I have temporarily escaped to warmer climates (re: hanging with my gal pals…I mean…work colleagues in sunny California).
However, after just a few gleeful days, I will have to (mournfully) return to the winter chill of New York.
As the temperature drops, my favorite cosmetics company, M.A.C., has released a new beauty barometer sharing the season’s hot new cool. It shows the light snowflake lips of Naked Frost. Eyes sculpted in Arctic Grey, warmed with deep black velvety strokes of new Penultimate Eye Liner.
It’s pretty awesome. This season’s hottest runway looks show us graduated smoky eye (a gradient of silver/gray to black) …read more

At first I thought the MAC-Dame Edna combination was ever-so-slightly weird. I mean, when was the last time any of us looked at Dame Edna and thought beauty icon????
Follow my beauty regime possums, and you’ll never be cosmetically challenged.
- Dame Edna
Well, that’s high promise: I am a beauty editor, and I’m cosmetically challenged just about every time I ready myself for a hot night out!
That said, I am a little fearful of embodying the beauty advice of a drag queen.
It’s a pretty comprehensive line though, all in mystical fairy-dust-like shades in a very retro lavender casing that is topped off …read more

Those crazy folks at MAC are working the crazy DJ’s Andrew Andrew on a series of, uh, dance instruction videos.  I’m not sure what to say here, but have a cocktail or 5 and get a chuckle.  And when you’re done chuckling, do not forget about good ol MAC.  They have had some FABULOUS collections out this summer and are moving right on into fall.  There IS no better eyeshadow than MAC.  Don’t get these goofballs make you think otherwise. 
Here are the first three videos in the series – keep an eye on the MAC channel on YouTube to …read more