Well, it took a while, but I just finished updating the Home and Design pages. Come check out the latest in contemporary furniture, eco-friendly products for the home, and much more!
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Come visit our newly updated Home and Design pages
Categories: Home
Well, it took a while, but I just finished updating the Home and Design pages. Come check out the latest in contemporary furniture, eco-friendly products for the home, and much more!
Well, it took a while, but I just finished updating the Home and Design pages. Come check out the latest in contemporary furniture, eco-friendly products for the home, and much more!
Friday, September 23, 2005
Treehugger: "At Home" Cleaners by Fruits and Passion
Categories: Home, Housekeeping
Soon after I wrote about Fruits and Passion in Canadian Beauty, Treehugger blogs about Fruits and Passion's eco-friendly "At Home" Cleaners.
Shop Fruits and Passion at drugstore.com
. More eco-friendly cleaners may be found at The Style Page > Home > Housekeeping.
Soon after I wrote about Fruits and Passion in Canadian Beauty, Treehugger blogs about Fruits and Passion's eco-friendly "At Home" Cleaners.
Shop Fruits and Passion at drugstore.com
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Fashion Site to Try an All-Purpose Portal - New York Times
Categories: Fashion
The New York Times reports on the launch of Glam.com, a new fashion portal which seeks to simplify online shopping and track user preferences through quizzes (co-founder Samir Arora was chairman of Tickle, known for its pop-up quizzes) and enables sharing style matches and quiz results with other users.
To take advantage of Glam.com's features, you need to register. The Style Page had to make several attempts before it successfully registed.
The New York Times reports on the launch of Glam.com, a new fashion portal which seeks to simplify online shopping and track user preferences through quizzes (co-founder Samir Arora was chairman of Tickle, known for its pop-up quizzes) and enables sharing style matches and quiz results with other users.
To take advantage of Glam.com's features, you need to register. The Style Page had to make several attempts before it successfully registed.
Calvin Klein to launch a new cosmetics line - in 2007!
Categories: Beauty, Cosmetics
It was a disappointment for me when Calvin Klein Cosmetics were discontinued a couple of years ago. In a market awash with glittery glosses and wild colors addressed to teens, it was refreshing to have a cosmetics line geared toward women.
Unilever, the Dutch consumer goods conglomerate, distributed Calvin Klein Cosmetics, and I called Unilever consumer relations to verify that they had discontinued the line, in response to an email from a reader of The Style Page. Unilever has since sold its fragrance business to Coty.
Now comes news from Cosmeticsdesign.com that Calvin Klein is partnering with Markwins International, best known for its Color Workshop palettes, to launch a new cosmetics line, but we'll have to wait until spring 2007. Sigh!
It was a disappointment for me when Calvin Klein Cosmetics were discontinued a couple of years ago. In a market awash with glittery glosses and wild colors addressed to teens, it was refreshing to have a cosmetics line geared toward women.
Unilever, the Dutch consumer goods conglomerate, distributed Calvin Klein Cosmetics, and I called Unilever consumer relations to verify that they had discontinued the line, in response to an email from a reader of The Style Page. Unilever has since sold its fragrance business to Coty.
Now comes news from Cosmeticsdesign.com that Calvin Klein is partnering with Markwins International, best known for its Color Workshop palettes, to launch a new cosmetics line, but we'll have to wait until spring 2007. Sigh!
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Canadian Beauty
It's been nearly 15 years since Toronto-based MAC revolutionized the cosmetics industry with its neutral foundations, ultra-matte lipsticks, and its wide variety of shades for lips, cheeks, and eyes. Largely through buzz generated by beauty editors (and not through advertising), its products became in demand. The Estee Lauder Companies bought out MAC, and MAC has since become widely available in department stores and MAC mall stores throughout the U.S.
CARGO is another Canadian cosmetics company that found success in the U.S., largely through its distribution by Sephora.com
The Style Page recently came back from a trip to Canada, and would like to report on Canadian products that are not widely available in the U.S., at least not yet.
Two major Canadian pharmacy chains offer their exclusive lines of cosmetics: Shoppers Drug Mart (called Pharmaprix in Quebec) offers its own Quo cosmetics line, while Pharmacie Jean Coutu offers the Personnelle and Garraud Paris cosmetics lines. Pharmacie Jean Coutu has penetrated the U.S. market through its acquisition of over 1500 Eckerd drugstores from JC Penney, but there's no word of its exporting Personnelle and Garraud Paris to its Eckerd stores, which will retain the Eckerd banner (CVS purchased over 1200 Eckerd stores from JC Penney).
Marcelle is a mass market comsetics brand, available at both Pharmacie Jean Coutu and Shoppers Drug Mart. The Style Page picked up Marcelle's Soothing Eye Make-Up Remover Gel, which, despite the name, stung on contact. If the sting could be removed from this product, this would be a great product and much more convenient for travel than liquid eye makeup remover (The Style Page had the misfortune of having liquid eye makeup remover leak and stain her packed clothes). Groupe Marcelle purchased the Annabelle cosmetics line, which is also available through pharmacies.
Lise Watier is a Montreal-based makeup artist whose eponymous line is available both in department stores and drugstores. The Style Page picked up an eyeshadow single in Halo Mat, a light yellow, which brightens the eyes. In the U.S., her Neiges (Snow) fragrances may be purchased through Sephora.com
Nacara is a cosmetics line from Montreal geared towards "women of color." It features highly-pigmented lipsticks and cream-to-powder makeup. The Style Page found Nacara at Pharmacie Jean Coutu
Dans un Jardin is a chain of perfumeries in Quebec and Ontario. The stores offers bath and body products and home fragrances under Dans un Jardin's own label, its own e&n (essence & nature) color cosmetics line, Decleor skin scare, and a wide variety of Lampe Berger fragrance-diffusing oil-burning lamps and parfums de maison (home fragrance) oils.
Fruits & Passion is another chain of perfumeries, with boutiques across Canada and in several foreign countries (but not, alas, the U.S.). In the U.S., Nordstrom sells some of its Cucina (kitchen) line of products in the beauty department. Fruits & Passion boutiques carry bath and body products, home fragrances, environmentally safe cleaning and laundry products, and even food products. The Style Page picked up maple jelly (how quintessentially Canadian!) with orange peel from Fruits & Passion's L'Art de la table collection.
The Style Page especially welcomes comments from its Canadian readers on Canadian beauty products.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Fall 2005 Fashion Trends from About Fashion
Categories: Fashion
Fall '05 Fashion Trends from fashion.about.com: Black, Romance, Volume.
The "black is back" hype indicates one of the reasons that many women are ignoring fashion magazines: for them, black never went away and it's the fashion magazines that tried to sell them on color.
Speaking of black, I'd like to volunteer some advice about mixing colors with black. Although the Books by Trinny and Susannah
of BBC's What Not to Wear have had mixed reviews, I do agree with their advice that combining colors with black generally cheapens the color. Softer (less saturated) or lighter (higher value) shades of blue, pink, and lilac are more flattered by dark browns or charcoal than by black. You can also strive for a color scheme in variations of a single hue (also referred to as a "tonal color scheme").
Although directed to quilters, the Color Workshop from QuiltWoman.Com provides information about color, hue, value, and saturation.
Fall '05 Fashion Trends from fashion.about.com: Black, Romance, Volume.
The "black is back" hype indicates one of the reasons that many women are ignoring fashion magazines: for them, black never went away and it's the fashion magazines that tried to sell them on color.
Speaking of black, I'd like to volunteer some advice about mixing colors with black. Although the Books by Trinny and Susannah
of BBC's What Not to Wear have had mixed reviews, I do agree with their advice that combining colors with black generally cheapens the color. Softer (less saturated) or lighter (higher value) shades of blue, pink, and lilac are more flattered by dark browns or charcoal than by black. You can also strive for a color scheme in variations of a single hue (also referred to as a "tonal color scheme").Although directed to quilters, the Color Workshop from QuiltWoman.Com provides information about color, hue, value, and saturation.
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