Hair and Nails

Vera Brown dies at 90; skin care expert with star-studded clientele

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Vera Brown, a skin care specialist with a star-studded clientele who sponsored beauty clinics for thousands of blind teens, delinquent girls, homeless women and cancer patients in Los Angeles, died Sept. 24 at her Westwood home. She was 90 and had been in...

Hair, nails and abs

2010-08-08 00:00:00

Throughout many booms and busts, the various districts of downtown Los Angeles have climbed ever so close to the peak of residential desirability, only to take a Sisyphean tumble when essential businesses fail to arrive or thrive. The latest wave of...

Look what's in store

2010-08-08 00:00:00

Bottega Louie, 700 S. Grand Ave. The trendy restaurant-patisserie-bar-market is a terrific place to pick up a hostess gift or birthday present, choosing from among all manner of pastries, gift baskets and gourmet goodies. Colorful macaroons will give...

The streets are alive

2010-08-08 00:00:00

"What brings you downtown?" the waitress asks as she seats me on a patio shadowed by the skyscrapers on Bunker Hill. I hear this question often. "Actually, I live here," I say, trying not to sound smug. "Just down the hill." "Oh!" the waitress chirps in...

Dress-up in Taraji P. Henson's closet

2010-07-25 00:00:00

You wouldn't know it from her most noteworthy roles, such as the buttoned-up, warm-hearted caretaker in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" or the fragile and worn-looking prostitute in "Hustle and Flow," but Taraji P. Henson is a self-proclaimed...

Clothespin queen's new take on vintage

2010-08-01 00:00:00

If clothes can tell a story, the mix of dresses, jewelry, boots, buttons, lace and beading at the West Hollywood boutique Clothespin add up to a novel of epic proportions. First, there are the never-worn vintage fabrics from the 1940s, cut in 18...

Style Profile: Kristen Bell

2010-09-26 00:00:00

Kristen Bell sits perched on a picnic table bench at Griffith Park wearing jean shorts, a pinkish button-down top and cornflower blue Toms espadrilles. The 30-year-old actress, blond hair tied back in a ponytail, watches as her two dogs explore the grass....

Makeup tips for the working woman

2010-09-19 00:00:00

For beauty lovers, makeup can be fun, artistic, playful even. Makeup gives us a chance to dip our fingers into a universe of color, twirl about in pots of shimmer and glitter and gloss, and exert the creative impulse with turquoise, ochre, midnight blue,...

Shopping: MartinMartin upbeat on downtown

2010-09-12 00:00:00

Husband-and-wife designers Eric Martin and Diane Moss-Martin, co-founders of moody Los Angeles-based brand MartinMartin, chose a blinding white color palette for their first-ever boutique — an optically striking choice, considering that their...

There is hope for hair ravaged by the summer

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Months of sun, surf and chlorine can wreak havoc on even the healthiest of hair, making it brittle, faded and lifeless. In California, we face these conditions year-round, but hair can take more of a beating in the summer, when people tend to spend even...

Want more fashion TV? Try these

2010-08-15 00:00:00

It all started with " America's Next Top Model." The Tyra Banks-hosted TV model competition, now in its 15th cycle since debuting in 2003, proved that the business of fashion — played out by packs of volatile young hopefuls — could be fodder...

Red carpet beauty care

2010-08-29 00:00:00

When actresses begin parading on the Emmy red carpet Sunday, they will be glamorously gowned and coiffed — and it will be no accident that their skin glows and makeup looks perfect for the cameras. It can take a village of experts and weeks of...

Gorgeous though he may be, the combined mop of hair on his head and the shirt of hair on his chest did not work for Mr. Bon Jovi. It's called man-scaping, Jon.

2013-05-07 09:22:00

Actor Abe Vigoda is looking pretty good at 90! He's still got a good amount of hairtoo bad most of it is coming out of his ears.

2013-01-29 14:30:00

This is a prime example of when good ginger hair goes bad. Singer Axl Rose is 48 today. Luckily we didn't have to wait until he was 60 to get our hands on Chinese Democracy.

2013-01-23 18:31:00