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Beauty, Gallery, Top Five
By Andrea Petrou on January 27th, 2012
Like the frocks at this year’s National Television Awards, the make up did us proud.
There was hardly any over tanned Orangutans in sight and no streaky legs of faces. Instead stars from the TV world looked to next seasons hottest make up trends to make their beauty stand on the red carpet.
Tulisa redeemed her disastrous pink frock with bronzed skin and pale pink lippy, while Elle Macpherson and Michelle Keegan kept it clean with their minimal make up looks.
Showing off that bright red lippy was Fearne Cotton who went for a vintage feel, while Lydia Bright teamed up hers with vampish eyes.
See the gallery below for our top five beauty trends of the night.
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Tags: Beauty, Elle Macpherson, Fearne Cotton, Lydia Bright, make up, National Television Awards, NTA, trends, Tulisa
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Beauty, Gallery, Top Five, Trend Alert
By Andrea Petrou on January 19th, 2012
Metallics are no strangers to the fashion world, often making an appearance on clothing, in hair and of course eye make-up and next season they make more than just a cameo.
For Spring/Summer 2012 this trend has a leading role in the eye make-up show. However, unlike this season where metallics were dark and bold, next season is all about pale shimmery hues.
Copy the look seen on the Chanel, Ralph Lauren and Gucci catwalks and go for an almost white metallic eyeshadow to make your eyes stand out.
To combine this, and the smokey trend gently brush lower lids with this hue, but not too much- this trend is all about softness.
See the gallery below for our top five designer looks.
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Tags: Beauty, celebrity beauty, chanel, eye make up, gucci, make up, phillip lim, Top five designer metallic eye looks for SS 2012, trends
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Beauty, Features, Gallery, Red Carpet
By Andrea Petrou on January 17th, 2012
Yesterday it was all about the fab frocks at the Golden Globe awards, but today we’ve decided to focus on something equally important and that’s of course hair and make-up.
Trending at this year’s awards was the bronzed face and smokey eyed look channelled by Reese Witherspoon – who completed the look with luscious waves- and Lea Michelle who decided to finish the look with an up-do.
Also following this trend was Nicole Richie who bought the look bang into this season with a high ponytail. However, there were other trends also spotted when it came to beauty.
Angelina Jolie and Claire Danes emulated classic Hollywood chic with pale foundation and statement red lips, while Zooey Deschanel went all 60s with a blunt fringe and heavy eyeliner.
See all the Golden Globe 2012 beauty in the gallery below.
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Tags: 2012 hair trends, 2012 make up looks, Angelina Jolie, Beauty, Golden Globe Awards, make up, natalie portman, red carpet hair, Reese Witherspoon, Zooey Deschanel
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Beauty, Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on December 14th, 2011
Kylie Minogue tries to go make-up free as often as possible.
The singer says it’s important to have a break from wearing cosmetics as it allows the skin to breath, although she admits it’s not always easy.
She said: “I often go without make-up, but these days it does depend on the paparazzi situation. They used to use camera film and weren’t so in-your-face, but now it’s just all high-definition and sometimes you just know it isn’t going to be good. My secret is a top knot and sunnies!”
Kylie says she tries to stay true to her own style and not be influenced by trends.
She told Britain’s more! magazine: “When I think of timeless style icons like Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn, I wonder how they would have coped with the pressure of today’s world, where very few months there’s a different trend. Somebody like Sarah Jessica Parker really inspires me. She’s a modern fashion icon.”
Tags: Beauty, kyli minogue, make up, make up free, natural beauty, tips
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Beauty, Celebrity gossip, Celebrity Style
By Andrea Petrou on November 16th, 2011
Dita Von Teese thinks her look will “work at any age”.
The 39-year-old burlesque model explained she had an “epiphany” at a recent shoot, and discovered she can still maintain her “classy” style when she gets older, as her hair, make-up and clothing choices have become like a “uniform” to her.
She said: “I was doing a photo shoot and the make-up artist had made me up to have grey hair but I was still wearing the same clothes and had the same make-up. I was scanning me in the mirror and I just had this epiphany that I was perfect – I looked like a classy, old lady.
“I won’t have to change my look when I get older, it’ll work at any age. I’m not sure what Paris Hilton will be wearing when she gets to 70.
“My look is like a uniform to me, I know each morning what I’ll be doing with my make-up and hair, how long my hem line will be. I like to evolve my look, but I don’t feel compelled to update it.”
However, the raven-haired beauty – who has appeared in campaigns for the likes of Jean Paul Gaultier and Vivienne Westwood in the past – admitted she isn’t naturally blessed with a trim figure and “works hard” to look so glamorous.
Dita added in an interview with Vogue.co.uk: “I don’t try to tell people I’m naturally anything, I’m not going to tell you that I eat pizza all day and look like this – I don’t.
“I work hard to maintain a glamorous look, and to tell women that they can achieve it too. We all want to have a plump, juicy and luscious figures – I just try hard to stay fit.”
Tags: classic styles, Dita Von Teese, fashion, Hair, make up
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Beauty, Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 26th, 2011
Emma Watson has become more “experimental” with make-up since cutting her hair.
The ‘Harry Potter actress chopped off her long locks last year and says it has made her become more bolder with her cosmetics choices as her face is now every exposed.
She told Stylelist: “I’m more experimental make-up. There’s no way to hide when you have short hair. You really have to go for it.”
Emma, 21, also says once she finds a product that suits her, she will stick with it.
She said: “I’m a creature of habit. I like to find what works and keep buying it. I like a bronzer or blush because I am so pale and English.”
Emma – who is the face of Lancome – also says she likes to highlight her eyes by wearing Lancome’s Hypnose Doll mascara.
She explained: “I’m big into Twiggy so I do bottom lashes and top lashes. This is really cool because it is specifically designed to get that look.”
Emma recently revealed she worries about her looks but is determined not to conform to Hollywood’s ideal appearance.
She said: “I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way. I find LA quite scary because of that – all those young people having plastic surgery. But the thing is, I don’t want to look like everyone else.
“I don’t have perfect teeth, I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.”
Tags: Emma Watson, hair trends, harry potter, Lancome, make up, make up ideas, make-up trends
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Celebrity gossip
By Andrea Petrou on October 20th, 2011
Lady Gaga likes her boyfriend to dress up as a vampire in the bedroom.
The You and I hitmaker gets “turned on” by the blood-sucking creatures and has a pair of fangs she makes ‘Vampire Diaries’ actor Taylor Kinney wear when the couple are getting down and dirty.
An insider told The Sun newspaper: “Gaga gets very turned on by vampires and loves being bitten by her partner. She likes to dress up and has a set of fangs which she’ll often get out in the bedroom.
“She calls herself the ‘Kinky Queen’ and has an entire wardrobe of sexy dress up clothes for her sex sessions.”
However, it’s likely Taylor had to wait some time before indulging in bedroom antics with the 25-year-old singer – real name Stefani Germanotta – as she has revealed she likes to make her boyfriends wait for sex and would never “put out” too soon.
Gaga recently said: “It’s always been important to me, as it’s for my generation, a most relevant consideration when you’re growing up. Sex doesn’t mean nothing; sex means so much.
“I hope that young women know that sex is still a big deal, and they don’t have to put out soon. If they want someone to court them for a while before they give it up, that’s wonderful and beautiful, and a man will only respect you more for honouring your body. I am that way.”
Tags: bedroom fetishes, fetish, Halloween make-up, lady gaga, make up, sex, Vampire
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Beauty, Features, Gallery, Get the look, Trend Alert
By Andrea Petrou on October 19th, 2011
Topshop Unique's AW 2011 models sported the trend
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Tags: "Kate Middleton", AW 2011 make up trends, black eyeliner, Jasper Conran, make up, make-up trends, Topshop Unique
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Gallery, Halloween
By Andrea Petrou on October 5th, 2011
With a nation going Twilight and vampire mad we’re sure there will be a huge number of you looking for that sexy vampire outfit this Halloween.
While many will choose to don that casual jeans and sweater look and claim they’ve come as “Bella Swan” there are others – us included – that will want to make more of an effort.
However, the days of the white face paint, fangs and cloaks are long gone and in their place comes sexy gothic. This can be anything from a burlesque style look – we’re thinking Interview with the Vampire style – to a simple velvet dress, which can be bought from the highstreet and vamped up with bright red lippy and heavy eyeliner.
We’ve picked our top five sexy vampire outfits for this year’s Halloween parties. See the gallery below.
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Tags: Fairy Make-up, fashionable Halloween outfits, gothic dresses, Halloween costumes, Halloween outfits, make up, sexy vampire outfits, sophisticated halloween outfits, Twilight, Twilight Saga, Velvet dresses
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Celebrity gossip, Celebrity Style, Gossip
By emilyborrett on August 31st, 2011
The French first lady of style, Carla Bruni, has praised her old friend and new editor of French Vogue Emmanuelle Alt for her femininity.
Carla and Emmanuelle have been firm friends since their teens – but while Carla’s look has matured, she insists that her good friend Emmanuelle is still as girlish as ever thanks to her refusal to succumb to plastic surgery and heavy makeup.
Carla said about the Vogue editor: “There is still something of a teenager about her. Emmanuelle has an unaffected way to be feminine. She doesn’t wear make-up and hasn’t had surgery.”
Emmanuelle Alt has taken the helm at French Vogue after Carine Roitfeld’s reign as editor recently ended. As a well-shod expert on the sartorial, Emmanuelle was the perfect candidate to take over at the iconic magazine – and Carla Bruni agrees, saying that the editor knows what French women want from fashion.
She told Vogue magazine: “She reflects how French women are feeling – simplicity is the state we all want to be in. We are tired of useless sophistication.”
Tags: carine roitfeld, Carla Bruni, celebrity gossip, Cosmetic surgery, editor, fashion, feminine, french vogue, make up, Paris
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Celebrity Style
By Andrea Petrou on June 29th, 2011
Emma Watson found it “completely different” to do her own make-up and choose her own clothes when she posed for a series of paintings.
The ‘Harry Potter’ actress worked with artist Mark Demsteader on the new exhibition which will benefit the African charity CAMFED and Emma admitted being on such a low-key set where didn’t have a team of stylists and make-up professionals was a strange experience.
She told vogue.co.uk: “As it takes Mark several months to create the pieces, he finds it easier to work from photographs so I met him and a photographer for a day’s photo shoot in north London back in January. It was a really simple shoot with just a single light to cast shadows. We took lots of pictures in a variety of poses and Mark went away and selected 30 or so to turn into paintings.
“Whilst I didn’t sit for Mark as such, it was a completely different photo shoot to anything I’ve ever done before. It was really low-key – I did my own makeup and just brought a selection of very simple dresses for the silhouette. Mark did the lighting.” Although Emma is thrilled with the results, she was initially hesitant about taking part.
She explained: “I haven’t really bought any art yet, even though I love it. So I contacted Mark about buying a drawing as a present to myself for my 21st birthday. When I emailed him he asked if I would let him paint me, and that was how the exhibition came about. I was slightly hesitant at first, not because I didn’t want to work with Mark, but simply because I wasn’t sure if I was comfortable with an entire exhibition of pictures of me!”
Tags: 21st birthday, Emma Watson, harry potter, make up, paintings, style
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News
By Andrea Petrou on May 23rd, 2011
Nicola Roberts has helped design the shoes she will wear to launch her solo career.
The Girls Aloud star collaborated with up-and-coming designer Atalanta Weller to create the wedged footwear she wears on her promotional shots and Atalanta admits she was very hands-on.
She told vogue.co.uk: “A collaboration is like a good conversation. Nicola came to my studio a couple of times and I went to hers; we initially chatted about her music, the forthcoming album and how this related to her vision for the shoes. I went away and started designing my response to this. After our first meeting I was excited by her ideas and collaborating with people who have a strong vision is really fantastic. Nicola considers everything she does really carefully and has a totally clear view of what she wants to achieve. While the shoes are just a small part of this, I knew it would be interesting and fun to work together.”
Although Atalanta admits they were an unlikely pairing, she said they worked very well together.
She said: “I think we are an unlikely pairing which is why I was intrigued when Nicola approached me about working together. I think that she has incredible style and she’s extremely distinctive, luxurious and original in the way she wears clothes. I have not collaborated like this before and the fact that it was for the launch of Nicola’s solo music career meant we could be quite experimental. Everything was new and fresh.”
Tags: Dainty Doll, designer, Fake Tan, Girls Aloud, make up, Nicola Roberts, shoes, solo career, solo singing
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Beauty, Celebrity Style, Gallery
By Andrea Petrou on May 5th, 2011
Dianna Agron
Plays it safe with big waves and smokey eyes
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Tags: "Kate Middleton", Beauty, Dianna Agron, make up, Paris Hilton, pippa middleton, royal wedding, royal wedding make-up
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Beauty, News
By Andrea Petrou on April 28th, 2011
Kate Middleton wants to look natural on her wedding day.
The brunette beauty will tie the knot with Prince William at London’s Westminster Abbey tomorrow (29.04.11) and while all eyes will be on her, the only person she is keen on impressing is her future husband.
So she has told her hairstylist not to stray too far from her normal look when it comes to her tresses as she wants William to recognise her.
Richard Ward – who owns the London salon responsible for styling Kate’s hair as well as her mother Carole and sister Pippa – said: “We’ve had many practice runs – and not just with Kate. The one rule is by the time she gets to the end of the altar her husband must recognise her.’
“The look will be natural.”
Richard – whose star snipper James Pryce will be the main stylist – also said he has been inundated with girls wanting their hair like Kate’s ever since her engagement was announced.
He is quoted by the Mail Online website as saying: “A lot of girls wanted it, especially a lot of Americans. We have a lot of people from America coming in. How Kate wears her hair typifies how you should be wearing your hair today, it’s a very natural look. It needs to gleam with health, it needs to shine, needs really deep rich colour.
“Kate and her family have been coming for eight years and we’ve got a relationship that goes back a long time. We’re lucky because she has amazing hair.”
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