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Katie Saxton’s 5 Tips for Healthier Nails NOW

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Nail trends and care expert, and President of Custom Nail Solutions, Katie Saxton shares her 5 tips on how you can keep your nails healthy and in tip-top shape this season:

1. Moisturize the Cuticles: To keep your cuticles in tip-top shape throughout the spring season, soak fingertips (making sure to cover the entire cuticle area) in olive oil for 10 minutes. Massage the oil in and leave on, or wash hands after ten minutes and apply a good hand cream. Olive oil performs moisturizing magic and will keep your cuticles looking pristine and fabulous.

2. Use A Nail Buffer: This spring, buff your nails regularly to

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Backstage at Daniel Vosovic F/W 2013 Presentation

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Ombre nails, bold lips, aristocratic next day hair — needless to say I loved everything about being backstage at CFDA designer, Daniel Vosovic’s Fall 2013 Fashion Preview. (If you missed my post on the collection from earlier this month click HERE). Daniel is a true perfectionist, right down to the messy hair. His messy hair was even perfect!

Hosted at the W Hotel in Union Square I was greeted backstage by the beauty team. New makeup line, MAKE created the look in collaboration with Vosovic. Led by Kristin Hilton, MAKE’s team

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NYFW: Backstage Beauty at Costello Tagliapietra Fall 2013 Fashion Show

I’m always in constant amazement of these two suspender wearing, burly gentleman Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra of Costello Tagliapietra and the beautiful, feminine collections they create every season. I just about told them as much when I finally met the duo last year at a party hosted by Cyndi Lauper (brain still exploding meeting that many people I admire in one night).

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This New York Fashion Week season marks the first time I went backstage for one of their shows. And I haven’t been able to get this red/pink lip created by Maki Ryoke for MAC Cosmetics out of my head ever since. Literally that punch of color (the combination of MAC Lady Danger lipstick with MAC Pro Process Magenta Pigment on top) took my breath away. If there’s one lip look I’d like to take away from this season, this is it!

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Get your nail on! Sally Hansen I

With nail art being the it thing of right now — how many lust worthy looks have we seen since the Mani Cam launch? — who hasn’t been experimenting with fun nail looks. (and for all of us that don’t have the skills, those ornate nail polish strips are everything!) If you’ve been brushing up on your artistry, show us what you got for your chance to win BIG!Sally Hansen

From February through May, Sally Hansen is hosting the I <3 Nail Art Contest. Each month they are announcing a different nail theme, encouraging fans to submit their nail looks for a chance to win $500 and a trip to NYC. The winners from each month will compete for their chance to win the grand prize of $2,000 and your chance to be a Sally Hansen brand ambassador for a year!!!!

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Illamasqua Launches I’MPERFECTION Nail Collection

For the launch of Illamasqua’s Spring 2013 collection, titled  I’MPERFECTION, the brand is taking perfection from imperfection. Or rather encouraging fans to highlight what other brands encourage you to cover up; release your scars, show off your freckles… (Which I’m guilty of — I cover up my beauty marks.) So it’s perfectly fitting, I take to a collection of nail varnishes that are clustered in marks (it’s a good first step, release the nails, and work towards the face).

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I’mperfection consists of 5 new, limited edition speckled nail varnishes ($16) in shades In Fragile (blue), In Speckle (purple), In Mottle (green), In Scarce (pink) and In Freckle (brown). I’m very

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NYFW: Backstage at Katie Gallagher with Color Club Nails + Miss Pop

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Inspired by “The Winter You Froze Away” this show couldn’t have happened on a more fitting day.  Nemo was about to coat the streets of NYC while Color Club Nails, led by Simcha Whitehill aka Miss Pop, was coating the nails of the models for the Katie Gallagher show.  She started with a pointed nail (the freshest trend in nail shape that all the stars are rocking lately) then dotted the models nails with colors: Dove Grey (custom), Where’s the Soiree, Muse-ical, and Zodiac,  creating the stormiest nails

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NYFW: Backstage + Front Row at Nicholas K Fall 2013 Fashion Show

Backstage with Nicholas K designers, Chris & Nicholas Kunz
Backstage with Nicholas K designers, Chris & Nicholas Kunz

Let me start by saying that I’m a HUGE Tina Turnbrow fan, and yet I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting her. So when  I found out she was the celebrity makeup artist leading the Fall 2013 Nicholas K show on behalf of NYX Cosmetics I was all in!

Backstage with Tina Turnbrow at Nicholas K Fall 2013

When asking Tina about the look she said, “it’s very arctic/nomadic princess, kind of cold. The eyes are strong, the lips and the skin is very pale. There’s no mascara, the look is more on the raw side. We’re contouring the face to give a little sharpness and tougher feel.” Watching Tina Turnbrow work is a pleasure, the detail she puts into blending and creating those eyes was a work of art.

GET THE LOOK: Nicholas K Fall/Winter 2013 with Tina Turnbrow for NYX Professional Makeup

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NYFW: Backstage at Charlotte Ronson Fall 2013 with Color Club Nail + Sephora

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Backstage with Simcha Whitehill aka Miss Pop

I stopped by backstage at Charlotte Ronson Fall 2013 show at Lincoln Center to see my favorite nail artist/manicurist Simcha Whitehill, aka Miss Pop (check out her blog if you ever need nail-spiration). Leading the nail team for Color Club, she created a “Picture Frame” nail art look — 5 to be exact.

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