5 Fun Ways to Get Into the Mardi Gras Spirit
Mardi Gras is one of the few times of the year where excess reigns supreme. Besides Halloween, there's never a more perfect time Read more
Nice and New: Anthropologie Crystal Perfume Bottles
Anthropologie has a whole new crop of glam crystal perfume bottles, or Provence Society Perfume Bottles ($18-$38), to house your signature scent or just put on display for their boudoir beauty. I'm aching to have the whole set of them, and display them amongst vintage perfume bottles in my bathroom. Wish list! I'll accept just one or two, if that's all you're willing to give me this Christmas Read more
Are You a Collector?
Collecting things—stamps, foreign coins, perfume bottles, matchbooks— can be a fun hobby. It can also be a great way to decorate your house, and to create little vignettes. Sometimes though, I feel like people need to draw the line with their collector's items; it can become a tad obsessive. Source Are You a Collector? Yes, even my collections have collections! I Read more
Fragrances Star in Fun Surrealist Portraits
Photographer Paul Graves is known for his sense of stylistic whimsy and clever allusions. Recently, he created a beautiful editorial for Elle France "starring" several iconic perfumes in surrealist settings reminiscent of Salvador Dalí's Dalí Atomica photography series. Which perfumes do you spot modeling in this shoot? Source: Viacomit Read more
Learn the Secret to Applying Bright Eyeliner
Hello, bright eyes! Get tips for applying colored liner — Refinery 29 Choose a face scrub that will work with your skin type — Stylelist Beauty battle: Madonna's perfume bottle is under scrutiny — HuffPost Style View a retrospective of Vidal Sassoon's most iconic cuts — The Cut See Azealia Banks rocking rollers as a hair accessory — Stylelite Find out Mandy Moore's top three travel Read more
Take a Peek at Hair Chameleon Drew Barrymore's New Blond Strands
Drew Barrymore is a blonde again — InStyle Catch the scent of Eva Longoria's newest fragrance — Styleite The beauty buys you should be stealing from the man in your life — Stylelist Products that won't melt in the Coachella sun — Refinery 29 Emma Watson's lower-back tattoo is actually for a movie — HuffPost Style See all the Nars Summer 2012 additions — Makeup and Beauty Blog Five Read more
This New Marc Jacobs Perfume Seems Pretty (Lady)Buggy
Leave it to Marc Jacobs to create a new perfume that's adorable and eccentric in equal measure. The new scent, Dot, won't hit shelves Stateside until August, but from the look of its packaging and its listed notes, it should be in good company with its sister fragrances, Daisy and Lola. Dot's bottle (above) looks a lot like Daisy, if Daisy decided to dress up like Minnie Mouse and hit the town, Read more
Kate Walsh on Bond Girls, Polo, and Eating Perfume
Private Practice star Kate Walsh is also a perfume impresario, and she just came out with her second scent, Billionaire Boyfriend. We recently talked to Kate about what it's really like to design a celebrity fragrance, what scents she associates with actual boyfriends, and whether she has any intention of following in Justin Bieber's footsteps. Check out the world premiere of her newest Read more
Sex and the City Perfume Fakes Flood the Market
Sex and the City isn't just popular with video bootleggers: according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's list of top seizures, it's also the most popular counterfeit perfume, WWD reports. Out of 138 commercial perfume shipments Customs intercepted for counterfeit scents, 52 contained fake SATC fragrances. And in total, the agency seized more than a million bogus bottles of the stuff last Read more
DKNY Makes a Million-Dollar Bottle of Perfume For Charity
Sometimes extravagance can serve a good cause. To celebrate the launch of its latest fragrance, Golden Delicious, DKNY has created a literal million-dollar bottle of the perfume, complete with jewel-encrusted pedestal, which the company will send to showcases in cities all over the world before auctioning it off for charity. The atomizer is made of 14-karat yellow and white gold and has 2,909 Read more
