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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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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Cher from Clueless! We were squished together at the end of a bench at a vegan lunch for
her new line of cosmetics bags for Ecotools. She was in red Stella McCartney, a dress that totally channeled the scene where Cher gets mugged wearing Alaia in a valley parking lot (An Officially Iconic Fashion Moment in Cinema, P.S.).
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I was going to do the mature thing and blog only about the
very cute Avon hand creams on the left ($.99 each!), but THEN I noticed that avon.com has an AMAZING selection of OMG-worthy teenybopper (in the best possible way!) beauty alternatives! How amazing are these
High School Musical hand creams?! Given that I'm a grown person who occasionally buys
BOP magazine from the newsstand in her office building lobby newsstand (DOES Zac eat bugs? I needed to know!) and has visited the
personal weblog of Frankie Jonas (a.k.a the "Bonus Jonas", age 8), Disney-infused bath and body products speak to me. Am I alone?
-Cat Marnell, associate beauty editor
When you do
Shakespeare in the Park, you have to do your makeup yourself. So with a big bag of
Lancome, AH has been making it all happen--and she looks fantastic, especially her skin. Which is most likely a combination of
Secret de Vie Eye Ultimate Cellular Reviving Eye Creme,
Nutrix Royal Body Intense Restoring Lipid-Enriched Body Lotion and
Soleil Ultra Expert Sun Care SPF 50 Sunscreen.
-- Jean Godfrey-June, beauty director
What, you think I'm LYING?! Last week I was with 50 at an exclusive nightclub, where we spoke and had our photo taken together (it's just that no one from the PR firm will EMAIL it to me, okay?) and even touched hands: In tabloid speak, CANOODLED.
Usher won't be jealous, because--for the LAST TIME--Usher and I are NOT DATING! (A man and a woman CAN be just very good friends, you know--just look at Elaine and Jerry, or
Sharon Stone and the Dalai Lama.)
Anyway, as we fervently canoodled over Kobe sliders, 50 told me (and the 25 other beauty editors eavesdropping on our private conversation) (FINE; it was a fragrance launch party), all about his new cologne,
POWER by 50 Cent. Though a less intensely romantic gift than a package of
50 Cent Magic Stick Condoms or a first-edition of 50's novel
The Ski Mask Way, it IS a woodsy citrus that smells just like you want a man to smell: very clean and very good.
Are we sick of the celebrity fragrance phenomenon? I'm not, in case you were wondering. Where are Sharon's and Whitney Houston's?
-Cat Marnell, associate beauty editor
No, it's not just that he doesn't wash it often (which I happen to find MANLY--as one who goes to many nightclubs in New York--all of them teeming with
lame male model types--nothing repels me more than a man with a meticulously cared-for, extra-silky bob that he constantly tucks behind his ears). It's that on set,
Twilight stylists use
Redken mousse on R-Patz, and likely plenty of it.
Why does this matter to our primarily female readership? Because now you can go buy it and convince your boyfriend to let you do "the R-Patz" on HIS hair! If you're like me and don't have a boyfriend, you can just practice on a long-haired dog or something. (Bonus: Dogs are generally so out of it that you can dump glitter all over them and rename them Edward Cullen and they don't even notice.)
AND. Don't you love
Kristen Stewart's Joan Jett haircut (in the Ali G. "Re-SPEK" way, at least)? And isn't it ironic that other starlets would probably sooner die than rock K-Stew's authentic mullet, yet willingly massacre their hair with heinously damaging extensions? And does anyone else think about these things besides me?
-Cat Marnell, associate beauty editor
Usher: the nicest celebrity ever. I went to an intimate gathering for his new cologne--that is, four other beauty editors in a dark, swanky private nightclub in front of a roaring fireplace. You know how you read about celebrities not wanting to touch people? He kissed all of the editors hello and goodbye on both cheeks--and he'd been doing it all day. And during our photo ops, he sweetly put his hands around our waists--not in a sleazy* way.
That said, we all must get on the waiting list to buy
his new cologne, VIP (it launches in September). It's so good, for one (I'm keeping the fragrance strip in my handbag to make it smell amazing), and, well...I love him. He's the most charming man alive. I'd endorse a line of Usher-brand, like, hermit crabs. Seriously. Same goes for R-Patz and Ed Norton. You?
-Cat Marnell, associate beauty editor
*My sleaze radar is hyper-sensitive; I have no qualms about recoiling from slimy celebrity touch (ahem, Stephen Dorff).
I loved
June cover girl Diane Kruger’s hair at the
CFDA Awards. She looks super put-together, but at the same time, it looks pretty effortless. I’ve been trying something similar recently, mostly because it’s rained every day for the last 3 weeks here in
New York. I start with my
hair parted down the middle, then just gather it all up, twist it into a knot, and stick about 6 bobby pins in to secure it for the rest of the day. I like it best by the end of the day, when it looks a bit looser and more natural.
--Simone Kitchens, beauty assistant
