Nylon - November 2008 - (Page 92) roadside attractions eight is enough Beauty brands nowadays may love boasting about their celebrity devotees, but I could care less what lipgloss some CW sitcom starlet favors, or which hair product Carmen Electra simply can’t live without. If I’m going to mimic a celebrity’s grooming routine, it has to be a real star—a woman whose beauty is the stuff of legend. A woman like Marilyn Monroe. Though Monroe was very secretive about her daily beauty ritual—it has been said that she liked to coat her face in Vaseline and used a blend of five different lipsticks—two brands she always remained loyal to were Erno Laszlo and Elizabeth Arden. And this year, Elizabeth Arden releases a Vintage Edition Eight Hour Cream, a product that celebrates the ’50s, the decade in which Monroe ruled. The cream itself is the same—the cult favorite has been a makeup bag staple for women since its creation in 1930—but this version comes housed in a tiny, frosted apricot colored jar with retro typography. Channel Monroe by keeping a jar on your bedside table and dabbing it onto dry cuticles while reading The Crucible. ELIZABETH ARDEN VINTAGE EDITION EIGHT HOUR CREAM SKIN PROTECTANT, $25, FOR A LIMITED TIME AT DEPARTMENT STORES. PREPARE TO ORDER THESE NEW FAVORITES AGAIN AND AGAIN. BY FIORELLA VALDESOLO. naked ambition Though I remain devoted to my lipstick wardrobe of pinks and reds, every season I become briefly obsessed with flesh. Flesh-tone, that is. I don’t mean nude, as in a hue that is barely there, but the perfect replication of skin’s—specifically my own tawny ivory hue—distinctive shade. Long my preferred nail color—the best flesh-y lacquer I’ve discovered thus far is NARS’s Candy Darling—I have always struggled to find an equally desirable fleshtone for my lips. I want one that will render them a Bardot-like ’60s pale, because nothing looks better with jet-black wing-tipped eye liner than a muted mouth. And at last, M.A.C has come through with their new Cremesheen lipsticks, which have, as the name implies, a rich, creamy consistency. The entire range features supremely wearable shades, but I only have eyes, or rather lips, for the Crème D’Nude, a perfect shade of peachy beige. It will likely be the only flesh I expose this fall. M.A.C CREMESHEEN LIPSTICK IN CRÈME D’NUDE, $14, MACCOSMETICS.COM. 92 counter culture http://www.MACCOSMETICS.COM
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