Ditch the booze. Start Bikram Yoga. Get my submarine license. Stop doing burnouts in the car park. Sell the Hummerzine and buy a street luge. Return that email Angelina Jolie sent… These are some of my non-beauty new year resolutions. As you can see, some of them border on ridiculous, I mean when will I get time to email Angelina? My beauty resolutions on the other hand, are a lot more achievable…... more

Old mate John Galliano, he doesn’t mind a bit of ‘80s excess. Not at all. Which may be why the models on the runway at the Christian Dior Spring/Summer 09 sported a total hair and makeup overload. Let’s see what we had: Crimped hair. Fringes. Hair pieces. Strong brows. Strong eye makeup. Strong lips. Fierce cheekbones. And all topped off with some big earrings. But joo know what? It looked incredible.... more

I’m sorry, I know I should be the one geeing everyone up about all of the amazing trends exploding from the Spring shows, but after only one day at the shows over here in Paris, in my stripy top and beret, chomping on a bread stick, I have to say COME ON, HAIR AND MAKEUP TYPES. Yes, it has been only one day, but I already kind of have a bit of a hint as to what we’ll be seeing here… just like what we saw in NY… and London… and Milan: Centre parts. “Nude” makeup. Red lips. Backcombing. Slicked back hair. Of course, there is nothing wrong with any of these (The Big Five, we’ll call them) we’d just like a bit of a shake up, you know? Maybe some curls? Some lilac lips? A new part?
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And even though we’re over here at the shows, eating Panini and sipping on Chianti and riding Vespas, we NEVER forget that the absolute bottom line of playing with hair and makeup is that yes, it does serve to make us look good and feel great, but ultimately, it serves to allow us to be creative, and playful and experiential. And I must say, the spring/summer 2009 collections have not been exploding with playfulness and craziness. It’s been quite conservative indeed. And then Moschino stumbled in, all wild quiffs and silly sunglasses. And we sighed a collective sigh of relief. ... more

Alberta Ferretti always delivers something special for those of us who love to track hair and makeup trends. Sometimes it’s a batch of home cooked muffins, sometimes it’s some a stack of old UK Vogues she no longer wants, and sometimes it’s the kind of excellent hair and makeup that inspires us to go straight over to the mirror and try whatever it was she placed upon her models heads and faces. ... more

Oh, Giorgio. You always know how to pull an impressive crowd. Whether they’re attending your shows or wearing your frocks, you always get the A list. (Solange Knowles is the exception. Maybe she nicked her sister’s invite.) ... more

If your eye shadow brushes could speak, probably they would have a lot to say about the fetching purple smoky eye seen on the runway at Temperley London yesterday at London Fashion week. ... more

Here we are in London, on our second stop on our “world” wind tour of the Spring/Summer 09. This place has a definite Britishy feel to it.... there are red buses everywhere and we hear the Queen isn’t far from we are now. (Which is definitely England.) The shows kicked off yesterday, with the Brit Kids out in force (Peaches and Pixie Geldof, Alexa Chung et al), some lovely little top knots at PPQ and more confirmation that bright orangey-red lips are, like, really big news. ... more

We’re wearing our Prada frilled patent cone-heeled shoes and lots of black and we’re hanging ‘round Bryant Park with Jen, Leighton, Mary-Kate, Eva and Jess and all our closest Totally Famous friends, taking in all the shows (front row of course) and thinking, gosh, looks like nude makeup is in again this season…... more