When your mother is a world-renowned fashion designer whose glamorous creations have adorned style icons like Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Renée Zellweger, it would seem daunting to bear her name, much less fill her chic stilettos. Famous designer Carolina Herrera and her daughter, also Carolina...
Perfume and perfume bottles are huge collector's items. It may take a long time but you do not want a hundred year old vintage bottle of perfume sitting on your display shelf, just in case it were to tip over. Take for example a recent auction in which a 1930's Mickey Mouse perfume bottle sold...
Mineral makeup is free of preservatives, perfumes and other artificial ingredients that are known to irritate sensitive skin and cause blemishes. This lightness also means that you can occasionally wear the makeup to bed without paying the price the following morning. Our mineral makeup is three...
I smell so bad right now. It’s my mother’s birthday this Sunday and I went shopping today to find her a present and somehow wound up at the perfume counter. I usually just select the same perfume I’ve been wearing for the past five years and high-tail it outta there. I have about twelve different...
By Leigh Grogan - lgrogan@sacbee.com Published 12:00 am PDT Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Story appeared in SCENE section, Page E3 DEAR SHOPPING: I was wondering if you know of a topical ointment or cream that would help alleviate a light case of rosacea. The rest of my skin looks pretty good for a...
Rating : 4.5/5Number of Pages : 263Reason for Reading : Book Awards Reading ChallengeSubtitled "The story of a murderer" you know you are in for something not particularly pleasant. It tells the story of a man (Jean-Baptiste Grenouille) who is born amid a rubbish dump and whose mother then...
Salvador Dalí (1904-89), more performer and personality than artist, is well-known for his flamboyantly flimsy, metaphysical Surrealist paintings. The art critic Jed Perl succinctly summed him up as "the Liberace of modern art." But Dalí was also a designer of textiles, perfume bottles, cognac...
Today’s fragrance immediately reminds me of several very perfume-y, department store scents like Tresor and L’Air du Temps. The amber is nice but it turns very soapy on my skin. It’s a very nice scent but quite mature and not like Rated R mature, more like AARP mature. I can say I do quite like...
It is now almost the end of May, and while it is too early to tally up the launches and pick favorites, I cannot resist making a list of upcoming fragrances that spark my curiosity. It is not a complete list of new launches, by any means, but simply a list I keep for myself of new perfumes that...
Choose fabrics that are kind to your skin. Natural fibers such as cotton and silk allow your skin to breathe. But wool, although it certainly qualifies as natural, can irritate even normal skin. When you wash your clothes, try to use detergents without dyes or perfumes, both of which can irritate...







