Showing posts with label Sophia Loren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sophia Loren. Show all posts

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Beauty Squared Round-Up for September 27, 2015

It's Beauty Squared Round-Up time! We've been delinquent. September has been a very, very busy month.

But there's lots to share with you. And good stuff too!


  • Decoding makeup brushes. Here's a great article about the different types of makeup brushes and how they can be used.
  • InStyle rounds up the best beauty looks on the 2015 Emmy red carpet.
  • Jane Fonda (she's a spectacular 77 years old!) was in Toronto for TIFF this year, to promote her film Brenda In Youth. Beauty Geeks spoke to MUA Eddie Malter about the look Jane wears in the film, and the vastly different one he created for her for the TIFF red carpet.
  • You've got to see the beauty looks for Marc Jacobs' Spring 2016 runway show. Think the iconic looks of Ziggy Stardust and 1940s starlights, but the morning after.
  • In contrast, on the Gucci runway models looked bare-faced. But they weren't. In fact, as is typically the case, a "no-makeup look" requires a surprising number of products.
  • Taking inspiration from the runways of Milan, here are some ways to wear bold colour.
  • In Korea, a DIY (and potentially dangerous) trick to curl their eyelashes, which involves a lighter and a cotton bud. Here's how you do it if you're brave. I'll stick to my eyelash curler, thanks.
  • The Body Shop's new Fresh Nude Foundation comes in 16 shades, and innovatively, you can also purchase lightening and darkening drops to mix into the foundation so you can match it perfectly to your skin, no matter what season it is.
  • Do you want some Marilyn Monroe beauty tricks? Here you go.
  • Basic beauty tips: how to contour your eyes.
  • Dolce & Gabbana's Sophia Loren-inspired lipstick.
  • How to:
  • And finally, Megan Koester took a class called "Wow-Factor Makeup for Instagram" and wrote about it for Jezebel. Yes, there are classes being taught on how to do your makeup so that you can take selfies. Sigh, I guess how you look in real life doesn't matter as much as how you look on someone's smartphone. When is the next flight off the planet happening? 

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Beauty Squared Round-Up - September 23


Here are the links we've gathered up for you this week! Scroll though and enjoy all the interwebs had to offer up beauty-wise this week....


Some great hairstyle ideas for you curly-headed folks.


Rumour has it that when Burberry asked Adele to model some of their clothing, she asked them to first design a plus-size line.



The style evolution of Sophia Loren. 


27 ideas for awesome accent nails. 


Can candy-coloured hair look expensive?


New York Fashion Week's Spring/Summer 2013 season saw more models of colour than ever before. Let's hope this isn't just a fleeting trend.


In South Korea, it's actually becoming expected for men to use skin perfecting makeup. Can this trend be coming to North America to? 


GPS shoes that can guide you home. 


Is grey hair really caused by stress?


Some makeup dos and don'ts from Pixiwoo. 


How many of these beauty myths do you believe?


butter LONDON's waterless pedicure!


Looking for vegan beauty products? Here are some picks from xojane.com.


New York Fashion Week as seen on Instagram.



Sunday, April 15, 2012

Beauty Squared Round-Up - April 15, 2012


Here are Beauty Squared's weird and wonderful beauty links for the week:


Who doesn't want to look a little like the gorgeous Sophia Loren? Sam from Pixiwoo shows how to get an "Ultra Vixen" eye look just like Sophia.



Have you seen the Sephora/Pantone collaboration and aren't sure how to wear tangerine tango? A Sephora make-up artist shows you how




Candy inspired manicures.



A cold cream from the 1950s that can remove radioactive dirt from your face.






Make-up artist Larissa Palaszczuk reviews the FaceChartPro iPad app.








A manicure that mimics caviar - not sure about this one. But here's a blog that shows you how to do it yourself.






Former plus-size model Crystal Renn is unrecognizable now with bleached hair and eyebrows and a size 0 frame.



Would you let your significant other do your make-up? This brave beauty blogger let her husband do a Snooki transformation on her, on camera.