The winter season is dragging on leaving our skin dry, red, and ghostly pale, but the makeup gurus over at Chanel has given us something to make the rest of the winter pass by easier. Chanel has just released a limited edition Radiant Glow Highlighting Powder containing a soft shimmer and hints of warm beige and rose tones to give our faces some much needed color. Using the brush that comes with the powder, lighten up your cheeks, brow bones, and corners of your eyes giving you that just got back from vacationing in the Caribbeans glow. The Chanel Radiant Glow Highlighting Powder is retailing at $65 available now at Chanel retailers as well as at Chanel.com.

Rumor has it that the hair style was thought up the night before the show. Luckily, they had plenty of fake eye lashes to match. YSL’s makeup was all about the eyes. The rest of the facial makeup was minimalistic with light lips and a hint of blush.  The fake lashes were clumped together in sections, playing off the v shape of the headband. Actually, YSL pulled it off quite well.  Rather than looking cheap, it came off very chic.  Learn how to apply your own fake lashes.

Eyebrows can be one of the most difficult attributes to perfect on your face being either your best assets or your worst enemy. If you have tried all the torturous techniques of waxing, threading, plucking, bleaching, etc., here are some tips from creative director of E.L.F. Cosmetics, Achelle Dunaway, in creating the perfectly arched brows to shape your face.

Step 1: Start with a clean face. Using your tweezers, pluck away any stray hairs. If you have sensitive skin, apply ice to numb the brow area before plucking.

Step 2: With an eyebrow lifter, concealer, or foundation, apply right underneath the brow and blend in using your ring finger or a brush.

Step 3: Use an eyebrow stencil kit to determine your eyebrow shape.

Step 4: Mixing powder and cream, fill in your brows starting with the outside corners to avoid overly dramatic brows in the middle.

Step 5: Lastly, use a clear mascara to tame any stray hairs and create more definition.

Going along with the hype of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland film due out early March, Paul & Joe will be releasing a limited edition Alice In Wonderland cosmetic collection. The line will include limited-edition tins containing blotting papers and a mirror for shine control, blotting paper refills in a paper package, a lip treatment in a sweet milky pink for the pink tube called Fantasy and a sheer orange for the blue tube called Daydream adding a hint of color to your lips while giving shine and conditions dry lips. This Alice In Wonderland collection will be available at ASOS.com on February 25th and at Harrods in London starting March 6th running for £25 each.

This spring, Liberty of London, an iconic British luxury store who has been in production for almost 200 years, is going on collaboration overdrive with a set of shoes for Bensimon, a line of clothing and homewares for Target, and an entire collection of cosmetics for MAC. The collection features technicolor flowers and birds that looks to be printed directly on MAC’s classic black packaging on eye shadows, lipsticks, lip glosses, blushes, beauty powders, and nail polishes as well as two limited-edition items including a makeup bag a scarf.

The makeup bag will be coming in a small and a medium size for $22 for the small size and $25 for the medium size, the scarf for $95, beauty powders coming in Shell Pearl and Summer Rose for $25 each, eyeshadows in Give Me Liberty of London, Free to Be, Dame’s Desire, Birds & Berries, and Bough Grey for $14.50 each, lipsticks in Ever Hip, Peachstock, Petals & Peacocks, and Blooming Lovely for $14 each, lipglosses in Frankly Fresh, Perennial High Style, English Accents, and A Different Groove for $14 each, blushes in Dirty Plum and Prim & Proper for $18.50 each, and nail lacquers in Vestral White and Blue India for $12 each. This MAC Give Me Liberty of London collection launches in the U.S. on March 11th and internationally in April.

For their spring campaign, Mac Viva Glam is featuring pop sensation Lady Gaga and 80’s icon Cyndi Lauper in “From Our Lips” including two new lipsticks, MAC Viva Glam Gaga and MAC Viva Glam Cyndi, shot by photographer Ellen von Unwerth. Lady Gaga looks fresh and gorgeous without all her usual crazy headwear in a nude leotard, a creamy head scarf, and her Gaga colored pale pink lipstick while Cyndi Lauper is in stunning black lingerie sporting her Cyndi colored bright red lips. Each lipstick will be going for $14 with all the proceeds going to MAC AIDs Fund who’s already raised over $150 million since 1994 to fight against HIV/AIDs. The official release date of “From Our Lips” is on February 10th with a March 18th release date in North America.

Proactiv, once the leader in acne skin treatment, is taking on three new faces by the names of pop sensations Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne, and actress Jenna Fischer in attempt to reinvigorate the brand. Proactiv has been slipping from its number one rank with their competition being the likes of Johnson & Johnson’s Clean and Clear and Neutrogena Skin ID.

Co-CEO Ben Van de Bunt explains, “We are definitely reintroducing big celebrities again, and we are coupling it with a slight difference in the conversation where we view acne as the enemy, and the best way to fight acne is with Proactiv.”

Proactiv is getting ready to launch their new campaign by fine-tuning everything such as rejuvenating the benzoyl peroxide into microcrystals to easier get into those hard to reach pores. Spending $200 million on ad time worldwide this year with the improved product and three new faces, hopefully Proactiv will resume its reign as the top acne skin treatment.

Lets face facts, Hollywood can make you look the way they need you to look, glamorous or hideous it makes no difference. Take it from Jim Carrey’s role as the Grinch, or Charlize Theron’s role in Monster, I would have never in a million years guessed whom that was. Some of the roles these actors and models portray require for them to be in makeup for hour achieving the desired look for the role. On the other hand they have already landed the role via an audition, in which the makeup was far more toned down. When applying makeup, you never want to touch your skin with your fingers or hands; you will transfer oil and dirt to your pores. You should have a good set of brushes and sponges to apply all of your makeup.

Appropriate makeup to wear to an audition would be light and nearly natural tones and shades. First thing needed is a lightweight lotion to moisturize your skin; you never want your skin to appear dry, flaky or dull. You should have a dewy naturally moist look to your skin, that will help not only keep it healthy and young but it will keep it looking that way for years to come. The next step you have is finding a good cover up, you want to look into something that is in medium coverage, not to thick and not to thin and it should match your skin tone, if you need to get two shades and mix them together in order to get the desired shade. Apply the cover up to the areas it is needed; and then take a small amount of cover up a shade lighter than your skin tone under your eyes. This will highlight your eyes and make you look more awake.
Once your cover up is one you want to cover your face in a transplant powder and then in a thin coat of foundation. Your foundation should match your skin tone, and again if you need to, take two shades and mix them together to get the desired shade. Once your foundation is done you will want to define your brows. Using two colors to define your brows is not only the best way, but it also looks more natural. You will start at the front section of your brow (closest to your nose) with the darker shade and from the middle of you pupil to the end with the lighter shade and then blend them together. These two shades should be as close to your hair color as possible within being a shade darker or lighter.
Now that the brows are done you want to work on the eyes, stat with a nice base color that is a shade or two lighter than your skin and sweep the entire eye-lid with this color all the way to the brow bone. Next with a shade that is about three shades darker you can sweep a brush from the middle of the pupil to the corner of the eye blending the shade. If desired you can apply a thin line of eyeliner. Brush a light coat of mascara onto your eyelashes and the eyes are done.
Now blush can be a very tricky aspect of makeup, but used properly it can have a very positive impact on your look. You want to use a shade that best complements your complexion, for example if you are pale maybe a pastel pink would be best over a dark mauve. Pounce blush brush in powder and tap off excess powder. Smile and stroke from front of smile up and back to hairline along cheekbone. Do not put more than two coats on; you want it to appear light and airy like you have a natural blush to your skin.
Next up are lips, like the rest you want to choose a light color, or maybe even just a sheer gloss that is not to shiny. Line lips with chosen shade leaving the center of your bottom lip without lip liner. Next you want to fill in lips with this lip liner shade (it will hold the lipstick in place better) and then apply lipstick over it. Blot lips and make sure your lips are not to dry and not to wet. If your lips appear to be too dry apply Chap Stick and do not blot again, if your lips appear too glossy blot again.
Keep in mind while doing your makeup that you want your best features to pop and you want your worst features hidden all while looking as naturally pretty as possible. Please do not show up to an audition of any kind wearing glitter anywhere on your body, it is distracting and under lights can look like little freckles or moles, and sometimes like shiny pimples. Never wear dark lipstick or shadow, darker colors draw attention to flaws and blemishes. Never ever put more makeup on than you would in your everyday life. Remember the casting director is looking a facial structure not your makeup skills. Now that you look ever so stunning and classy, get out there and break a leg!

It’s actually a cool line, I saw it the other day at Seras. I gotta admit that the LL Cool J style of hardcore, Rock and Roll and skulls is very defined and the prints / designs tha LL Cppl J has sported for so long are now available and very affordable to all.

LL had this to say about his new clothing line

“I was raised by a matriarch, I have a wife and three daughters, so I know what women are looking for when they shop for clothes”, the rapper stated. “My main concern… is to make sure the fit is right. We are going to be constantly looking at fine-tuning the fit and we’ll get it right”,

and this is a dress from last years spring collection

Looks like they re-used the hat. Christian Dior created what the press called the “New Look”. The Dior look was called new because it moved away from the slim skirts and broad shoulders that were in style during that era and introduced designs with wide skirts, small waists and smaller shoulders.

That look still continues today and wide skirts with small waists have been a part of the line for many decades.

The Dior line has also kept the hats. While most designers have gotten rid of hats, the Dior line still has flashbacks to post WWII and the large hats that were in style.

As decades pass and styles change, the Dior line still seems to stay true to its creator, following in his footsteps of very feminine and detailed fashion… with a good amount of hats in their shows.

One of my favorite Dior shows was the Paris show of the spring 2007 line. It had a lot of great makeup with a heavily Asian influence. As with any Dior show, the hair is a spectacle in itself and the models looked as flawless as porcelain dolls. Christian Dior Spring 2007