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ONE EYELINER, FIVE DIFFERENT LOOKS

Talk about a multitasking makeup item – one eyeliner can provide five very different looks for your peepers when used... more

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Thick bright eyebrows are Autumn-winter season trend

Visagistes define new beauty standards of autumn-winter 2008/09 season. All of them agree in one opinion: this season eyebrows... more

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Sarah Palin's new clothes and makeup cost an absolute fortune

CBS News has confirmed that the Republican National Committee spent up to $150,000 on what appears to be wardrobe and makeup spending at high end department stores for the GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

But one of the most famous political fashion designers of the year, Susanna Chung Forest, who designed Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits says it would be unusual for a candidate as famous as Sarah Palin to need to buy clothes.

“Why do you need to pay for it?” Forest told CBS News from her boutique Susanna Beverly Hills saying that most designers would offer to clothe a candidate for free. “It’s an honor, you are going to design for someone who could be the president of the United States,” noting that the exposure any designer would get from dressing someone as famous as Clinton or Palin would be worth much more.

The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this year that Senator Clinton’s custom made pantsuits from Forest were worth about $6,350 a piece retail. Clinton’s spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment.

The McCain campaign responded to the Palin wardrobe spending with the following statement, “With all of the important issues facing the country right now, it’s remarkable that we are spending time talking about pantsuits and blouses. It was always the intent that the clothing go to a charitable purpose after the campaign,” said spokesperson Tracey Schmitt.

Spending over a hundred thousand dollars on a wardrobe is a sharp bump since her days as governor. Matt Simon, reporter from the CBS News Anchorage affiliate says he jokingly asked the governor 'who she was wearing' for the inaugural ball and she responded that she didn’t know. During an interview with KTVA soon after she was elected Palin told the station that her kids were bugging her to get some new clothes.

FEC officials say campaigns are allowed to spend on personal use items but it must be an item that "would exist irrespective if they were not a candidate or office holder", i.e. clothing, mortgage payments, country club fees, etc.

However, the political party (such as the Republican National Committee) can make coordinated expenditures with the candidate’s campaign of up to $19.2 million dollars. The FEC says the possible outstanding question is: Are coordinated expenditures the same as if it were the campaign? The FEC tells CBS News that to determine this someone would have to file a complaint and then the FEC would investigate.

The Obama campaign says it has paid for hair and makeup costs for the Obamas and the Bidens associated with interviews or events but campaign officials say neither the campaign nor the Democratic National Committee(DNC) has paid for clothing.

A CBS News review of DNC and Obama campaign expenditures did not find any similar purchases.CBS News has confirmed that the Republican National Committee spent up to $150,000 on what appears to be wardrobe and makeup... more

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Operation: Ugly Beauty

The Breast Cancer Fund and Causecast bring you an expose on common household products that are known to contain pthalates and... more

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Palin's 2 Month Shopping Spree 4 Times What the Average Plumber Earns in a Year

The spree began in early September and included spending nearly $50,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue, $75,000 at Nieman Marcus and nore... more

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Pamela Anderson and other celebs WITHOUT MAKE-UP! Urrgh!

Pamela Anderson is THE epitome of the dream woman - a sex goddess and an erotic icon. But cracks are starting to appear in that... more

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What Are The Current Celebrity Wedding Trends?

A. Celebrity weddings are the most publicized weddings in the world, so it's no wonder that the details tend to translate... more

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Bad Girl Make Up

BADgal Kit With Benefit BADgal Kit you can follow a provocative 4-step plan to unleash your inner bad-itude…good gals... more

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Hayden Panettiere's Emmys Look

Hayden Panettiere's look was an overall "love it" at the 2008 Emmy Awards. And that skin? Seriously, I just might... more

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NARS Releases 2 New Sexy Kits

Earlier this month, the high-end cosmetic brand, NARS, whose best-selling blush color is called "Orgasm" comes The Safer... more

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World's 8 Most Expensive Perfumes - Amazing

Globally, the flavors and fragrances form a $17.8-billion industry of which the top five players are Givaudan, International... more

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McCain Paid $5,583 For "Idol" Makeup Artist

John McCain, whose ads skewer Barack Obama for his "celebrity" status, has his own close ties to show business, the new... more

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2 months ago

Faking ethnic eyes

They say the grass is always greener on the other side. While most white American women would die for exotic, almond-shaped eyes,... more

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3 months ago

Celebrities who apply their make-up in the dark (Photos)

Now we all know that most Hollywood celebrities probably don’t apply their own make-up, especially when it comes to a red... more

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Pamela Anderson Looks Scary (photos)

Actress/model Pamela Anderson attends a photo call to celebrate the premiere of her new reality documentary series 'Pam: Girl... more

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'I've worn make-up since I was four'

Few of Elana Kelly's friends have seen her without make-up. But that isn't because she can't face the world... more

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4 months ago

Headteacher clamps down on fake tan

A headteacher in Lancashire has writtten to parents advising them to stop their daughters from slathering themselves in fake tan so that they no longer "come to school looking varying shades of orange."

Carol Robinson, the head of Baines School, a mixed comprehensive in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, wrote in her letter to mums and dads, "The current trend for fake/spray tans does little to enhance the appearance of our young ladies."

She claimed that fake tan went against the principles of the school, where staff strived to "promote natural beauty and contentment with one's own looks".

Her remarks have been met with cautious support with some of her more pale-skinned pupils at the school, which educates 1,070 children aged between 11 and 18.

Alison Taylor, a 17-year-old sixth former, said: "I agree fake tan should be banned. I think it looks a lot nicer to be natural than bright orange."

Sarah Clark, 17, added: "Fake tan can be OK, but some people go a bit over-the-top and then I think it looks quite tacky."

One parent said she had been appalled by the sight of girls walking up to the school gates with bright orange legs.

"I think the school is right to clamp down and try to drive up standards because there are other issues like the length of skirts the girls wear which are miles too short and the lads having their shirts all hanging out," she said.

But Dr John Kellett, a Blackpool-based consultant dermatologist, said it was better for pupils to use fake tan than go on sunbeds.

He said: "Fake tan doesn't do any harm at all to health. If the alternative is for young girls to go on the sunbed then it is preferable."

What do you think? If girls (and women, and men) want to look like they've been Tango'd should they have the right to paint themselves whatever shade of orange they see fit? Is this headteacher protecting her female pupils from quite frankly looking stupid (and is there any way of banning the wearing of shorts with high heels in all public places? It would achieve the same goal, after all) or is she a beauty-fascist who should let them break out the bottle, rather than risk skin cancer on a sun bed? Has Britain's desire for a fake tan - from a bottle or a bed - got a little out of hand? And why can't orange people see what crazy colour they are!?

A headteacher in Lancashire has writtten to parents advising them to stop their daughters from slathering themselves in fake tan... more