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New York Fashion Week Fall 2008 - Backstage Beauty with MAC at Nanette Lepore, Milly, Carlos Miele, Richard Chai, & Temperley

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New York Fashion Week Fall 2008 - Backstage Beauty with MAC at Nanette Lepore, Milly, Carlos Miele, Richard Chai, & Temperley
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New York Fashion Week Fall 2008 - Backstage Beauty with MAC at Nanette Lepore, Milly, Carlos Miele, Richard Chai, & Temperley

NANETTE LEPORE | We've seen a lot of new looks for fall this week; colour on the eyes, purple lips, gradient eye makeup, and eye colour that goes from lid to brow. But there are plenty of New York designers who still love the "clean, modern, fresh" girl of New York who doesn't try to look good -- she...

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Step Into My Shoes - Acne and Battle Scars!

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Step Into My Shoes - Acne and Battle Scars!

Step Into My Shoes - Acne and Battle Scars!

SCENARIO: When I get pimples/acne, it's cystic acne that inevitably causes pigmentation and scarring no matter how fast I catch it. What are some skin care products that prevent acne but don't dry out the skin? I have oily skin and would take recommendations on regimen too. Right now, in the...

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Splendid Saturday Reads

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Splendid Saturday Reads

Splendid Saturday Reads

From around the Splendicity community, comes this week's best in Beauty, Fashion, and Shopping.

BEAUTY Frugal Faces: More on Makeup at The Space Between My Peers. Beauty Secrets Revealed loves her Homemade Apricot And Papaya Face Pack For Glowing Skin. Beauty and Fashion Tech provides skin swatches of her three...

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Temptalia Asks You - How do you choose what lip color to wear?

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Temptalia Asks You - How do you choose what lip color to wear?
Weekly Features

Temptalia Asks You - How do you choose what lip color to wear?

How do you choose what lip color to wear? Do you pair certain colors with certain other colors? How do you know what lipstick and gloss to combine? What advice do you have for the lip-pairing-troubled?

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Makeup Sales & Deals This Week

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  • ColourPop — 10% off (a few exclusions apply) w/code TEMPTALIA, ends 12/31.
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Guest Look -- Shawna Shares This Silvery Teal Look

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Guest Look -- Shawna Shares This Silvery Teal Look
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Guest Look -- Shawna Shares This Silvery Teal Look

She used...

  • NC30 Concealer as base
  • Newly Minted on inner 1/3 of lid
  • Teal blue on middle of lid
  • Electric eel on outer lid
  • Prussian in crease
  • Ether on brow bone
  • Phloof! as highlighter
  • Ether on outer 2/3 of lower lash line
  • Electra on inner 1/3 of lower lash line/and inner lid
  • MAC liquid eyeliner on top lid
  • Feline...

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Temptalia Asks You - How many beauty products do you use per day?

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Temptalia Asks You - How many beauty products do you use per day?
Weekly Features

Temptalia Asks You - How many beauty products do you use per day?

How many beauty products do you use per day? Count up the products that you use nearly everyday and come back and tell us how many you ended up with!

For me, since I don't actually wear full makeup more than two or three days a week, I will go with my off-day total, which is five (morning cream,...

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Step Into My Shoes - 24-Hours and Counting!

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Step Into My Shoes - 24-Hours and Counting!

Step Into My Shoes - 24-Hours and Counting!

SCENARIO: In a week I will visit my a love interest in Australia. Since I live in Europe this will involve two long-haul flights. From experience I know that I won't look stellar upon landing. I would like to be the most glowing version of myself and blow him away, without applying masks every five...

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MAC Cosmetics - Slimshines 2008 Review and Swatches

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MAC Cosmetics - Slimshines 2008 Review and Swatches
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MAC Cosmetics - Slimshines 2008 Review and Swatches

OVERALL, the launch is great because it offers twenty shades of Slimshines that are all permanent to the MAC Cosmetics line. This means that you can happily have a favorite that you can repurchase again and again--not to mention you don't have to rush out and buy all twenty for fear of them selling...

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New York Fashion Week Fall 2008 - Backstage Beauty with MAC at Badgley Mischka, Monique Lhuillier, Rodarte, J. Mendel, & Behnaz Sarafpour

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New York Fashion Week Fall 2008 - Backstage Beauty with MAC at Badgley Mischka, Monique Lhuillier, Rodarte, J. Mendel, & Behnaz Sarafpour
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New York Fashion Week Fall 2008 - Backstage Beauty with MAC at Badgley Mischka, Monique Lhuillier, Rodarte, J. Mendel, & Behnaz Sarafpour

BADGLEY MISCHKA | Tom Pecheux designs the look that focuses on a multi-layered colored eye that goes from brow to lid.  It goes from burgundy to brown to golden bronze with golden pigment just above the pupils.  In fact, it was a rose pink, a new MAC pigment for fall, nameless thus far.  "Then I...

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