Ladies, it is summer and you need to make sure the face you so carefully protect from the sun actually matches your decolleté and arms when you wear that divine barely-there-number that passes as a dress!

I have to do this at work all the time since the models and VIP’s always have a paler facial […]

Got to work with the amazing singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding who came to NY to perform at the Regis and Kelly show and at Saturday Night Live. I was absolutely thrilled to meet her: she’s talented, pretty, I’m obsessed with her music AND she sang a whole set at the William and Kate wedding. […]

For years, sociologists, moms and therapists have been blaming magazines and advertisers for communicating to young women an impossibly high standard of beauty that makes normal mortals feel inadequate.

One brand has been watching and marketing to match. Make Up For Ever has launched a new campaign for their “HD Makeup” which cleverly stirs […]

The concept for this Allure story shot by Patrick Demarchelier with Karlie Kloss was “All American”. For the makeup, I tapped into what defined American makeup-fashion when I moved to New York in the late 80’s. […]

Change Reaction – a feature in Allure this month – gave me the opportunity to explore how makeup can complement different fashion looks on a single model. This may be my favorite type of beauty story because I confess, I’m a real sucker for a good makeover. I see it as: one woman, […]

Hi, everyone. Here’s a link to a few tips and tricks on touch-ups from a recent interview with me by Allure’s Elizabeth Siegel:  Insider’s Guide: How to Touch Up Your Makeup

It looks like beauty advertising just burst from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine right out into the streets of New York! Everywhere I turn there’s a billboard with some great advertising for makeup and cosmetics – in the subway, on bus-stands, on passing taxi-tops… I absolutely love it!

A Maybelline […]

I love a strong, electric color statement for Spring: a flick of electric purple liner, a dab of harlequin green – or my favorite: Shocking Pink on the lips!

Back in May, I did a look featuring this wild pink shade in an eight page trend story for a very visible Condé Nast […]

…just spent a fun three days working with the lovely Hilary Duff.

She sure is gorgeous…

Hilary with hair stylist Peter Butler and yours truly…

Gotta run!

I bet you’ve heard that fair-skinned blonds should wear pastels, and dark-haired mediterranean types look best in earth tones, yes? In other words, a woman’s coloring determines the makeup she should wear, right?

But what if one brunette is a yoga instructor in Colorado and the other is an advertising executive in NYC? Or […]