Fashion Friday: Blushing

It's Fashion Friday and I'm in love....

...with this glow-inducing blush compact from Jill Stuart cosmetics! Available in nine different colourways featuring poppy pinks and pretty corals, the mix and match quad provides the perfect hit of colour to brighten up your face for spring. 

Here are my favourite palettes from the collection:

Little Bouquet

Lovely Tulip

Milky Strawberry

Sadly, Jill Stuart cosmetics are sold primarily in Asia, although eBay retailers and Pacific Mall resellers can hook up beauty addicts for a pretty penny starting at $45+ per palette.

Which palette is your favourite? Are there any blush compacts or colours you swear by once warm weather hits?  :)

♥

(Photos by Jill Stuart)

Fashion Friday: Nicole Richie

Nicole Richie looks simply fabulous in the latest issue of Ocean Drive magazine.  

The bun! The fringe! Those baby blue peep toe shoes! 

I'd happily settle for any of the above, wouldn't you? ;)

♥

Photo Credit: Ocean Drive Magazine

Fashion Friday: Retro Beauty

With the long-awaited return of Mad Men on March 25, it only seems fitting to focus my Fashion Friday posts this month on retro style and beauty! 

Acclaimed costume designer Janie Bryant undoubtedly has some sartorial surprises up her sleeve for season 5, and I can't wait to see how she transitions the characters as they inch closer and closer toward the 1970s. 

Until then, kick off your heels, grab a martini glass, and enjoy this quirky and alluring editorial starring Meghan Collison (the new face of Prada and a Canadian!) and shot by Ben Toms for Vogue Russia (January 2012).

See the whole editorial here.

Which photo or outfit is your favourite? :)

Personally, the stunning hair and makeup steals the show for me in every shot! 

Images: 

MODEL ::: Meghan Collison

PHOTOGRAPHY ::: Ben Toms

STYLING ::: Katie Shillingford

HAIR ::: Syd Hayes

MAKEUP ::: Hiromi Ueda

SET DESIGN ::: Emma Roach

for Vogue Russia via Fashion Gone Rogue.

Vogue Nippon Beauty: Freja

Something so unexpected and lovely about these images of Freja in this month's Vogue Nippon Beauty. Her disgruntled expressions are a stark contrast to the flawless makeup and beachy Puerto Rican backdrop, but I think it's what makes this editorial worth a second look.

I'm also completely in love the blue top with a brown leather strap detail in the third shot <3

Magazine: Vogue Nippon Beauty, July 2011

Model: Freja Beha Erichsen

Hair: Laurent Philippon

Makeup: Jeanine Lobell

Stylist: George Cortina

Photographer: Alasdair McLellan

(Photos by Alasdair McLellan for Vogue Nippon Beauty via Design Scene)