Happy Mother's Day!

Wishing you all a Happy Mother's Day!  I plan to take full advantage of the day and I hope you do too whether you are celebrating your own mother and/or are a mother yourself.  

But I thought I would leave you with this mother/daughter story that was recently featured on Into The Gloss.  The great Jerry Hall and her beautiful daughter Georgia May Jagger...

Jerry Hall is wearing vintage Thierry Mugler, I am assuming pulled from her own closet - who said you can't revisit your own vintage??  I think you most certainly can!

Georgia: She doesn't do plastic surgery or chemical peels or things like that, so she can spurge on expensive creams.

Jerry: I think those things ruin your skin and open it up and let microbes get in.  Aging is great - you just don't give a shit anymore; it's nice.  That's a bonus.

You can read the full article here.

"Feeling Strongly About Marlene Dietrich, Arched Eyebrows and Old Widows"

RARE vintage Beauty News

I love Emily Weiss's blog Into The Gloss.  It is all about beauty and stories.  It is really interesting how personal beauty products can be and that is one of the things I love about her blog; she just lets people ramble on about the things they use and love.  

The funny thing is that I am not really a make up person.  I don't wear a lot of it and I am not too experimental.  But I like the idea of getting inspired to try something new.  And it was from reading Into the Gloss that I discovered how brilliant Tom Ford's makeup line is (and it is nasty free: no parabens, etc).  But what I love are beauty products.  Now I use only organic products but I am always on the look out for the next great product that will combine nature and science.

Anyhoo, Emily just did a story on Jessica Noghes-Menio a student from Paris.  I think what first grabbed my attention was her vintage fur.  She looks super glamorous.  And she has a very personal vision of beauty.  

"My Dad is from Madagasgar, and my Mom is Italian.  I live between here (Paris) and London.  I like beauty that is very cinematic; I like it all looking very static.  I feel very strongly about Marlene Dietrich.  If there was someone I looked up to in terms of beauty aesthetics, it would have to be her.  For example right now I am really into arched eyebrows.  I'm quite an obsessive person and this is my latest obsession."

"I like a matte face, matte lipstick; I like it so the face looks very one-dimensional which is the opposite of what everyone else wants.  I like it looking very rigid."

"I read about Egyptian Magic on the internet, and then I couldn't find it anywhere, and they had it at this shop called Astier de Villatte.  I really like that shop.  I got my cutlery there, I got all my ceramics there and they had it and I thought this was a coincidence.  But somehow things always happen that way.  If you're looking for something, it will turn up one way or another."

When I was looking for a hair dresser in Paris my friend recommended Davis Mallett.  Initially I had copper hair when I went, and I wanted Givenchy red.  My grandma would tell me things she had done when she was young, during the war, with the lipstick they'd wear and how there was only one shade of hair color available because all the other ones were sold out, and they'd all have the same color where she lived.  I really like that, the idea of having a whole population of all the women with the same colored hair."

You can read the full story on Into The Gloss here.  All photos courtesy of Into The Gloss.  Jessica Noghes-Menio as told to Into The Gloss.

Into The Gloss: Oscar Prep with Natalie Portman!

I was so excited to see this post on one of my favorite websites.  I love reading Into the Gloss.  The stories about creams, make up, facials, hair... it is all very personal and sometimes the posts are really funny and  you get great tips.  I found an amazing woman for eyebrows on Into the Gloss: Yasmin at Haven Spa.  And I almost passed out cold onto the floor and needed to be revived with a good strong whiff of lavender when I got the bill: $20!  I don't how much you pay for eyebrow shaping but I was use to about $100 which is kind of crazy for just two little ol' eyebrows.  But anyway back to this incredible post on today's Into The Gloss.  

Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman's Oscar Prep.  Yes, you read that right!  Thank you Kate!  And I agree, it was definitely meant to be!

Talk about getting close to the action. Kate Young, the superstar stylist and self-proclaimed beauty fanatic, spent the last few days in Los Angeles getting her friends Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams ready for the Oscars. Today, she shares her behind-the-scenes snapshots and her story exclusively with ITG. Enjoy!

“Natalie’s dress is amazing. It’s an actual 1954 spring couture dress, from Rare Vintage on 57th street in New York. We borrowed it - she was actually going to wear another dress but then I got a call from the woman at Rare Vintage and she was like, ‘You should see this dress for Natalie.’ So we went and she put it on, and it needed zero alterations, and Natalie was like, ‘This was meant to be, wasn’t it?’ And I said, ‘I guess it was.’

I really love this detail photo of the Dior dress:

You can read the entire article here (and be prepared: you will want to stay and go through all of the archives!)  Enjoy!
All photos from Into the Gloss