Notable Quotables is a weekly series featuring a great quote. Whether it’s the founder of a beloved beauty brand, an eccentric makeup artist making headlines, or even a super-stylish celebrity, our favorite tastemakers always have something worth sharing.
Eva Mendes can get glammed up with the best of them (have you seen her Met Ball outfit yet?) but off screen she revealed her beauty and fashion style is surprisingly laid-back. We can definitely appreciate a girl who looks just as great wearing nothing but lip balm!
“I’m actually really simple. If you catch a paparazzi shot of me, I’m never done up to go to the mall. I’m not one of those people going through LAX wearing the full outfit.”
—Eva Mendes to People Style Watch about her beauty routine.
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Notable Quotables is a weekly series featuring a great quote. Whether it’s the founder of a beloved beauty brand, an eccentric makeup artist making headlines, or even a super-stylish celebrity, our favorite tastemakers always have something worth sharing. We discovered today’s quote by Zoe Saldana while browsing UsMagazine.com. The lovely actress said that she’s been told she should get breast implants and shared her feelings about plastic surgery on Lifetime’s “The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet.” We think she has a really positive view on the issue.
“As long as you’re doing it for reasons that are balanced for you [it’s okay]. It’s not even about judging what’s right or wrong. There’s nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you’re feeling is wrong. They can tell you it’s different to what they’re feeling. That said, I’m okay with people trying to do whatever it is they need to do to feel better… What doesn’t feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else — when you want to be another person.”
—Zoe Saldana on Lifetime’s The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet
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Notable Quotables is a weekly series featuring a great quote. Whether it’s the founder of a beloved beauty brand, an eccentric makeup artist making headlines, or even a super-stylish celebrity, our favorite tastemakers always have something worth sharing. Today we came across this quote by Ashley Greene, the lovely star of Twilight, and we couldn’t help but feel she might be our kindred spirit. After all, we’ve all made some pretty questionable decisions when it comes to our hair.
“My hair’s been every color under the sun, and some are good and some are bad. I think the biggest mistake I ever made was when one of my friends was like, ‘You should just iron your hair with an iron.’ It was not good at all. It was just stick-straight. I was probably around 14 when I did that; I did a lot of dumb things at 14. That was bad. I used to also scrunch my hair. I used entirely too much hair gel. It was highly flammable, extremely crunchy. I feel you like you could break it. It was not a good look for me.”
—Ashley Greene to Stylelist
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Notable Quotables is a weekly series featuring a great quote. Whether it’s the founder of a beloved beauty brand, an eccentric makeup artist making headlines, or even a super-stylish celebrity, our favorite tastemakers always have something worth sharing. Today we came across this quote from Jennifer Love Hewitt on The Gloss from an interview the star did with Us Weekly. While we love fragrances with vanilla notes, we haven’t yet tried pure vanilla!
“I carry McCormick’s Pure Vanilla [in my purse]—the baking kind—and dab it on my neck… Men are attracted to the scent! One time, I put it on and four different guys were like, ‘You smell amazing!’”
—Jennifer Love Hewitt to Us Weekly
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Notable Quotables is a weekly series featuring a great quote. Whether it’s the founder of a beloved beauty brand, an eccentric makeup artist making headlines, or even a super-stylish celebrity, our favorite tastemakers always have something worth sharing. This week everyone’s talking about Salma Hayek’s interview with Lucky Magazine. The star opened up about her own issues with acne when she was younger. It’s nice to know that as stunning as the star is, she’s had to deal with some of the same acne problems that we have. Celebrities: they’re just like us!
“You want to talk about bad skin? I had acne. And this acne was so bad it sent me into severe, severe depression. Like I couldn’t leave the house. I’d wake up in the morning and lie there and touch my face before I got up, just to prepare myself to look in the mirror!”
—Salma Hayek to Lucky Magazine
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Notable Quotables is a weekly series featuring a great quote. Whether it’s the founder of a beloved beauty brand, an eccentric makeup artist making headlines, or even a super-stylish celebrity, our favorite tastemakers always have something worth sharing. Today’s quote is by the awe-inspiring Karl Lagerfeld, who just launched his own website, appropriately titled Karl.com. While we’ve always thought of Karl as pretty meticulous, this quote shows off his more creative side. In fact, it’s downright whimsical.
“If you put things away in a too tidy way, then you will only find what you are looking for. You will never be surprised, nor delighted by fortuitous discoveries.”
—Karl Lagerfeld
Speaking of Karl, we loved the bold, bejeweled brows at the fall 2012 Chanel show.
Notable Quotables is a weekly series featuring a great quote. Whether it’s the founder of a beloved beauty brand, an eccentric makeup artist making headlines, or even a super-stylish celebrity, our favorite tastemakers always have something worth sharing. This week, we’re inspired by the lovely Christina Hendricks. The Mad Men star (by the way, new season starts March 25th!), spoke with glo.msn.com about her personal style. We absolutely love her take on what makes someone beautiful.
Image: Instyle.com
“A woman is beautiful when she stands out as an individual—it’s a woman who has her own style and the confidence to pull it off. Half the women on the streets in New York City achieve this. I get so inspired every time I’m there.”
—Christina Hendricks to glo.msn.com
Hendricks’ stunning red hair definitely makes her stand out. Find out what shade of red is best for you in our guide to the hair color of the moment.
Notable Quotables is a weekly series featuring a great quote. Whether it’s the founder of a beloved beauty brand, an eccentric makeup artist making headlines, or even a super-stylish celebrity, our favorite tastemakers always have something worth sharing. At the Whitney Port’s Whitney Eve show during NYFW, models sported big ponytails and baubles in their hair. We spoke with stylist Martin-Christopher Harper about his inspiration for the look. Turns out, his childhood had quite a bit to do with it.
For me it was a very ’90s girl. I’m from California, I lived at the mall, I lived for the mall. The idea is that her perm’s growing out, she’s at the mall, she hit Claire’s Boutique and got that bauble in her hair.
—Martin-Christopher Harper for Eva NYC and Cutler/Redken backstage at the Whitney Eve Fall 2012 runway show
Another great hair accessories: these pretty elastics.
Notable Quotables is a weekly series featuring a great quote. Whether it’s the founder of a beloved beauty brand, an eccentric makeup artist making headlines, or even a super-stylish celebrity, our favorite tastemakers always have something worth sharing. Last week, Rochas announced that Olivia Palermo will be the face of their new fragrance. Palermo gushed to WWD about her new gig, which we think she’s perfect for.
“While Rochas has ingrained French roots, I think every woman can get the sense of joie de vivre and confidence in their style that the Parisians emanate. I always like to be a bit more fashion-forward and playful in my style choices when I visit Paris.”
-Olivia Palermo to WWD
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Notable Quotables is a weekly series featuring a great quote. Whether it’s the founder of a beloved beauty brand, an eccentric makeup artist making headlines, or even a super-stylish celebrity, our favorite tastemakers always have something worth sharing. This week our quote features our favorite Legally Blonde sweetheart, Reese Witherspoon. Last Friday on The Graham Norton Talk Show, Witherspoon revealed that her fetching new bangs are meant to hide a scar from a recent accident where she was hit by an 85-year-old driver.
“It’s not funny at all. They said I am very hard-headed because I landed right on my head and I have a scar, hence my new hairdo. I don’t remember much about it, but miraculously — and thank God! — I am fine.”
—Reese Witherspoon, on The Graham Norton Talk Show.
Another great way to mask a scar? This concealer by Miracle Skin Transformer.
