Actress Pamelyn Chee and Managing Director of Senteurs De Provence Elaine Seah share with Nanz Inc.Com readers on how you can create customised beauty solutions in the comfort of your own home. By Lianne Ong Creating Your Own Skincare Products Five years ago, local actress Pamelyn Chee took the plunge and started educating herself on cosmetic ingredients, and what she found out shocked her enough to start making her own skincare products at home in order to benefit from toxic-free skincare. “It shocked me to see and understand what kind of...

Once you become a mother, it may seem impossible to find the time to doll up before you go out — especially when getting out of the door resembles a military operation for the whole family. Here’s Nanz Inc to your rescue: we have come up with some quick, foolproof make-up tips to get you looking like a hot mama in five minutes. PS: Just be sure to put it on before you leave your room! By: Lianne Ong • Simplify, simplify. Skip some steps, and focus on what you really need. Baby didn’t sleep through the night? Focus on undereye concealer...

Nanzinc contributor and makeup aficionado Lianne Ong visited Make Up For Ever’s (MUFE) counter at Sephora ION Orchard to find out more about their ethereal, Twilight-inspired holiday looks – Blue Rhapsody and Vamp’ Princess. She ended up getting her own customised Bella look and discovered the thrill in wearing bold, exciting colours for the festive season. Here is her account. By: Lianne Ong I love makeup like the next girl, but when I saw the visuals of the Blue Rhapsody and Vamp’ Princess holiday looks, I wondered whether there was an...

Have you always wanted to brush up on your makeup skills but just couldn’t find the time to attend courses?  Now, you can easily pick up tips on how to replicate Angelina Jolie’s cat-eye look — on YouTube, where makeup tutorial videos generate some of the highest hits on this video sharing website. By: Lianne Ong Nanz Inc checks out the most popular online makeup gurus and finds out why they make “long-distance” make-up lessons so fun! 1. YouTube channel: MichellePhan (http://www.youtube.com/user/MichellePhan) Subscribers: 377, 812 Most...

Nanz Inc reader Vivienne Ho found herself being made over by Christine Ng, a Make Up For Ever professional artist, using the brand’s HD range. This is her story. What a pleasant surprise when Theresa contacted me to do this blog for Nanz Inc. My instant response was “Huh? You sure?” I felt so supremely honored, as though I had just been crowned Miss Singapore! It was only after I had given my enthusiastic “YES!” and hung up that I began to have mixed feelings. I was concerned I wouldn’t live up to expectation. I used to have oily and...

He went from the man who remade Gucci to designer of his own fashion line. Just when you thought you had him figured out, he turns film director! Tom Ford is the lauded director of A Single Man, an epic about emotions starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Ford breaks new barriers — in impeccable style, of course. By Theresa Tan I interviewed Tom Ford 11 years ago in Milan.  He was the Creative Director at Gucci, and the designer every fashion editor wanted to interview (or at least air-kiss) — he was known to be charming, had a memory...

With Make Up For Ever’s new HD Elixir, you’ll look like you’re not wearing any foundation or powder, but have naturally flawless skin. By: Michelle Bong Psst… have you heard? There’s a new beauty product in town, and it promises to give your complexion the flawless finish you’ve always wanted. Featuring specially created high performance formulas, the HD Elixir by Make Up For Ever was created for the era of high definition TV and to ensure makeup would invisible on high definition cameras (which magnifies skin by up to six times)...

Diane Von Furstenburg, Fall 2009 This season every wardrobe should be updated with the Boyfriend Jacket. By: Michelle Bong Multi-hyphenate Ashley Olsen loves it, model Agyness Deyn rocks it and the likes of Eva Longoria, Lindsay Lohan and Kate Moss have been seen in it while out running errands, attending business meetings or partying the night away. The trusty blazer, better known these days as the Boyfriend Jacket, is one of this season’s must-have pieces. What used to be an ’80s staple has found favour again among the fashion elite some...

Just when you thought fashion couldn’t get much louder — it just did. Michelle Bong explains the hot trend of coloured rocks. Diamonds used to be a girl’s best friend, but now it seems she’s also open to more than one BFF. Asian women are adding other sparkling alternatives to their jewellery pool, and industry players have unanimously hailed these to be coloured gemstones, large rings and warm-hued metals such as rose gold, with jewellery or timepieces featuring intriguing material pairings also making their presence felt. Today’s...

The movie The September Issue, a documentary about Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, brings Theresa Tan down memory lane. The first time I saw Anna Wintour in the flesh, it was like spotting a unicorn. She was such a legend in the fashion industry — “the Pope” of fashion magazines, as she is referred to in the film The September Issue — that it seemed hardly real that she was standing two arms’ length away from me, in a cashmere turtleneck, a pencil skirt, and that season’s most desirable fur coat. We were standing outside a glass...