Jessica Alba for Vogue Italia

This past weekend at a production meeting I was referencing a cool hairstyle I'd seen a while back in a Vogue Italia spread. We pulled the issue, and were quite shocked to see that the edgy-sexy-cool girl in the images was none other than Jessica Alba!

I'd never seen her look so hot before, so even though its from a back issue, I figured it was well worth revisiting.
Shot by the amazing Michelangelo di Battista for Vogue Italia April 2011, looking nothing like the girl next door (unless you live in Fiercetown), here is Jessica Alba:

Makeup by Dotti for Streeters NY

How much hot can you handle??

Kristen Stewart W Magazine September Issue

I LOVE this!!

I adore Kristen Stewart anyway. I love that she's so ballsy and says what she wants.
She keeps rolling out these amazing photos too.

Kristen Stewart covers W Magazine's September Issue 2011

Looking like vintage Brooke Shields crossed with vintage Priscilla Presley.

Ridiculously, ridiculously hot.

Shot by Mert & Marcus
Hair by Luigi Murenu
Makeup by Lucia Pieroni

5 Steps To Luscious Lips

Want your lips to look ultra lush and kissable?

Angelina Jolie and her world famous lips

Here are 5 Steps To Luscious Lips

1.) Exfoliate - gently!
Before you do anything else, gently exfoliate the dead skin from the surface of your lips.
Use an organic lip scrub such as Lip Tea Scrub from H.Wood Beauty, a wash cloth or a soft bristled toothbrush.

2.) Lip Balm
Use lip balm every night before bed, and first thing in the morning to help protect and hydrate the lip.
Any time you exfoliate your lips follow up with lip balm, and let it soak in before going to the next step.

3.) Use A Lip Primer
Dab on either a silicone gel or a cream primer to help fill in the lines around the lip and to keep your lips looking smooth.

4.) Liner
With a pencil the same color as your natural lip color, trace your mouth, starting in the middle and working your way out to the corners, using a lighter hand as you work your way out. Next fill your lip in with the pencil, using it as your color base.

5.) Color
Avoid pale or frosty shades and nudes that match your skin or are paler than your skin. If going for a flesh tone opt for a shade that has a little pink to it, and a little more depth than your own skin tone.
Dark shades will may your lips look small, overly matte finishes will make your lips look dry. Instead choose lipcolors with a sheen to them. Grapes and raspberries always look luscious and have sufficient blue undertones to really make your teeth look white.
Orange based lip color tends to make teeth look yellow.
Feeling tired? A bold pink or fuchsia will add an instant pop of life to your complexion.

Nars Larger Than Life Long Wear Eyeliner

Apparently I'm turning into a Nars junkie.
Lately everything they do, I love.

Now they have a new eyeliner arriving for fall.

 The new-for-Fall Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner takes eyeliner to the next level. Rich, creamy color glides on smoothly with a budgeproof finish is combined with incomparable 12-hour wear that doesn’t cake or smear. Available in nine deeply dramatic shades, from light almond to blackest black, the shades are named for the most iconic streets in the world.

To celebrate the launch of the new Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner, NARS introduces a film created and directed by Fabien Baron, longtime partner and friend of the brand. To convey the product’s precision application and striking impact, the modern film shows two mechanical arms (tools commonly used in surgical and engineering practices) applying the shade Via Veneto to model Emily Baker, in an elegant, lifelike movement. The film is currently available on the NARS YouTube Channel.Enjoy.

Sleeping Beauty

When you're in your 20s you don't really think about it too much. But add in some babies or simply roll into your 30s, and what woman doesn't fantasize about getting more sleep?

Apart from feeling good, getting seven to nine hours sleep per night, which is the average number of hours an adult needs, helps prevent the following:

 Hyperpigmentation

I did not know this! It turns out that not getting enough sleep stresses the body, which triggers the activation of the proopiomelanocortin gene. (I hope I spelled that correctly - I'd never even heard of it before!)
This causes the body to produce excess pigment that can appear as light brown speckles and spots on the face.

Sagging Skin
Because your blood pressure is higher when you're awake, fluids from your blood vessels leach into your skin and stretch it slightly. When you sleep, these fluids get reabsorbed, but if you don't get sufficient sleep the fluids don't get completely reabsorbed, and the skin stays stretched.
This of course is especially noticeable around the eye area, where the skin is thinner.

Permanent dark circles.

The same fluids that cause puffiness also deposit red blood cells in the skin. These then stay there and show through the skin as dark circles.



Wow.

I read not so long ago that mother of 2 toddlers, Jennifer Lopez gets on average 10 hours sleep per night.
No wonder she looks so young!
I probably average 5....

Sweet dreams ~

Vogue Deutschland August 2011

Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles!!

How totally hot is this???

Canadian model Anais Pouliot photographed by Horst Diekgerdes  for Vogue Deutschland August 2011 issue.

2011 trifft auf die 40er Jahre - eine Liebesaffaere!

Its 2011 in a tryst with the 1940s...

dramatische Augenbrauen und ein ausdrucksvoller Mund

strong, dramatic brows and a strong mouth

ein Pelzmantel gepaart mit schwarzen Seidenstruempfen

a fur coat paired with black stockings

and the perfect bottom

Ein kanadisches Fotomodell gepaart mit einem brillianten deutschen Fotografen und aufregenden Dessous: Das Ergebnis ist ein erotisches  Feuerwerk!!
When you combine a beautiful Canadian model, a brilliant German photographer and exciting lingerie, the result is pure magic!!


... bis zum nachsten mal, tschuss!! xoxo...

Top 4 Makeup Mistakes That Make You Look Older

Want to look a little more youthful?

Here are 4 major makeup mistakes that age you like crazy!!

1. Wearing dark, matte shades.
As a rule dark colors on your eyes, cheeks and/or lips make everything look sunken in and smaller. Avoid using anything too matte. Flat, matte shadows make eyes look tired, and unless your lips are well hydrated, matte lipsticks can leave your lips looking withered and pursed.

image source anorak.co.uk

Opt for lighter colors with a sheen to them.

2. Too Much Powder

image source infobarrel.com

Translucent powder is great for setting foundation, but worn alone or overdone it sits in your fine lines and wrinkles and makes you look washed out, tired and a bit ashen. It has no warmth to it, and is the absolute devil when you are trying to look young(er) and fresh faced.
Ideally you want your skin to look a little dewy and luminous.

3.Straight Lines

Charlize Theron looking luscious

Harsh, straight lines and edges are sooo unflattering and aging! Hard lines drawn around eyes and lips just make the features look smaller, and leave you looking angry. Smudge out your eyeliner a little, and blend your lipliner inward for a much softer, prettier effect.

4. Too Bronze!
Remember Magda in "Something About Mary"??
As you age you lose some of the peachy pink skin tone, and your complexion gets a little yellower, a little sallower. Be careful of completely flat bronzers, and bronzers that are too yellow, or too dark. Look for bronzers with a champagne-rose or peachy-apricot undertone, and a very slight (read very slight) shimmer to them. They will liven your complexion back up and infuse some warmth.

Kim Kardashian tends to get the bronzer issue just right.