Leavin’ On A Jet Plane
Leaving Los Angeles this morning and heading off on a press tour! We are visiting 5 cities in 5 days (Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco) to promote the new Disney film ‘Secretariat’ and with Diane Lane on one side of me and makeup artist Kate Lee on the other side, I’m sure this is going to be a FUN trip!
Beauty Girl’s Picks for September
La Prairie Cellular Treatment Powder Blush in Peony. A good blush is incredibly underrated! A light sweep of this silky formula leaves behind a bold but believable flush. Plus, the silver compact gives my makeup bag a touch of class.
Sultra The Bombshell 1″. I never did master the art of the curling iron—and now I don’t have to. This clamp-less iron makes perfect spirals and beachy waves impossible to screw up.
Sonia Kashuk Nail Colour in Tauped. This has been on my fingertips since I previewed Sonia’s fall collection back in the spring. Hands down the most fashion forward nail color out there for under $5.00.
Murad Post-Acne Spot Lightening Gel. I don’t get a ton of pimples (knock on wood!), but the ones I do get last. And last. And last. This serum helps marks fade—fast.
Kim Kardashian’s (short lived) Bangs. It is my personal opinion that when it comes to all things beauty, Kim can do no wrong—and these bangs that she sported for a few sweet nights were no exception.
Fall! The slight chill in the air this last week has changed my life. Bring on the pumpkin flavored-anything, fall is my absolute favorite season.
Fresh from signing a deal with mark. cosmetics, Ashley Greene took a break from being the brand’s new ambassador to strut her gorgeous self down the VMA red carpet. From her sun-kissed tresses to her sultry gaze and blue-gray nails, this Twilight starlet is the portrait of beauty.
Want to mimic Miss Greene’s look? These products will give you a similar effect:
Natural looking highlights:
A sexy smoky eye: mark. I-Mark Custom Pick Eye Shadow in Corset and Gliteratti. Cover your lid with Corset (a gunmetal silver) up to the crease of the eye, then blend Gliteratti (a light, pewter shadow) into the crease to soften any hard lines created by the darker shadow. Next, swipe Gliteratti underneath the lower lashes, and line the upper and lower lashlines with your favorite black eyeliner. Finish with two coats of black mascara.
The perfect polish: Finger Paints Nail Lacquer in Art You Blue?
With Emma Stone’s rocker-chic style, smoked out gaze, and laid-back locks, it’s no wonder she stole the scene at tonight’s MTV Video Music Awards. To help this stunning starlet get red carpet-ready, Emma turned to mane man, Mark Townsend, and makeup artist, Rachel Goodwin. Here’s the skinny on how to get her look—straight from the pros who created it:
“I wanted Emma to look young, cool, and modern—and this awards show was the perfect time to play up a rock and roll edge,” says Townsend. To give her strands a textured, sexy feel, Townsend sprayed all over her damp hair, then used a blow dryer—paired with a —to give it lots of volume and movement. To finish the look, he added separation and texture to her hair “by taking one drop of in my hands, warming it in my palms, and raking it through her strands.”
Goodwin then took the reins and created a strong, smoky eye using her current obsession for fall: Khaki green eyeshadow. “I used a liquid metallic version called Ombre D’Eau Fluid Iridescent Eyeshadow in Torrent to cover her eye lid from the lashline to the crease—the golden green hue added an element of fun and sophistication to an ordinary smoky eye.” Then, Goodwin lined her eyes [inner and outer corners] with , and topped them off by curling and coating her lashes with two coats of black mascara. The finishing touch? She swiped Stone’s lips with a pink matte lip color to complement her deeply colored gaze.
10 Questions with Ashley Olsen
Beauty Girl: What beauty trick did you learn from your mom?
Ashley Olsen: Always use eye cream.
Beauty Girl: What drugstore product do you swear by?
Ashley Olsen: Aquaphor.
Beauty Girl: What products would we find in your teensiest red carpet clutch?
Ashley Olsen: Cle de Peau Beaute concealer.
Beauty Girl: What products do you never travel without?
Ashley Olsen: Bio-Chic hair products and Belmont face products.
Beauty Girl: What’s your biggest beauty splurge?
Ashley Olsen: Hair color and facials.
Beauty Girl: Who is your beauty icon from the past?
Ashley Olsen: Brigitte Bardot.
Beauty Girl: Who is your current beauty icon?
Ashley Olsen: Lauren Hutton.
Beauty Girl: Which of your red carpet beauty looks was your favorite?
Ashley Olsen: The 2009 Met Ball in New York City.
Beauty Girl: If you could trade hair with anyone, who would it be?
Ashley Olsen: Penelope Cruz.
Beauty Girl: The one beauty trend you’ll never embrace and the one beauty trend you’d like to bring back?
Ashley Olsen: Hmm…never say never.
Photographer: Jason Mcdonald. Hair: Mark Townsend. Makeup: Eric Polito. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Written By: Beauty Girl.
Clothing: The Row
Ashley Olsen
Photographer: Jason Mcdonald. Hair: Mark Townsend. Makeup: Eric Polito. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Written By: Beauty Girl.
Clothing: The Row
Estee’s Picks for September
Fashion Director Estee Stanley shares her favorites for September.
The colors are DYNAMIC! | This holistic, natural cream seals in moisture with no harsh chemicals and keeps skin looking fresh and dewy. |
These shoes are heaven! They have a very cool, ’60s vibe to them. I love a kitten heel for day because they are less painful than a high heel and more glamorous than a flat. | My search for the perfect T-shirt is finally over! These Tee’s come in different colors and can be worn casual or very dressy. |
I’m not a skinny jeans girl, they look like leggings to me. So I love that these jeans are skinny and slouchy at the same time, they are so sexy. | I love his big, beaded jewelry to give a punch of color and pop to even the simplest of outfits. |
Trend Reporter’s Picks for September
Similar to Latisse (yet much cheaper and it doesn’t call for a prescription), this lash growth serum contains a peptide that conditions your fringe, enabling the tiny hairs to grow longer—and thicker than—usual. I’ve been using it for two weeks now and I’m completely hooked. Give it a try, I promise you’ll be obsessed in no time! | These limited-edition, ‘Dress Up’ adhesive bandages are the chicest way to cover a cut—thanks to their haute designs, which include lace, vibrantly colored sequins, gems, gold chains, and images from a complete runway show. Much like fall’s neutral clothing palette and jewel-toned nail polish, I’ll be wearing them—and you totally should, too. |
I couldn’t be more obsessed with this site. Whether you need a dress for a wedding, birthday party, first date—insert special occasion here—this genius .com has you covered. Simply log in, choose a dress/size (don’t worry, they send you a back up just in case the size you chose doesn’t fit), rock it, then return it in the mail (they dry clean it for you, so don’t stress). Pictured above is the gorgeous Badgley Mischka Screen Siren Gown, perfect for a black tie event. | I was introduced to this line about a year ago and it completely changed my skin, so it’s only fitting that their latest product would be an immediate favorite of mine. Not only is this lotion super lightweight and moisturizing, but it also fights off harmful UV rays and skin-damaging free radicals with zinc oxide and antioxidants. |
This extremely sheer lip color (I know, it looks seriously pigmented but I promise, it’s the lightest wine-colored tint you’ll ever come across) is chock full of jojoba and avocado oil, cocoa and mango butter, and antioxidant grape seed oil to keep your lips kissable. Plus, it’s the perfect way to incorporate a touch of color into your fall makeup palette. | Hilfiger’s hiking-meets-rain boot hybrid is fall’s must-have bootie. Translation: I’m ordering these online…Right. This. Minute. |
Mark’s Picks for September
A week ago I was at JFK airport and had some time to kill before my flight started boarding so I walked into the Swatch store and I was immediately taken back to the 5th grade when all I wanted for Christmas were Swatches so I could layer them and wear 3 at a time. The designs of these are really cool and they are so light and inexpensive. I walked out of the store with 4 of them! | I travel a lot for work and my my skin suffers from all the recycled air on planes and climate changes so I use this mask once a week to hydrate my skin. I love it because it infuses lots of moisture without making my skin look greasy. |
This blowdryer is absolutely fantastic! This dryer is handmade in Paris and is so light but incredibly powerful and quite too. I’ve switched out all my other blowdryers for this one! | I never ever thought it would happen, but I have found a hairspray that I like better than L’Oreal Elnett! This spray gives the hair amazing hold and brushes out easily without leaving the hair sticky or flaking. On photo shoots I have to maintain a hairstyle for hours through many wardrobe changes and this spray doesn’t build up at all! |
This upcoming season we are seeing hair with this amazing rough, but not beachy, texture and this spray is perfect to achieve that! I style the hair completely and then I spray this on the dry, finished hair to give it a little rock n roll edge. This is also great to spray on the hair in an updo to give it some texture. | This is such a great and fantastic book! High-brow and high-fashion gossip mixed in with amazing stories and tips on manners, and I think everyone (me especially) could use a refresher course on manners these days. |
Gaining fame before your first birthday could mess with a person’s head. Unless, of course, you’re Ashley Olsen, and you were born with an insatiable desire to work—and to succeed, at that. At the age of twenty-four, she’s starred in countless TV shows, a handful of movies, recorded an album, interned for Zac Posen, written a book, inspired fashion movements, edited a magazine and launched three distinct, uber-successful fashion lines. So it’s fitting, then, that her proudest accomplishment has nothing to do with fame. Instead, it’s decidedly business-oriented. “Our most important accomplishment was gaining control of our company and taking our future into our own hands,” she told us this fall. You might also think that this young mogul, who’s been named to Forbes’s Celebrity 100 list multiple times, spends her free time swilling champagne in exclusive clubs, jetting to exotic locales and generally embracing The Good Life. Not so. “My idea of relaxing is staying home and spending time with my friends, my dog and doing yoga whenever I can,” she said. Perhaps it’s this innate business savvy mixed with her chilled-out, low key outlook that’s responsible for her success. When asked about her long-term career goals, Olsen didn’t wax poetic about expanding her empire. Instead, she responded humbly and without missing a beat: “Making it through fashion week.” Point taken.
Photographer: Jason Mcdonald. Hair: Mark Townsend. Makeup: Eric Polito. Fashion Director: Estee Stanley. Art Director: Frank Rust. Written By: Beauty Girl.
Clothing: The Row