Fashion Featured The Classic Glamour Dolls
August 27, 2010 - 2:39 pm
When you have a big event coming up and you are female, it’s inevitable that you want your hair and make-up professionally done. It just perfectly accents a night out on the town, a wedding, a red carpet ordeal, a high school reunion, or any situation where the goal is to shock and awe with your looks. One thing to consider is that when you hire hair and make-up people, they are in your house for a long time. I got my hair and make-up done for my wedding and spent a good 3 and a half hours bonding with my lady. She was nice, but there wasn’t anything unique about her and I found myself resorting to the ‘go to’ questions: Isn’t the weather nice? Where are you from? How long have you been doing make-up? We got through it, but there were a lot of moments when the concept of ‘silence is golden’ keep fluttering into my head.
I recently stumbled upon the perfect solution to my quest for make-up/hair artists with finesse, the Classic Glamour Dolls. Specializing in preparing you for everything from photo shoots, to performances, red carpet appearances, film, bachelor/bachelorette parties, birthdays, and special events, the Classic Glamour Doll “Team” consists of a group of make-up and hair artists whose motto is to bring you “Make-up and hair with a Hollywood flair.” The gals live out the 1920’s to 1950’s glam eras and show up to get their clients event-ready fully decked out in an old school Hollywood get-up that Fergie would describe as the definition of G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S. When I witnessed them in action, they explained to me that the look must always include: red lipstick, fake eyelashes, cat eyeliner, flowers or big jewels in the hair, very clean and shapely defined eyebrows, and a victory roll in their hair – obtained with hot rollers, curling irons, lots of hair spray and “thousands and thousands of bobby pins,” and of course fun rockabilly-inspired clothing.
4.79 (24 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Geek Fashion: Tara Reich Brings Sci-Fi Sensibility to Couture
August 18, 2010 - 10:38 am
Generally, I don’t expect to discover talented fashion designers while visiting the blogs of my favorite comic book writers. Yet, when I read Paul Cornell’s account of CONvergence 2010, several photos he’d posted of girls in Doctor Who-inspired dresses caught my eye. A 1960s-style TARDIS dress?! I wanted one immediately.
In this way, I discovered the work of Tara Reich.
Reich’s family is in the antiques business, and early exposure to items ranging from space toys to Roseville pottery sparked a fascination with Old World and contemporary design aesthetics. However, it wasn’t until Reich, an avid fangirl, got involved in cosplay that she saw fashion design as a career option. She graduated from the fashion design program at Columbia College, Chicago in 2009, and won the Chicago Fashion Foundation Scholarship that year.
5.00 (17 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Black Milk Does Minimalist Luxe
July 30, 2010 - 9:31 am
Designer leggings. Is that an oxymoron?!
James Lillis of Black Milk would say no. Based in Australia, this designer — who had no formal training – was first inspired by the fashion atrocities he saw committed on the street! Australia is awash with leggings: every girl owns several pairs, & many of them prefer leggings over pants. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that — we are all entitled to our preferred aesthetic. But what really upset James was the poor quality of the leggings he saw girls wearing. If you use cheap cotton to make leggings, the sad outcome will eventually include saggy knees & bottoms, which don’t flatter anyone.
He decided that he couldn’t take it any more! Why couldn’t anyone make good quality leggings?! Maybe he was the right man for the job. After many, many hours at a sewing machine, breaking needles & making messes, he created his Black Wetlook leggings & hasn’t looked back since.
3.00 (4 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Featured Bloodmilk: Supernatural Jewels For Surrealist Darlings
July 19, 2010 - 12:02 pm
Miss Schnabel of Bloodmilk is not your average jeweler. You won’t see diamond engagement rings, mass-produced pendants or hoop earrings in her collection. Instead, she believes that jewelry provides “psychic armour.” Her work is thoughtful, & exquisitely strange.
If the love of your life is more a fan of the Brothers Grimm than Jon & Kate Plus 8, maybe a Bloodmilk bear tooth engagement ring is what she’s always dreamed of. Perhaps a sterling silver ouija planchette necklace is more her cup of tea. This is jewelery worn by unusual girls, the type who read tarot cards & prefer absinthe & wouldn’t be caught dead in Urban Outfitters. From two-finger owl skull rings to sparrow claw lariat necklaces, Bloodmilk pieces are dark but delicate, beautiful & obscene.
4.42 (12 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Makeup Mandy Makes Lush Lashes!
July 12, 2010 - 3:55 pm
I don’t know one woman who doesn’t want big sexy lashes! “Last year, while many [makeup] categories remained flat – neither gaining nor losing sales – sales of false lashes grew 6.2%. And sales for eyelash growth stimulators are growing by the double digits, expected to create a $1 billion industry soon.” (www.kissandmakeup.tv) The minimal barrier of entry is of course mascara. My girlfriends and I are constantly commenting on or trying new mascara products. Suckers! All of us. We want so badly to believe what they advertise to us that we will try anything once. I can’t even count how many tubes of mascara I have purchased, only to discard after one or two uses because they failed to deliver on their promises. And don’t get me started on mascara commercials…you do realize that all of those women are wearing fake eyelashes? Sure maybe there’s some mascara on those fake eyelashes but they don’t look that way from mascara alone.
At some point maybe you’ve tried fake eyelashes. Application of them is tough to do alone. You have to practice and get used to doing and then re-doing your shadow because you effed it up, and good, in the process. Ah, the cost of beauty! I’ve played with lashes a fair amount but they are a one trick pony generally speaking. You struggle to get em looking good and they only last one evening.
This weekend I discovered lash extensions. There is a little boutique in Los Angeles called Makeup Mandy’s on Melrose Ave. I have driven past it daily for something like 4 years and always wondered exactly what a “lash bar” meant. After I spent 2 hours in the afternoon watching Nicole Kidman’s endless lashes flutter in Moulin Rouge on TV, I finally decided I needed to get off the couch and investigate this extension idea for myself.
5.00 (2 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Featured Decadent Designs: Fashions For the Fearless
June 9, 2010 - 10:04 am
Looking for some evening attire with flair? Check out Decadent Designs, the line from Toronto designer Olga Lipnitski, which specializes in custom made, alternative clothing for women. Olga’s clothing is influenced by Gothic fashion and insinuates the romantic trends of the past. According to her biography, as a child, the imaginative designer used to dig holes in the ground, hoping to find a treasure chest filled with Victorian ball gowns. In an effort to merge dreamland with reality, Olga has transplanted her visions into a collection of attire such as elegant evening/cocktail dresses, seductive corsets, waist cinchers and bustiers, Gothic dresses and PVC clubwear. Her pieces are incredibly distinctive and have been seen on runways, custom created for a variety of clients, and were recently used in a music video by Jhevon Paris Ft. Girlicious and Pat K.
4.69 (13 votes)
Loading ...Fashion An Ethical Fashion Label… “Good One”
May 20, 2010 - 10:05 am
When I first heard the concept I was interested, but when I saw the product I was blown away. UK clothing label “Good One” is not only fashion forward, but ethically sound.
5.00 (1 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Karl Lagerfeld: Polymath?
May 17, 2010 - 9:52 am
Karl Lagerfeld is many things: a German living in France, a white-headed wonder, a style icon, obsessive curator & head designer of Chanel, Fendi & his own line. The movie Lagerfeld Confidential, released in 2007, followed the prolific designer & gave an insight into his daily life, & in 2006 he starred in Signé Chanel, a reality show about the creation of one of his collections. He is also a photographer, illustrator & world traveler. But it’s as if the man never sleeps, because on Tuesday May 11th of 2010, Karl Lagerfeld makes his directorial debut!
2.14 (7 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Anna Wintour’s Party Mixtape
May 13, 2010 - 10:04 am
Anna Wintour’s reputation as the feared editrix of Vogue is not undeserved. She was, after all, the inspiration for Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada. Her nickname is the charming epithet ‘Nuclear Wintour’. Her haircut has been exactly the same since she was in her early twenties.
But here are some things you may not known about The Bobbed One.
2.82 (11 votes)
Loading ...Fashion Gallery Champagne Shopping on a Beer Budget
April 30, 2010 - 12:21 pm
When we pulled onto the freeway in Indio, California, you could almost hear a collective exhale from inside the car. It had been a long trip. While the premise sounded idyllic — deserts! Palm trees! Swimming pools & music festivals! — the reality had turned out to be a joyless romp through an artificially lush playground for senior citizens. Harsh, I know, but unfortunately, true.
On our way to Coachella, we had passed signs on the I-10 promising some of the best designer shopping on the West Coast. I had pawed at the window desperately, but my intrepid editor, ever responsible & on-task, had kept her foot firmly on the throttle. (Things to do, places to go, enormous lines of traffic to sit in!) This time, heading in the opposite direction, it wasn’t such a hard sell. We practically left half our tread at the off-ramp, we were so excited.
After all, what could make the transition from the Californian desert to Los Angeles easier than some much-needed retail therapy at http://www.premiumoutlets.com/outlets/outlet.asp?id=6 With a slew of stores ranging from Barneys to Bottega Veneta, Dior to Dolce & Gabbana, & Ralph Lauren to Rock & Republic, we knew it was going to be a good time.
2.30 (23 votes)
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