People have been going straight up bazoodee over the UD Naked palette!!! They can’t keep it in stock fast enough!! It’s selling like hot cakes and it has gotten rave reviews!! It’s not LE people!!! I will get this – eventually!
Anyway, UD is bringing out another palette inspired by the great city of New York!!
This is the limited edition Book of Shadows Vol. III aka UD loves NYC palette. Their holiday (gasp!) 2010 offering contains 16 shades, of which 7 are brand new (or exclusive to the palette) and the rest are repromotes or part of the permanent collection (yuh know Smog and Zero were born to be in ah palette!). A mix of brilliant jewel-toned purples, blues, greens, and neutrals, that spells fall, but they would go well with your summer shades to a depth to a look. Ah really feelin’ Money (looks just like the US dollar bill), Haight (a gorgeous, deep bluish-green) and Kush.
So with the success of the Viva Glam SE lipsticks featuring Cyndi and Lady Gaga, M.A.C. is coming out with the matching lipglosses. These are already supposed to be out at Nordstrom, and will become available in other locations in September. I still have not gotten my VG Cyndi nor VG V, so my list is only going to get bigger!! Sigh….
I am absolutely in LOVE with the promo image for Lancome’s fall collection, French Coquettes!!
Image courtesy of nymag.com and lancome
Silver smokeys, plum lips and flawless skin. I think it’s breathtaking and sultry!! Also very women of colour friendly!! The model on the left kept the lips subtle with a lavender-silver smokey eye while the model on the right had bold eyes and bold lips. That lip colour is gorgeous and I will definitely have to check that out!!! The collection is currently available online at Lancome. All info courtesy Lancome.
“When it comes to describing fashionista Daphne Guinness, François Nars’ passion knows no boundaries. And when it came to designing and photographing this futuristic makeup look for Fall 2010, François created a look worthy of his leading lady.”
So I was not going to post on this, but it has been blowing up all over the internet. This has been the source of a lot of drama and outrage for the past few days/weeks. It’s the M.A.C. collaboration with Rodarte that is coming out in mid-September. I’m going keep it brief here as many, many people have gone into this issue in depth. I’ll post links of some of the articles. I think it’s important to know about this especially since there has been a reaction from M.A.C. So here goes…
M.A.C. usually does a couple of collaborations a year with designer – they’ve done DSquared, Emmanuel Ungaro, Alexander Mc Queen to name a few. This time around, they chose the design duo from Rodarte and created a collection based on their Fall/Winter ’10 offering. The ladies from Rodarte stated that they were inspired by a road trip they had taken through Texas. It would have been all fine and dandy except the centre of their inspiration is the notorious border town of Juarez. If you have never heard of Juarez, its a town on the Mexico side of the US-Mexico border where people are severely impovrished and women are brutalized. There seems to be no law and most cases remain unsolved. Google it. It’s not a good story and Rodarte was apparently draw to the clothing of the female factory workers. Uhmm….right.
Then the images and the names of the products in the line came out and all hell broke loose! Folks were infuriated and quite rightly so, there were items called ‘Ghost Town’ and ‘Juarez’ and the main promo image was of the deathly pale female with darkened eyes, made to look dead. People have been all over YouTube, Twitter, the blogosphere decrying and demanding that M.A.C. pull the collection. So much so, after days of badgering, M.A.C. sent out a statement staying that they were going to rename the collection and donate some money to a charity in Juarez.
