Dry hair is my beauty Achilles’ heel — though, admittedly, it’s a problem that I largely brought upon myself via a decade of dyeing and highlighting my hair, blowdrying and flat ironing obsessively, and washing my hair entirely too often, thereby stripping my scalp and strands of the natural oils needed for optimal hair health.
Yesterday was an insanely busy day but, fortunately, the sun was beaming in New York City, so I took the opportunity to wear a bright shift dress in the hopes that my Field of Dreams-inspired, “if you build it, he will come” ethos and basically will springtime to stay for good this time around.
My dad always said a nice pat on the back is sometimes necessary — after all, if you don’t root for yourself, how can you expect others to do so?
For several seasons now, John Frieda stylists have been responsible for masterminding the hair looks seen on the runway at designer Zac Posen’s shows during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City.
I debated whether or not to watch the Academy Awards this year since, for the most part, I wasn’t enthused about the majority of the films released in 2012 (with Argo and Zero Dark Thirty being the two notable exceptions).
On the eve of the 85th Academy Awards, Twitter was ablaze with talk of two things: Anne Hathaway’s, uhm, Pointer Sisters (one user even created the account @HathawayNipple while another coined the hashtag #LesNipperables) and Charlize Theron’s pixie cut.
I’m not always the timeliest of people — for instance, I just mailed my father his Christmas present last week, which speaks to the ludicrous “island style” time table by which we operate in my family (side note: he’s been known to send birthday presents a month after the date has elapsed, so one could argue that I got it from him!).
Happy Valentine’s Day, dolls!
For his Fall 2013 collection, designer Thakoon Panichgul decided to blur seasonal boundaries, merging summery firefly and dandelion printed dresses and blouses, many with lace panel inserts, with heavier wintry knits and structured, fur-lined coats and vests and, in some cases, using rich leather and goat skin to create airy pieces with short sleeves or bouncy flared hemlines.
One of the most pervasive beauty trends identified during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2013 has been the abundance of bold, smoky, somewhat cat-shaped eyes in deep shades of indigo blue, cobalt, and violet.
