China’s most famous makeup artist Mao Geping created faux eyebrows made out of outrageous materials as part of his MGPIN Collection. We’re talking metallic pyramid studs, gold-plated and crystal-rope jewelry and bronze trinkets that looked like the innards of a grandfather clock.
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Just five days after the blockbusting triumph of dressing Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence for the red carpet, the house of Christian Dior scored an arthouse hit at Paris fashion week.
Lawrence’s showstopping Hollywood gown scored maximum points for the Dior brand for a mass audience. In Paris, designer Raf Simons‘ latest collection for Christian Dior focused on the shoes, which featured a very cool indented/reverse/half heel. Despite being relatively low, they actually look quite difficult to walk in for the models.
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Let’s Talk About Sex! Here’s a sneak peak of Divabetic’s upcoming ‘Love On A Two Way Street’ free outreach program focused on ‘Sexual Health & Diabetes’ and presented at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital on Sat., Feb, 9, 2013
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Not even the sleet, snow, hail and freezing rain could keep A-listers from flocking to Jason Wu’s fall 2013 show in New York City.
But do they have the chutzpah to play the new fashion game, ‘Lend, Buy or Burn!’with his latest collection?
To play, you must decide: 1. Which dress you would LEND to a friend 2. Which dress you would BUY for yourself 3. Which dress you would BURN with a match?!
Classic Diabetes Myth Busters 1.0 makes learning about diabetes fun:
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What’s a diva to do? We’re in the middle of the glitterati house bound at Lincoln Center during New York Fashion Week having a Diabetes Numerology Game moment — bumping into Katie Holmes, having a low, surrounded by the paparazzi and praying Joan Rivers and her Fashion Police team doesn’t declare us a fashion “NO” for reaching into our Duane Reade bag to grab our glucose tabs. It’s just another day in our GLAM MORE, FEAR LESS life!
Help us, Halle Berry!
Sometimes it’s fun to imagine where the heck you’d put an insulin pump while you’re sitting in the front row during New York Fashion Week. Since 12.6 million, or 10.8% of all women aged 20 years or older have diabetes you might expect that fashion designers would be a bit more considerate of the needs of our diva-licious community.
Unfortunately, Diane von Furstenberg, Council of Fashion Designers of America president and grande dame of New York Fashion Week, showed a Spring 2013 collection with skirts so short that they left little to the imagination as well as no where to wear a insulin pump. The inspiration: Globe trotting to exotic locales. Colors, silhouettes and ornamentation inspired by la dolce vita in Rome, the gardens of Marrakesh and the deserts of Jaipur.
The look: Gypsy princess with a whiff of “I Dream of Jeannie” humor. Palazzo pants, draped jumpsuits, tailored crepe jackets and vests with contrasting color borders, tunics with beaded collars, pearl-encrusted T-shirt, flowing caftans worn with slim silk faille trousers, dresses wrapped like saris, sandals with chunky chain ankle straps, silver ball or leather curlicue decoration. We fell in love with the rich color palette of coral, lime, green and violet.
Sure the who’s who of the fashion and media industries including Valentino, Oscar de la Renta, Bravo’s Andy Cohen and Sarah Jessica Parker who sat next to us in the front row loved it but we left asking ourselves if we have to go back to injecting insulin in order to be fashion-forward?
Thankfully, Diane von Furstenberg tried to bring fashion a little more into the future by collaborating with Google to launch “Glass by Google” glasses on the runway.
Don’t Miss upcoming ’Divabetic – Makeover Your Diabetes’ - our largest diabetes outreach event of the year promoting a diva attitude for living well with diabetes.
‘Divabetic – Makeover Your Diabetes’, mixes free beauty and fashion services and music with interactive diabetes education in a fun, comfortable setting to broaden the appeal of diabetes educational outreach for women. Our goal is to make every woman feel more beautiful inside and out through the help of a team of certified diabetes educators, registered dietitians, and beauty and fashion experts.
The free event offered both educational resources for caring for diabetes — including lots of opportunities to talk with certified diabetes educators and health professionals — as well as salon services such as makeup application by professional makeup artists and advice on choosing flattering dress styles.
Saturday, October 13, 2012, 11 AM – 4 PM
Jefferson Alumni Hall , First Floor Eakins Lounge 10th and Locust Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19107
FREE ADMISSION
Register: 1-800-JEFF-NOW
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Meet Mr. Divabetic on his quest to glamorize good health at Divabetic – Makeover Your Diabetes outreach event in Philadelphia, PA, the American Diabetes Association’s Diabetes Expo in Pittsburgh, PA and the Taking Control Of Your Diabetes Conferences & Health Fairs in San Diego, CA and Austin, TX.
For sponsorship opportunities and event details visit: www.divabetic.org and Divabetic’s facebook pages.
It is no secret that Divabetic’s Diva Inspiration for September, superstar Taylor Swift favors the color Red. She has graced many red carpets, magazine covers, and most recently her upcoming album cover (also named “Red”) with beautiful bright red lips. This Cover girl has the right idea when it comes to shades for lipstick. We asked fabulous professional makeup artist, Kiauna Hunt, owner of Diva Status (www.divastatus.com) , why the color red remains a classic.
“Red can be paired with various styles from Biker Grunge to Grammy Award Red Carpet and still looks great doing both! As a makeup artist, Red is a staple color in my lipstick palatte because it brightens and whitens the smile of the person who’s wearing it and demands attention to the person that is viewing your lips, says Kiauna, who is featured on this month’s Diabetes Roundtable podcast in our ’Makeover in a Minute’ segment.
“The color red also increases enthusiasm and provides a sense of protection from fear and anxiety. See how a little lipstick can change your outlook and in this case provide a “pick me up” to others as well? You don’t have to be a Covergirl to start brightening up your makeup look,” she adds.
Need a beauty boost? Here are Kiauna Hunt‘s diva advice to help you find a red that works well for your skin tone:
If you have fair skin go for a red with a blue or brown-undertone.
Medium-to-dark skin go with deeper reds, with brown undertones.
Dark skin go for reds with pinkish or orange undertones.
And if you’re like September Diabetes Roundtable‘s real-life diva special guest, Tayrn, from Boston, MA and you have red hair always choose a shade brighter than your hair and kick the old wives tale that “redheads can’t wear red” to the curb.
With any look, always remember to use a liner, which should be the same color as your lipstick or a shade lighter. Now go out and find the shade that works for you and show the world your award-winning smile that will give people something to sing about!
3D nail art is the process of creating three-dimensional artwork on the fingernails. Typically, the3D design is created on acrylic, or fake, nails, which are then applied over the wearer’s fingernails. To create the designs, the artist adds colored acrylic to a mold using a paintbrush and waits for it to harden. Once the acrylic dries and hardens, the artist removes the 3D nail artfrom the mold and glues it to the fake fingernails.
Flowers are one of the most common 3D nail art creations. The petals and leaves stick up from the surface of the nail for a dramatic look. Nail art is popular not only for beauty, but for formal occasions such as a wedding. Non-acrylic 3D nail art options include gemstones and other materials small enough to glue onto the nails.
When designing nail art, the artist starts with a colored background on the nail itself. This can be as simple as a clear coating for shine or a colorful coating with glitter for extra sparkle. The nailart is added on top using a small amount of clear adhesive. Often, the 3D nail art is colorful and can be painted over with a clear or glitter top-coat of nail polish.
The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic hosts the roving red TOMATO carpet at the 66th Annual Tony® Awards at the Beacon Theater in New York to talk about divas, dazzle and diabetes.
A bunch of bad reviews aren’t enough to keep Kanye West from his fashion-filled dreams. The rapper-turned-designer presented the second full ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week.
In the past, Kanye West has complained that critics “just didn’t understand” his first Paris Fashion Week collection last fall.
The good news is that for many critics, Kanye West‘s sophomore showing proved to be bigger and better then his first.
Paris Fashion Week ended recently, and while we love seeing all the polished, elegant ensembles on the runway and in the front row, sometimes Paris Fashion Week’s most memorable moments are its most outrageous.
This season’s shows had plenty of surprising moments, including dark brown makeup, jeweled eyebrows and some very surprising use of body hair.
NBC recently revealed the identities of the 14 contestants who will compete on Fashion Star, a new fashion TV reality competition series that will attempt to discover a fashion designer who can become America’s next popular brand and fashion icon.
Unlike Project Runway, which focuses on high-end women’s fashion, Fashion Star will target a variety of casual fashion including dresses, suits, lingerie, denim, bathing suits, shoes, and accessories. Viewers will have ability to purchase each week’s winning designs both online and in store the day after each episode airs.
Jessica Simpson, Macy’s Caprice Willard, Saks Fifth Avenue representative Terron E. Schaefer and H&M’s Nicole Christie will serve as the judges for the competition and vie for the right to purchase and exclusively carry the work of the up-and-coming designers each week.
The world of fashion is in mourning after Zelda Kaplan, 95, died after fainting in her front-row seat at a fashion show yesterday.
The drama and spectacle surrounding her death almost seems to befit the New York style icon that she was right up to her final breath.
Ms Kaplan was known for taking the nocturnal nature of the city to heart, and was regularly seen closing down popular nightclubs like Bungalow 8 with socialites nearly a quarter her age.
She was instantly recognizable with her trademark oversized glasses, distinctive bold prints and ever-present matching hat.
Ms Kaplan was wearing a variation of her self-styled ‘uniform’ when she attended the Joanna Mastroianni fashion show at Lincoln Center on Wednesday.
She gainfully posed for photographers while she waited in the front row before the show started, and showed no sign of the trouble that was just minutes away.
Witnesses saw her ‘slump forward’ shortly after the show started and she was escorted out of her seat by security guards.
Emergency medical technicians performed CPR on Ms Kaplan before she was transported to hospital and pronounced dead.
An IMG spokesman said: ‘Emergency medical care was immediately supplied by a licensed first responder who is on our security staff, and she was taken by ambulance to Roosevelt Hospital.’
According to WWD, Ms Kaplan’s husband, Gideon Lewin, had been sitting next to her in the front row seats. He alerted security and said that his wife had never seen a doctor in her lifetime.
Her cause of death has not been released.
‘I was sitting right next to her,’ said fashion writer Ruth Finley
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