Okay, maybe just Rihanna, but they’ll catch up. 

Bright and attention-grabbing makeup has been on the style cards all season, and the new trend, flourescent nails, is similarly color-drenched: think green, yellow, day-glo orange and shocking pink.  Blame it on Chanel, who launched their limited-edition Robertson Boulevard collection a few weeks ago; now Essie has launched the much cheaper Neon Collection, which basically contains the same shades, but only costs $18 for the mini-kit, as opposed to the $25 you’ll shell out for each shade of Chanel (available only at the new Robertson Boulevard Chanel boutique in LA.)  I’m a pale-pink kind of girl, but, hey, a little vivid experimentation never hurt anybody!

I was not planning on having an all-Rihanna nail polish pictorial…but the girl obviously loves her crazy nail shades!

Lime-green nails?  Bring it
 

Orange crush…

Banana-yellow…

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In honor of yesterday’s FiFi fragrance awards, please indulge me for a moment.  I would like to send a plea to perfumers (or more accurately, to the beauty conglomerate executives who greenlight this nonsense in penthouse boardrooms above Fifth Avenue) to stop being so damn lazy with their fragrances.  Season after season, scent lovers are bombarded not only with inane EDPs from celebrities that have no business “creating” juices, but also with updated, slightly tweaked versions of old perfumes saddled with names just like! but different from! the original.  Loved Stella McCartney?  Hey, try Stella McCartney Sheer Stella!  Were you a fan of Givenchy Very Irresistible?  Try the Givenchy Very Irresistible Givenchy Summer Cocktail!  Not really a fan of the apple-and-mandarin candied scent of the original Ralph?  Maybe you’ll like Ralph Rocks!  Or Ralph Cool!  What about Ralph Hot?  Ralph Wild?  Ralph Insanity?  (Yeah, I made that one up.) (more…)