily Mail reports a rise in UK adults getting braces, lamenting that "we, like the Americans, have become neurotic in our quest for the perfect smile." First we were all, "This from the culture that brought us Bridget Jones and every Hugh Grant character ever? WE'RE neurotic?!" Then we remembered Tom "dizzying neuroses" Cruise and his unfortunate braces phase. The UK wins. (Daily Mail Online)
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MOST GLAMOROUS DRUGSTORE EVER

9:00 AM, June 01 2009 by Cat Marnell
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Kristin Davis is hot. HOT. Her skin is fantastic; she looks, like, 29 years old (she uses Ahava—she loved the brand so much that they made her their spokesperson). FYI, she dresses Charlotte-y in real life. Very pretty.A


ANYWAY. I know all this because I, along with aforementioned Kristin Davis, attended theA opening of CVS/Pharmacy's new prestige boutique BEAUTY 360 in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The brands are fantastic: Ahava, Vincent Longo, Philip B, Mario Badescu, LOLA Cosmetics...the list goes on and on.A The space is super-modern; it's a special wing inside the actual drugstore.A


The Connecticut store is the third Beauty 360 in the U.S. (the other two are in D.C. and Mission Viejo, California), but the CVS people are aiming for another 30 (!) this year.A We'll blog each time a new location opens—stay tuned!

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BEAUTY NEWS ROUNDUP: ARCHIE ANDREWS, GOLDDIGGER

2:45 PM, May 29 2009 by Cat Marnell
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In vaguely sexist, pitting-brunettes-against-blondes news: resolving six decades of indecisiveness, Archie has proposed to raven-haired Veronica "filthy rich" Lodge over Betty "dishwater" Cooper, who has posted a blog titled "The Saddest Girl in the World." It's all very Brangelina/Aniston, no? (Yeah, Betty blogs. On the also-in-existence Archie website. It's sort of like...the apocalypse.) (New York Post, Archiecomics.com)


Stila is the official makeup brand of the LA Laker girls! Hot. Vaguely related: the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders have to take this quiz as part of their tryout. We got every question wrong (YES, even the Iraq one; we're not GEOGRAPHERS, okay?). So. That's ONE dream deferred. (Steeping Beauty, Dallas News)


Bobbi Brown is doing three one-hour appearances on QVC this Saturday at midnight, 11 AM, and 5 PM ET, respectively. And when we went to the schedule with snarky intentions (as is, of course, the Beauty News custom), we found Kate Somerville (AWESOME skincare) tonight at 9:30 ET! Then next Tuesday, YSL BeauteA is on at 6 AM and 7 PM. And Nude Skin Care Wednesday at 10 PM ET! Wow. Snarkiness deferred! (QVC)


Finally! Someone shares our secret belief that Amy Winehouse is a beauty icon. Forget the acne and the crackne and the smackne or whatever it is for a second, and consider her amazing liner and hair! Come on! Iconic style requires eccentricity and risk-taking! Watch how to achieve "the Wino" here. (StyleBell)


Lucky was ahead of the goat's-milk-as-skincare curve with our groundbreaking October '07 report on it's soothing and glowifying properties (i.e. Secret Ingredient: Goat's Milk). Now Splendicity has posted this recipe for a goat's milk facial. We're not always enthusiastic about DIY beauty, but we will always—ALWAYS—support goats. (Splendicity, Lucky)


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BEAUTY NEWS ROUNDUP: DINA LOHAN HAS A NEUROGASM

5:21 PM, May 21 2009 by Cat Marnell
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Britain's Daily Mail reports a rise in UK adults getting braces, lamenting that "we, like the Americans, have become neurotic in our quest for the perfect smile." First we were all, "This from the country that brought us Bridget Jones and every Hugh Grant character ever? WE'RE neurotic?!" Then we remembered Tom "dizzying neuroses" Cruise and his unfortunate braces phase. The UK wins. (Daily Mail Online)


Hold on tight, spider monkeys! Robert Pattinson’s hair was EXTRA-wild at this presumably Twilight-publicity-machine-ordered photo op at Cannes. Let the man rest! We need him! He’s like our own personal brand of heroin! We’ve never wanted a human’s blood so much before! AS IF HE COULD OUTRUN US. OK. We’re done (for NOW). (New York Post’s Popwrap, Youtube)

More hot hair at Cannes, this time on current Lucky cover star Diane “even-
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Karl-approves” Kruger. Learn how to imitate her sexy fishtail-braid here. (Bellasugar)

We never tire of this: the best and worst of celebrity skin! Since our Dina weirdly didn’t make either list, we’re getting our daily dose from her completely brilliant (“I will not let that keep me down while being CREATIVE, neurogasm in han”) Twitter account. Speaking of which, do you follow Lucky on Twitter yet? (Total Beauty, Twitter)

Supermodel sass never gets old! “When you’re a great beauty, it’s always downhill for you,” says Iman, of eponymous-and-fabulous-cosmetics-line fame. “If you’re someone like Mrs. Obama, you just get better with age.” ZING! (Afro.com, Iman Cosmetics)

A glamorously-mohawked French fragrance designer will debut his scent opera, “Green Aria”, at the Guggenheim Museum. Hey, did you know that stenches like vomit, rotten fish, and urine are "as essential to a perfumer’s palate" as rose and citrus? Now you do! (Wall Street Journal)
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BEAUTY NEWS ROUNDUP: TWILIGHT AND BEYOND

7:23 PM, May 15 2009 by Cat Marnell

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What do Kristen Stewart and Brooke Hogan have in common? NOTHING!!! EXACTLY!!! Yes, the debate over sky-high SPF continues, but whatever: the point is, the new cool kids are neither orange nor leatherfaced. Check back on Monday: we know exactly which sunscreen the Twilight cast wears on set.

Chris Rock’s documentary Hair explores hair's effect on the “pocketbooks and sexual relationships [...] of black people.” This sounds infinitely more appealing than 1964’s The Long Hair of Death (I Lunghi Capelli Della Morte), about a 15th-century feudal village, a pervy lord, misogyny-driven murders, and a sweeping deadly plague.

Anne Hathaway’s new Lancome commercialA was styled by Rachel “I DIE” Zoe (Anne's real-life stylist) and filmed at NYC nightclub The Box, where we once found a lone Reebok PumpA and got checked out by Keanu Reeves. In one night!

Will we be slaughtered in the comments section for writing about the KardashiansA twice in four weeks? Maybe (but whatever: it’s not like we’re coveringA the Bruce Jenner facelift)! Read about theA “Glowy Khloe”A look here.

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BEAUTY NEWS ROUNDUP

6:30 PM, May 08 2009 by Cat Marnell
Thumbnail image for marykate.jpg-Mary-Kate Olsen’s hot mess hair at the Met’s Costume Institute Ball was so good, no? And the eyeliner. Sigh. Deliberately imperfect perfection. (Gothamist)

-”Dzing!” is the scent of the circus: sawdust, tigers, caramel apples, claustrophobic tent air!  Cardboard is also a comforting smell! Confused? New York Times fragrance critic Chandler Burr explains it all here.  (The Moment)

-We LOVE Isaac Mizrahi (if you haven’t seen 'Unzipped', you must: young Kate, Linda and Naomi make cameos—and so does our own Simone Kitchens' ex-model sister Amy!).  We also love Tresemm??—Cat is particularly enamored with the 24 Hour Body Root Boost—and now it’s the hair care sponsor of BRAVO’s new, Mizrahi-hosted 'The Fashion Show'. (StyleBell)

-We predict a bestseller: Marc Jacobs’ sexy new scent, Lola, looks like demure Daisy’s vampy alterego.  It’s coming out in August. So obviously  we’re dying.  (Bellasugar)

-And if it’s news to you that Sunday is Mother’s Day—you must check out our online gift guide. She deserves something. Dude, giving birth to you was hard. (Luckymag.com)

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Beauty News from London!

12:01 AM, April 21 2009 by Cat Marnell
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TO: Beauty Department
FROM: Jen Ford, fashion news director
SUBJECT: Beauty factoid for you...

You may already have heard this, but reading a little blurb in a U.K. newspaper from Lou Doillon, and apparently her mother Jane advises her to rinse her hair with Coca-Cola! And so she does ...

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Beauty News Roundup: Celebrity/Supermodel Edition

1:59 PM, April 20 2009 by Cat Marnell
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"Pete Wentz wears makeup and clearly is confident enough not to be threatened by any assumptions his fans or nonfans might come to," a source tells Tiger Beat The New York Times. (NYT) (Spoiled Pretty)

Kim Kardashian, the velour tracksuit-clad minx and baby-voiced reality star and human, sextape-making hybrid ofA Jessica Rabbit and Princess Jasmine,A will launch a fragrance and possibly a makeup collection.(Spoiled Pretty)

Queen Latifah gets her own perfume, too. But does her trainer like it? (The Budget Fashionista)

Irish-jigging model Coco Rocha on the perils of her new hair color: "In the modeling world it's like they want it really, really red," she says. "But to live with really, really red is like being a character." Indeed! (The Cut)

Non-jig-dancing model Jessica Stam teaches us how to walk like a model in this cute clip. (For Stam's 'how NOT to walk' tutorial, click here. Ouch.) (My Fashion Life)

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