Fashion News

PALIN SHOPS TIL SHE DROPS, YOU BETCHA!

Ms. Tina Fey glasses has been burning up the GOP funds with shopping and beauty spending. Republic campaign finance reports released today show the actual breakdown of Palin's shopping sprees:

• $49,425 was spent at two Saks Fifth Avenue locations.
• $75,062 went to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis.
• $4,716 on hair and makeup in September alone.
• $4,902 was spent at Atelier, a top end men's store, suggesting the party also paid for some of Todd Palin outfits.

Reports say that Emmy-award winning stylist Amy Strozzi was paid $22,800 over a two-week period in October for Palin's makeup. So much for the "average hockey mom." I'm sure Joe the Plumber would be proud.

New Cosmetic Line

KAT'S MEOW AT SEPHORA

When I was in Sephora today, I noticed Kat Von D of L.A. Ink has a new cosmetic line made specifically for the store. Based on pin-up rocker girl chic, the line carries only shades of red lipstick and the cosmetic cases are decorated with one of Kat's rose tats. With product names like "Misfit", "Turbo Lover", and "Underage Red", Kat's line is a far cry from Jessica Simpson's "Dessert Beauty" Sephora line.

Trends

CHIPPED CHIC

Remember when ripped jeans and stockings were considered edgy? Now chipped nail polish is the latest low-maintenance fashion trend. The New York Times reports that the trend isn't just being embraced by the under 21 crowd.

According to Ji Baek, owner of The Rescue Beauty Lounge, a lot of high fashion women are “wearing perfectly-tailored clothes, they have $5,000 bags and equally fabulous shoes, but their nails are chipped and they’re saying, ‘I don’t care.’ They don’t want to be too perfect.” But, she noted, their polish “is so perfectly chipped.” This trend works in my favor since my nails are usually flecked with five-day-old polish.