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Teens for Safe Cosmetics - Read Our Lips!

Filed under: Cosmetics, Style for a Cause, Beauty Tips

Kissing for Lead Free Lipstick!

If you feel guilty about your lack of Earth Day involvement, here's the inspiration you just might have been missing.

A group of concerned and proactive teens in Marin County, California founded the organization Teens Turning Green in 2002 after learning the alarming statistic that breast cancer had risen 60% in 8 years. Now, the coalition is made up of teenagers from around the country and its mission is:

investigating toxic exposures in daily lives, schools and communities, advocating for change in policy and practices that protect the world, and educating peers and the community about healthy lifestyle choices. Through positive and collaborative efforts, these leaders of the next generation inspire us to work towards a healthy, sustainable future.

Teens for Safe Cosmetics is the beauty-policing branch. Its current initiative is to get the use of lead - a neurotoxin - in lipstick banned. One creative member started the Lips Against Lead petition, where quite appropriately, you sign and kiss the petition to show your support. That's me, smoochin' my signature.

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Valentine's Day Giveaway: Valentine Lips by C.O. Bigelow

Filed under: Cosmetics, Fragrance, Skin Care, Beauty Tips

C.O. Bigelow Lip GoodiesIt's time for another Valentine's Day Giveaway! We're doing Six Big Giveaways leading up to the big day. Don't forget about the Hello Kitty Necklace from Friday! Now for #2: Valentine's Day should be all about kissing, but the weather this time of year can ruin your lips! Well, check out these minty, mentholy, lip-saving, gorgeous-making goodies from C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries! We're giving them away. Read on.

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KISS t-shirts: Rock, roll and vote

Filed under: Clothing, Men, Cosmetics

Whit Honea is a slacker, a borderline degenerate, and a daydream believer. He's also our resident expert on casual chic. If it's comfortable, and not heinous, he's all over it. He's quite charming, really. He is voting.

If Gene Simmons of KISS knows anything, aside from being a rock god, it's how to make a profit. The guy will put his likeness, or Paul Stanley's apparently, onto anything. That's not a criticism, he's rich and we're sitting here typing our fingers to the bone. We'd like to put our likeness on some stuff, too. Rich looks good.

Speaking of looking good, check out these t-shirts (that, dear reader, is a segue). KISS has taken the popular images of presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama and given them a bit of a makeover. Or makeup as the case may be.


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Vans to release special KISS edition high-tops

Filed under: Shoes

For a band who's real musical achievements are few and far between, Gene Simmons and company have shown an almost uncanny ability to sell collectible junk. From lunchboxes, to figurines, to KISS-themed footballs and ketchup -- KISS has managed to turn out every bit as much quasi-sickening memorabilia as Elvis' estate, with only about %1 as many hit songs. Well, they've found yet another way to milk every last dime out of their army of admirers.

Now, lead singer and also the band's brand manager, Gene Simmons has teamed up with the ever-trendy skater shoe company gone clothing label Vans to bring you KISS-themed footwear. The Vans x KISS SK8 Hi commemorative t-shirts and sneakers are set to hit stores early this fall. The tongue of these classic Vans high-tops with feature the KISS Army logo and the uppers are decorated with the iconic painted faces of the band. We imagine that Simmons allowed Vans to put their logo on the sneaker somewhere, but don't see it.

[via Adage]

Betsey Johson once made out with the late Anna Nicole Smith

Filed under: Celebrities with Style


Well, isn't she just pure class? Betsey Johnson is admitting that she once made out with now dead Anna Nicole Smith. She has a strange way of justifying her actions, though.

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Kate Moss for Topshop: Winter/Autumn '08

Filed under: Style in the News, Vintage and Retro


She's bacccccckkk.

On September 9th, Kate Moss will be dropping her autumn/winter collection at Topshop. Apparently, there will be lots of "printed chiffon, intricate embroidery, mohair knits, and dropped waist dresses" in this winter wardrobe.

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Rock'em, sock'em, pow! Right in the kisser!

Filed under: Style in the News, Clothing, Men

Threadless has a reputation among t-shirt fans for putting out creative, quality products, so it should come as no surprise that they are currently featuring a handful of prints that instantly achieve the tag of classic. Simply put, they're awesome. No, I don't own stock in the company.

When I was a kid growing up in the 70's 80's I loved two things, plastic toys painted with lead and t-shirts that showcased my hip understanding of the current pop culture. Basically, I had a bunch of t-shirts that said "Shazbot!" and got beat up a lot.

Some things never change, although these days I only get beat up emotionally. Needless to say, when I came across the Make Love, Not War shirt I was immediately smitten. Yes, smitten. Who could possibly resist the nostalgia that is Rock'em, Sock'em? Who, besides the current administration, could refuse a message as powerful as "make love, not war?" Who doesn't like gay robots? This shirt is a win-win, er, win.

They have a great collection of images on their website. Some examples are included below. Enjoy.



[via GetANewShirt]

Kiss and smell

Filed under: Men, Fragrance, Celebrities with Style

I know what you're thinking, why would KISS smell any better than Avril Lavigne? That's a good question and one that I can't readily answer.

In all fairness I've never actually smelled any of them in person, but I do have a bottle of KISS for Him, the him being me, and it actually smells pretty good.

I thought the gift had been a joke. My youth was spent in a shrine to the make-up wearing rockers. If KISS made it, I had it.

Of course that stopped long before they started selling coffee, condoms and caskets- and that's just the "C's," so I laughed when I saw what my wife had bought me.

She wasn't laughing. She also isn't a KISS fan, despite me forcing her to sit through hours of scratched up records, or perhaps because of that. I don't know.

The point is that the fragrance, available for men and women, is actually quite pleasant. I've had numerous compliments on the scent, and most of them weren't from the guy at Hot Topic.

If you are in the market to smell like a rock star you could do a lot worse.

KISS releases fragrance for men and women

Filed under: Cosmetics, Fragrance

KISS fragranceSince we do love our makeup here at Styledash, we certainly can't go without mentioning the band that's as famous for their makeup as they are for their music. I'm talking about KISS, "every kid's dream and every parent's nightmare."

And those "kids" have grown up and apparently cause quite a grown-up scene at the Regency Square Mall in Jacksonville, FL. Apparently, an appearance by KISS front man Gene Simmons, on a world-wide tour to promote a new line of men's and women's KISS fragrances, had hundreds of fans lined up. Forget the mob-scene; scary, crazy metal rock band KISS has a line of fragrances? Yes.

And what exactly does KISS smell like? For the band, sure smells like money.


[via: FlyPaper]

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    StyleList readers were nearly evenly divided on this, with 52% thinking that they should run in the States, and 48% finding them inappropriate. Get the full story here.

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    Offensive or artistic?
    Just over 50% of StyleList readers said they weren't offended by this shirt, but didn't know if it was totally appropriate to wear in public. Unfortunately, that wasn't the opinion in Dubai. Get the full story here.

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    Strapless dresses on 13-year-olds
    StyleList readers think strapless dresses should be saved for older girls -- 41% of you think the look is too mature. Get the full story here.

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    Half of you think Megan needs to get her own identity and quit copying Angie, but more than a quarter said Jolie doesn't stand a chance against this Fox. Get the full story here.

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    Did Calvin Klein respond to public's outcry?
    The controversial "threesome" billboard in Soho has been replaced with this one, but 51% of you believe it was just to keep people talking about the brand, not because CK caved. Get the full story here.

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    Calvin Klein's Racy Ad
    Is it art or practically pornography? About 40% of StyleList readers found this billboard obscene. Get the full story.

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    Palin's Pedi
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    Bright, Light, or Dark as Night?
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