Don't panic, you still have time! Mother's Day is tomorrow and if you're still to buy a present, we have some last-minute gift ideas to consider. Your best bet is hitting the shops at this point, so everything in here you can buy now, or tomorrow morning. It's almost too easy...
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It's been a crazy week here at the POPSUGAR office. There's been battles with the rain, Jess had an unlpleasant trip to the dentist and we've gone in to a frenzy, in anticipation of next weeks busy fashion week schedule. So, in a bid to keep up appearances (hair, nails, teeth...), we've picked some of our favourite beauty must-haves for the whole top-to-toe body therapy experience.
Shiseido artistic director Dick Page is one of the world's best makeup artists, creating to-die-for colour collections and Spring 2013 runway looks for Michael Kors, Narciso Rodriguez, and Marc by Marc Jacobs. Safe to say his skills are in high demand, which may explain why he's able to make only one personal appearance each year. During his recent day at Nordstrom San Francisco, he explained why beauty is a choice — and what you need to do to pull off red lipstick. (You've never heard advice like this. Trust us on this one.)
These days it isn't enough for a lipstick to just be a lipstick. We demand more from a product than simply good colour pay-off. We want nourishment, on-going moisture throughout the day, shine (but not stickiness) and a product that glides on smoothly. If it seems like a lot for us to ask for, you'd be right. But cosmetics companies aren't ones to leave us wanting. Nowadays anyone who's anyone is jumping on board the lipstick/lip balm hybrid and launching a 2-in-1. Meet the latest generation of lipsticks that are freeing up space in your beauty cabinet and ticking all of our boxes.
Marc by Marc Jacobs is known for its clean-lined ensembles, playful colour combinations and in the case of the Fall 2012 collection: loose, textured pieces. So what better way to let the clothing shine through than by keeping the upcoming season's beauty look appropriately minimalistic? It's the epitome of cool-girl style, and most of all, surprisingly easy to recreate.
In the late '80s, a sprightly Jennifer Connelly linked up with Shiseido to help advertise the brand's Perky Jeans line and now the actress is back. But this time around it's in a more sophisticated role: Jennifer has just been signed as Shiseido's first global spokesperson. Find out more about her new gig and see her promoting the brand the first time around now.
She's got skin women half her age would kill for and now, thanks to her famous tweets, she's shared the secret to eternal youth: hydration masks! We've long been fans of the cloth- or gauze-style masks as they're saturated with product that you can work into the skin after use and Demi is too, tweeting this picture of her wearing this "little duty free find!" We've picked five of the best cloth masks from Australian shelves to get your skin A-list ready like Ms. Moore's!
In a move to help its countrymen, Shiseido has donated 100 million Japanese Yen (approximately $1,274,000) to provide relief to those affected by last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami. In addition, the Japanese brand is also giving needy people 10,000 bottles each of its dry shampoo, medicated hand soap, and two different sizes of quick-drying disinfectant lotion.
To find out how you can lend a hand, too, head to the Red Cross' website or call 1800 811 700 to make a donation.
Brazilian bombshell Raquel Zimmermann is one of those models that you see ev-ery-where. Even if you don't know it's her. She's such a chameleon — like any good model — often switching up her look from '70s jet-set glamazon for Chloé, to racy Louis Vuitton redhead to natural beauty for Shiseido. Most recently we saw her appear in the H&M S/S '11 advertising campaign alongside Freja Beha Erichsen, and it was only when we spied her being profiled for Vogue Brazil today that we noticed she'd chopped her long locks into a shoulder-grazing bob. If you look under that mop of curls, you can see the length change in the H&M ads, too. What do you think of Raquel's new 'do? Do you like the shorter length or do you prefer it longer, huh?
YAY ze orange lip is back which means my work here is done. Suffice to say I love the look. OK I won't leave you hanging . . . It was Dick Page working his magic for Shiseido and the lip was definitely the focal point. Cheeks were glowing and luminous and the eyes finished with a little lip gloss, but it was the vibrant mandarin lip that stood out. Like the Marc Jacobs show the day before, the hair was frizzbombtastic and created by Guido Palau for Redken. The '70s are alive. Does anybody else feel like breaking into a little "You Can Ring My Bell . . ." No?
