Wedding makeup

Pre-wedding photoshoot
Bride : Tien Do
Makeup + Hair : Me






















Pre-wedding photoshoot
Bride : Hien Tran
Makeup + Hair : Me
























Wedding day
Makeup : Me
Bride : Mai Doan
Bride's mom

FASHION WEEK: NARS Cosmetics & Fekkai for Marchesa

SHOW: Marchesa

HAIR: Renato Campora for Fekkai

MAKEUP: Talia Shobrook for NARS Cosmetics

MODEL: Danni Li for Elite

BEAUTY BOTTOM-LINE: Super sleek buns paired with soft skin and whimsical lashes

THE LOOK: The inspiration behind Marchesa's collection came from Madame Butterfly. "I wanted to capture the real look of Japan," said designer Georgina Chapman.

While the hair was sharp, the barely there makeup was super soft; allowing the clothes to take center stage.

Talia started by mixing matte foundation with the NEW Orgasm Illuminator (a liquid formula launching in spring) and blended it all over the face. Concealer was used under the eyes and to cover any redness. With her fingers, Talia applied a purple-pink cream blush to the cheekbones and then contoured with Nepal Single Eyeshadow to make the look more three-dimensional. She also cleverly created false feathered lashes from the feathers Georgina Chapman used on her designs. (see pic at right)

Check out this short video below of Renato styling the hair backstage. The look is so cool and so easy!

GET IT: Fekkai COIFF Extra Control Styling Gel, Fekkai Full Volume Mousse, Fekkai Brilliant Glossing Cream, NARS Sheer Matte Foundation, NARS Orgasm Illuminator (NEW for Spring 2010), NARS Concealer, NARS Luxor Multiple (NEW for Holiday 2009), NARS Nepal Single Eye Shadow, NARS Thebes Cream Duo Eye Shadow, NARS Abyssinia Single Eye Shadow, NARS Iceberg Eye Liner Pencil, NARS Larger Than Life Volumizing Mascara, NARS Cruising Lipstick (NEW for Spring 2010)

COCO CHANEL: THE MOVIE

by Jessica Ciarla

A look at the legendary reinventor of style...

Coco Chanel transformed the vision of what it meant to be a beautiful, chic and intelligent woman during a time when women did not have a lot of freedom to express themselves. She developed style, not fashion, since “fashion is fleeting, style is forever.”

Her struggles at a young age growing up as an orphan and experiences working as a seamstress in a small tailor shop unknowingly contributed to her amazing success. She had a unique vision, was resistant to defeatism, and was very talented. Chanel’s designs were not current with the fashion of the time. Her boyish cuts, short hair and unconstructed garments created a shift, and provoked controversial discussions because they were so different from the overbearing corsets and full skirts that were in fashion (designed by top male designers).

Chanel’s designs were a direct reflection of who she was as a woman and were not created to be adored - they were created for a woman to live her life in. Her dedication to style and the vulnerability of showing herself in her brand exposed the world to a fresh look that woman were eventually happy to embrace.

Sony Pictures Classics introduces Coco Before Chanel, a movie set to release on September 25th. This film explores Chanel’s struggle to rise to the top, and shows us why her brand has remained such a compelling and important part of fashion and style throughout time. Directed by Anna Fontaine and starring Audrey Tatou as the young Coco Chanel, the story takes a look at Chanel’s interpretation of beauty and grace. She embraces her differences as a woman and develops a style based on these characteristics.

Anne Fontaine comments “She was different. Chanel turned this difference into a fundamental asset, though it must have been a terrible suffering for her. At first, she appears as a little peasant girl, unpolished with a beehive hairstyle; then, we see how her style clashes with the other women only to become, in the last part of the movie, the incarnation of French chic. Little by little, everything in her was grace, and what people looked at was Chanel."

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BYE BYE PRESCRIPTIVES

Sad news for Presciptives fan

After many highs and lows, all of Prescriptives retail distribution will end by January 31, 2010

It's a sad day. A brand I’ve grown-up with, a brand I’ve worn for nearly 15 years, a brand that has seen me through good skin, through bad skin, and through all kinds of cosmetic trends, is shuttering. I’ve been swearing by their Custom Blend lip gloss since I first came across it at a department store counter, and there isn’t a brand (not even Dior’s Show), whose mascara can compete with that of Prescriptives. Are women of every age around the world as distraught as many of my friends and I?

I guess not enough, or this brand that has been in existence since 1979 would not be facing this dismal fate. Sold in five countries, the brand’s development was headed by Ronald Lauder and its products were developed by industry icon Sylvie Chantecaille, beginning in the late 70's. Now after many highs and lows, all of Prescriptives retail distribution will end by January 31, 2010 (I’m seriously heading straight to Bloomingdale’s today to stock up on custom blend foundation, lip gloss, and mascara before it’s too late!).

Owned by Estee Lauder (whose portfolio includes 29 brands – Bobbi Brown and La Mer among them), Prescriptives products will continue to be sold on the brand’s Web site to U.S. consumers while supplies last.

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The Look We Loved: Marc Jacobs

Has there ever been a more modern woman than Martha Graham, who forged a new language of movement in the late 1920s with her startlingly original choreography and fluid, shape-shifting costuming? With his ability to reinvent the fashion vernacular (and shift a few shapes himself) each season, designer Marc Jacobs possesses a similarly spectacular talent. So perhaps it should come as little surprise that his spring collection made loose reference to the iconic contemporary dancer—both above and below the neck.

“Marc wanted the girls to look dancery and a bit eccentric, like they might have just come offstage from somewhere,” says stylist Guido Palau, who pulled the hair back into gravity-defying, Graham-inspired ballerina knots. “She’s a performer . . . soigné and a little bit crazy.” (To add to the air of extremism, models like Jessica Stam (top) and Vlada Roslyakova went bleached blonde specifically for Jacobs’s show.)

Just before sending the models down the runway, Palau slipped wide organza and lamé scrunchies—embroidered with tiny faux pearls or crafted to look like a cluster of palest pastel seashells, respectively—over selected knots. (Yes, that’s right: Now Marc has made the scrunchy cool, again, too.) With a dash of off-kilter black eyeliner above and below the lashes and a mismatched red lip by makeup artist François Nars (back for his second consecutive season with Jacobs), they wandered through the designer’s stark-white show space like quirky Broadway performers on their way to a highly stylized rehearsal.
—Catherine Piercy

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The Look We Loved: Donna Karan

It was just a few seasons ago that makeup artist Pat McGrath sparked a lust for inky-black sixties-inspired liquid liner. At yesterday’s Donna Karan runway show, she turned the trend on its ear by rimming the eyes with a thick, winged line of bright white theatrical paint instead. “Why do black again?” said McGrath, dipping into a pot of creamy snow-colored fluid with an angled brush and dragging it along model Lily Donaldson’s (right) upper-lash line. “It’s a different way of bringing focus to the eyes, and there’s a pureness to white that suits the spring collections.” With an otherwise neutral face—a hint of rosy blush on the cheeks, a muted nude lip—or one of Stephen Jones’s amorphous, cloudlike hats, the look was at once otherworldly and pragmatic.





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"Goth" look are in style ?

You can be the judge for that. Lately, from plum to ebony, dark lipstick has become a trend on runway. Now it translates into real life as YSL launched its limited edition Gloss Pur Black


Depends on how you apply it, feather light or rich and bold. Transparent yet intense.

Chanel also has them done nicely



Not anyone can pull off this look because it depends on your lip shape, and that there are many other factors which come into play when you wear a certain shade of lipstick. As something as dramatic as these intense lip color, there shouldn't be too much on the face. What you see from the ads are hard to translate in the real world. It is something that if done right will look amazing, but if done wrong will look very bad indeed.



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