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Like most beauty/fashion aficionadas, I love me some Coco Rocha. Her versatility and chameleon-like haircolour changes and penchant for doing an Irish jig on the runway are totally refreshing in the modelling world (which tends to be known for bland,...
Axe Body Spray is billed as the chick magnet for men (you've probably seen those creepy "Chocolate Man" ads where desperate, ravenous women chomp off said man's body parts). And now, there's a fragrance that's claiming to do...
Big news, lovelies: SugarShockBeauty.com has been nominated as one of three finalists in the Best Beauty/Fashion Blog category of the P&G Beauty Awards!!! These Awards recognize the best of the best in the Canadian beauty and fashion business and...
When I was growing up, I had an unlikely role model(s): The Sweet Valley High twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield. Why unlikely? Because yours truly was no sun-streaked, blonde-haired/blue-eyed all American; as a brown-haired/brown-eyed kid with a larger...
Back in the fall of 2008, at the launch of Lancôme's Oscillation Powermascara, I asked mascara guru Jean-Louis Gueret if Oscillation's groundbreaking vibrating technology could be used for other beauty products. He told me the company had a few...
Twihards take note: the Twilight Beauty site is now live, offering vamp-themed makeup to tide you over until the release of New Moon in November. At first, I was highly skeptical of this seemingly transparent marketing shill (truth be told, although I...
Bond No. 9, purveyor of scents inspired by all things NYC, for its new fall fragrance launch in the Andy Warhol series, Success is a Job in New York . Has a nice ring to it, no? For me, it brings to mind the scheming ways of the cutthroat advertising...
For years I've been in awe of Chantecaille, the ultra-luxe cosmetic and skincare brand known for creating these amazing, wild-life-inspired beauty compacts that give back to the environment (known as "cause-metics"). Chantecaille launched...
Just in time for the Cannes Film Festival, L'Oreal has confirmed that Freida Pinto and Evangeline Lilly have been tapped as the latest faces of the cosmetics giant. While rumors were swirling for months that Freida was set to join Estee Lauder, it...
The usually groomed-to-perfection Kim Kardashian has apparently suffered a big beauty blunder. The other day, she Tweeted: "PLEASE HELP ME! I am so sunburned! I fell asleep with huge glasses on yesterday! This tan line is not ok!!!" Obviously...
Here's a bit of news that's caused a bit of excitement over here at SugarShock Beauty headquarters: Chaz Dean, the celebrity hairstylist with the soap-opera-star name, and maker of our much beloved non-sudsing Wen Cleansing Conditioner , has launched...
It's hard to believe, but Benefit's cult favorite Benetint has been around for 30 years. And in all that time, I've never had a chance to use the famed lip and cheek stain, until now, with the latest incarnation, Posietint . While the original...
You may be wondering: how can you improve upon perfection? That's exactly what I wanted to know when I heard the news that Philosophy has reformulated its cult-classic 3-in-1 gel cleanser Purity Made Simple. Well, according to the Sephora Blog , it...
For as long as I can remember, I've watched The Young and the Restless . Let me clarify: I never really had a choice in the matter, because back to when I was just a wee one, the melodramas of Nikki and Victor were always on television somewhere,...
H&M's dalliances with high fashion just keep getting better and better: avant garde designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons has been tapped to design a capsule fashion collection and unisex fragrance for the Swedish retailer. Joining previous...
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