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Makeup tips to wear the must-have lipstick shade

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Backstage Beauty Exclusive: Caroline Donnelly shares her insider makeup tips exclusively with Focus On Style

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Blink Me: Agyness Deyn channels Peggy Moffitt

Here's a makeup trick that we don't recommend you try at home: Crazy long false lower lashes.

The eyelashes gone mad look, a la the Lashisse video parody, below, was spotted on the spring runways and looks fab in a wild theatrical way.

But in real life, maybe not so much.

Except, if you are model Agyness Deyn who was most definitely channeling 60's mod mannequin Peggy Moffitt- you know, of the Rudi Gernreich topless bathing suit fame -- when she collected the Brand of the Year Award at the ACE Awards on behalf of Burberry, last night.

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Love the look of smokey eyes but don't want to look like a squirrel? Makeup tips to get it right.

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NARS 15x15 limited edition book to celebrate the beauty company's 15th anniversary

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The fabulousness never ends…

Dear Diary: Fashion’s Night Out started out as a must-see stop for me at the Giorgio Armani boutique to hear a special reading by Rosie O’Donnell from “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” a new play by Nora Ephron and Della Ephron, based on the book by Ilene Beckerman. The evening instead turned into my own version of loving, loss, and what I wore!

I have to admit that unless it’s embedded in my brain from some cosmic cryptoid, there is a very good chance that I will end up at the wrong address on the wrong date. Starting my evening out with all good intentions downtown, I found myself weighing through the gang of girls in too short dresses and fake-bake tans making their way to MeatPa events and who filled every taxi as I tried to head uptown. In the nick of time, I finally arrived at the Armani store.

But it was the wrong Armani store!

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Fashion Week beauty prep to stay pretty all day long…

Looking for a time saving tip to keep your makeup fresh and fabulous for Fashion Week?

Use a generous amount of loose powder under your eyes before applying your eye shadow. Now you don’t have to worry about your eye shadow sprinkling under your eyes and becoming messy when you try to clean it up when you apply eye shadow.

The trick is that the shadow will fall right on top of the loose powder and when you have finished applying your eye makeup, you will see that when you lightly dust away the loose powder, the excess shadow dusts right off with the powder without a mess.

Ta-da!

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Red lipstick at the ready… how to rock ruby lips for summer and all year round…

In this economy, we’re big on finding something small that makes a major and lasting impact on your style. And a tube of ruby red lipstick may just do the glam trick!

Case in point: The very glam and very understated chic of Rashida Jones pictured here. No frou-frou Hollywood fussiness for her. Just all the right things that make a simple look sizzle.

Rashida’s strong ruby red lips are the focal point , not a distraction to her beauty. Simple, undone pulled back hair, a natural bronzey glow, black lashes, and that vibrant pow of a very strong red lip! That’s all she needs to make a statement.

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