Sharon Haver - FocusOnStyle.com beauty posts

I’ll Have What She’s Having: Rashida Jones and the strong red lip

Red lipstick at the ready… how to rock ruby lips for summer and all year round… In this economy, we’re big on finding something small that makes a major and lasting impact on your style. And a tube of ruby red lipstick may just do the glam trick! Case in point: The very glam and very understated chic of Rashida Jones pictured here. No frou-frou Hollywood fussiness for her. Just all the right things that make a simple look sizzle. Rashida’s strong ruby red lips are the focal point , not a distraction to her beauty. Simple, undone pulled back hair, a natural bronzey glow, black lashes, and that vibrant pow of a very strong red lip! That’s all she

Anti-Aging Beauty Tips: The Inside Scoop on Aging Backwards

How to stay fresh and vital when it's too hot to go outside… Summer can be a real scorcher in many parts of the country. No matter where you live, storms of some sort are also a reality. When you’re stuck inside, there are a number of ways to take advantage of the time and keep (or start) Aging Backwards. Here are some indoor tips for when Mother Nature keeps you cooped up inside. Aging Backwards Indoor Tips 1) Jump rope. I always keep a jump rope or two in the house. Jumping rope is one of the best exercises you can do for Aging Backwards. Experts say that “interval” exercise, or doing several sets of raising your heart rate

I’ll Have What She’s Having: Jane Fonda, Aspirational Ageless Beauty

If you are going to resemble someone, best be a beauty who sustains… I have the kind of face that people find some kindred association. Usually, an insistence that they know me from high school, from somewhere, they are convinced. Or, they think that I look like a celebrity. The celebrities seem to range far and wide and are more dependent on the age of the person who initiated the comparison rather than a direct relevance to me. It's been insisted that I resemble Terri Hatcher, Sigourney Weaver, Brittany Murphy, and Frances McDormand. When I permed my hair it was Marie Schnieder from her Last Tango in Paris days– boy, that image sticks in the mind of some men. There

Fun in the Sun… How honored was I when top NYC dermatologist Dr. Francesca Fusco agreed to be interviewed? Very! Although Francesca is my dermatologist, I know that she is amazingly busy and sought after, so I was thrilled when she agreed to answer some questions about my treatment, skin care recommendations and getting clear about sunscreen. Summer is just a round the corner (yay!!!) and I wanted to find out some skincare tips and recommendations from the expert. I think in many ways we all know much of the basics when it comes to sunscreen and skincare at this point, right? Well…no. Francesca enlightened me about some real basics that I had not known about sunscreen and maybe you

Pink Lips rule vivid lipstick shades for summer…

You might want to call it the Pink Lip, lay off on natural beauty Jessica Biel Lip Watch: Pink Lips rule vivid lipstick shades for summer...You might want to call it the Pink Lip, lay off on natural beauty Jessica Biel Lip Watch! Runway to real way can be impossible to pull off for many beauty trends. The crazy, vivid lipstick trend is so hot for summer and does look fab when on a runway, in a fashion editorial, or when executed just the right way— as in the gorgeous flush of pink on Jessica Biel, pictured here. I have to admit a strange bias as to not loving baby pink lips. Mostly in that they remind me of an

I’ll Have What She’s Having: Demi Moore in DC

Gorgeous, Timeless, and Chic… It’s Monday inspiration time and Demi Moore is our poster girl for looking amazing (as usual) at the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend in Washington, DC. Besides the fact that @MrsKutcher exudes a hefty dose of sex appeal, Demi is looking flawless for the occasion: No schmaltzy look-at-me Hollywood gown, but rather wearing an elegant one-shoulder grown-up gown in a very sophisticated shade of gray, with simple diamond drop earrings, natural makeup, classic side-swept hair in balance with the cut of her dress, and a natural tan. Age-appropriate fashion is not about looking great for your age. It’s about looking great (period). Beauty is feeling comfortable in the skin that you are in. Take note.

Tinko’s Take: Dagger in Dubai

Glamour, mysticism, and the power of queens… Dagger, series of pictures whose inspiration is very diverse, from the comic book mysticism of Indiana Jones to the glamour of perfume advertising, to the powerful pictures of queens makes its way to Dubai. It started when I found a beautiful object in a souk in Taroudannt, Morocco. Like a beautiful girl wearing rags and living in the street, the bottle was a beautiful object containing a bad perfume and destined to be sold among dust covered batteries and soap bars in a dimly lit shop. The idea came to sublimate the object which had a potential for beauty and to empower the women who held it. By holding the dagger, the women

The Makeup Junkie: Can’t Live Without Cosmetics

How well do you remember the movie THE BREAKFAST CLUB? At the end of the movie Molly Ringwald takes Ally Sheedy into the ladies’ room, and with just a few handy cosmetics turns Ally from misanthrope into girl next door. . . Well, I think that scene defined my point of view on beauty. Sure, sometimes I want something more dramatic, but for a basic, classy, presentable look, really all I need is five things (and you’ll see in a moment, for a basic, basic look, all I need is two). (Disclaimer: Now I am certainly not saying that a person needs makeup to look beautiful, in fact there are some lucky women who need none at all. I

FocusOnStyle Mobile: Fashion headlines on your phone

Get Focus on Style fashion updates on your cell phone… Life is fast and we are always moving, but you don’t want to miss one fashionable thing. Don’t fret, http:/FocusOnStyle.mofuse.mobi is all you need to add to your phone and you will have our sparkling beauty, style, and fashion content on the go. So easy, so good, so chic! For a faster set-up fix, snap the FocusOnStyle QR Code, below: Tip: A QR Code is a bar code that can be scanned by most camera phones and read using a QR Code reader. A QR Code is essentially a link to our mobile site. Anyone with a camera phone can take a picture of it and if you have a

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Pencils up, you won’t want to miss this fashion photography exhibition… What’s beautiful and captivating as an art form, yet really designed to promote a fashion or beauty product? One of the images from over forty of the most influential contemporary fashion photographers presented at the International Center of Photography exhibition, Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now. In keeping with the original context of these photographs hundreds of tear sheets, along with approximately twenty original photographic prints, and online media will also be presented. The ICP is just across the corner from the tents of New York Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, so do drop by. Details: Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas at

Beauty Book Review: Face Value by Kathleen Baird-Murray…

A Novel Beauty Face Value by Kathleen Baird-Murray, a novel beauty book review In a seemingly flawless macrocosm of pretty good reads, Sapien bookcases vertically riddled with cutesy tomes from interns who gab too much or stay-at-homes who discover their latent editrix by a steady diet of watching fashion TV. What's a stylish girl to do when she wants a little chic in her chicklit, some irony, a sporadic giggle, and a really fun romp to read while not-so-patiently waiting for her flight to finally take off? She fills in the blanks... So here we have a novel (Face Value) with a fairy tale premise (how to make a splash in the glamour biz without really having a clue) by

Naughty Pin-Up Icon Bettie Page Dies

The saucy babe with the bangs… Bettie Page, the 1950’s pin-up icon who between girl next door shots, would throw in a cat of nine tails or two was probably known more for her legendary glamor style than her saucy S&M antics passed away at the age of 85. The model’s rich black hair with its architecturally cut bangs, perfectly groomed eyebrows, and deep red lips have been a beauty reference for more than a half-century. Madonna. Demi Moore, Project Runway's Kenley Collins, downtown glamor queens, and scads of hair and make-up artists have immortalized Bettie Page’s captivating retro chic allure that is probably what comes to mind to most young women rather than the stir her dominatrix and bondage

My old (in an ageless, where does time fly kinda way) colleague from my SHNS newswire days, Lee Woodruff, one the brightest and funniest pr babes to ever pitch a lipstick, wants to share something on far more serious note than the right shade of gloss for the holiday season, “Support Our Troops" is no longer a slogan. It's an action.” Helping someone is indeed bigger than a lipstick, but you can kill two birds with one very amazing stone– get an early start on holiday shopping and do some good for someone who has sacrificed so much! Look at the gorgeous goodies up for grab that benefit Remind.org, the Bob Woodruff Foundation dedicated to helping to heal the

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