Winter is our least favorite season. But it’s difficult to put on a brave face, when that face is dry and pale and just not at its best. At the launch of the new FACES Beautiful Brush-On Mineral Makeup, we learned more about the line and asked founder and makeup artist Gail Sagel for winter makeup and skin tips to refresh our beauty regimen for the new year. And with our finely shaped eyebrows, courtesy of a FACES Beautiful esthetician, it’s harder to make an unseemly cold-weather scowl.
With all the concerns and confusion about how we absorb chemicals through our skin, we’re happy to know about Mandy Aftel’s Aftelier artisan natural perfumes. Aftel hand-blends her fragrances using pure essences that she has selected herself. To start your new year sweetly, we’re giving one lucky winner a chance to win her choice of Aftelier perfume in a French glass pendant!
We love adding a touch of glamour to our usual beauty routine during the holiday season. In our latest issue, we even shared a few of our simple beauty tricks in “Glam Up for the Holidays.” So we’re happy to let you know that the makeup and skincare line of former VIVMag cover model Iman is currently having a “Show Us Your Look” Holiday 2011 Facebook Contest. Ten winners will receive the new IMAN Cosmetics Signature Gold Compact Translucent Powder and Wild Thing Luxury Moisturizing Lipstick (a $30 value).
When selecting holiday gifts this year, we found that some of the best were those that benefit good causes. Some of our favorites are featured in “A Gift for Giving” in the latest issue of VIVmag, but we wanted to call your attention to a few more worthy picks.
Throughout the month of November, men are cultivating mustaches for Movember, a campaign to bring awareness to men’s health — specifically prostate cancer. We’re not hirsute enough to participate in the mustache initiative, thankfully, but it got us to thinking about what we could do, and it inspired us to donate our growing locks to charity.
As we wandered through the “Beauty CULTure” exhibition, on display through Nov. 27 at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, we thought about the ban on digital retouching of body images in advertising proposed earlier this summer by the American Medical Association. The exhibit looks at how photography has shaped our ideals of feminine beauty and left women wondering how they measure up or, more to the point, fall short.
During Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, we got the chance to peek backstage and check out some of the runway hair styled by Aveda. While the spring/summer 2012 collections are obviously the focus on the runway, the ‘dos kept with the overall mood of the shows and drew inspiration from a variety of places — from St. Tropez to Amish country.
On the heels of a rocky financial ride last month, this we know for sure: we can block off the week of Oct. 10 to 16 for bliss. This fall marks the 15th biannual return of Spa Week, an event during which hundreds of spas, yoga and Pilates studios, and wellness facilities across North America offer some of their signature services, which typically cost between $100 and $400, for just $50. Booking begins Sept. 12 for the 2011 spa week, which features contemporary and cutting-edge spa services available, such as laser facials, trigger-point massage, nutritional counseling sessions and meditation and yoga classes.
Since its launch in 1989, Donna Karan’s street chic DKNY line has embodied quintessential New York City fashion to us. In 2004, the line expanded into fragrances with its original Be Delicious perfume — fittingly an apple scent for the Big Apple brand. Since then, DKNY has come out with more than 10 variations for men and women, such as Red Delicious and Delicious Night. To celebrate the new DKNY fragrance, Golden Delicious ($42-$75), the company has created a one-of-a-kind, jewel-encrusted gold apple bottle valued at $1 million. The bottle will be displayed in locations around the world, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Malaysia and Mexico, and then brought home to New York in the fall to be sold on DKNY’s Facebook page for charity.
At the first Fragrance Academy hosted by Estée Lauder, Trudi Loren, vice president of corporate finance development and expertly trained “nose,” opened a dialogue about what goes into a perfume and how fragrances are developed.
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