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Beauty In The House, Backstage At Derek Lam
Backstage at Derek Lam, makeup artist Tom Pecheux was looking west—to California specifically, with its sun-kissed hills and the outstanding homes that dot them. “We talked about Richard Neutra,”...
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“Twisted” College Coeds, Backstage At Derek Lam
“She’s a little naughty—she likes to break the rules a bit,” coiffing star Orlando Pita said backstage at Derek Lam of the designer’s sixties-era, college coed muse. What kind of rules does she like...
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A Blow-Dry Bar Grows In Santa Monica
With the proliferation of one-stop blow-dry shops saturating major metropolitan areas, how does a newcomer set itself apart from the well-coiffed pack? For Matthew Preece, owner of Santa Monica’s Fred...
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Simple, Soft Beauty Backstage At Derek Lam
Maybe it was the fact that last season’s big, sixties-era undone bouffants met with mixed reviews—or that Spring’s general, minimal-minded beauty mantra is spreading. Whatever it was, Orlando Pita kept...
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Bohemian Beauty Rhapsody, Backstage At Derek Lam
“The buzzwords were bohemian, minimalism, structural architecture,” Orlando Pita said backstage at Derek Lam, rattling off a list of inspirational terms the designer had provided him with as a beauty...
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Milk Thistle Does a Body (and Hair) Good
MILK THISTLE / (milk this-uhl) / n. / 1. Latin name Silybum marianum, the sturdy thistle with the spiny stems, native to the Mediterranean region, is so named because of its milky-white-streaked...
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Multitasking A Holiday Weekend Side Dish
MAIZE / (mayz) / n. / 1. Known in some English-speaking countries as “corn,” a plant with large stalks that produces a kerneled grain domesticated by indigenous people in Mesoamerica dating back to...
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Lessons In Frizz-Fighting From The CFDA Awards
There was a single hair product on heavy rotation last night on the CFDA red carpet that assisted in a number of sleek updos: To fend off the frizz-inducing weather, hairstylists seemed to be grabbing...
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Smoke Show, Backstage at Derek Lam
“As you can see it’s kind of a raccoon eye,” makeup artist Tom Pecheux joked. “It’s very big and smoky.” To get the look, he applied a heavy dose of translucent powder to lids before coating them and...
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A Brooklyn Jewelry Designer’s Laid-Back Beauty Routine
In the ever changing—and, perhaps more accurately, quickly homogenizing—creative landscape of New York, jewelry designer Suzannah Wainhouse stands blissfully apart: both she and her work, resolutely...
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