Fall Fingerpaints

Check out the Fingerpaints for Fall 2012 !

Catwalk Queen- HELLOOOO dijon mustard dusty creme. Gorgeous. I was actually pretty impressed with this one. I needed two coats.

Cordur-Orange- Okay… I don’t do oranges. They clash on my skintone, but alas, this one is such a burnt dusty medium orange creme that it doesn’t look too awful. I like! One coat.

Military Green- A medium grey green creme. It’s actually quite pretty. Me likes! Two coats.

Purple Pinstripe- What’s with the name man?! A dusty medium purple creme. Two coats.

Raspberry Tafetta- A pretty dark dusty berry colored creme. I actually really liked this one. Two coats.

Stunning Stilettos- A standard dolphin grey creme. Two coats.

To-Teally Chic- A dusty teal creme. Two coats.

Vintage Velvet- A dusty grey blue creme. Two coats.

Overally, the formula on these is excellent. There is 

Parfum d’Extase by Marchesa

Marchesa’s Georgina Chapman has had her hands in a few different honey pots of late. Following the launch of a capsule makeup collection forLe Métier de Beauté a few years back, Canon just announced that Chapman would join Ron Howard’s Project Imagina8ion as the guest director of a short film that will premiere at Project Imaginat10n, the first photography-inspired film festival, next year. Also on her agenda: a new fragrance with Sephora. “We thought it was such a simple idea—and we really loved the idea of the collaborative spirit,” Chapman said at a dinner at New York’s Crown restaurant this week to fête the arrival of Parfum d’Extase, the first fragrance from the fashion house she built with Marchesa co-founder Keren Craig. Taking into account the design duo’s knack for red carpet-ready gowns, it should come as no surprise that the iris root, freesia, violet leaf, night-blooming jasmine, and ambrox eau is meant to be the epitome of luxury—or that Chapman herself has always kept it pretty classy when it comes to signature scents. “I think my first fragrance was Opium in the eighties,” she admits (no brief love affairs with Bath & Body Works’ treasure trove of teen queen fruity florals here). But it’s the scent’s olfactory intrigue that Chapman is most excited about. “We came up with the story of what we wanted [it] to encapsulate, to feel sensual and feminine yet still embrace and celebrate the wearer’s unique style and sensibility, and then we did blind smellings,” she recalls. “We smelled about ten different scents and this one had a mystery. It was a bit intoxicating.” Less deliberation went into the bottle, which Chapman had “a clear idea about” from the get-go: Designed by Malin Ericson of the creative agency Vanessa Stevens + Company, the flacon evokes a raw, bejeweled quartz crystal, its faceted topper a near exact match of a Marchesa minaudière clasp. It’s another phase of what will hopefully be many more crossover efforts from Chapman, although she’s keeping mum on her next move. “We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.”

Photo: Courtesy of Sephora

tags: Fragrance, Georgina Chapman, Keren Craig, Marchesa, Sephora

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Donna Karan launches WOMAN 2012

In the male-dominated world of fashion, where successful female designers are seriously outnumbered, Donna Karan has managed to build a decade-spanning empire fueled by girl power. “I believe women are complex and full of emotion and feelings,” Karan says of the principles that guide her, whether she’s designing a collection for her stalwart fan base—or a fragrance. Her latest scent is a tribute to these longtime admirers. Simply calledWoman, it was created through an exercise in sisterhood: Celebrated female perfumer Anne Flipo blended the orange flower, Haitian vetiver, and sandalwood eau; renowned Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid lent her skills to a new version of Karan’s iconic Cashmere Mist flacon, originally designed in 1994 by her late husband, the sculptor Stephan Weiss; and a trio of well-loved, multigenerational catwalkers, including Karolina Kurkova, Liya Kebede, and Christy Turlington-Burns, star in the Inez & Vinoodh-lensed ad campaign. Needless to say, it arrives on shelves this month with a roar, not a whisper.

Photo: Courtesy of Donna Karan

tags: Christy Turlington Burns, Donna Karan, Fragrance, Karolina Kurkova, Liya Kebede,Woman, Zaha Hadid

Post Courtesy: http://www.style.com/beauty/beautycounter/2012/08/and-then-donna-karan-created-woman/

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Join Drew Barry More against the fight

Drew Barrymore recently traveled to Kenya with the World Food Programme. As a WFP Ambassador Against Hunger, she wanted to come back to the country she had grown to love years earlier and see how she could help change the lives of women and children.  Read the article in Traveler magazine.

Kenya is now being hit by a devastating drought, and Drew saw firsthand the struggle people face daily to feed their children, to keep their cattle alive, to survive. WFP is currently feeding more than 3 million people in Kenya, but more help is needed. Drew is appealing to the rest of world to join her in supporting the people of Kenya: “We really need to step up our help. There is a catastrophe happening right now."