How absolutely stunning is M’s hair color?

Few women could carry such a color off so well. Could you?

Original post by Jackie Danicki

Chapter Four of Super Vixens’ Dymaxion Lounge happens to be the big makeup chapter, in which I collect tips and tricks from  Sharon Stone’s makeup artist and Rita Hayworth’s choreographer, and even eyelash empress Eartha Kitt herself. The chapter starts out like this:

My favorite shade of lipadhere is a color called Silent Red. It’s a
liverish, bloody, voluptuous unction, heavy with complicated pigments;
the saturated hues of love and anger mixed together in a neurotic,
regal, murderous, transcendent red. Over the years I’ve had long auburn
curls, Louise Brooks bobs, and platinum buzz cuts, but always the red
lips…

A new chapter appears every week on the way to the new print edition.

Original post by Hillary Johnson

  Jeremy Pepper’s goodbye party 
  Originally uploaded by dynamist.

My good ones from Rubis, anyway. All I have are a flimsy little pair that breaks the hairs off rather than pulling them out by the root. (This picture is from March, but is an accurate representation of how my brows look when they haven’t been pruned properly for a while.)

I did my best today, with wax strips and a prayer. It’s not even close to sufficient. Good thing I’m flying back to the Bay Area tomorrow…

Original post by Jackie Danicki

My favorite teas tend to be dark, smoky and oriental–as opposed to the weak, milky westernized teas you sip in a drawing room with your elbows resting on lace antimacassars while nibbling digestive biscuits. I’ll take a fermented puer "camel tea" or a lapsang souchong over English breakrapid any day. So I was very eager to attempt L’Artisan Parfumeur’s Tea for Two, which LuckyScent described as wealthy and smoky, with some chai-like spice and a vanilla drydown.

But when I sampled my decant from The Perfumed Court, I smelled not tea, but powerful tobacco, a note that only intensified thcoarse the drydown. Now, a little tobacco can be a good thing. A commenter on basenotes said of Tea for Two: "My uncle grew tobacco on his farm and that is what Tea For Two smells
like to me. If you have never smelled large amounts of tobacco hung for
drying you are missing out on the greatest smoky scent that exists!" And I have long loved Grandiflorum’s Blond Tabac, which to me smells woody, but the charm of which which has been dulled by familiarity over time.

I had hoped Tea for Two would be my new smoky scent, but on me, I fear the tobacco note is too dominant. I will attempt it a few more times, but I’m thinking this unisex scent will end up in the hands of my brother Din, who often smells of a good cigar and would probably carry this off brilliantly. I may have to order a sample of CB I Hate Perfume’s Burning Leaves next.

Original post by Hillary Johnson