Women's Fashion
By S.S. FAIR
August 9, 2010, 1:54 pm
Marc Alary
“There are eight million stories in the naked city, and this has been one of them.” That’s the kicker to “Naked City,” a 1948 film noir shot in the most naked of places, New York. The Samurai Shopper silently utters that line after hearing hard-luck subway pitches, after sympathizing with friends or suffocating in the endless news loop of doom and gloom. I grow inured to the sheer volume and depth of public suffering, those eight million calamities waiting for me or anyone else to lend an ear, a hand, a shoulder, a few bucks.
Better to rejoice when people reach into the darkness and pull some silver linings from the vale of tears. Like Francesco Clark, who started the skin-care company Clark’s Botanicals after a swimming-pool accident left him a parapalegic in 2002. Clark was also unable to sweat, enduring clogged pores and chronic skin breakouts — true insults to injury. He and his father, a doctor, formulated the excellent botanical line that sends part of its sales to the Christopher Reeve Foundation. (Francesco is its National Ambassador.) I can sincerely rave about Clark’s Smoothing Marine Cream, and tinted lip balm, too.
Wini Burkeman’s silver lining is McBride Beauty, started after her son Max was born nearly 10 years ago. Max was colicky and covered crown to tail in eczema. Conventional pediatricians offered rubber-stamped, ineffective advice: cortisone for the eczema and too bad about the colic. Burkeman finally found a holistic pediatrician, the Park Slope food co-op and natural healing remedies — oatmeal and calendula — to take Max out of harm’s way. Just like her mother had done on her farm in Ireland, Burkeman stood over a hot stove in a Brooklyn kitchen concocting McBride’s chemical-free beauty products, named for her wild Irish rose of a mom. Max is now eczema-free, and McBride Beauty was adopted by Robert DeNiro’s Greenwich Hotel. Try McBride’s Instant Rescue Balm for dry patches. And the Grapefruit & Aloe Toner. McBride’s travel bag is indispensable.
Fortunately, the makeup artist Kristen Kjear Weis escaped personal tragedy but noticed throughout her career that women repeatedly asked her to avoid certain products in order to head off allergies, breakouts or general unpleasantness. That was the inspiration for Kjear Weis’s 99.5 percent organic makeup, which will make its debut at Space NK after Labor Day. Your cheeks will stay dewy without shine, your lips will glisten, and your eyes will be smoking, in a sexy, non-carcinogenic way.
Also making its debut at Space NK on Sept. 6 is Tata Harper’s 100 percent natural skin-care line. Harper accompanied her father-in-law to the Mayo Clinic, where he was diagnosed with cancer. Doctors there advised him to toss everything he used containing synthetics, which pretty much left his cupboard bare. Tata had her epiphany; her line, which is sourced globally and from her own 1,200-acre farm in Vermont, raises the bar on luxury and transformational results. I’ve got a gallon of Tata’s Irritability Aromatherapy Oil on order, to help with the never-ending eight million stories.
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By S.S. FAIR
August 9, 2010, 1:54 pm
Marc Alary“There are eight million stories in the naked city, and this has been one of them.” That’s the kicker to “Naked City,” a 1948 film noir shot in the most naked of places, New York. The Samurai Shopper silently utters that line after hearing hard-luck subway pitches, after sympathizing with friends or suffocating in the endless news loop of doom and gloom. I grow inured to the sheer volume and depth of public suffering, those eight million calamities waiting for me or anyone else to lend an ear, a hand, a shoulder, a few bucks.
Better to rejoice when people reach into the darkness and pull some silver linings from the vale of tears. Like Francesco Clark, who started the skin-care company Clark’s Botanicals after a swimming-pool accident left him a parapalegic in 2002. Clark was also unable to sweat, enduring clogged pores and chronic skin breakouts — true insults to injury. He and his father, a doctor, formulated the excellent botanical line that sends part of its sales to the Christopher Reeve Foundation. (Francesco is its National Ambassador.) I can sincerely rave about Clark’s Smoothing Marine Cream, and tinted lip balm, too.
Wini Burkeman’s silver lining is McBride Beauty, started after her son Max was born nearly 10 years ago. Max was colicky and covered crown to tail in eczema. Conventional pediatricians offered rubber-stamped, ineffective advice: cortisone for the eczema and too bad about the colic. Burkeman finally found a holistic pediatrician, the Park Slope food co-op and natural healing remedies — oatmeal and calendula — to take Max out of harm’s way. Just like her mother had done on her farm in Ireland, Burkeman stood over a hot stove in a Brooklyn kitchen concocting McBride’s chemical-free beauty products, named for her wild Irish rose of a mom. Max is now eczema-free, and McBride Beauty was adopted by Robert DeNiro’s Greenwich Hotel. Try McBride’s Instant Rescue Balm for dry patches. And the Grapefruit & Aloe Toner. McBride’s travel bag is indispensable.
Fortunately, the makeup artist Kristen Kjear Weis escaped personal tragedy but noticed throughout her career that women repeatedly asked her to avoid certain products in order to head off allergies, breakouts or general unpleasantness. That was the inspiration for Kjear Weis’s 99.5 percent organic makeup, which will make its debut at Space NK after Labor Day. Your cheeks will stay dewy without shine, your lips will glisten, and your eyes will be smoking, in a sexy, non-carcinogenic way.
Also making its debut at Space NK on Sept. 6 is Tata Harper’s 100 percent natural skin-care line. Harper accompanied her father-in-law to the Mayo Clinic, where he was diagnosed with cancer. Doctors there advised him to toss everything he used containing synthetics, which pretty much left his cupboard bare. Tata had her epiphany; her line, which is sourced globally and from her own 1,200-acre farm in Vermont, raises the bar on luxury and transformational results. I’ve got a gallon of Tata’s Irritability Aromatherapy Oil on order, to help with the never-ending eight million stories.
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