Of all the assets in the world, luxurious, healthy skin is the ultimate. As an essential factor of our everyday lives, our skin is not only critical to our concept of beauty, but it is also a key marker of our overall health and youthfulness. This fact has made skincare a top priority for many individuals worldwide, while the call for effective, safe and fast-acting skincare has not gone unheard.
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With so many events this New York Fashion Week, we're sure sleep was hard to come by for industry professionals. If you've acquired any unwanted bags along the way, make sure you try Dr. Sebagh's Dark Circles Powder and Puffy Eye Crème treatments. You'll be bright eyed in no time. Pick up the cosmetic combo for $140 at www.barneys.com.

No longer restricted to Goth kids and Halloween costumes, black lipstick is now appearing everywhere from catwalks to cosmetic stands—Rachel McAdams even wears it on the cover of the New York Times fall issue of T Style Magazine. Though the look is not exactly the easiest trend to pull off, when done right, it's at once modern, slightly sinister and fashionably eye-catching.
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Men's grooming has hit its stride with males of all nature, making Sharps' Kid Glove shaving gel the perfect way to spruce up your look. The smooth formula even kills pesky bug bites—a perfect fit for lumberjacks looking to lose the beard. Buy it in various sizes at www.sharpsusa.com.

It seems that most high-end hair products, shampoos and conditioners on the market are aimed toward white women. For black girls with coarse, unruly hair, the product options are minimal. However, there does seem to be one area of follicle beauty where caucasians lose out: products that heal relaxed hair.

For black women, relaxer-related products are pretty much the only thing that's widely available. But for white women who receive traditional, Japanese or Brazilian relaxing treatments—and there are more of them than one would imagine—options are minimal.  read more »

With sweltering summer days upon us, anything even remotely associated with ice seems to catch our attention. So when we uncovered Freeze 24-7's Skin Glacé: Daily Detoxifying Cleanser & Mask, with its chill-inducing jargon and ice-cube-like bottle, on a beauty browse the other day, it warranted further investigation.
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At the age of 22, you might expect an aspiring cosmetics entrepreneur to be working the makeup counter at Bergdorf Goodman, not running a fledgling beauty line that sells exclusively at the department store—but that's exactly the profile of Edward Bess, the young man behind the eponymous cosmetics brand.

The South Carolina-born Bess moved to New York to study theater at the Professional Performance Arts School, but beauty was always in the cards.  read more »

As summer approaches, we've recently taken a shine to the Somme Institute's five-step regimen, a great solution for year-round skincare but one that's particularly good for the sunnier seasons and when you're on the go (two occasions that often go hand-in-hand).  read more »

With her jewelry line Belmacz, London-based designer Julia Muggenberg has a way of putting traditionally prim and proper pearls in a totally different context. Instead of stringing them together to form a classic necklace, she might, for example, take a large black Tahitian pearl, set it with a single diamond and mount it on a heavy yellow gold band—instantly transforming a single luminous pearl into something edgy, intellectual and utterly cool.
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