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Tuesday 19 October 2010     Leave A Comment

Tonight! Harrods in 3D for Breast Cancer Awareness

It’s surely a given that nothing takes away from the ordeal a woman with cancer has to go through, every day.   Yet it always comes up that there are points at which the spray of a pretty scent or the swipe of a lipstick brightens things up really rather a lot.   That’s just one of the reasons why charities spearheaded by the beauty industry are a mighty good thing.

Tonight, Elizabeth Hurley, one of Estée Lauder’s longest standing faces will be lighting Harrods pink.  On behalf of the Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, spearheaded by the Estée Lauder group of companies.  And I’m looking forward to it.  She has just tweeted that she’ll be ‘setting off pink rockets and releasing loads of pink balloons’.  Not to mention this little beauty: ‘It’s in 3D and you get pink glasses.’  What?!

And I know one thing, my beautiful aunt, Jacomin will be chuckling, somewhere up there, secateurs in hand, pruning a bush of heavenly pink roses.   Well, that’s how I’ll be picturing her tonight.

Here are a few brilliant things Breast Cancer Awareness has achieved for breast cancer:

. By October, together with its retail partners, the BCA Campaign will have raised they say, more than $45 million since 1993 for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

. In October 2009 this research foundation awarded nearly $28.5 million to 173 scientists across the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.

. Since the Global Landmark Illumination Initiative to light up landmarks in capital cities around the world began in 2000, the rosy pink glow has beamed at more than 200 worldwide.  Why do it?  ‘[…] to help raise awareness,’ says Evelyn Lauder, ‘by the flip of a switch.’

. The Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign will have distributed more than 110 million pink ribbons worldwide from its start in 1992 to today.

Here are a few fabulous things you can buy yourself or a friend to support Breast Cancer Awareness this month.  Most are available at the counter, not on line, while stocks last so hurry!

Aveda Hand Relief; Clinique Great Lips, Great Cause (a key ring strung with three mini-lip glosses); Bobbi Brown Pink Shimmer Brick Compact; Darphin Intral Soothing Cream; Donna Karan Cashmere Mist; Jo Malone Red Roses Cologne; Elemis Sparkling Beauty Collection (for Breast Cancer Care)…

Here’s a link to Elizabeth Hurley at the New York Stock Exchange last week – lighting it up pink.

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Thursday 12 August 2010     Leave A Comment

‘Best Face Forward – why appearances matter on online business networking sites’

The following article appeared in the FT Life & Arts on August 8th.  To read it more easily, please click here

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Friday 6 November 2009     Leave A Comment

Estée Lauder signs Tom Pecheux

Great that Lauder brings Tom Pecheux, one of the industry’s make-up superstars intothe fold as Creative Make-Up Director. Things haven’t been as exciting in lipstick terms, since Tom Ford’s collaboration with the brand – the result was consistent, sell-out collections of fabulously glamorous, make-up. It’s time for another shake-up. This is good news.

This is just one of a series of ongoing hirings within the make-up arena. The last most talked about was Peter Philips’ arrival at Chanel. He took over from Dominique Montcourtois and Heidi Morawetz who’d been at the helm for around 20 years. Next up, celebrity darling, Gucci Westman’s move from Lancôme to Revlon in Spring last year and, Aaron de Mey’s enlistment at Lancôme. Val Garland took over from Linda Cantello at YSL (Cantello incidentally, was assisted by Tom Pecheux some twenty/thirty years ago). Pat McGrath, behind the original Armani make-up line has now been at Max Factor for five years.

The make-up artist voice is stronger now than it ever was. (Funny to think that forty years ago there was no such thing – models did their own make-up.) This is why the cosmetics houses are lapping them up. They know their craft, they know what works and having worked with some of the most creative photographers in the world, have developed the kind of fine-tuned, eye that will help today’s cosmetic houses remain modern, forward thinking, exciting and new.

I for one can’t wait to see Pecheux’s first collection – Spring 2010. Bring it on.

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