Beauty Reporter Blog – Beauty as Muse at the Met Gala
Beauty Reporter Blog – Beauty as Muse at the Met Gala Provided by Allure Magazine
May 05, 2009
The theme of last night’s Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was “Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion,” so maybe that’s why actors mimicked the models by trading in their more traditional red carpet staples to test some of the latest hot-off-the-runway looks. The results? Hmm… There was some craziness, but some stars managed to pull it off. Here, our favorite beauty moments. (Click here for these, and tons more, photos.)
Most Dramatic Beauty Moment
Controversy! In-house, we’re a little divided over Anne Hathaway’s look: Did she go too far? Still, when it comes to risk taking, we salute that big hair and ’60s go-go dancer makeup juxtaposed with jewels and a Marc Jacobs dress. Hey, she’s young, she’s so hot right now. Why not?
Best Turban-Matching Makeup
Okay, some people will always be anti-turban no matter what, but last night’s host Kate Moss knows Grey Gardens chic is all the rage now, and besides, she can handle this tricky trend just fine. Bonus points for taking the whole effect to the next level by donning extra dramatic, metallic cat eyes like an opera star. Because really, if you’re gonna wear headgear, just go for it. All the way baby.
Best Classic Look
Tinsel Town blonds tend to play with crazy color, but Kate Bosworth oozes glamor by sticking with the velvety LBD, cherry red lips, and ’30s diva waves while managing to make the whole shebang look modern as well. It may be a tried and true formula, but she really does ace it every time.
Biggest Beauty Trend Follower
Rachel Weisz was all over the dark lips trend, and even paired her deep berry stain with a peachy pink dress. Normally, that would give us pause, but the effect is stunning with her chocolate brown hair. Still, in shots where her teeth show it looks a little much. Does this prove the trend is simply too unwearable? You tell us, and then tell us who you thought rocked it (or not so much) last night.
PHOTO: WIREIMAGE (Kate)
Posted By Erin Flaherty
Check this link for more photos and info about the gala. http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Metropolitan-Museum-Art-Costume-Institute-Gala/ss/events/fashion/050509metcostumegala/im:/090505/ids_photos_en/r2386425558.jpg/#photoViewer=/090505/photos_fashionwire/9a
I know there’s a lot of serious stuff to concentrate on now. Health concerns, the economy, so many people loosing their jobs and companies going bankrupt. Well I don’t know about you but I love my fashion!!! So maybe I’m alone in this and I’d love to hear from you about it. Personally I think Madonna’s was more out there then Ann Hathaway, but what do I know. For more fashion info and other articles and resources for NH & MA women check us out at www.applaudwomen.com
Great New Style Invention – The Nail Polish Pendant
Guest Beauty Blogger Wednesdays – The Nail Polish Pendant
Posted Apr 29th 2009 at 4:00PM by Laura Kenney
This week’s Guest Beauty Blogger, All Lacquered Up, dishes on her newest discovery – nail polish pendants!
I’m always looking for creative uses for my beauty products. I love discovering new ways to utilize my overwhelming beauty arsenal and Total Beauty found a slew of innovative ways to turn beauty closet staples into multitaskers.
Well, have I got a new one for you. Like infomercial legend, Mike Levy and his crazy sweaters, I have found THE discovery for us nail polish fanatics.
The nail polish pendant! How many times have we described a polish as being jewel-like or having a jewel tone? And I know I can’t be the only one who has tried to coordinate polish with my favorite gemstones. I mean, haven’t you ever wished your favorite shade was jewelry? Wish no more! My genius pal Tracey from Ginger Kitty Designs has found a way to make that dream a reality. That’s right, we’re talking nail polish AS jewelry.
Twitter followers will recall my little freak a few weeks ago over a package I received in the mail. Wonder no more for this is what sent me into a frenzy. Tracey shipped her first batch of nail polish pendants, just in time for my cruise and needless to say, they’re stunning.
What exactly are these nail polish pendants? Well, Tracey discovered a way to encapsulate nail polish in a pendant. It’s sealed with a resin to give a glass like finish, making the polish appear like some rare, unique stone. Being the green queen that I am, Tracey turned two of my fave emerald shades into jewels using Barielle Date Night and Sinful San Francisco. Images really don’t do them justice as they are beyond fantabulous in person. I showed them off at work before leaving and everyone was raving.
OK so are you totally dying for a nail polish pendant of your very own?. Well then head on over to Tracey’s Etsy shop, Ginger Kitty Designs where she has a listing of pendant polish choices or you can discuss creating your own custom design.
All this amazingness for only $35. Can you even handle it?
What an awesome idea. For more ideas for women in NH & MA go to our website at www.applaudwomen.com. Do you have a beauty or fashion idea you would like to share? Email us at applaud@comcast.net
Much ado about a ‘do: Competition sees hair as art
Model Amaris Brown smiles in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, April 23, 2009, after winning the International Fantasy Hair Competition with a hair style called “Proud Peacock” designed by Kevin Carter of The Artistry of Hair from Farmington Hills, Mich.
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The Associated Press
Jim Cole
Model Amaris Brown smiles in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, April 23, 2009, after winning the International Fantasy Hair Competition with a hair style called “Proud Peacock” designed by Kevin Carter of The Artistry of Hair from Farmington Hills, Mich.
Once the province of shopping mall mavens, gum-snappin’ waitresses and Amy Winehouse, bouffant was in and big hair was beautiful, if only for one night.
The ladies – and one gent – of the International Fantasy Hair Competition proudly wore their hair hats high in the name of art and a good cause.
The competition attracted stylists and their models from around the country with prizes ranging from $1,000 to $7,500. All proceeds from Thursday night’s hair-art show at the Verizon Wireless Arena went to the New Hampshire Food Bank.
In the final minutes before the show began, stone-faced stylists put the finishing touches on their chicken-wired and pomaded masterpieces. What emerged from the piles of discarded Styrofoam clods and noxious clouds of hairspray were divas with heads decked out in pink lilies, forests of furry trees, and coifs of cotton candy.
Top honors went to model Amaris Brown of Detroit and stylist Kevin Carter of the Detroit suburb Farmington Hills for “Proud Peacock,” a big spray of feathers with hair shaped into what looked like the bird itself.
But the real secret to being a big bouffant beauty?
“Pain. Lots and lots of pain,” said 5-foot-1 Melody Longobardi, 26, an account manager and one-night model from the Hyannis, Mass., area who sported a 3-foot cherry tree on her head. “It’s all about posture and pain.”
Longobardi was standing at a 45-degree angle, the hairy cherry tree on her head giving her a gravity-induced, yet graceful, backbend.
Stylist Dru Sisson, 25, said she chose the cherry tree to symbolize the strength and beauty of womanhood. Of course, she said, her previous models were mannequins, with plastic necks, who didn’t need to walk.
Longobardi said she had a strategy to keep the tree aloft: “Keep your bum out and your head straight.”
Sisson chimed in that women need to walk like that to be ergonomically correct anyway, not just when they wear foliage.
But that approach would have been the undoing of Melissa Minuti, who was tightly wrapped in a slinky slip of inky black hair.
“She hasn’t been able to sit for five hours,” stylist Jamie Rogers, 24, of Weare, N.H., said as she added a last dash of hairspray to Minuti’s backside. “The idea came to me in a dream. I saw someone in a hair suit in my dream. It was like an epiphany. I just woke up and thought hair suit, that’s what I need to do,” Rogers said.
Minuti, 23, of Manchester, didn’t look amused.
“It’s a little itchy,” she said.
Some people might dream of having the freedom in real life to walk tall with a bun of birds, or windmills of feather-duster frills. But Boston paralegal Kelly Norton, sporting a gigantic puffball of tufted hair clumps and chain mail, said she was seriously considering wearing the hairstyle to work the next day.
“Actually I might have to,” said Norton, 28. “I think it’s welded to my head.”
AND THE OTHER WINNTERS ARE:
Model Danialle Esjunin smiles in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, April 23, 2009 after taking second place in the International Fantasy Hair Competition with a design called “Indian Fertility Goddess Parvati” designed of Colleen Jamieson of Alden James Salon of Nashua, N.H
AND
Model Rachel Bishop shows off a hair design in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, April 23, 2009, during the International Fantasy Hair Competition called “Prosperia,” designed by Christine Sheldon of Salon Thairapy of Hookset, N.H.
Model Rachel Bishop shows off a hair design in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, April 23, 2009, during the International Fantasy Hair Competition called “Prosperia,” designed by Christine Sheldon of Salon Thairapy of Hookset, N.H
It’s not too late to be trendy in 2008
In December 2007, Color Marketing Group, the leading international association of color design professionals, announced that genuine concern for the environment remains the strongest influence on the colors we’ll see and buy next year.
“Our members specify color for everything from paint and furniture to cars and carpets,” said Jaime Stephens, executive director of CMG. “They track trends several years ahead, and they’ve rarely been wrong in more than 43 years.”
So – are you all looking “green?” It seems that people want things they wear, and use, to look “green,” no matter what color they are.
In 2008, looking stylish means looking natural. Materials will look hand-made, un-dyed and unbleached. Products will look more like what they’re actually made of, with lots of texture and all the natural imperfections proudly showing through. Off-whites, sandy and linen-y colors, rock and soil colors, brownish-greens – the colors of nature are seriously fashionable now.
Does that mean all my pink tops are seriously unfashionable?
I’ve never been one to wear a lot navy blue – blue being the “trust me” color – but this year, while buying your fall attired, think deep, vibrant navy so dark you’ll swear it’s black.
So … why not just wear black? Oh well, onwards.
Metallics are in, but they should be coppery, or bronze-y. Guess that DKNY Jeans shirt I just bought at TJMaxx with (disappearing) metallic lettering and the Life is Good rosy pink one were right on target (no pun intended).
I love that DKNY shirt, by the way. It’s my new favorite garment. As soon as it comes down off the line, it’s going on my body.
Ah, well, we get to colors that are good for the fall – Moroccan reds, glowing oranges accented by rosy pinks (Hey! Pink!), sunny golden yellows and lots of turquoise.
Color Marketing Group forecasts color trends up to three years into the future for its members, many of whom must plan ahead for product, space and materials introductions.
