Thursday February 4, 2010

Vanity Fare

Compiled by S.S. YOGA and PATSY KAM

Rock on

RED-HOT supermodel Agyness Deyn gets the indie folk rock treatment as she becomes the face of the updated version of Anna Sui’s Rock Me! fragrance, called Summer Of Love.

It’s for women who are pure romantics, girly yet flirty. Someone who is part-flower child and part-pop princess: by day, sweet and sensual, but by night is a totally different person.

The fresh opening notes of bergamot are combined with blue water hyssop and geranium.

This in turn metamorphosises into a feminine combo of white peach and freesia mingled with water lily.

Finally, it settles down to a seductive musky rose and ambergris mixed with sandalwood.

Available at major department stores and specialist cosmetic retail outlets.

Crowning glory

HELMET head. Flat head. Remarks about your hair are not very pleasing and Redken hopes that will be a thing of the past.

Check out its new Body Full line which is claimed to make your hair look fuller. Double the volume and body, and add fullness to fine or flat hair.

It’s touted to be longer lasting, and has enhanced shine, a newer and subtler floral scent. The wheat extract creates fullness and volume, the extract of cotton softens and disentangles hair while the soy protein reinforces and repairs the strands.

Body Full line consists of shampoo, light conditioner and volume amplifier. Available at selected hair salons.

Luscious lips

THE language of love is often whispered through the most luscious lips. The all new Maybelline New York Color Sensational Moisture Extreme Lip Color laces lips with long lasting and irresistibly alluring shades. Play up the moods for love this season with 18 captivating shades, all enriched with a breakthrough hydrating formula that ensures lips illuminate in crisper colours. The new lipsticks provide a longer lasting sensuous pout with its Hydra Nectar Enriched Formula, while staying on up to eight hours.

Colours come in four different families of shades: Sexy Reds, Fresh Pinks, Fun Corals and Elegant Nudes.

Available at leading pharmacies and department stores.

Inspired palettes

HOPE springs eternal when the sun peeks out in summer and for Spring/Summer 2010, RMK delivers its new collection in Modern Art inspired by block pattern palettes for both the eyes and cheeks.

For the spring modern collection, Rumiko combines the vibrant play of colours, abstract “cubist” angles and compositions of contemporary 20th century painters. Five shades in palettes of four are available for RMK Spring Modern Eyes. For cheeks, there are three Seasonal Limited Edition shades to help sculpt your features. Mix and blend your own perfect tone from the two shades in the palette, and finish off with the white-based powder for a soft glow.

For irresistible lips, RMK has three shades that melt on your lips to give them moisture and lustre, and there are also complementing RMK Nail Colors.

Available at Isetan at Suria KLCC and Mid Valley City, Gardens, and Parkson at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur.

Brighter outlook

SINCE 2001, Origins Research Laboratories have been closely studying the distinct properties and physiology of Asian skin. In response, Origins has come up with a formula to help achieve a fair, uniform complexion to cater for the delicate Asian skin.

The Brighter By Nature Collection is designed to reduce stress using a multi-tiered method which includes antioxidants, anti-irritants, brightening agents, anti-tyrosinases, barrier-repair and desquamation to help reveal a brighter skin.

The range offers a Brightening Anti-Stress Face Wash to help wash away the remains of the day, Brightening Anti-Stress Treatment Lotion to prep skin for successive brightening steps, Brightening Anti-Stress Serum to soothe skin while restoring clarity and tone, Brightening Anti-Stress Moisturiser, Brightening Anti-Stress Moisture Lotion with SPF25/PA++ and Brightening Anti-Stress Spot Treatment for face. Available at Origins counters.