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Beauty round-up: upcoming winter releases from Shiseido, MAC and Revlon

May 30, 2013/10.58

Shiseido will launch its Bio-Performance Super Corrective Eye Cream on July 9 in New Zealand, retailing for NZ$115 for 15 ml. The new cream counteracts sagging, wrinkles and dark circles and helps make eyes look younger.    Shiseido says that the area around the eye can be dry, which leads to ageing. Naturally produced hyaluronic […]

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Forbidden fruit that’s fresh as ever

May 28, 2013/11.33

Literature that’s long been ripe for the picking (or picking-on) is harvested in earnest for the PEN Center, a literary organization advocating the freedom of expression around the world.    Hollywood risk-takers like director John Landis, literature critic Tom Lutz, novelist Natasha Dean, and actors Rénée Felice Smith, Julian Sands, Kevin McKidd and Illeana Douglas […]

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Roberto Cavalli unveils this year’s Life Ball Mini, a Paceman, in Wien

/10.42

Mini has been present at the Life Ball in Wien for many years, but this is the first time its donated car has been the larger Paceman, a new model that’s essentially a coupé crossover version of the iconic British car.    The Paceman, the three-door sporting version of the Countryman tested by Lucire last […]

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Heidi Klum and Nicole Kidman steal the show on day nine of the Cannes Film Festival

May 24, 2013/11.41

Ian Gavan/Wireimage/Getty Images Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, a black-and-white film in competition at the 66th Festival de Cannes, is a stylistic but not a thematic departure from his previous film, The Descendants. Bruce Dern and Will Forte play father and son in the new film, and June Squibb plays Dern’s wife.    The storyline sees Dern’s […]

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New beauty brand KD One gives back to the community with Africa Day events

May 22, 2013/12.41

As Wellington gears up to Africa Day this Saturday, with a 12-hour celebration at the Wellington Town Hall beginning at 11.30 a.m., there’s a distinctively non-African name behind the scenes doing the make-up for the fashion show on the day, as well as the smaller Taste of Africa event at Te Papa from 6 p.m. […]

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