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.
More from Luckymag.com:
Chanel Egoiste: The Best Passive-Aggressive Gift Ever!New Fragrance Set by Tom FordSummer Fragrance Rave: Kai eau de parfum
The 24-hour news cycle had its 24 seconds of fascination with the fact that tanning beds
should be considered a poison, like arsenic. While I was surprised that this patently obvious news was suddenly... news, I was thrilled that even a few blithe-but-leathery spirits might be saved. I was also thrilled because I got to write the above headline.
I would be remiss if I did not recommend a product to fill in for the beds o’ arsenic: This will be very old news to those who know me, BUT. Lancome Flash Bronzer for Legs — yes, it says for legs but I use it all over, including my face — is the best-ever self-tanner and will change your life.
More from Luckymag.com:
A Pleasant-Smelling Self Tanner (It Does Exist!)Celebrity Product Rave: Mally Roncal of Mally BeautyTan in a Can
Perfumers rhapsodize about the smell of lipstick—and I do love love love
Lipstick Rose, the perfume from Frederic Malle. My very favorite actual-lipstick scent is actually a tie:
L’Oreal and
Guerlain. Am I right or am I right?
Page 33 of
this week’s New Yorker makes gentle and very funny fun of the ever-rising SPFs in sunscreen. My favorite line is about SPF 75, which the author insists says to the world:
“Clearly the health of my skin is more important to me than the health of your skin is to you, and, while that is sad, all I can do is lead, because I am a leader.”
Fashion director Hope Greenberg is not the only
new convert. I have overheard—at not one but several—top, top, super A-list salons this week as the A-list stylists, their associates, and and their assistants all clamor for keratin treatments—for themselves. I even heard one turning down an appointment with a client in order to schedule her own treatment as quickly as possible.
-Jean Godfrey-June, beauty director
Perhaps spurred by fashion assistant Ray Seigel’s
blog last week, Will Ferrell’s
new sunscreen line (Sexy Hot Tan, Sun Stroke and Forbidden Fruit SPF 30) has now sold over 10,000 bottles, with 100% of the proceeds going to
Cancer for College.
-Jean Godfrey-June, beauty director
It has not yet been hot enough in New York to fully appreciate the incredibleness that is this mint lemonade salt scrub from Giovanni. It of course smells and feels amazing, leaves you fully moisturized and refreshed, plus the mint keeps working—cooling and zesty and ultra-clean feeling—once you’re out of the shower.
*A friend who was once a beauty editor—and is now a full-on editor-in-chief—is the original raver; she convinced me and now I’m converted.
--Jean Godfrey-June, beauty director
The Washingtonian reported that
Michelle Obama’s “signature scent” is Creed’s gorgeous gorgeous
Love in White, which is light and flowery and super-sophisticated. As you can tell, I, too, am a huge fan (of both the fragrance and the chic Mrs. O.)
-Jean Godfrey-June, Beauty Director
The line between artfully unkempt and deranged is. . .slim. Especially if the outfit you’re wearing involves linen. I tend to err on the side of Russell. The side of the decidedly unprofessional. Which has me in a bit of a panic today. If I’m wearing something with a tendency to wrinkle, do I need to whip out the blow-dryer?
-Jean Godfrey-June, beauty director
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.
