Charlotte Blakeney is one of Australia’s most in-demand makeup artists. For almost 20 years she has worked her magic on covers, campaigns and countless celebrities. By Charlotte began as a side business: “I have always wanted to make women look and feel beautiful and I guess jewellery is another way of achieving this.” It’s now booming to the point where Blakeney is putting away her makeup brushes for good.
Polished Performance
The ultimate in nail luxury: glossy, glistening shades set off with sparkle and shine of the jewellery kind. Pile on the glitz with nails polished enough to take anything on.
An Olfactory Journey with Silvana Casoli
Silvana Casoli creates fragrances that relives memories and invokes a particular human emotions: intense and long-lasting on the mind and ofcourse skin, unexpected without being intrusive.Continue reading
BABY’S ON FIRE
Jagged Edges. Bold Hues. And Unapologetic Vibrant Brush Strokes. Stylist Emma Read create a modern TWIST on the classic. Step in to a fiery side with L’Officiel Beaute story ‘Baby’s On Fire’.
Make – Up Close & Personal with Charlotte Tilbury
Make-Up Artist, Creative Consultant and Entrepreneur, Charlotte Tilbury in talks with L’Officiel on her ingenious product line, extensive beauty routine and secrets of a confident skin.
THE FRAGRANCE FAMILY
As France’s first lady of fragrance, Chantal Roos has had more impact on the industry than most; she was the brains behind such iconic scents as YSL Opium and Paris, Issey Miyake L’eau D’issey and Jean Paul Gaultier classique. Continue reading
Comme des Garçons: Connect the DOT
In the past 22 years, CDG fragrances have launched only five scents, each one with its own code name to reflect the inspiration behind it. These creations join a collection of over 75 other scents under the Comme des Garçons Perfumes umbrella.Continue reading
Scent of a Men
As the launch for L’Officiel Hommes nears, we uncover four Autumn fragrances for men that will take you on a olfactory journey from Corsica, to Southern Italy’s Mediterranean Gaunts to wild woods of Eastern Africa.
BEAUTY PICK: Braided
Braids are set to be one of the biggest hair trends of 2016, with everybody from Beyoncé to Australian model Jessica Hart embracing the look.
PICK: Weekend
Summer, south of somewhere
Take a line out of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and thread your “way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.”
Let it shine with Dior’s ‘State of Gold’
This season, let it shine, let it shine… Dior’s Creative and Image Director for makeup, Peter Philips, has created an enchanting collection, and gilded it for the festive season. Welcome to the new spirit of luxury.Continue reading
Backstage at Dior
It’s been barely two weeks since PFW SS16 wrapped up, but if you’re in the mood to reminisce— here models backstage at Dior talk runway survival tactics. #eat #play #walk
Until Paris Haute Couture Spring Summer (24-29 January 2016), then.
YSL: Le Vestiaire des Parfums
Yves Saint Laurent has formulated five perfumes inspired by iconic YSL pieces—namely the pea coat, the tuxedo, the safari jacket, trench and the caftan. Cloakrooms are set to become places of luxury.Continue reading
Makeup Talk: L’Officiel x L’Oréal
L’Officiel’s Jay Joshi goes face-to-face with L’Oréal’s Head of Digital and Media Christophe Eymery, on Make-Up Genius and changing face of beauty in the digital age.
Allison Browning: Spring Skin care
Skin therapist Allison Browning has been noted in The Age and Vogue for treating skin, eyebrows and souls with a mix of sage-like wisdom and cutting edge technology. Here she talks to L’Officiel about spring cleaning your skin.
L’ORÉAL: CARBON BALANCED AMBITION FOR 2020
Going green is not just the prerogative of good governments, good business practice means investing in the future. L’Oréal, the global cosmetics giant plans to become “carbon balanced” by 2020 by offsetting greenhouse gas emissions from its operations. Jean-Paul Agon, Chairman and CEO of L’Oréal, said, “this renewed commitment shows L’Oréal’s will to taking part in the fight against climate change.”
Perfume: Scents of Spring
A spring in your step, the world at your feet, flowers in your hair—fragrance has a way of transporting and igniting memory. L’Officiel uncovers eight fragrances for spring that will take you on an olfactory journey from Capri, to the French Rivera, to the birth of Venus, before a visit to the spring gardens of Asia via an avenue of Japanese cherry blossoms.
Master the winged look for your eye shape with L’Oréal
The winged eye look requires some mastery (and a steady hand). Elsa Morgan, makeup director at L’Oréal Paris, offers a tutorial based on eye shape. Here are our cheat notes.
Beauty talk: Edie Campbell
It girl, art graduate, face of YSL, top model, hair muse … Edie Campbell wears so many hats atop her ever-changing hair, it’s impossible to put this elusive style star into any one box. Here she chats to L’Officiel about makeup, hair, and her preference for simplicity when it comes to both of those.
Hats off to Philip Treacy for M.A.C
Beauty IN BLOOM
It’s testament to the design genius of Riccardo Tisci, the creative director of Givenchy, that the Parisian house once synonymous with outfitting an ultra-chic Audrey Hepburn is now so celebrated for its brand of gothic glamour.
Get Dior’s Cosmopolite Look
A palette of go-to shades for the cooler months, including classic mauves and shiny silvers—Dior’s ‘Cosmpolite’ is the first time Creative and Image Director of Dior, Peter Philips has curated colours for makeup.Continue reading
The eyes have it: luxe lashes
Open up those windows to your soul. Look no further for luxe new formulas to frame your eyes, L’Officiel uncovers five mascaras for every kind of lash.