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Trend Alert

Trend Alert: Taupe Nails

March 1, 2010

Doesn’t it seem like nail polish trends are on warp speed lately? It’s tough to keep up—even in the past six months or so, we’ve seen three mayjah ones. Yves Saint Laurent’s Stormy Grey—which I dubbed “the nail polish every beauty editor will be wearing“—kicked ...

Trend Alert: Grey Hair

February 4, 2010

In the past couple of months, there’s been a flurry of stories (see here, here and here) about grey hair—not hiding it, but wearing it DELIBERATELY. I flirted with the idea of doing a piece on this back in my ELLE Canada days, so it’s ...

Top 10 Beauty Trends of the ’00s

December 31, 2009

Can it really be the last day of 2009—and the entire decade? Yikes! Let’s take a look back at the beauty trends that defined us…
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Next Big Beauty Thing: Stem Cells

November 16, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, Lancôme launched its first foray into the stem-cell anti-aging category, Absolue Precious Cells. It joins a handful of similar products (such as Amatokin Emulsion and Dior Capture R60/80 XP), so I think it’s safe to say we’re witnessing a bona fide ...

Next Big Skincare Thing: Sirtuins

September 2, 2009

After churning out beauty features for a few years now, I’ve developed the bad habit of over-using certain expressions. One of those is “turn back the clock“—a rather clichéd turn of phrase I tend to employ when writing anti-aging or skincare stories.
But what if you ...

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