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If you can't get enough of Second Life or Sims-like games where you're challenged to create an avatar and personality that succeeds in a virtual world, AND you also happen to be obsessed with one day running your own beauty product factory and company, then I've got the ultimate niche video game for you: Beauty Factory. When I first glanced at the game, I assumed it was a video game with Read more
Britney Spears stepped out of a Las Vegas hotel tonight wearing her beautiful Neil Lane engagement ring. The newly engaged star and her fiancé, Jason Trawick, are in Sin City to celebrate his 40th birthday. Britney and Jason arrived on a private jet earlier in the evening, though she managed to keep her custom-designed sparkler concealed under a pair of gloves. Upon their arrival, Britney and Read more
The witching hour is upon us, and the evening promises all manner of ghoulish delights. If you're still struggling to come up with a costume or get your hair and makeup right, check out some of our stellar All Hallows' posts and lose that stress. 35 easy last-minute costumes — From "Cloudy Day" to "Freudian Slip," these cute, fun costumes come together in a snap. Pop art Halloween makeup — Read more
Last week, Hearst magazines unveiled three different apartments at 1212 Fifth Avenue in New York, designed by three different firms, and inspired by three different films, at its Designer Visions 2011 event. House Beautiful teamed up with Heather Moore for Jed Johnson Associates to design an apartment inspired by the movie Factory Girl while Veranda worked with Thomas O'Brien on an apartment Read more
We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! Trends. They seduce us into buying a hot item, only to leave us a year later with an emptier wallet and a useless widget. But there’s one trend we at LearnVest can get behind: conscious consumerism. At its most basic level, buying consciously just means taking a couple of extra seconds to consider each purchase. It’s a way Read more
The recent arrest and conviction of two importers charged with bringing over 30,000 bottles of counterfeit perfume into the US is a great reminder that knockoff fragrance is far more common than you'd think. And the ingredients in fake perfume are sometimes extremely suspect and include lovely additives like human urine. So where is it safe to buy your perfume? To find out, just keep reading. Read more
Unexpected beauty icon: Mia Farrow in The Great Gatsby — StyleList Ryan Gosling goes really blond — People StyleWatch Balding stars: guys who embrace it vs. guys who hide it — Yahoo Shine The proper way to apply eyeliner — Real Simple Seven plastic surgery procedures you never knew existed — Refinery29 New model Janice Alida would make a really good-looking chef — The Cut Step by Read more
There's just one more week before Glee's season finale and their trip to NYC for Nationals, and things get more dramatic than anyone expected. There's a death that shakes up everyone and changes one character to the core, and the gang busily plans a funeral service despite the prep they still need to do before the big event. Still, the show must go on, and Jesse St. James is there to pull Read more
If looking at Alexander Wang's Fall ad conjures up dark thoughts in your mind, you're on the right track. “We wanted something really gritty and raw to contrast with the polished richness of what we showed on the Fall runway,” said Wang. The ad, shot in Red Hook, Brooklyn, features beauty Raquel Zimmermann in wet motion wearing Wang's Streamer dress inside an abandoned grain factory. If Read more
For the conch episode of Top Chef All-Stars, we have Finnish favorite, chef Stefan Richter, sharing his thoughts. What's up everybody?! Lots has happened since I blogged last time. I have been to Finland, my homeland, and I opened a steakhouse in a beautiful cotton factory on a river in Tampere. You can see pictures on my Facebook or follow me on Twitter, if you like. Finland was fun, exiting, Read more
