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I'm not the biggest beauty junkie, but I do like trying out products when all the magazines are touting them as the next miracle creation. Most of the time, I'm less than impressed, but when I do find a new addition to my makeup bag or medicine cabinet, it's so worth it. (I will never regret the $17 I spent on my Shu Uemura eyelash curler.)

So I decided to give Frederic Fekkai's Salon Glaze Clear Shine Rinse ($28) a whirl after reading about it seemingly everywhere this month. The silicone-based treatment promises it "binds shine, recharges color, and adds silkiness to the hair." Kind of like a DIY glossing treatment--which was just what my blonde highlights needed after a long summer.

Nothing sucks more than purchasing a new magazine only to find out that the contents of the glossy aren't worth there two dollar cover charge. And if it's a fashion mag that you are purchasing, sometimes you only want to look at the edits. So coughing up cash to take home the whole issue can be annoying.

However, the aforementioned unfortunate plights may be no more because there is a new online service that allows one to view issues of their favorite magazines free of charge.

Mygazines allows people to look at fully scanned issues of everything from an IKEA catalog to Cosmopolitan without having to use a PayPal account. We've been checking the site out for a couple of days now and have already read the September issues of Marie Claire and Glamour. If you're interested in perusing the site, you better act quick!

Once the publishers of these magazine's find out that they can be viewed free, this little operation will probably be shutting down soon after.

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This is a big summer for Naomi Campbell. The supermodel is featured on the cover of Vogue's much-hyped all-black edition, and she's also appearing sans clothing on the cover of International Design.

The August issue also features Stefano Pilati of Yves St Laurent, who is using Naomi as the star of his fall ad campaigns. Presumably in the campaign Naomi will be wearing some of Stefano's designs -- and not just her birthday suit.

That said, a naked, winking Naomi Campbell can sell just about anything -- which, come to think of it, is probably exactly what i-D magazine was thinking.

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A new BBC show is ready to challenge the fashion world's notions about marketable beauty. Britain's Missing Top Model, like American's Next Top Model and the ilk, brings together several beauties and puts them through a series of competitions where they have to use real life modeling "skills." The winner is awarded with an exclusive photo spread in Marie Claire, and presumably lasting fame and fortune.

The twist? These models all have some form of disability.

Gah. As much as we hate Heather Mills and would rather stick pins in our eyes than give her credit, perhaps all of her gawking around on Dancing With The Stars did some good.

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Seems like there's a new celebrity trend afoot: going topless for Vogue! Just last week word broke that Eva Mendes would be appearing semi-clothed (and weird looking) in this month's Vogue Italia, and today we learn that Claudia Schiffer will be baring all (or at least most) for Vogue Germany.



Not that posing sans-clothing is anything new for celebrities, but the recent rash of nudie portraits for Vogue in particular has us wondering: is naked the new black? How long before we see C-List celebs trying to keep up by taking it off for lesser known mags? Can we expect to see Courtney Love or Britney Spears reviving their fledgling careers by posing for Mirabella?

Let's hope not. Fingers crossed, this mysterious new trend will die out before it jumps the shark.

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Bloody brilliant. We're loving Vice Magazine's 2008 Fashion Issue, now available to view online in full. We especially love the column entitled "I Hate Fashion" written by Tracie Egan of Jezebel.com. Our sentiments exactly. But wait... we also totally identify with Christopher Bollen's article "I Love Fashion." Oh fashion, how we love to hate you! The trend reports for NYC and London are spot on as well, and hilarious to boot. And who but Vice would dare to cast porn star Sasha Grey in a provocative but very clever fashion spread? (Get it? Spread?) Seriously, Vice's snarky take on all things fashion is not to be missed.

As we've repeatedly documented on this site, their is a clear lack of diversity in the fashion industry. All of the runways, editorials, advertisements, and fashion covers have been completely white-washed for the past eight years now.

It's gotten so bad that former model agency owner Bethann Hardison -- who use to rep supermodels Tyson Beckford and Naomi Campbell -- had to convene two summits to discuss the refusal of some of fashion's most powerful to embrace black beauty. CFDA president Diane Von Furstenberg even sent out a letter prior to fashion week urging designers to incorporate models of all ethnicities onto their catwalks.

However, after the fall '08 fashion season concluded, the runways were as bland as ever.

But just when we thought all was lost, it seems as though somebody has finally gain some semblance of a conscience.

Introducing the March issue of Vogue. You'll notice a very fresh-faced young lady adorning the cover of this month's issue, who looks eerily similar to Drew Barrymore -- just 15 years younger and just a little creepy. Oh wait, that is Drew! Thank you Photoshop for confusing the crap out of me.

The 32-year-old actress was shot by photographer Stephen Meisel (and airbrushed to death by some nameless staff graphic designer). No word on who morphed Drew's normally respectable coiffure into that unfortunate Jesse Spanno shape, or how to contact the doctor who replaced her the skin on her face with nice, shiny, extra-taut plastic.

All in all, it's your typical Vogue cover. Serene, sophisticated, and completely fabricated.

Drew, I expected better.

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Those of you into the pseudo-punk, kinda goth, grunge girl look are in for a treat next month. Avril Lavigne, the pop-rock icon, is adorning the March cover of Maxim magazine.

It takes a lot to look decent on the cover a men's mag -- which is surprising, because most guys are only interested in seeing two things (or three, I guess, depending on how you're counting). You need just the right combination of sexy, trashy, and at least somewhat approachable to entice the average Joe to pick you up off the magazine rack.

So does Avril pull it off? She sticks with her traditional black eyeliner to help maintain her cred, and the frilly pink thing-a-ma-gigger she's using to cover up certainly works in her favor. All in all, I'd vote yes.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say she looks better than normal. The half grunge, half glamorous look she's been trying recently looks like a copy of a copy of a crappy version of Christina Aguilera -- only trashier. At least in the Maxim shoot she manages to look like a grown-up (and a pretty sexy one at that).

What do you think?

Congratulations to Complete Woman magazine, for going above and beyond the call of duty in celebrity Photoshopping. It's not exactly a secret that no real person can live up to the carefully crafted images that appear on the covers of magazines -- but at least those mags are trying to make the photos look kind of plausible.

This photo of Ashlee Simpson, on the other hand, has been doctored so much that she looks more like a lifeless china doll than an actual human being. Looks like the magazine let their junior photo editor take a crack at this one -- and he went way overboard.

I think most people accept that this kind of photo manipulation is part of the game, but this is just stupid.


To make matters worse, it appears Ashlee didn't even pose for the cover. According to her publicist:

"Ashlee in no way posed for Complete Woman or ever gave them an interview. They apparently purchased outtakes from an old photo shoot years ago and elected on their own to retouch the photo as they wanted to. This supposed 'magazine' has never reached out to us and we did not cooperate with them in any way at all."

Lame.

Black models aren't used enough in fashion magazines, and it's because their editors are racist.

At least, that's how Vivienne Westwood sees it. The famed British designer is so convinced that magazine editors are purposefully keeping black models off their pages that she wants new rules forcing them to be more inclusive.

It all started when Westwood spoke with one editor who told her that you always need "a face" on a magazine cover if it's going to sell -- and you "could not put a black person on there because sales halve." She also cites the notable lack of covers on which Naomi Campbell has appeared (a mere eight), while Kate Moss (her white contemporary) has appeared on 24 in the same time span.

This makes other editors' claims that there are simply "fewer black women who are big enough stars" to sell magazines seem like excuses, not justifications.

But what do you think?

She probably is! Girlfriend has been on the cover of 18 -- count 'em -- 18 magazines in the past six months! What does that mean? It means that even though Jennifer Aniston may technically be the top-selling celebrity face, Britney can still sell a ton of magazines.

So I'm wondering, are you more likely to pick up a magazine with Jennifer Aniston or Britney on the cover? I admit, I'm partial to the Brit magazines, not so much because I'm interested in what she's up to, but because I find Jennifer Aniston's shopworn story of heartbreak to be a little boring. I also like smut, so Brit's the natural choice.

Since when did every celebrity who gives an interview for a magazine have to get naked for the cover? And when was the last time anyone wanted to see Mariah Carey without her clothes on? Weren't we over that back in the 90s?

We may never have the answers to these pressing questions, but regardless, Mariah Carey is following in the footsteps of Claudia Schiffer, the Beckhams, and Tom and Katie (if the rumors are to be believed), by doing a nudie shoot for a magazine cover.

The only difference is that while Claudia and the Becks posed for big hitters like Vogue and W magazine, Mariah is appearing on the cover of Interview -- which looks incredibly desperate slightly less glamorous.

Oh, Mariah. Just let it go.

Over the past week we've seen Gwyneth Paltrow Photoshopped so heavily that she was barely recognizable, and a Britney Spears perfume ad that looked more like the pop star circa 1998 than the drunken lunatic who's been showing up in gossip mags.

And today we have yet another trip into the land of fantasy -- this time courtesy of Men's Vogue magazine.

Their September cover features Tony Blair, the UK's former prime minister, looking remarkably youthful. Granted, they're trying to depict Blair as the man who made Britain "cool," rather than the guy who left office as a political disaster -- and it's not exactly like prime ministers and fashion mags are known for being truthful.

But come on, Tony Blair is a 54-year-old politician -- why does Vogue think he needs to look like a 40-year-old movie star?

Where has Claudia Schiffer been? She was on over 500 magazine covers, was a world famous supermodel, and then poof -- she disappeared.

Fortunately, however, it appears that she's now back with a vengeance -- and it was worth the wait.

Schiffer not only appears in the August issue of Paris Vogue (sans clothing), she's right there on the cover, looking as good as ever. Obviously, given the fact that nearly every decent-looking photo in magazines seems to be Photoshopped to death, it's probable that the nearly 40-year-old Claudia you'll see on the pages of Vogue isn't exactly like the Claudia you'd meet in real life.

That aside, she looks fantastic -- go Claudia!

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