“Dear Faran,
This month’s cheese-of-the-month is Dry Jack.
We have paired it with a peach, plums, and pecans.
If you feel inspired, you could open a nice Sancerre, too.
Enjoy,
I’ve never seen bright green plums before.
Have you?
Tonight, I met Poppy King, an idol of mine for starting Poppy lipsticks, Prescriptives Cosmetics, and lately, the Lipstick Queen makeup series.
She introduced me to an under-the-radar invention of hers, the matte lip gloss.
“I call it Oxymoron,” she winked, “Because nobody thought a matte gloss could exist.”
(In fact, the product is true to its title – it spreads a muted, opaque color over the lips without being glittery or shiny, kind of like Audrey Hepburn’s beguiling lips in Roman Holiday).
Poppy came up with a few names for her Oxymoron colors, including “Honest Politician” and “Minor Crisis.”
Yeah, okay, but she doesn’t have a really red shade, and she also doesn’t use my clique’s favorite phrase from high school: “F*cking Virgin.”
So I dared her to do it: Make a new, vampire-red shade, and stick that title on the label.
Poppy said, “That’s a really good idea!” Uh huh. I’m waiting, Poppy… xo faran
It’s no secret that NYLON gets a lot of nutty feedback – see the psycho LOL Cat comments on Peaches’ first column if you doubt it – but this new video might be the weirdest.
It’s a “critique” of NYLON starring two teens named Yuli and Julia, and it’s amazing.
First, the girls talk about Lily Allen’s failsafe strategy for landing a guy (take all your clothes off in his bed when he’s not looking). Then they wear biker helmets in a snarky homage to Giles Deacon’s Pac Man runway show – as seen in our most recent Beauty opener.
And finally, they spoof the Alan Clarke makeup spread on page 174 by applying their own outrageous color palettes. But the funniest thing is that they really believe they look ridiculous – when actually, honestly, these girls look pretty damn perfect. Maybe not for 11 am meetings, but definitely for a night of breaking curfew.
Check out the entire video here – and Y&J, if you’re reading, thanks. Next time, critique Guylon, too.
What’s red and white and screams all over?
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs dressed up as Santa and singing a holiday song, of course.
Get in the holiday spirit by streaming the song from the band’s MySpace page. And yes, they’ve got real new music coming out soon, don’t worry…
If you need some presents wrapped in NYC, listen up:
Chip Robbins, a super-adorable part of the NYLON team (and the one who knows the entire dance to Single), is gift-wrapping for charity tonight from 8pm to midnight at the Barnes & Nobles in Lincoln Center.
This is the perfect time to buy Twilight, or Born Again Vintage, or the complete works for Roald Dahl, whatever -
Just show up, ask for Chip, and get everything ready for Christmas Eve.
Don’t forget to ask him for a free NYLON subscription from “Santa” -
Hey, you never know…
Today in the Lower East Side, Lina stopped me.
“The Cube Dude!” she yelled, and I shrugged.
“No,” she explained, “He goes all over the city taping shapes to buildings. It’s a new form of art. It’s anonymous, like Banksy. I’ve heard about it, but I’ve never seen it until now.”
Okay, but what’s his name?
“The Cube Dude,” she insisted. “Like Neck Face. He doesn’t have a name.”
Well, he must – and if you know it, or if you see graffiti you like just as much, send it over to faran@nylonmag.com.
Yesterday, Kelly brought in some white Melissa / Alexander Herchkovitch shoes.
They were cute.
They were current.
They were rubber.
We wondered if they’d be waterproof / warm / easy to trek in, and then we realized it didn’t really matter, because
1) They were really cool and you could always bring them up in conversation, if you were bored.
2) They were machine washable. Dishwasher safe, even.
Whoa.
