Eye-catching prints and patterns from F/W 13 runways meet an obsession with nail art, resulting in the amazing manicure site, Miss Ladyfinger. Here one can learn how to recreate Rodarte’s colorful tie-dye, Jonathan Saunders’ metallic stripes or Dior’s graphic cable knits with easy step-by-step guides, allowing anyone to easily sport miniature versions of their favorite runway looks on their nails.
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"It took me a week to paint the Emerson press-ons with an assistant full time. I met with Jackie (Emerson designer) and she showed me the swatches for the first time in November. When we met in December, I told her that I wanted to swatch out the lace. I thought it would be so sexy because her collection is
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"I like to call black and white cookies and the stink eye. So very New York!" - Simcha Whitehill, aka Miss Pop
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Makeup: Lucia Pieroni for MAC
Hair: Jimmy Paul for Bumble & Bumble
Nails: Kim D'Amato for Priti NYC
Makeup
"We're playing with textures today. It's a super matte velvet lip in a bright red, an "electro red." We're using a red lip pencil, Ruby Woo lipstick over that and Neon Orange Pigment over that for the velvet finish. Skin is super polished, very pure,
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Makeup: Sil Bruinsma for MAC
Hair: Jimmy Paul for Bumble & Bumble
Nails: Julie Kandalec for Maybelline Color Show
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"Thom is always quite specific about the kind of girl he envisions. Other seasons it has been a dark, sort of ghostly girl, but this season we’re going in a different direction. It’s still a bit wicked but we’re doing a much more delicate
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Makeup: Maud Laceppe for MAC
Hair: Jeanie Syfu for Tresemme
Nails: Incoco
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"It's a very sophisticated, 90s punky look. Its very strong, structured skin with a bit of contour, a glowing finish, and a very strong, matte, dark lip. The lips are going to be very dark, almost black, very deep intense purple by mixing a burgundy and a black. There's a
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Makeup: James Kaliardos for MAC
Hair: Odile Gilbert for Kerastase
Nails: Jin Soon Choi for Jin Soon
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"We’re doing a very futuristic girl, like how girls would look in the real future. The skin is built, so all the portions of the face are worked on but there isn’t color. We’re perfecting what they have. We start with Prep and Prime Skin Brightening
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Makeup: James Kaliardos for MAC
Hair: Orlando Pita
Nails: Michelle Saunders for Essie
Makeup
"It's a bright fuchsia lip where life is the pary. It's not party makeup, this is a pink that makes you win in life. There's pink in the DVF collection that we tried to match as close to possible. So, its a color called Process Magenta which is a lip
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Makeup: Val Garland for MAC
Hair: Odile Gilbert for Kerastase
Nails: Michelle Saunders for Essie
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"The inspiration for the show is 1930’s and art deco. The clothes are very elegant so we’re doing real, beautiful skin with natural lips and then a very strong, graphic, dark eye and that’s what makes it cool and modern. We’re using MAC Black Track Eyeliner and
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Makeup: Chantal Miller for MAC
Hair: Akemi Tamaribuchi for Kerastase
Nails: Katie Hughes for Butter London
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"This is all about a modern 60s eye. It's not your traditional, super model reference. It's more 60s noir, Sharon Tate. Lots of black eye liner and tons of lashes with completely raw lips and skin. Because of the matte skin, we're using an eyeliner (MAC Slickline)
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Makeup: James Kaliardos for MAC
Hair: Neil Moodie for Bumble & Bumble
Nails: Keri Blair for MAC
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"At Ruffian, I'm doing a red eye, red cheek, red stained lip inspired by an Antonio Lopez show I saw at the Suzanne Geiss gallery in Soho, he's an illustrative artist during the 1970s. We're just playing with color today which is fun and showing that
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Makeup: Carole Colombani for MAC
Hair: Odile Gilbert for Kerastase
Nail: Casey Herman for Rococo Nails
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"It's a soft, velvet look with beautiful skin. It's perfect, dewy skin with a focus on the eyes. It's about creating soft, terra cotta feeling on the eyelids. To get this, I mixed a powder eyeshadow (MAC Exposed) and an eye cream (MAC Fast Response Eye Cream)
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"We found inspiration in the Memphis-Milano 1980s art movement. It was groundbreaking to art - the bold, sharp contrast of materials and color - and we believe our nail designs are as well by applying that concept to a 40's English working class uniform silhouette." - Jan Arnold for CND
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At Veronica Beard, the French manicure and the moon manicure came together for a 3-tone, color blocked manicure. Essie's all tied up was applied to the moon part of the nail, two coats of brownie points on the rest of the nail with a thin line of berry hard on the tip.
It's still too early to say, but we'll make a bet that this isn't
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If there's something we can count on, its Japanese trendsetters and their fashion forward nail art. Nail art designs have been a bit quiet as of late, with trend swinging towards neutrals and elegant. But fashionista Momoko Ogihara isn't one to let us down. This hologram design is her latest nail look. Definitely a must try!
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