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New Year’s Skin-Smart Resolutions
Start the New Year with skincare resolutions! Promise that you will regularly practice these facesavers. Keep your Skin-Smart, healthy, protected and soft. Skin Resolution #1 – Prepare and Protect Skin For A Everyday Skin Defense: Step up the skincare routine this...
New Year’s Eve Countdown: Skincare Facing Forward
An invitation has arrived for a great New Year's Eve party not to be missed. What to do so that you're walking out your door with great skin and your best face forward? Day before the party: If you're planning to have a professional facial, do it the day before so the...
Face the Fall: Variety of Products at Beauty Press Event
A fall event for beauty reporters hosted by Beauty Press ventured into a variety of solutions that will interest both the mainstream consumer and the professional. Brands included hand and foot moisturizers from Chicago, makeup from Istanbul, skincare and personal...
How I Become Grace Jones — Tips for Cosplay
Back in 1997, Devon Cass, a photographer, makeup artist and master celebrity impersonator, wanted to share his makeup tips with the average woman. Devon can transform the most ordinary-looking opera singer's headshot into a portrait of a high class ultra-diva that...
FashionWeek Brooklyn Sleek as a Tesla
FashionWeek Brooklyn raised the bar with Tesla! Hip and happening Red Hook Brooklyn is where Tesla's exclusive automobile showroom met Fashion Week Brooklyn this fall! The scene was set by the view of the sparkling Manhattan skyline and the shimmering East River. But...
My Celebrity Look-Alike Costume
It is the time of year to cosplay at ComicCon and masquerade at all those Halloween parties. But I happen to do this professionally as a Grace Jones impersonator! It is fun to be hired to appear at functions as the alter ego of the brilliant Jamaican pop singer and...
Reunion of Memories
There is no place like home. When I went back home to Miami for my high school reunion, I saw so many classmates. We just naturally picked up where we left off in our friendships. The Olympics is still on our minds, because Carmen Jackson, the coach of Brianna...
California: What I Did On My Summer Vacation
How was your summer? Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California had beautiful weather when I went there this summer with my daughter and friends. We saw the usual sights, and did the usual things. Loved going to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. The celebrity bus tour was...
BEAUTY ON THE GEEK: Temp Tatts with Tech Specs?
Gold leaf body art that is fashionable, customizable, removable, safe on the #skin and can send commands to your cellphone? That's what's brewing over at MIT right now: DuoSkin, very special temporary #tattoos that not only look cutting edge, but are. You'll be able...
My Junior Olympic Memories
Love watching the Olympics: the fanfare, people from nearly every country, the talent, the strength and intensity. The athletes take this seriously and it is so fun to watch them all do their best! Now the track and field events begin, and that just takes me back to...
Home Spa Summer Break
It's a long wonderful summer, a time when you are exposed to sun, extreme heat, all that's in the air that attracts to your skin like a magnet: salt water, pool water, “fresh” water, dirt, sand, leaves, oils and especially sweat. You've also reached the height of...
Carla Hall’s Southern Kitchen: Nashville Hot Chicken in Small World Brooklyn
We were on the way to a meeting in Brooklyn's Red Hook when we decided to have a late lunch at Carla Hall's Southern Kitchen on the border where Carroll Gardens meets Red Hook. The Nashville, Tennessee–style hot fried chicken was so good but what was even more of a...
Motown The Musical’s Welcome Return
Motown The Musical, the smash hit production featuring the music of the legendary Motown catalogue and a book by Berry Gordy, returned to Broadway for a limited engagement at The Nederlander Theater. It was sad to learn of its closing on July 31! M is for MUSIC M is...
Let the Rhythm Get You — Broadway’s “On Your Feet”
Rhythm and movement is evident the moment that you step foot inside of the Marquis Theater to see On Your Feet, the Broadway musical that tells the story of pop megastars Emilio and Gloria Estefan. Conga drums, maracas, glittery costumes, hip shaking are completely...
Upon Meeting Bill Cunningham (1929-2016)
Unlike TV news reporters, we rarely see the faces of most newspaper journalists, especially photographers, who want to be anonymous eyes for us readers. And unlike most people whose pictures get in the news because they were up to no good — that's not the case if they...
Quench Your Skin at the Racetrack?
As the thoroughbred horse racing season of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness culminates with the Belmont Stakes, it's an opportune time to bring attention to the second most important part of the Triple Crown season: the drinking! Maybe the fancy hats are the...
Mid-Day Refresh at Mario Badescu Spa
For years, Mario Badescu Salon Day Spa has been my favorite New York City place for facial treatments. I went to Mario Badescu today for a relaxing facial to brighten and refresh my skin. Just as desired, I left with a fresh summer glow! The early summer days often...
Prom Prep Head to Toe
A Comprehensive Resource for the Prom: Advice in Seven Areas From Face to Shoes Every spring we advise teens on how to prepare for the prom while keeping the skin healthy and looking youthful long after the party is over. What steps should you take to avoid...
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Pat Collins
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Brooklyn, New York