If you want my body and you think I’m sexy… Disturbing heavage trend goes mainstream again.

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

It’s not the heavage I can’t take my eyes off in this pic. MY EYES! MY EYES!

Popularised by John Travolta, Tom Jones, Tom Selleck and other hairy Seventies idols, the low cut male neckline with perhaps a hint of gold medallion and a soupcon of Old Spice, positively screamed masculinity.

Those days seem to be making a comeback as the resurgance of this trend has been with us for a while now. Inspired by the likes of like Russell Brand and of course Simon Cowell, low cut necklines for men are firmly in again. Now this is all very well for the likes of worked out celebrity males (like Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass) purrr) who rock the look – but what about your average dude on the street?

According to high street retailers like Debenhams sales of tight low cut tshirts are on the rise and stores can’t keep up with demand.

But honestly though – what do you think of heavage? Does it get you all hot under the collar, or are you filled with horror at the thought of males of your acquaintance flashing their chests.

Is this something you’ll be getting your Dad for Christmas?

Thoughts please!

Tags: heavage, horrible beauty
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Andrew Stone: it was acceptable in the Eighties. But not er anymore

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Shriek! Look at my new Rock God manicure!

If there’s one absolutely favourite cheese fest thing I love on the telly at the moment it is of course Pineapple Dance Studios. But it’s not Louis Spence I tune in for.

It’s Andrew Stone. The man who hasn’t changed his look since the Eighties.

I frickin love Andrew Stone! His massive ego! His self delusion! His refusal to believe that his band Starman is actually shit!

He is an enigma, wrapped in a riddle tied up in a mystery. What is is his age? – cos he sure ain’t tellin. He tried to pretend he was in his twenties for a while but that one just wasn’t working at all. What is his sexual orientation? Despite music industry insiders breaking their asses laughing at the thought of him being straight (he’s as camp as knickers) perhaps he’s just misunderstood?

His style: black nail varnish, blonde bouffant, scarves, black vests, leather biker jacket and black eyeliner. In fact everything that was last seen on Spandau Ballet. In the Eighties. Andrew’s duet with David Van Day was pure telly gold and the power struggles with stunning Limerick lady Rosalee (who was much better than him in the band) were classic.

You just know that Andrew is an advertisers dream. Any man product that is advertised he will be rushing out to buy. Manscara, moisturiser, guyliner- and especially black nail varnish – he’s got em all I’m sure.

So what do you think? Love Andrew and just dearly wish he would update his look? Or love him the way he is and think it would be madness to change.

Or perhaps you’re wondering who the hell he is.

To the comments and let us know!

Tags: andrew stone, guyliner, manscara, retro-fabulous
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Wonder Woman: 1970s to 2013 – my how you’ve changed!

Monday, August 9th, 2010

wonder woman

Holy Cow Batman – what’s happened to Wonder Woman?

Hmmm I don’t know Robin. She seems to have lost her big blue knickers and gone for the goth look in a big way.

Suffering succotash Batman she’s got leggings on! And a jacket! Even Megan Fox is going to have a hard time sexing up this look!

My spidey sense tells me Robin that this is going to shake things up in DC Comics. Wait until the boys get a load of this. The public aren’t falling for that removing spectacles and stripping down to your pants thing anymore. You need to look tough to be a superhero now

Crisis in Gotham City Batman! To the Batmobile! And can I drive?

No you can’t Robin (adjusts sexy armour). And another thing – didn’t they also get rid of annoying sidekicks?

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Comic Book Guys around the world are not impressed and have been shrieking in outrage online ever since they’ve first seen this proposed change. Wonder Woman’s had a makeover prior to her new cinematic outing in 2013 and she’s toughened up. Gone are all the traditional Wonder Woman trademarks – the big knickers, the red bodices, the knee high boots and the acres of bronzed flesh. Men (and women) around the world will weep.

Instead there’s leggings and a jacket – because she’ll need pockets to put things in apparently. Pockets to put things in! Wonder Woman needs nothing but her bracelets and her headband to strike fear into the heart of even the most evil criminal. Her makeup is darker, her skin is paler, and although she has lost her red lipstick could she be bang on trend with her brown lips?

What do you think of the new Wonder Woman look? Like it or loathe it?

Tags: make-over, wonder woman
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Campaign to launch Naomi Campbell on rocket to heart of boiling sun.

Friday, August 6th, 2010

I don’t generally espouse violence – but in the matter of Naomi Cambell there is no justice to be served unless that woman is ejected from the Earth’s atmosphere as quickly as possible.

For she is VILE. Arrogant and foul and nasty and a liar.

But rich you see. Stinking rich. And a supermodel. So that’s obviously enough to ensure that she is some kind of super being, should be treated accordingly and can treat a summons to testify in a War Crimes tribunal as a “big inconvenience”. She had to be dragged to court – obviously she had better things to be doing than testifying in a trial which is trying to bring justice to tens of thousands of executed, mutilated, raped and terrorised people?

Appearing in court is nothing to Naomi – after all she’s well used to it, having been sued for beating up staff, refusing to pay people, and being a generally obnoxious git. But this time she’s gotten herself linked to a deeper darker kind of inhumane crime that is just too horrible to imagine.

In case you haven’t been following the Blood Diamond/Naomi story read more about it here. Read about blood diamonds here.

And in other unrelated (but spotted while watching Naomi’s testimony), she’s had way too much face filler. Forget dirty pebbles – she’s got a right set of dirty pillows injected into her cheeks. Now I’ve nothing whatsoever against the use of injectibles and if I was rich I would probably have a face like an overstuffed cushion. But just pointing it out in light of all Nomes smug “black don’t crack” comments.

Anyway. War Crimes Tribunal. Naomi’s bullshit testimony and the media circus that surrounded it. What do you think? Has this brought her to a new low in your estimation and do you want her spun out into space as soon as possible?

Tags: Celebrity Watch, naomi campbell
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Warm Front: Beyonce Heat Fragrance to Launch

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

beyonce heat ring

Beyonce’s debut scent for Coty, Heat, launches in Ireland on August 1st, and while it’s not lighting my fire as a fragrance – but that’s mostly only because I’m just not a fan of woody, musky accords, and there’re a lot of those in there, as well as lots of sweet fruit and floral notes like magnolia, neroli, red vanilla orchid and blush peach – I’ve got props for the packaging, which is a antique-inspired carved-looking flacon that’s a lot prettier in real life than in pictures.

And what I also like is this: in a classic case of life imitating art, you can literally put a ring on it with this launch because there’s a solid perfume jewel available for a select few who’ll be lucky to bag one. A gold-coloured metal ring is topped with a big moulded plastic ruby gem for a take on the classic over-sized cocktail ring. Slide it to one side, and you’ve got a .75g fragrance balm beneath for top-ups on the go.

Sure, we’ve seen these before from brands like Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors but what Beyonce’s Heat ring has going for it is that it’s super-duper exlcusive – in fact, it’s only going to be available in Ireland as a FREE gift with purchase at a special launch night at Arnotts on July 29th, and again for a limited period at Christmas.

Oh, and it comes in a cute black patent pouch with ‘B’ shaped charm. Check after the cut for a look at how the ring looks on my paws, and for some more details on that all-important launch night. (more…)

Tags: beyonce, celebrity, coty, fragrance
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The Most Exciting Thing About Daphne Guinness Fronting a Campaign for Nars is not, in Fact, Daphne Guinness

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Daphne Guinness for Nars

I love Daphne Guinness, me. Bonkers couture-wearing style maven, she’s just added another string to her high-fash bow by fronting the autumn campaign for makeup artist and cosmetic wrangler Francois Nars. Available from August will be a new purple shadow created specially for her and eponymously named for €24, as well as Rouge Basque lipstick and Strawberry Fields gloss, both of which’ll be limited.

Gorgeous shot, I am sure you’ll agree, but neither she, nor the makeup, is the real story here.

Nope, check out what Daphne’s wearing: it’s one of Irish leather-worker Una Burke’s creations. She’s had her work featured in Vogue Italia, Lady GaGa’s snapped up a piece or two and while Una lives and works in London, she’s being feted at home, winning the Crafts Council of Ireland’s Future Maker award this year. I was at the event and got to have a chat with her as well as a gander at one of her amazingly detailed, precise and technical leather pieces, and I was wildly impressed.

Oh – and the slap doesn’t look half bad either, Francois.

Pic via WWD.com

Tags: AW10, NARS
Posted in Celebrity Watch, Eyes, Lips and Cheeks | 7 Comments »

It’s National Kissing Day – Who do YOU Want to Snog?

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

kiss

With so many men out there to dream of – Derek Davis, Martin from TV3 and Daithi O’Se to name but a few – you’d need it to be annual kissing year to get through Ireland’s dreamy hunks.

We’ve just got a day though, according to Palmers (they of cocoa butter fame), who thoughtfully sent an email yesterday to remind us that it’s national kissing day today – or it is in the UK anyway, so lets just co-opt it, eh? So, with that in mind, what famous (or, er, C-list as above) person would you like to wrap your chops around on this, the national day of snogging?

Tags: lips, Palmers
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Victoria Beckham Gets New Hair Extensions. Me no likey

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

posh's new extensions

Ah nuts.

Just when you thought hair extensions were officially over, with even Cheryl “I’m Keeping The Surname” Cole ditching hers towards the end of last year’s X Factor in favour of a fab above-the-shoulder style, Victoria Beckham goes and feckin’ ruins everything.

She was snapped arriving in the south of France in the last couple of days with newly lengthened locks, and I for one was saddened to see the new ‘do. Personally – and I know this will send Posh sprinting to the salon to get the extensions removed post-haste - I think they look a bit, well, ratty at the ends, and much preferred the messy bed-head bob she was sporting of late to this new look.

What do you ladies make of it?

Pic via uk.eonline.com

Tags: Celebrity Watch, Hair & Hair Removal, hair extensions, poll, Victoria Beckham
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Rate it: Serena Williams’ Blinged-up Wimbledon Nails

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

game set and mani?

June’s not being kind to me. In addition to trying to juggle about 45 different work-and-Beaut.ie-related tasks, I’ve been away for varying reasons every weekend this month, so I’m wrecked. No chance of any lovely lying on couch much watching brain-rot on TV though: between the World Cup and Wimbledon, the telly is firmly colonised and I’m not getting a look-in at the moment.

And I have no interest in sport whatsoever. None. I’ll watch football, and I must have absorbed thousands of hours of it over the years but I couldn’t tell you the rules for love nor money. My interest in the beaurriful game extends to Eamon Dunphy and Johnny Giles’ punditry and compiling a list of ridiculous footballer’s names that amuse me, to wit: Messi, Deco (!), Shittu (titter) etc. However, should there be something on the TV about dinosaurs, volcanoes or even – and I dream of this – dinosaurs coming out of volcanoes, I will be riveted. RIVETED I tell you.

What I also like is a bit of bling. And happily, considering the season, it’s a bit of sport-related bling that caught my eye. Namely Serena Williams’ nails at Wimbledon last week. Known for her her occasionally interesting outfit choices on the court (who can forget last years knickergate controv?), Williams recently retrained as a manicurist. Presumably so that just in case all that cash she earned slamming balls about and shouting should disappear, she’ll have something to fall back on.

I’m assuming she did this monogrammed diamante wonder herself: echoing Lynnie’s recent sparkly mani – is Serena a Beaut.ie fan, one wonders? – she’s got a red S going on on the pinkie as an accent. Not particularly snag-proof or court-appropriate, it’s not like Ms Williams would care, I don’t think.

What about you? Like it? Meh it? Game set and match it?

Beaut.ie Exclusive: Celebrity Salon’s Elaine Butler Doolin Tells ALL!

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

celebrity salon

She may be stern and scary on telly, but therapist, Bespoke Beauty owner and Social and Personal beauty editor Elaine Butler Doolin is a dote in real life. With an excellent beauty pedigree, Elaine’s taught legions of therapists in her time, has tried every product out there, and can currently be seen on the small screen as the mentor on TV3′s Celebrity Salon. Which I am loving, by the way.

Anyway, I wanted to know more about it all and who better to ask than the very person who’s primed to reveal all the behind-the-scenes goss on the series? So I dropped Elaine an email to pump her for some insider info. Want to find out the inside track on the show, the low-down on the contestants and the oh-God-you-can’t-miss-’em bits? Keep on reading, so!

How did you get involved with the programme in the first place? Was it daunting?
I was approached by the Straywave – producers of the show – after TV3 had commissioned them to create a TV show based around the beauty world. We put our heads together and came up with some fun ideas on doing a show like this, and, as they were looking for someone who not only had some TV experience but had a good background in beauty and teaching – they were happy to offer me the job!

You’re really sweet and lovely, so how did you find having to be stern with the contestants?
It was kind of tough at the start because I’m not normally like that but Jules – the director – was great and really wanted to have fun with me keeping them all in-line! Also, a couple of the celebs – I’m sure you can work out which ones! – were a bunch of messers so I had to be strict to keep control of them! I’m not like that in everyday life so it was a bit of fun getting to act like Gordon Ramsay or Alan Sugar for a while!

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Tags: celebrity salon, TV3
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