Health: A new school of thought says good fat isn’t a dietary demon

Monday, January 7, 2013

Photography by Natasha V. Food styling by Heather Shaw for judyinc.com.

The fat has long been sucked out of our food in the name of health. Rani Sheen weighs the newest thinking on good fat.

Imagine a world where you got to the front of the coffee shop line and didn’t feel compelled to say the word “skinny” before the word “latte.” Or where, facing down the legions of yogurt options at the grocery store, your hand bypassed the zero per cent Greek yogurt, landing instead on the full-fat version. The idea that fat is bad for us has become so all-pervasive that it is now fixed firmly in our minds that full-fat dairy, bacon or even a hefty serving of avocado are flabby demons waiting to send chub to our waists and clog our arteries. But a growing school of thought is suggesting that actually, it isn’t fat that makes us fat.

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Introducing the OPI Oz The Great and Powerful collection: See all 7 nail polish shades (Including one designed for James Franco?)

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Yesterday OPI gave nail polish lovers a new reason to be excited for 2013 by announcing the launch of a new collection on their Facebook page. Set to hit counters in March, the OPI Oz The Great and Powerful collection features seven nail polishes inspired by the forthcoming Disney movie. 

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From Lady Gaga to Givenchy: 8 beauty picks for winter’s all-black makeup trend

Photography: Costume National and runway by Peter Stigter; product by Carlo Mendoza

It is always darkest before the dawn, so the proverb goes. By our calculations, the sun should be rising on planet fashion any day now: the Fall 2012 runways plunged us into a cavernous black hole of clothes worthy of Louise Brooks and Siouxsie Sioux, and haunting beauty looks that referenced Tim Burton’s films. That mood also infected the making of Lady Gaga’s fragrance, Fame. “I like black, especially what it has to do with fame, because it is a veil,” she says, tapping her knife-like ebony talons on the table at a hotel in New York. “It’s sort of like saying, ‘I don’t want you to see something.’” The R&D department struggled to create the noir-hued perfume that turns clear once airborne—an industry first. (Rumour has it one staff member was inspired when he spotted a bottle of black vodka behind the bar while out for a drink.) The request for an ominously coloured juice was music to the ears of its perfumer, Richard Herpin. It meant he didn’t have to exclude ingredients that can be visually unappealing when mixed together. “I could use anything I wanted,” he says. As fashion has taught us, black hides a multitude of sins.

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Fashion: how the global market is changing seasonal collections

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Seasonless style from the 2012 catwalks. Photograph: Victor/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images/photomontage

Next month, the fashion world begins its bi-annual merry-go-round of fashion shows. This time around, designers and brands in New York, London, Milan and Paris will be showing collections for autumn/winter 2013. That might, in most people's minds, denote the colours of falling leaves, coats, opaque tights, hats and gloves ... what we wear when the weather changes, right? Wrong. In recent years, winter collections have included exotic hothouse flowers and miniskirts with bare legs and sunglasses, while the most recent round of summer shows featured layering, coats and a whole lot of very winter-worthy black.

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Beauty Chat: Juice Beauty Founder Karen Behnke on CC Creams and Winter Skincare

Thursday, December 27, 2012

In a seemingly Sesame Street move, there’s been a progression through the alphabet from the BB creams of yore to the newest iteration, CC creams. Like BBs, CCs first rose to popularity in Asia and there are just a few on the market stateside at the moment. One of those is Juice Beauty's Stem Cellular Repair CC Cream, a veritable wealth of the natural and the effective. The organic line of makeup and skincare products was founded by wellness entrepreneur Karen Behnke. After she became pregnant with her first child at the age of 40, Behnke was shocked to learn that there were few healthy personal products that worked well. Her concern that skin absorbs over 60 percent of what is placed on it, and a frustration with the lack of options available on the market led Behnke to launch her own range of products. Juice

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