Don’t you just love how a red carpet event is never far away? It’s awfully nice of the celebs to please us so. Last week it was the Met Ball, and now the Cannes Film Festival has just kicked off.
Ever been to Cannes? I was there once—clichéd Canadian flag-adorned backpack in tow—so I’m guessing I had a very different experience than someone like Rachel McAdams. She’s there for her upcoming Woody Allen film, Midnight in Paris (her co-star is Owen Wilson), and I’m very pleased to announce that our girl is doing us proud. VERY proud.
Beauty-wise, girl just glows on the red carpet. You’ll see—let’s review her hair and makeup as compared to red carpet veterans like Angelina Jolie, Uma Thurman and Salma Hayek. Oh, and Karolina Kurkova. (But models don’t really count, because they could go with bare faces and unwashed hair and still look amazing. Boo.) Keep reading »
Sometimes I think a lot of the so-called facts that we’ve come to accept as “part of the natural order of things” or “just life, man” are not facts at all but borderline ridiculous schemes designed to divide, confuse, part us with our wallets or all three. Take the Great Pantyhose Conspiracy, for instance. It’s 2011. We put a man on the moon. Someone invented the Internet. Are you seriously telling me that they can’t come out with a pantyhose that won’t run after one wearing? It isn’t right.
And it’s the same with all of these rules about the colour of your makeup and hair vis-à-vis your skin tone. Just like everybody’s an expert these days (including me—hah!), everyone also loves to tell other people what they can and (mostly) can’t do. Avoid blue eyeshadow if you have blue eyes! Never go blonde if you have olive skin! Don’t you DARE wear orange lipstick if you’ve got a cool complexion!
It’s so exhausting, non? And maybe even wrong. I’ve been feeling for a while now—encouraged by interviews with such fearless colour trailblazers as Giorgio Armani makeup artist Reza Zaimeche and Clairol celebrity colourist Marie Robinson—that the beauty rules are a lot bendier than we think. Sure, there are still a few that hold up, but it’s clear to me that we’re entering a brave new world where there’s a way to wear just about any colour whenever the mood strikes. Keep reading »
Toldjah! Colourful makeup was one of my 2011 trend predictions—as in orange and fuchsia lips and all kinds of brights on the eyes—and whaddaya know. We’re not even halfway through January and already I’m seeing my pet trends on our celebrity friends.
I love when that happens, because even though they’re celebs (and therefore have makeup artists and derms and facialists on speed dial), they’re still a fraction less genetically perfect than the teenage freaks of nature who initially demonstrate this stuff on the runways. So, you know, we can get ideas from them on how WE can wear these shades.
And ideas we need because brights, understandably, can be scary. But if beauty editors—who typically don’t wear much makeup—have embraced them (and they HAVE, because anytime I’m at an event these days I’m swimming in a sea of fuchsia lips), then you can too… Keep reading »
