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Beauty Trend: Animal Instincts
It's a popular growing beauty trend that is showing up on nails, eyes, and even in your hair! Animal print is no longer just a printed fabric, it comes in all shapes and sizes to fit your taste in beauty today.
Consider this. Zebra striped nails, or how about a cheetah print design? Beauty manufacturers are making these trendy nail prints easy as can be. Take Sally Hansen's nail stickers for example, they are simply amazing to create a chic look with no effort at all. Literally peel, stick, and file. Getting a trendy nail look has never been this easy, so easy!
Now consider this, leopard print eye shadow. This one is not so much an easy task, yet more of a process, but after the process is complete, the final look is...well, ferocious! Get stunned at tons of video tutorials on how to get the gorgeous eye look.
Lastly, let's take a look at some animal print hair. Lately, some wacky and weird trends have been emerging with hair extensions, and this may be one of the weirdest, but we just had to share it and show it off to you! Forget the feather extension or pink hair strip clips, cheetah/leopard print hair is the 'new black'. Check out this DIY cheetah hair tutorial and let us know what you think?
What animal instinct beauty trend can you see yourself wearing most?
New Fragrance: Angel Schlesser Pirouette
Dancers around the world, the time has come, there is finally a fragrance inspired by the world of ballet. Ballet looks beautiful, it's graceful, full of sophistication and simply put, it's pleasant to watch. However, if you've ever taken a class, you'll know it takes a lot of skill, technique, it's a lot of of hard work, dedication, and takes a massive amounth strength, physically and mentally.
This fragrance, Pirouette, exemplifies just that, with notes including bergamot, black currant, plum, rose, freesia, iris, lily of the valley, orchid, jasmine, cocoa beans, white musk, amber, cedar, vanilla, and patchouli. Lots of sweet notes mixed with some spice, a perfect way to describe ballet dance, and most of all the dance term for a turn, pirouette.
The Avengers has a COLOGNE
What if we told you, you can smell like your favorite super hero? Talk about perfect timing, with the Avengers out this year, the cologne and perfume company, JADS lets you with their 'Spring 2012 Cologne Set for Marvel's The Avengers', featuring four heroic fragrances and three other scents, available seperately, these fragrances are packed with punch.
Included in the pack, you can choose from Patriot cologne, Mark VII cologne, Worthy cologne, or SMASH! Not into those super power inspired scents? Maybe Black Widow perfume, Infinity Formula cologne, or Mischief cologne suits you best.
Each fragrance has a different super hero inspiration and is made to compliment the range of emotions the characters portray.
Can you see yourself or someone you know wearing these new scents?
Introducing The Goodsmellas: Male Fragrance Fanatics
Since you follow us on Twitter and read our blog posts, you're most likely a fragrance fanatic, yes? Well fanatics, can you beat the Goodsmellas, a group of males who are too, fragrance fanatics?
These NY guys are a group of serious perfume collectors who post online perfume reviews about their favorite (and not so favorite) scents. Before you go and judge a man by a scent, (which is a good judgement call, we think), The Goodsmellas have been said to only be able to wear their colognes and scents when they're home, because when they're on their day job, they just can't. So how does this make them a real fragrance fanatic? And what exactly is their day job?
The Goodsmellas consist of NYPD police officers, firefighters, and even work for the government. Police officers by day and male fragrance fanatics by night, amazing. So why can't these guys wear it on the job?
"If you're in uniform, wearing a bulletproof vest and the gear, you can get really hot. I've learned the hard way that you really need to wear something light. Otherwise I'll choke myself out, standing on a parade route baking in the sun in something heavy."
So go on ahead and take a peek at some hunky men talking about some amazing smelling cologne on their Youtube channel, and don't forget to embrace and enjoy that 'New Yawk' accent!
6 Steps to Perfectly Stained Lips
Get that gorgeous, just bitten, berry lip stained lip look in these simple, snappy steps.
- Start with clean, dry, freshly exfoliated lips. You can do this with a damp wash cloth or lightly brush your lips with a toothbrush.
- Be sure that your lips are completely dry
- Apply a matte lip color all over your lips, pressing and dabbing the lip color into your lips
- Blot lips with a tissue, this is an importatnt part of the staining process, so don't skip it!
- Clean up and highlight- clean around the lip line with a Q-tip and highlight with a concealer pen
- Want a deeper stain look? Keep pressing, dabbing and blotting until your desired look is achieved
We love a deep plum or rose lip stain look, which shade is your fave?
Abercrombie & Fitch to Sue Beyonce
How dare Beyonce not take into consideration Abercrombie & Fitch's Fierce fragrance when planning to create her Sasha Fierce perfume. That's right, Abercrombie and Fitch is taking legal action with Beyonce for the 'fierce' title.
Last week, Beyonce anounced that she would be teaming up with fragrance maker COTY to create her own fragrance, named after her alter ego, Sasha Fierce, which is supposed to reflect her inner power.
Maybe it's us, tell us if you disagree, but Sasha Fierce seemingly has been more well known and around a lot longer than Abercrombie and Fitch's Fierce scent (whatever that may be) .
Do you think Abercrombie and Fitch will be able to stop the production and release of Beyonce's new fragrance?
New Fragrance: Michael Kors Suede
"There are few things in the world that embody so well the signature elements of my collections,” says Michael Kors about his new fragrance. “Suede is sporty and sexy and feels incredible on the skin, but it can also add a great unexpected twist when you’re thinking of what’s luxurious.”
Notes include a top notes of tuberose flower and notes of lily of the valley, michelia flower, mandarin, creamy woods, and alluring musks.
Photo Courtesy: Michael Kors via BeautyPress.com
Kate Middleton's Royal Wedding Scent
Since you already know how important we think it is to consider the right scent on your wedding day, we just had to share with you once we found out what Kate Middleton wore on her Royal Wedding day. The wedding itself was probably the most talked about wedding of the century and hats off to the royal couple, Kate and Prince William for hitting their one year anniversary mark.
While there was a ton of talk about her wedding dress, designers and bridal stores mimicking the look, we still can't get over the fact that she did her own wedding make up and now with good authority, know her wedding fragrance was in fact Illuminum's White Gardenia Petals. The brand is British and holds exquisite fragrances, made up of the finest esseces and extracts. No wonder she chose to wore a fragrance such as this on her special day. Would you wear Illuminum's White Gardenia Petals now that you know Kate Middleton wore it on her wedding day?
New Fragrance: Vera Wang Lovestruck Floral Rush
Vera Wang's Lovestruck was a big hit and got plenty of press, especially considering Gossip Girl star Leighon Meester fronted the fragrance. Like Lovestruck, Lovestruck Floral Rush will be another hit for Ms. Wang, as the fragrance has been said to be a "sparkling floral bouquet that blooms with instant attraction.You will fall head over heels with notes of mouthwatering champagne accord and apricot blossom. The heart beats a little faster with a rich layer of pink passion flower, and a lasting impression is left with cashmere woods and sheer musk, sweeping you off your feet."
The fragrance was developed by perfumer Pascal Gaurin and has notes of pink pepper, marigold, freesia and white amber. Will you rush to stores for Vera Wang's LoveStruck Floral Rush?
Trend to Try: Ombre Lips
Ombre has been a big part of the beauty industry lately, whether it be ombre hair, ombre nails, or the latest trend, ombre lips. Want to try the new 'it' trend of the season, grab a duo of lipsticks and let's begin.
- First, start off with the lighter of the two lipsticks you have chosen to work with. Begin to apply the lightest color to the center of the lips.
- Add the darker color to the edge of your lips
- Use a lipstick brush to feather and blend the two colors together
- Add another coat of the lighter lip over the first base application of the lightest color
- Again feather the light color with a lip brush into the darker color to blend.
Not only is this a cool, and not to mention easy trend to try, but it also helps you achieve the effect of a filler lip!