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May 07, 2008

Super Vixens Chapter Four: Eartha, Ava, Sharon and Me

Eartha_kittcover_2 Chapter Four of Super Vixens' Dymaxion Lounge happens to be the big makeup chapter, in which I gather tips and tricks from  Sharon Stone's makeup artist and Rita Hayworth's choreographer, and even eyelash queen Eartha Kitt herself. The chapter starts out like this:

My favorite shade of lipstick is a color called Silent Red. It's a liverish, bloody, voluptuous unction, heavy with complicated pigments; the saturated hues of love and anger mixed together in a neurotic, regal, murderous, transcendent red. Over the years I've had long auburn curls, Louise Brooks bobs, and platinum buzz cuts, but always the red lips...

A new chapter appears every week on the way to the new print edition.

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Red lipstick is always chic to wear as a trademark look. Kind of like Gwen Stefani.

This is very intresting and I will add this to my favorites.

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  • What do you get when you throw a true beauty obsessive in Europe together with a veteran beauty journalist in LA? Not much room on the bathroom shelves, that's for sure. Make-up, hair products, skincare, perfume, salons, spas, luxury hotels with toiletries and treatments that make us never want to go home - if we've left anything out, you can pry our mirrors from our cold, dead, perfectly manicured hands.
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