Ice Shine: Marie Saint Pierre Beauty at Montreal Fashion Week F/W 2010

2 March 2010

Last night’s Marie Saint Pierre beauty at Montreal Fashion Week F/W 2010 was about ice and shine. Denis Binet, Creative Director of Hair for Montreal Fashion Week and Consulting Stylist for Pantene, played off the soft-yet-structured lines of the collection (which he called “a step before haute couture”), and drew inspiration from the serpentine coils [...]

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Montreal Fashion Week: Beauty at the Fall/Winter 2010 Shows

2 March 2010

Yesterday was the first day of Montreal Fashion Week in Collaboration with P&G Beauty for Fall 2010, held at Marché Bonsecours in Old Montreal. I played beauty spy at a few shows, testing out a new Fujifilm F70 EXR digital camera and checking in behind the scenes to see what Catherine Laniel, Creative Director of [...]

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Derm vs Drugstore: Is Skincare from the Dermatologist’s Office Better than Drugstore Stuff?

1 March 2010

So you think the skincare you get from a dermatologist is better than the stuff you get from the drugstore, right? Well, maybe it is. Or maybe it isn’t.
Some skincare brands sold only through dermatologists do indeed contain higher levels of active ingredients. Some brands are exactly the same, sold by derms as well as [...]

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Let Me Eat Cake: 10 Riskiest Foods via Karen Kwan’s healthandswellness.com + a Workation Plan

27 February 2010

Popped over to see what industry pal Karen Kwan, formerly of Flare Magazine, is up to on healthandswellness.com and discovered via a link that I am something of an adventurer: a few of my favourite foods are dangerous business. Note to self: move cake up my fave-food list.

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F is for Fuzzy: Airplus Aloe Infused Ultra Moisturizing Socks

26 February 2010

Damn. Winter isn’t over. These days seem either to be wicked cold, wicked snowy or wicked damp-and-cold. A bright spot? Airplus Aloe Infused Ultra Moisturizing Socks ($6.99), which come in pink, blue and purple, solid, striped and polka-dotted. One recent cranky morning (the Staff is a bad influence), I spotted

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F is for Foodie & Family: kitchen Bistro is a New Local Resto for Easy Dining

26 February 2010

What kind of a sister would I be if I weren’t geeking out over my foodie-sister’s kitchen (kitchenonavenue.com), a new restaurant she and business partner chef Jeffrey Baker, have just opened on Avenue Rd. south of Wilson in Toronto? I’d be a hungry sister, that’s what.

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Geeking Out: Chanel Quadra Eye Shadow in Kaska Beige

25 February 2010

I’m swooning some over Chanel’s Spring eye shadow quad in Kaska Beige ($61). Sure the combination of shades is beautiful, but really it’s about the finishes.

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THE How-To: Secrets of Success à la Anna Wintour via Director RJ Cutler

24 February 2010

I have not yet seen The September Issue so I’ll have to get the DVD, which hit stores yesterday. I’m keen to watch it, partly because, according to director RJ Cutler on The Huffington Post this week, the takeaway is four key secrets to success:

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A Tweet Trend: The 140 on Grey Nails for Fall 2010 + FashionMagazine.com Video

23 February 2010

A recent Twitter highlight for me was catching the entertaining New York Fashion Week backstage tweets from Fashion Magazine’s beauty editor Lesa Hannah as she hunted down the Fall 2010 beauty trends. Along with interviews with industry superstars such as makeup artists Dick Page, Tom Pecheaux, François Nars, Gordon Espinet and Gucci Westman (and an [...]

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Part One: The Only 5 Makeup Brushes You Really Need

22 February 2010

A google notification popped up in my e.mail with an alert that a story I’d written a while back for Canadian Living had hit its radar. The subject was “5 Makeup Brushes You Really Need, Plus Application Tips.” For fun I followed the link, and realized two things:
1) I’ve been doing dorky headlines for years.
2) [...]

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F is for Furor: Undressed Canadian Male Olympians — We Have Those? WE Do!

19 February 2010

Well damn. Miss an issue of Chatelaine and almost miss all the fun.
Oh yes, I’m firmly on the side of fun with this cheeky story in which our male Olympic athletes, including François-Olivier Roberge (left), appear undressed — unexpected from a Canadian lifestyle magazine, and yes, unexpected from Chatelaine. Our Olympians can be s-e-x-y, which [...]

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Enter to WIN: Benefit’s Confessions of a Concealaholic Kit

17 February 2010

Psst! Benefit’s new Confessions of a Concealaholic Kit ($44) hits beauty-shop shelves next month, but you have a chance to win one before then. BeautyGeeks has five to give away.

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The Secret: Look Into the Light to get a Good Profile Pic

16 February 2010

Yup, I’m a bit of a numbnuts. You’d think that with a little modelling in my career past that I’d know enough to look into the light rather than into the reflector when having a headshot taken at the recent Estée Lauder makeup-and-profile-pic event. But no.

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Silver Medals: Celebrate Gold w/ Birks 2010 Winter Olympics Jewelry Collection

15 February 2010

Feeling kinda proud to be Canadian right now, aren’t we? Proud of Alex Bilodeau for being the first to win Canadian Gold on Canadian soil, of Jenn Heil who scored Silver, of Kristina Groves who snagged a speedskating Bronze… so how about some more silver?
Silver as in Birks’ 2010 Winter Games collection, which celebrates Canada’s [...]

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