Beauty Tuesday: A glowing wedding look
For this week’s Beauty Tuesday, SFUnzipped brings you a behind-the-scenes look at how makeup artist Tamra-Marie achieved the luminous look of our recent cover model, Ari, in SFiS Style’s “Sheer...
View ArticleHey, Sailor! MAC Giveaway
In honor of our Oracle Team USA feature in last Sunday’s Style section, we decided to give away a selection of items from MAC’s new “Hey, Sailor!” collection. These sizzling shades are beach-ready and...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: New S.F. nail lacquer line boasts cult colors
From the rise of nail art blogs to the fashion industry’s embrace in recent years of out-of-the-box polish hues tied to seasonal trends (remember jade, anyone?), nail color is huge these days with...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: new Elie Saab fragrance at Bloomingdale’s
We all love a fragrance launch. What’s not to love? Not only are they plentiful, fragrance launches are literally every 3.7 seconds. And this Thursday at Bloomingdale’s, peruse through the cosmetics...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Saks appeal
Starting tomorrow, if you spend $100 in cosmetics or fragrance purchases at Saks Fifth Avenue, you’ll get an impressively chic ostrich-print tote, in dark navy, hunter green or golden mustard. And, it...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Sustainable Beauty Day’s $15 haircuts for a good cause
On Monday, three San Francisco salons will be participating in Sustainable Beauty Day, a fundraising effort from Italian hair care company Davines benefiting the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation and its...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday giveaway: Kiehl’s Corps values
It wouldn’t be the holidays without Kiehl’s Crème de Corps Holiday Collection. This year is the fourth in the company’s philanthropic tradition, in which 100 percent of proceeds benefit charities. New...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Get Jessica Alba’s glowing Globes look
Awards season is a great platform to showcase and perhaps even kick off trends for the spring. And nothing screamed spring and got us yearning for a burst of color than Jessica Alba’s fresh look at...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Makeovers, Whole Foods style
When you are a beauty product junkie, that addiction runs deep. How deep, you ask? Let’s just say on my days off, I find blissful joy in perusing the beauty or health care product department regardless...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Three super-sloughing skin masks
When it comes to the basic skincare system, we already know the importance of cleansing, moisturizing and protection (sunscreen). But we can’t forget or at worst, forgo the most important step of all:...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Gel nails at home
The gel nail trend has grown at warp speed, and rightfully so. Who doesn’t love a flawless manicure that can last up to two weeks? But, of course, like most beauty treatments (i.e. hair extensions and...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Getting that Holly Golightly look
The iconic film that inspired us to buy multiple versions of the little black dress is heading to Broadway. Starting tomorrow, the stage adaptation of Truman Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” opens in...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: How to get Marc Jacobs-inspired nails
Jamberry Nails, a two-year-old Utah-based company, helps you nail any trend, whether it's on Katy Perry's ring finger or on the Spring 2013 runway, with more than 275 adhesive nail wraps.
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Smoky eye how-to tutorial
DSquared2′s fall/winter 2013 runway presentation at New York Fashion Week was a jazzy homage to the underground world of 1940s Berlin. Strong Katherine Hepburn-esque men’s suiting was juxtaposed with...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Mother’s Day edition
Before you order that Mother’s Day bouquet, here are a few last-minute ideas that will last longer than a few blooms. Why not celebrate the maternal bond with the latest offering from Bond No. 9....
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Is the Clarisonic really better?
By Maghan McDowell and Maggie Winterfeldt After more than a decade of popularity, enthusiasm for exfoliation (and its “dead-skin-eliminating” compatriots) has been having a moment. But...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Clinique’s new nail line
Things we really dig about Clinique’s new limited-edition nail polishes: the colors, the futuristic bottles and the quick-drying lacquer that even the total opposite of an ambidextrous amateur can...
View ArticleSFUnzipped tests the Kardashians’ tanning line
The first hot day of spring uncovers more than the sun—it shines a spotlight on the beauty routines that the spent the winter hibernating. Week-old stubble, inconspicuous beneath wool trousers, is...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Sweet 15 for Sephora
It’s hard to believe Sephora has been around for 15 years. As with the iPhone, we have to wonder what we did before that time? Aside from wandering around the Tenderloin (no Google maps) with the...
View ArticleBeauty Tuesday: Alan Pan comes to SF
The amazingly talented, energetic and multilingual Estée Lauder Global Makeup Artist Alan pan will be back in SF June 19 at the Westfield Bloomingdale’s giving his signature beauty presentations and...
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