I Resolve to Wear Red Lipstick!

Thanks for all the great comments about your resolutions. How many of you have stuck to them? It's always tough, isn't it? If you've already slipped, just pick yourself up and try again. You have 365 chances to start fresh each year.



I made a huge list of resolutions, as I always do. The easiest one? Wear bright lipstick from time to time. I'm a lip liner and gloss girl. I love my Le Lipstique, Juicy Tubes and Color Fever glosses so I rarely gravitate towards lipstick. But this year, I'm going to reach for the reds and the fuchsias a bit more.



I have no excuse now that we have those amazing Color Design Matte lipsticks. The Red Haute color is incredible and we get a lot of personal requests from magazine editors for it. Daniel Martin, one of our fave makeup artists, also loves Red Haute. I think he used it on Chloe Sevigny when she was on the cover of Purple magazine.



Emily Weiss, the gal behind of our favorite new blog, Into The Gloss, loves it too, so we commissed her to shoot a photo essay of her pals wearing the Color Design range. Check out her great post and the accompanying photos. (Two of my faves are above.)



The good news about matte lipstick is that the pigment technology is different these days. It's not the drying matte of the past, but a much gentler-on-the-lips matte. So let's do another unannounced giveaway. What would it take to get you to wear red lipstick for a day? Tell me and I'll pick one comment at random to receive the entire matte lipstick range. I think there are seven of them. (This is a good giveaway if I say so myself!) Please post by Tuesday night. And congrats to Diana who won the L'Wren gift set. (Another awesome giveaway. Lucky Diana!)



Have a beautiful weekend.

Our Crazy PS1 Weekend! Art! Fashion! Makeup!

As mentioned, the Lancome team spent the weekend at PS1, the Long Island City museum, doing makeup for Move! This event paired top performance artists and designers for a series of performances and installations. The delightful and talented Alice Lane led the makeup team, which included some of our favorite artists such as Oslyn Holder, Kim White and Andrew Sotomayor.



The weekend was intense and crazy. Each day began at 9 a.m. when the team had to paint three very handsome Calvin Klein models with silver body paint and then coat them with silver leaf. This in itself was performance art. It took almost three hours the first day. Andrew, it turns out, is a master body painter!



I'll try to write more later. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to visit us, including our fave new blogger, Emily Weiss of Into the Gloss. (Check out her great post.) In the meantime, enjoy the pictures!!

CAPTIONS:

1. One of the silver Calvin Klein models. These guys were sooo patient.

2. Visitors to the Cheryl room

3. One of the spoken word performers from the Alexander Wang collaboration

4. Doing makeup in the Cheryl room

5. One of the Rodarte performers

6. Applying the silver leaf

7. The Terence Koh/Calvin Klein performance

8. Terence Koh (center) with Alice Lane (right)

9. The silver Calvin Klein models

10. Move! curators Cecilia Dean and David Coleman

11. Lancome lipsticks and crushed eye eyeshadows. (Don't they look pretty crushed up?)

12. A Rodarte performer gets his opal face mask

13. Me & Alice Lane

14. Cynthia Rowley's installation. Happy not to be one of those models! Yes, that's real paint being poured on her head.

15. Cheryl's dance party

PHOTOS BY COLIN LANE

A Chic New Beauty Blog!

A quick post to tell you about our favorite new beauty blog. It's called Into the Gloss and all the writing, reporting and photography is done by Emily Weiss. It feels like a beauty version of The Sartorialist, Garance Dore and Jak & Jil, three of the top street fashion blogs. (That's Emily above.)



It's chic, lively, informational and very of the moment. Emily talks to beauty and fashion insiders about their beauty routines, fave products and more. I loved the interviews with new T Magazine editor Sally Singer and Teen Vogue's Eva Chen, whom many of you know is one of our favorite beauty editors. Emily was even nice enough to mention that I swear by Lancome's Collaser serum in a post the other week. Right now, Emily is in Paris covering behind the scenes at fashion shows.



If you have a moment today, check out Into the Gloss.



Welcome to the beauty blog world, Emily!