Holiday Collections: Yves Saint Laurent The Bow Collection

"One should always be tempted to untie a woman's clothes"- Yves Saint LaurentHence, the Bow Collection, YSL's 2008 holiday offering. The collection offers four new limited edition items (the ones in the image above) and four new, permanent shades of existing products. I could live without the lip colour palette, but I'm really wanting the Touche d'Or pen-brush...a multitude of highlighting

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween, friends! Hope your Halloween night is filled with the ghoulish fun of your choice, whether it be the Halloween parade in the Village, partying it up in your sexy cop costume, or acting younger than you are and going trick-or-treating.As for me, I was going to dress up as Amy Winehouse but was too lazy to hunt down about 10 black wigs and some dirty ballet slippers, so I'll

New Collection: Yves Saint Laurent Lights of Africa

Yves Saint Laurent's summer collection, The Lights of Africa, is an earthy, bronzy color story in the same vein as Clarins Summer Fever and MAC Neo Sci-Fi. Frankly, I'm just surprised that the YSL collection doesn't include a bright pop of color like the others; teal, orange and fuchsia are practically de rigueur this season.The marquee item in this collection is the Soleil D'Afrique Collector

Four Glamorous Holiday Glosses

Seems that blinged out glosses are everywhere these days, and I'm loving this trend. Sure, you'll pay a little more, but you're getting a really fun conversation piece, whether as a gift or for yourself!Four little treasures that I'm obsessing over this holiday season:Dior DiorLight Holiday Bright Lip Gloss: This crystal bejeweled pendant is filled with a coppery-pink gloss. It looks SO much

Pretty Things...

To quote the fabulous Miss Kristopher Dukes...Ooh la love.This collector's edition Opium compact from Yves Saint Laurent is just lovely and would make a perfect holiday gift.Outside, smooth black lacquer with a flower design that makes this compact look like a beautiful Chinese jewelry box. Inside, a mirror and four shades of finely milled pressed powder in a matching flower pattern. Swirl them

Running Out of Ideas?

What do you get when you combine the packaging of Gucci Envy Me and Aquolina Pink Sugar?The new limited edition, and painfully unoriginal, YSL Baby Doll bottle. The original "spinning top" bottle is light years better than this out of control logomania concoction. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!