HOLIDAY parties are over, but brilliantly bejeweled and glittering eye makeup has been lingering on, an easy way to alleviate the January blahs. “Embellished and dramatic makeup just feels right at this moment,” said Rachel Goodwin, a celebrity makeup artist for Chanel. “It’s like a science fiction movie, a Stanley Kubrick thing.” Or maybe it’s [...]

Matt Bomer had been working 70-hour weeks for months straight and badly needed a break. But instead of hopping on the next plane to the Seychelles, the 34-year-old star of White Collar on the USA Network gave up solid food for three days and put himself on the LOVEdeep Cleanse from Organic Avenue, a regimen [...]

TWENTY years ago, when a roomful of perfumers smelled the sweet scent Thierry Mugler Angel for the first time, most of them were crinkling their noses in disgust. “They said: ‘What is this thing? It’s not a perfume. It’s a flavor. It’s awful,’ ” said Pierre Aulas, now the olfactive artistic director of Thierry Mugler, who [...]

“Don’t take this the wrong way,” Mitchell Rossi, a stylist at Drybar, a new hair salon near Union Square, said to Laurie Cole one recent evening, as he swivelled her toward the mirror to show her his handiwork, “but you look like an un-Botoxed, natural version of Kyle on ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.’” [...]

“TAKE your tweezers,” Maribeth Madron, a makeup artist and eyebrow specialist in New York, will say to about a quarter of her clients, “and put them in a glass jar and freeze them.” To women who obsess over and excessively pluck their brows, tough talk is sometimes necessary. Ms. Madron, 39, who charges $85 for [...]

WHEN Rich Tong, the fashion director at Tumblr, the popular blogging platform, learned that the model Coco Rocha had started using it, he e-mailed her to say hello. She later dropped by Tumblr’s Gramercy Park offices in New York, where Mr. Tong introduced her to Jamie Beck, a fashion photographer with her own Tumblr blog, [...]

The latest iPhone prototype to go missing apparently was last seen in a grimy Mexican restaurant and tequila bar in the city’s Mission District that sells pitchers of margaritas for $25 and features mariachi players most nights of the week. CNET reported that what was possibly a model of Apple’s newest phone, the iPhone 5, [...]

When a convicted murderer escaped from an Oklahoma state prison more than 15 years ago, he took the warden’s wife with him. Bobbi Parker, 49, the wife of then-prison warden Randy Parker, is standing trial for helping one of her husband’s inmates escape. While the prosecution alleges the two were lovers, the defense is arguing [...]

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Richard Baker, 57, and Kenneth Greenleaf, 45, were eating a meal at The Western Door steak house when some fellow diners approached. “Can we ask,” they said, “Are you getting married?” Baker hesitated, worrying that he might offend residents of this blue-collar town. But he soon found out how wrong he [...]

Gordon Gekko may have said “Lunch is for wimps,” but he never ate 244 raw oysters in an hour. Wall Streeters have famous appetites for wealth and influence — and now some are turning mealtime into a power sport, too. The trend is new and only spottily documented, but high-stakes eating contests are catching on [...]

THE FIRST TUTU FALLS EARLY at Tough Mudder. I’m running the 10-mile obstacle event with about 5,000 other people on a chilly Saturday in late May at Snow Valley ski resort, about two hours east of LA. As I sprint past the muddy skirt, I wonder why its owner threw it away. Guys are wearing [...]

Kevin Driscoll was sitting in a lecture hall before the first session of his communications class at Portland Community College in Oregon when a cute girl in the seat behind him tapped him on the shoulder. At six feet five and 230 pounds, Driscoll is intimidating physically, but he has an approachable, slightly goofy manner. [...]

What was supposed to be a quirky gathering this week of every person in the world named Phil Campbell in the town of Phil Campbell, Ala., has morphed into a more somber affair. On April 27, the close-knit community of about 1,000 people was devastated by a raging tornado. The 175-mph twister, part of the [...]

Americans may have seen more of Anthony Weiner than they ever wanted this week, but his wife has remained remarkably unexposed — and many women are cheering her unwillingness to stand by her man. “If you’re a smart, strong woman in your own right, why let a misbehaving spouse drag you into his mess and [...]

EVEN if you never intend to dance onstage at Lincoln Center, like Natalie Portman’s character in “Black Swan,” you probably want to look as if you do (minus, of course, her stab wound). Women have long coveted sinewy arms, high and tight derrières, lean legs and a regal posture. Now, in search of this shape, [...]

About a year ago, Tom Klaben’s wife handed him a container of Greek-style yogurt and told him he’d like it. He wasn’t so sure. As a triathlete, he was used to mixing shakes to get his protein fix. Then he tried it. Greek-style yogurt is thicker and creamier than the more liquid offerings from brands [...]

A sitcom writer couldn’t script it any better. Take one single mother living with triplets. Have her agree to act as a surrogate for her friends who are struggling to conceive. Make it so she gives birth to another set of triplets for them. Oh, and have them all live together in a spectacular cliffside [...]

Maci Bookout, the scandalous breakout star of MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom,” is 19 years old with a 2-year-old son, Bentley, and hardly anyone’s idea of a role model. But that hasn’t stopped Maci and Bentley from becoming America’s fastest-rising names for girls and boys, according to a new list of top baby [...]

THE first time Stacey Gersten had feathers put in her hair — while vacationing in Austin, Tex., at the same kind of street-side stand from which you might buy homemade brownies — she panicked. “I thought they were so beautiful,” said Ms. Gersten, 27, a casting director who lives in New York. “Then I thought, [...]

Most mornings, during the Hot Power Yoga class he teaches at Pure Yoga in New York City, Scott Harig repeats the same mantra to a room full of mostly female students. “I have the tightest hamstrings in here,” he said, while asking them to perform poses like doing the splits while holding up their arms [...]

It’s official: The West is obsessed with breasts. A new report by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reveals that last year, nearly 40 percent of breast enhancement surgeries in the United States took place on the West Coast or Rocky Mountain region — close to three times as many boob jobs than in any [...]

Prince William won’t be putting a ring on it. For the past week, revelations about the April 29 royal wedding have been mundane — fruitcakes, canapes, boring bachelor parties — but in a surprising announcement yesterday, palace officials said the future king won’t be wearing a wedding band. “There is only going to be one [...]

Killer beauty queen Meghan Brown is hoping her pink pistol will make her some green. Just days after Brown, 25, used a pink .38-caliber pistol to fatally shoot a burly ex-convict who barged into her Florida home, she tried to cash in on the incident by posing for steamy lingerie photos. Brown modeled thigh-high stockings [...]

The nightmares started about a month ago. Dan Pasquini, 31, a New Yorker who’s been playing fantasy baseball for eight years, dreamed that a dial-up Internet connection made it impossible for him to participate in his league’s draft. “I couldn’t even scroll down the page to see who was still available,” he recalled. Jeff Mazur, [...]

In most well-stocked kitchens these days you’ll find immersion blenders, vegetable juicers and maybe even a meat grinder. Next to this sparkling modern equipment, however, there will also probably be a relic from the 1970s: an oversized, possibly shag-carpet orange, Crock-Pot. The slow cooker, once solely the helper of harried housewives and known best by [...]

When Matt Levin, the owner of Adsum in Philadelphia, heard that the makers of Tastykakes, the region’s indigenous sweets, were in financial trouble, he did what any helpful chef would do: He slapped a brisket patty between two Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes and added Tastykake sliders to his nightly menu. “I thought it was going [...]

Dude Nation has a new hero. “Charlie Sheen is my idol,” “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis told the Daily. “I can really relate to him.” It’s been a long stretch since guys whose main interests are beer and chicks — you may know them better as “bros” — have had a spiritual leader to [...]

If you’re microwave shopping, you’re probably doing it online. If you’re looking for a bauble no one else has, on the other hand, you’re probably proceeding the old-fashioned way. But a handful of recently launched sites might give you a reason to start browsing. They’re selling limited runs of products that are either specially created [...]

To the list of those who find the lead-up to the Oscar ceremony unbearable — nervous nominees, anyone forced to watch E!’s “Glam Cam” –  add one more category: The many celebrities who’ll be stuck in their limos for hours — in the most glamorous of all traffic jams — waiting to walk the red [...]

On a recent Saturday, Ben Schlappig, 20, took a 6 a.m. flight out of Tampa, Fla., to Washington, DC. From there he flew to Orlando, Fla., then to Denver and on to Portland, Ore., before landing in San Francisco. He turned right around, and on the return trip, hit Los Angeles and re-visited Washington before [...]

The 20-year-old Saudi jihadist charged with plotting to blow up George W. Bush had few friends but an active fantasy life. Khalid Aldawsari, brought before a federal judge yesterday on charges that he was assembling a bomb as part of a lone wolf terror plot, blogged effusively about his love for the video game series [...]

Not even a jihadist allegedly harboring visions of assassinating an American president could resist the comic charms of “Family Guy,” according to two of his former roommates. Nor was Khalid Aldawsari too proud to gush on his blog over an Italian model known for posing in skimpy lingerie or less. Aldawsari, who appeared in federal [...]

This week, Los Angeles is giving crusades against global warming and mercury-packed tuna a rest and tackling an even more taboo subject: men who love cats. Pet shelters in L.A. are in the midst of what they’re calling “Guy Cat Week,” when the male human species can adopt a feline for half price. “There are [...]

A “Twilight”-obsessed teenage girl who lied to police about the bite marks all over her body has become the national embodiment of the “fantasy biting” craze. The 15-year-old Marathon, Fla., girl was charged with making a false report this week after admitting to cops that the bite marks were vampiric nibbles from a 19-year-old male [...]

YOUNG women in Japan have long used makeup to transform themselves into plastic dolls or anime princesses come to life. Brands homegrown there, like Mellish and Dolly Wink, make the spidery fake eyelashes, doe-eyed contact lenses and eyelid tape that help them with this metamorphosis. But the many Western women who have recently started seeking [...]

LIKE hemlines and cocktails, facial features go in and out of fashion, and right now, eyelashes are where it’s at. Five years ago, we may have wanted a plump, pillowy Angelina Jolie mouth, suffering through stinging lip glosses and shots of collagen for it. But these days the focus has shifted to a fat, feathery eye [...]

NEWSPAPER deliverers show up on your doorstep at dawn. At that hour, the woman you pay to spray you with a fake tan usually would not. But recently Tamar Vezirian of Gotham Glow arrived at a client’s apartment in Murray Hill in Manhattan to bronze her before a vacation. “She had to leave at 6 [...]

HIP, black-clad hairstylists are no strangers to intimidation, wielding scissors and blow-dryers simultaneously while saying things like, “You need a transformation,” and generally acting as if they understand your hairdo better than you do. So what teenage girl wouldn’t want to be one? Redken, a hairstyling products brand that is owned by L’Oréal and sold [...]

On a recent Saturday, Jean Manas and his son, Mateos Haile-Manas, were playing chess on one of the three public tables on the East River promenade, a raised platform on the Upper East Side between the water and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. There were plenty of distractions — the strong October wind, the traffic [...]

Peter Shin has climbed Everest and surfed Mavericks, so when his girlfriend dragged him to a Physique 57 class, he thought it would be easy. To his surprise, even though the pelvis tucks and hip gyrations felt a bit like cardio striptease, they got the job done. “I was in the most exquisite pain,” says [...]

THREE years ago, Sharmadean Reid, a London nail salon owner, was watching the American Music Awards when she saw Beyoncé Knowles with a manicure that made her nails look as if they’d been plated with gold. “I paused the television,” she said. “I was like, ‘What is on her nails?’ Gimme now.” What was on [...]

“I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding,” Carrie Fisher wrote in her 2008 autobiography “Wishful Drinking.” “When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.” Her father Eddie Fisher died Wednesday at 82 due to complications from hip surgery. In the 1950s, he was a pre-Elvis, teen-beloved crooner who sold millions of records, [...]

For decades, addicts have adhered to Alcoholics Anonymous‘ 12 steps and the book that lays them out, informally known as the Big Book, as if the words in it had appeared from somewhere on high. But it turns out that the original manuscript, written in 1939 by AA co-founder Bill Wilson, was heavily edited to [...]

On Friday and Saturday nights, at an increasing number of malls across the country, teenagers are being forced to bring along the one person they’d most likely rather leave behind: a parent. Dozens of malls now have what they call a “parental escort policy,” meaning teens under the age of 18 have to be with [...]

Comedians have always reveled in lampooning politicians, but some have taken their humor into new territory, and it’s not clear whether they are taking their material to a grander stage or a soapbox. Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are mocking Glenn Beck’s recent Washington “Restore Honor” rally, which featured Sarah Palin, with a [...]

IT USED TO BE that if a guy was unhappy with his midsection, he didn’t let on. He might joke about his “love handles” or “the spare tire,” but that’s as far as things went. Not anymore. Today guys who wear jeans the same size they wore in high school can’t resist the temptation to [...]

MOST GUYS TREAT WORKING OUT much as they do calling Mom. It’s a good thing to do regularly, but skipping it once in a while isn’t going to cause irreparable harm. If, on a Thursday night after a 10-hour slog at the office, you have a choice between putting on your sneakers or ordering takeout [...]

WHEN MARC JACOBS decided to improve his diet and exercise regimen three years ago, he also amped up his approach to grooming. The designer began getting regular facials, massages, manicures, and pedicures and now uses no fewer than five skin-care products a day. To finish, he applies Bang, his first new men’s fragrance in nearly [...]

THE GATES TO LILITH FAIR in Seattle don’t open for another hour or so, but thousands of women are already lined up outside The Gorge Amphitheater. In bikini tops and cargo shorts or braless in floor-length sundresses, the festival-goers gathered for the Sarah McLachlan-led summer tour that celebrates female musicians call to each other as [...]

“SWEAT and alcohol are both great social lubricants,” said David Barton, founder of the David Barton Gym. So in a move that might seem silly or inevitable, depending on your point of view, he has combined them. The gym chain became a watering hole at its locations in Chicago, Miami and New York when it [...]

IT was nearly 6 p.m. on Friday, an hour when many New Yorkers need a drink, and Sera Chi, the owner of the Dashing Diva nail salon on the Upper West Side, was greeting her regulars. “It’ll be about 45 minutes for a manicure,” she told them, “but you can have a Cosmo now.” Soon [...]

It wasn’t until some elementary schools banned Silly Bandz, those colorful plastic bracelets that are the latest fad among the pencil-box set, that Ramona Sidlo, who is 30, wanted them for herself. “I thought, ‘This is nuts that a rubber band is causing so much hype,’” she said. “If kids are going crazy over these, [...]

Because sometimes showering isn’t an option. After a long day (or very long night), the products in this Dopp kit will get you looking polished—and smelling fresh—in about a minute.

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