Well, here is some tremendously exciting news: Legends Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole will be playing cosmetics pioneers Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden respectively, in a musical coming soon to Broadway. It’s called War Paint.
Elizabeth Arden was running a promotion that advertised a free gift of $350 value with any purchase of $65 or more. Anyone who's familiar with the vagaries of beauty advertising knows to expect a certain amount of inherent deception in the Free Gift — seriously, it's like there's a special photographic lens that only…
Not only is the completely false and made-up term "anti-aging" loathsome, the ads associated with "anti-aging" products are, without fail, offensive, cruel and chock-full of misleading language. Let's take a look, shall we?
Even if you're not "into" makeup, fascinating documentary The Powder and the Glory, which premiered on PBS on Monday, is 90 minutes seriously well spent.
Two women, Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, were responsible for taking makeup mainstream. A new documentary, The Powder and the Glory, chronicles the women's bitter rivalry and the birth of the cosmetics industry. [SeattlePI]
