September 20
...serving up your daily dish.
Who knew, when we wrote our April Fool's Day spoof on Bobbi Brown ("Natural Shmatural") that we were really onto something?
This season, our local nabob of naturalism adds some spice to her muted palette with vivid lipstick colors like cayenne (above, left), chili and cabernet.
Even more shocking was her pronouncement in the New York Times last month that the fell-out-of-bed look is out:
''I think women are tired of the messy unfinished beauty of the last few years,'' said Bobbi Brown, the makeup artist. ''That just-got-out-of-bed hair and no-makeup look works for 19-year-old runway models, but it doesn't work so well on real women. This fall you want a beautiful made-up look that is very ladylike."
Does this mean that, as we said in April, we'll all have to put on lipstick now to go to Whole Foods? Well we might have to, but don't expect it from Bobbi herself. As we reported last month, the cosmetics mogul doesn't like to wear the stuff herself.
Or about about a lipstick in apple green to match this year's new hot color?
Posted by: Miss Martta | Sep 20, 2005 12:33:49 PM
Well, I'm gratified, Miss M. Now only if my employer were so enamored...
Posted by: walleroo | Sep 20, 2005 4:03:53 PM
"I just can't stand hearing about these people, even if it's made up. (pardon the pun)"
-- The Walleroo (4/1/2005)
(Big Brother IS paying attention)
Posted by: Conan the Grammarian | Sep 20, 2005 4:17:23 PM
What strikes me funny about all of this is that she (and others in related fields) are like the Alan Greenspans of the cosmetic/fashion world. I mean, what goes into deciding what the hot color or look is for any particular season? So, this fall it's spicy brown makeup colors. Next fall will be pinks. What about the people who look good in spicy browns but look like death in pink? Gracious, what WILL they do? Will they have to remain indoors all season, only venturing out to shop at Pathmark at midnight?
Maybe I'm weird but I try to wear what looks good on ME, not other people.
Posted by: Miss Martta | Sep 20, 2005 4:23:32 PM
there is a 'color board' in nyc that sets the fashion colors for each new fashion season.
Lime green is the new black
Posted by: John L | Sep 20, 2005 5:12:21 PM
i agree miss martha-
for me, i feel, it may be fun to be trendy but nothing is a "cool" as the classics-
maybe a little black dress- a pair of jeans that have been worn to bits caused you loved them rather than bought them that way-a camel coat-red lips-
-i'd rather define myself then to pay someone to define me--especially when that person is using the same definition en masse.
bobbi does make a great bronzer that works as a blush...estee makes a great black eyeliner-maybelline great lash works--lancome definicils great mascara--then again i have purchased some great no name CVS-got no time, not enough money, just liked the color products--
same with clothes-"i don't need no stinkin label"-lol--
being myself is the "new" me
Posted by: cstarling | Sep 20, 2005 7:37:49 PM
Couldn't resist the line, and the link in the Barista's copy went straight to your post from 4/1. I should have put a smiley-face emoticon after the post... (but I hate them!).
Don't worry about me, Walleroo - it's those damn paranoids who are after us.
Cheers,
C
Posted by: conan the grammarian | Sep 21, 2005 5:54:26 AM
if this new line of makeup is supposedly for older women why is there a picture of a woman who's closer to a 19 year old runway model wearing the lipstick?
Posted by: M | Sep 23, 2005 2:08:23 AM
