Botox Brilliant

Botox is widely known for its ability to diminish crows feet, wrinkle lines on  the forehead and  the "number 11" lines between the eyebrows.
It is frequently (and somewhat brilliantly) used to give a non surgical brow lift, fix lip imperfections, and perform all manner of youthful trickery.

Unfortunately not everyone who gives Botox shots know what they are doing, hence the slew of perpetually freaked out looking women prowling the malls, looking fierce. (but not in a good way!)
If you are thinking about having Botox it is imperative that you find a practioner that not only has a huge grasp on aesthetics, but who also has a massive understanding of the intricacies of the musculature of the face.

Make sure you get referrals from people who have had really fantastic experiences with Botox, or you may end up looking like the lady who sat opposite me on the plane the other day. She looked like a trippy Norma Desmond, albeit with only one expression,  leading the casual observer to believe the plane was in a vertical spiral, and we were coming into the fast part.
And her eyebrows were hoisted halfway up her forehead...

Anyway, once convinced that we were in fact maintaining a somewhat horizontal flight path, it got me thinking about some other uses for Botox.
My Dermatologist always tells me how wonderful it is in the treatment of pain, especially for migraine sufferers. (unfortunately my migraines don't center in the right place for me to be a candidate.) and
I've read that it can be used to eliminate excessive sweating.

Another cool one I just read about is "Tennis Elbow", the term used when tendons in the lower arm get damaged from prolonged repetitive movement. (I have Makeup-Artist-Kit-Carrying-Elbow from dragging my heavy makeup cases around, so I empathize...)
Resting your arm often solves the problem, but for some it can be ongoing and very painful.

Researchers at the Khomeni Hospital Complex in Tehran recently experimented using Botox to relax the muscles putting tension on the tendons, allowing the tendons to heal.
Sounds incredibly clever to me!

So if you see me cruising around with a wickedly youthful looking left elbow, you'll know exactly what I've been up to...

Gisele Bundchen for Vogue Brazil, July 2011

Back in the USA, jet lagged supremo.
But I did some good magazine shopping at the Sydney International Airport.
Time to check out Vogue and get back on track.
This time its Vogue Brazil.



Check out Gisele Bundchen in the Amazon Woman editorial, shot by Jacques Dequecker for Vogue Brazil July 2011 issue.

Damn fabulous.

Prada Fall Winter 2011 Campaign

How fabulous is this??

The Prada Fall/Winter 2011 campaign
Shot by genius Steven Meisel
Makeup by the amazing Pat McGrath (the queen of all makeup artistes)
Hair by Guido Palau
Models: Frida Gustavsson, Kelly Mittendorf, Ondria Hardin, Antonia Wesseloh, Julia Zimmer and Dorte Limkilde
















Love it.
Absolutely.

From The Style Cave: Grey Is The New Black

Today is another guest blog, from one of my absolute favorite blogs ever, the very fabulous Style Cave.
I adore the way she thinks.
I adore the way she writes.
I adore her blog.

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Grey Is The New Black
via Style Cave 

Age is not a number. Age is a doomed and inevitable conclusion, marked by wrinkles, health defects, degenerative memory loss and sending birthday cards that match neither the gender nor age of the recipient.

Ageing is a fearful process, dragged along by apprehensive changes coloured by the harrowing stigma of a deluded societal preoccupation with retaining youth. In fashion, age is the last looming taboo, following in the anxious footsteps of race, weight, height, sexuality, gender and class, but, as the quest for eternal youth reaches a dead end, it seems that boundaries have been bent to their limits.



Swishing a long silvered mane, 45 year old Kristen McMenamy is the mature yet flawless face of these rewritten cliches. Working professionally since 1985, Kristen's modelling portfolio is unfolding much further than that of her younger counterparts, even today, as she continues to mount her peak; walking for Chanel, covering Vogue and posing for Lanvin.

Beyond her age, however, is ethereal beauty drawn with covetable bone structure and willowy limbs that connote an ironic, yet innovative, sense of androgyny. She is the answer to our western woes of cosmetic obsession; rejecting directions to the fountain of youth and embracing yourself by virtue of individuality rather than in spite of it.

“The body you‘re given, the mind you‘re given, the morality and the hang ups you‘re given, they‘re yours. Deal with it. ”

Mesmerizing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rosie Huntington Whitely For Burberry Body

“© Copyright Burberry/Testino”

Burberry announces the launch of Burberry Body – its most sensual women’s fragrance to date. British actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is the first Burberry Body fronting the fragrance’s multimedia ad campaign. The campaign directed by Christopher Bailey, features Rosie Huntington-Whiteley wearing only a rose gold satin trench coat and the scent. Burberry Body will be launched through dynamic offline and online activity, innovative digital events and highly visible, disruptive communication combining tradition and technology. Burberry will create an iconic portfolio of “Burberry bodies” shot by Mario Testino, iconising the fragrance for years to come. Burberry Body launches in over 150 countries from 1 September 2011 with further details of the innovative bottle, fragrance and scent all being revealed over the coming weeks.

Stella McCartney 2011 Bridal Lingerie Collection

Bridal lingerie can get so monotonous and frankly, quite boring.
From label to label you see so much of the same thing - perhaps well crafted, but uniformly white, or white with a pastel accent, with a virtuous use of lace, some cinch in and push up, ho hum, so much of a muchness.

But Stella McCartney's 2011 Bridal Lingerie Collection breathes some life, and some excitement into the genre.

As with her fashion line, her bridal collection is minimal but not basic, effortless while chic and feminine. The cliches of bridal lingerie collections are refreshingly absent.

The use of lace is balanced with contrasting color or replaced with soft meshes and florals,

resulting in lingerie not only to be coveted by brides and bridesmaids, but deliciously perfect for the rest of us too.

Stella McCartney's 2011 Bridal Lingerie Collection is nothing short of fabulous!


Check her out online at Stella McCartney.com

Vogue Korea St Tropez Story

I just couldn't let this one go!

Check out this exquisite story from Vogue Korea's July 2010 issue.
Its as if Brigitte Bardot had an asian twin.
It kills me that the issue is gone, and no one is looking at this anymore.
I think it is so beautiful.
I'm dying to get back to the South of France...

Enjoy.

Photographer Bori
Model Song Kyung Ah

So what if it's from a year ago? Its still completely beautiful...