This sweater dress makes you look like you're actually wearing a cable-knit sweater and a black pencil skirt! Awesome - because now you can pull off the classic look without looking frumpy - the "skirt" is smooth and sleek, so you'll look more like a woman and less like a fisherman. Not that we have anything against fishermen, we swear.
$128 at Nordstrom
There is nothing worse than showing up to a big event in a dress you love -- then realizing you're not the only one wearing it. Enter Dressregistry.com, a new Web site that promises to save you from that particular social trauma.
Simply log into the site and find or create the event in question. Then upload the details (and, if you'd like, a picture) of what you're wearing. Voila. You officially have dibs on your dress.
Thing is, this probably works best if you can talk everyone you know who's invited to the same shindig into signing up. Or if you are obnoxious enough to e-mail everyone announcing that you've registered your look and warning them not to cop your style.
But as someone who once wore the same dress to her eighth-grade graduation as the girl in her class who ate crayons, we will certainly give it a try. (It was a really cute dress, ok?)
MAKEUP: Diane Kendal for MAC HAIR: Orlando Pita using Moroccanoil NAILS: Jan Arnold with CND SNAPSHOT: Fit for a Hollywood starlette
THE SCOOP: “I just want the girls to look really beautiful and gorgeous,” says Herrera – and the beauty reflects a classic take on that. Eyes open up with soft definition and pouts are a kissable flush of your-lips-but-better natural pink. A headband with cascading threads of metallic bronze is painstakingly woven through a twist-and-knot updo. “Carolina told me it had to look special,” says Pita. Nails are a sophisticated smoky purple, which “brings the amethysts and redwoods in the clothing to life,” says Arnold.
Backstage beauty from Tracy Reese.
Backstage beauty from Tracy Reese.
Backstage beauty from Tracy Reese.
Backstage beauty from Carolina Herrera.
Elizabeth Lippman for StyleList
Elizabeth Lippman for StyleList
GET THE LOOK – MAKEUP: All makeup by MAC. Dust Retrospect over lid for a creamy base, and accent with Down Brown in the crease and outer corners. Finish with Fluidline Eye Liner in Blacktrack and a couple coats of black mascara. Twig lipstick gives the lips a natural, feminine glow.
GET THE LOOK – HAIR: Pita prepped hair with Moroccanoil Styling Crème, and tucked the headband into a front part, so that the metallic threads would flow through the hair. Then he twisted and pinned hair into an elegant updo and finished with Moroccanoil Luminizing Hair Spray (available in December) for hold.
GET THE LOOK – NAILS: All polishes by CND. First, a coat of Black Jack was applied, and then Muddy Rose was layered over it for a customized hue of smoky, heathered purple. “Layering your polishes to create more texturized, creative final shades is the big trend we’re showing on the runways all week,” adds Arnold.
- by Melissa Goldberg
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Backstage Beauty – Carolina Herrera and Tracy Reese