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Kroma v. Krohma

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MUA Lee Tillett claims that the Kardashians stole her cosmetics line’s name Kroma (without a “h”).  She is suing for $10 million damages.

Meanwhile, Lee’s attorney Elliot Gipson claims Kim – who says she came up with the name [Khroma] herself – was aware via her placement agents TLK Fusion of a 2010 deal to ensure product placement for Kroma on an E! Entertainment show Kim was due to produce.

He said: “On or about May 2010, representatives for Tillett and TLK Fusion were engaged in discussions regarding the possible product placement of the KROMA cosmetics line on the television reality show special ‘The SPINdustry’ that was scheduled to air on E! Entertainment Television following an episode of ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’.”

I don’t put it past Kim to steal the Kroma name.  Remember how the Kardashians appropriated Monica Botkier’s handbag designs for Sears’s Kardashian Kollection?

//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsvia Bad Kroma for the Kardashians being sued over cosmetics brand – Showbiz – London Evening Standard.

NARS Andy Warhol Collection

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It won’t be out until October, but NARS has posted a teaser video for its Andy Warhol collection, as licensed by the Andy Warhol Foundation:

Which Warhol character do you think will make an appearance in the collection?  I’m banking on Edie Sedgwick.  Jane Forth should be another character.

Also see my review of Bond No. 9 Success is a Job in New York, part of a series of fragrances commissioned by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Seven Biggest Celebrity Beauty Lies

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“There’s this idea that it’s all natural, but everything’s been staged to look natural,” said [Lady] Gaga of her October 2011 Harper’s Bazaar cover. “Don’t you think that what’s on the cover of a magazine is quite artificial?”  Right.  And have you ever noticed that they use B&W for models/celebrities “without makeup”?

We’re used to celebrities lying to us about their marital affairs. But what about the beauty lies they pass off as advice? See the worst of them now
7 Biggest Celeb Beauty Lies

This is a TotalBeauty.com celebrity hairstyles article
OK, OK, nobody is buying that’s all Kim Kardashian’s real hair, but what about the other beauty lies celebs pass off as fact? See the worst of Hollywood’s beauty lies now.

P&G pulls Taylor Swift Cover Girl mascara ad

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P&G (Cover Girl) has been more honest than L’Oreal (which also owns Maybelline) about enhancing images for its ads: for example, in its LashBlast mascara ads featuring Drew Barrymore, it provides fine print that lash inserts were applied before mascara.

Now comes news that P&G has pulled its ad featuring Taylor Swift for its NatureLuxe Mousse Mascara, after the US Council of Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division requested that P&G substantiate its claims and called into account P&G’s enhancing the image to mislead the consumer about how much the mascara enhances the eyes:

The issue of Photoshopping images has been a hot topic on online fashion and beauty forums.  Are we ready for more realistic advertising?  We claim we are, but as ExtremeTech notes,

 “… humans are incredibly sensitive to visual stimuli — and multiple trillion-dollar industries, including advertising, cosmetics, movies, and TV, all stand to gain by making their products look more appealing. There is a reason that digital manipulation and post production is so prevalent, after all — and indeed, it could even be argued that non-manipulated images now look ugly to our eyes.”

UK’s Advertising Standards Authority bans misleading cosmetics ads

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The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority banned an excessively retouched ad featuring Julia Roberts for Lancome and this one featuring Christy Turlington for Maybelline:

At right, a fresh-faced Turlington dares to bare.

The ASA deemed these ads misleading, as the perfect complexions were a result of photo manipulation, not product use.  Watch this space for US crackdown on misleading cosmetics advertising.

Subtle blush

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I hate obvious blush. The worst example was Lindsay Lohan at her court appearance for violating court orders (and I feel badly about her situation, as The Parent Trap remake is one of my favorite romcoms).

Perhaps it harkens back to the nude/naked makeup of the early 1990s, but I prefer subtle blushes, and Revlon fills the bill.  I alternate between the Revlon Powder Blush in Sandalwood Beigeicon (a perennial) and Revlon Colorstay Mineral Blush in Honeyicon.

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Revlon Powder Blush in Sandalwood Beige

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I use a dome-shaped blush brush and apply blush only to the apples of my cheeks.

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I also use Revlon Naturally Glamorous Blush-on in Fleshtone, from a limited edition collection of neutrals that was released when Cindy Crawford was still the face of Revlon.  Perhaps it was a harbinger of things to come: Halle Berry replaced Veronica Webb in the ads for the limited edition collection. Sorry, I couldn’t find images of the ads for the collection.

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