Valentina Zelyaeva for Wish Report Brazil

I was looking for a great lingerie story and I found this.
Not exactly a lingerie story, not exactly not one either.

Valentina Zelyaeva looking exquisite in hair and makeup by Max Weber, shot by Jacques Dequkers for the Wish Report Brazil

Apres La Nuit...

A lifetime ago in London, the first mega model I ever worked with was Yasmin Le Bon.
She's amazing.

In this month's L'Officiel Paris Yasmin has a very Night Porter themed shoot, no doubt inspired by Louis Vuitton F/W models hitting the runway in night porter caps.
Is it just me, or are we seeing more fetish inspired fashion these days?
Regardless, photographer Bryan Adams has taken the hard edge off, and left us with a beauty driven, softness. Soft moody eye, soft mouth.
Get  your beauty fetish on,

Apres La Nuit...

Model: Yasmin Le Bon
Photographed by Bryan Adams
Styled by Sascha Lilic

Tian Yi For Elle Vietnam November 2011

Elle Vietnam kicks up their fall wardrobe with a bold flash of spectacular, fiery red in their November 2011 issue.

Model Tian Yi looks dynamic and ultra luxe in Diane von Furstenberg, Chanel and Cavalli
Photographed by Kevin Sinclair
Styled by Andrew Holden
Makeup by Nam Vo
Hair by Yoichi Tomizawa

Fierce!

Abbey Lee Kershaw Versace for H&M Look Book

There are so many capsule designer/high street collections these days, the concept is almost boring.

But when you have a model like Abbey Lee Kershaw working the Versace for H&M Look Book it gets a little exciting again.

The Versace for H&M line is targeted toward the sweet young things (read young things), with mini hemlines and a ton of embellishment. Bright, bold and fun.

Shot by Kacper Kasprzyk, here are my favorite pieces/shots from the Versace for H&M Look Book:

Rosie Huntington Whitely Covers Vogue Deutschland

Can you even handle the hottness of it??

Rosie Huntington Whitely fires up the cover of Vogue Deutschland November 2011.

Sensual and seductive, mit nur ein bisschen nudity, this classically beautiful shoot was lensed by

Alexi Lubomirski.

Sometimes you don't need the sturm und drang of the prototype high fashion shoot - Vogue Germany is showing us this month that its good to get back to some achingly beautiful simplicity.

Haben Sie einen schonen Tag
xo

Rooney Mara for Vogue November 2011

Rooney Mara covers US Vogue magazine.

Relative newcomer Rooney Mara  plays Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, based on Steig Larsson's book of the same name.

Mara beat out sexpot Scarlett Johansson for the role of a lifetime, in the movie which opens December 21st.

Rooney Mara Playing With Fire

Do you love it???

Exquisitely shot by Mert & Marcus, the pictorial shows how truly hauntingly beautiful Mara is.
The issue hits newstands next Tuesday, but you can read the article here at Vogue.com

Check out the behind the scenes video of Rooney Mara's Vogue shoot 

The Two Minute Rule

Girls are always telling me that their makeup doesn't last past lunchtime, or that their face resembles a gooey oil slick by mid morning.
As we go over their morning glam routine we generally find that they are using the right products, but that they're throwing them at their faces in a manic, high speed, borderline psychotic frenzy.
Thus, the not so hot, slimey mess.

So today we're going to talk about the  

Corinna B Beauty 101 Two Minute Rule 

(which can be shortened to 1 minute if you're really in a time pinch)

Anytime you are putting anything on your skin, whether it be a skin care product or a makeup product, you have to allow a little time for the love fest to begin. Your skin needs a chance to absorb the product, or to cosy up to it and make a union that binds. If you pile everything on at once you wind up with a colored skincare soup.

Now, as women we are born multi-taskers. Very few of us get the luxury of devoting uninterrupted time to the mirror each morning, so the Two Minute Rule actually incorporates into your morning routine quite easily.

 


Here's how it works:
If you use a serum in the morning, wait 2 minutes before applying your moisturizer and eye cream.
Easy, right?
Use that 2 minutes to go grab your coffee, make your bed - whatever else you are tasking before leaving for work.

2 minutes later put on your facial SPF




Wait for 2 minutes, then put on your primer. You have to let your primer settle and do its thing before you go racing in with concealers/color correctors/foundation

After 2 minutes put on your foundation. Make sure you apply your foundation sparingly - less is more, and give it a chance to set a little before powdering and moving on with your makeup.

If you're using a cream blush, apply before powder, but give it a couple of minutes to settle into your skin before you do powder it.

Once you're powdered, your two minute (1 minute in a pinch) spacing is done, and you can high speed through your eye makeup and what ever else you're doing.

Arizona Muse redefines fabulous

By allowing your skin a minute or two to absorb and work with each of the products you are using, and then powdering your wet makeup products to set them, your makeup will last all day, and look totally fabulous.