Health & Beauty
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
The Four-Day Fix For That Holiday Binge (above), Details, February 2010
The Diet Wars, Details, June/July 2010
A Master Class on Razors, Details, June/July 2010
Bangs Like Justin’s (But Don’t Say So), The New York Times, May 6, 2010
The 60-Second Cleanup, Details, May 2010
Sweat Shop, Details, May 2010
Save Your Skin, Details, April 2010
High And Mighty, Details, March 2010
Scentheads, Details, November 2009
Fessing Up About Freebies, The New York Times, October 15, 2009
The Fail-Safe Guide to Fighting Aging, Details, September 2009
Feel-Good Graffiti, iVillage.com, July 30, 2009
No Sweat , Details, May 2009
My Hair? I Did It Myself. My Stylist Taught Me, The New York Times, March 5, 2009
How To Get A Good Night’s Sleep, Details, December 2008
Out With Fancy Spas, in With Budget Salons, The New York Times, November 26, 2008
Cancer-Specific Products: An Unnecessary Balm?, The New York Times, July 10, 2008
Hard Times, but Your Lips Look Great, The New York Times, May 1, 2008
How To Get White Teeth, Details, March 2008
Beauty Blogs Come of Age: Swag, Please!, The New York Times, January 31, 2008
How To Go Gray Gracefully, Details, January/February 2008
Your Hairdressers Know, but They’re Not Talking, The New York Times, December 6, 2007
The Ultimate Guide to Buying Cologne, Details, December 2007
The Ultimate Guide To Preventing Aging, Details, September 2007
Shaving: The Guide To Getting It Right, Details, June/July 2007
Is It Time for Botox?, Details, May 2007
Knock, Knock. Who’s There? Avon Man., The New York Times, July 29, 2006
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