Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Dolce and Gabbana Evocative Beauty Promo Photos


Famed designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, collectively known as Dolce and Gabbana, introduce their Evocative Beauty Collection for Fall 2010. Uber glamourous Hollywood starlet, Scarlett Johansson appears in the ads decked out in a black leather outfit and sultry purple lipstick and pin-up girl hair.

According to chicprofile.com, "The iconic design duo pay homage to a monumental past… celebrate a glorious present… and prepare for a prescient future. Dolce & Gabbana refine and redefine their signature sensibility: daring duality, dynamic contrast and sly sensuality. Created for the Dolce & Gabbana woman, a woman who challenges conventions, relishes fantasy, expects luxury… and radiates a profound femininity."

Lipstick-$30.00












Available in 4 new shades:
Cosmopolitan (237) (Cream)
Amethyst (165) (Cream)
Lust (167) (Cream)
Orchid (115) (Shine)




Lipgloss-$29.00




Available in 2 new colors:
Amethyst (155)
Vibrant (143)






Intense Nail Lacquer – $20.00





Cosmopolitan (108) (New)
Dahlia










New Smooth Eye Colour Quad – $59.00




















Images via chicprofile.com

Maybelline New York Releases Fashion Week 2011 Schedule


Maybelline New York, an innovative and successful world-renown cosmetics company has just announced its lineup for the highly-anticipated Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. Brand positioning and sponsorship are key as Maybelline New York will serve as cosmetics sponsors for Z Spoke by Zac Posen, Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B.,BCBG Max Azria, DKNY, Michael Angel, Vivienne Tam, Custo Barcelona and Carlos Miele.

Maybelline New York continues to take inspiration from fashion by translating backstage trends into our cosmetics collections," said David Greenberg, president of Maybelline New York-Garnier USA, in a statement. "Our continued association with Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week allows us to take part in creating the makeup looks that we will all see on the faces of women around the world next spring. It's exciting to make stylish, on-trend beauty looks available to every woman."

Accordign to stylist.com, "Maybelline's global makeup artist Charlotte Willer -- who's a backstage and advertising favorite -- will head up the makeup team, as she has for the past two seasons."

image via maybelline.com

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Blast From the Past: Paris Hilton's New Perfume Inspired by Marilyn Monroe


Hollywood socialite and heiress Paris Hilton has launched her 10th fragrance, "Tease". Tease was inspired by Hollywood starlet of yester year, Marilyn Monroe. The fragrance is a blend of fruits like Fuji apple, white peach nectar and bergamot, with sunny sea mist accord and accented by frangipani, jasmine and tuberose. It also has base notes of amber, blonde woods and warm sand accord. The fragrance is available in a 3.4 oz Eau de Parum Spray ($55), 1.7 oz Eau de Parfum Spray ($45) and a 6.7 oz Shimmering Body Lotion ($28); it can be purchased at all major department stores and fine fragrance outlets.

According to stylelist.com, "I love Marilyn Monroe," purred Hilton as she slinked down the hot pink carpet, blonde locks styled in voluminous curls and her pout painted red. "She's always been one of my fashion icons. Doing my tenth fragrance I just thought, she's a 10, and I have to do something to honor Marilyn." Hilton herself describes Tease as, "Sophisticated and glamorous. It's flirty and fun, confident and sexy."

image via stylelist.com