• Eleven Favorite Beauty Products

    ELEVEN FAVORITE BEAUTY PRODUCTS

    Written by Elva Ahlbin

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    Enhancing your natural beauty with the right products can make all the difference in your daily routine. In this article, I will be sharing some of my current favorite beauty products that have become essential elements of my daily routine. These carefully selected items offer exceptional quality and performance, making them indispensable for achieving a flawless and radiant look.
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    1. OPTMZD Skin 24-Hour Routine SPF 30 Calming & Protecting Day Cream
    The OPTMZD Skin 24-Hour Routine SPF 30 Calming & Protecting Day Cream is a skincare essential that provides comprehensive protection and nourishment for your skin. This multi-tasking day cream offers broad-spectrum SPF 30 protection, shielding your skin from harmful UV rays while keeping it hydrated and calm throughout the day. With its lightweight, non-greasy formula, it's the perfect base for makeup application and an essential step in your daily skincare regimen.


    2. Sisley Phyto-Teint Perfection
    For a flawless complexion Sisley Phyto-Teint Perfection is an ideal foundation choice. It offers even and natural-looking coverage while caring for your skin. Its lightweight, silky formula seamlessly blends in, leaving your skin looking fresh and radiant. With long-lasting coverage and a range of shades, it's an essential product for achieving a flawless base.


    3. Hickap Bronze and Contour Icy Chai

    Achieve a sculpted, sun-kissed look with the Hickap Bronze and Contour in the shade Icy Chai. This versatile product effortlessly contours and defines facial features while imparting a natural, warm glow. Its blendable formula allows for seamless application, making it a must-have for creating dimension and radiance.


    4. H&M Beauty Do-it-All-Stick Sweetness Dahlia
    The H&M Beauty Do-it-All-Stick in Sweetness Dahlia is a versatile multi-use product that adds a pop of color to your cheeks, lips, and even eyes. Its creamy texture blends seamlessly, providing a natural flush of color for a fresh and youthful appearance. This convenient stick is perfect for on-the-go touch-ups and simplifies your beauty routine.


    5. LH Cosmetics Shaping Light Rose Glow
    For a radiant glow, look no further than LH Cosmetics Shaping Light Rose Glow. This highlighter imparts a beautiful rose gold shimmer to accentuate your cheekbones and other areas you wish to illuminate. With its silky texture and subtle yet impactful glow, it's perfect for achieving a fresh and youthful look.


    6. Minolei Oil-Absorbing Powder
    Say goodbye to excess shine with Minolei Oil-Absorbing Powder. This versatile product effectively absorbs oil, providing a matte finish that lasts all day. Its lightweight formula is suitable for all skin types, making it a go-to solution for a fresh, shine-free complexion.


    7. XBrow Micro Sculpting Brow Pencil
    Achieve perfectly sculpted brows with the XBrow Micro Sculpting Brow Pencil. Its fine tip allows for precise application, filling in and defining brows with natural-looking results. This long-lasting formula ensures your brows look flawless all day long.


    8. NYX Duck Plump
    Achieve extreme gloss and pigmented results in one simple swipe with NYX Duck Plump. This lip product offers maximum intense color with minimal effort, providing a vibrant and long-lasting finish. Enriched with ginger, it plumps and hydrates your lips, giving them a fuller appearance that lasts. Available in both transparent and super-pigmented shades, NYX Duck Plump is the perfect choice for luscious lips that make a statement.


    9. Chanel Beauty's 31 Le Rouge
    Chanel Beauty's 31 Le Rouge is the epitome of exclusivity, drawing inspiration from the iconic address of 31 rue Cambon, the birthplace of CHANEL creation. This exceptional lipstick not only provides rich, enduring color but also serves as a firming, smoothing, and moisturizing lip care product, offering a comprehensive approach to lip beauty and care.


    10. By Terry Lash-Expert Twist Brush Mascara
    For luscious, voluminous lashes, look no further than the By Terry Lash-Expert Twist Brush Mascara. This innovative mascara features a dual-action brush that can be twisted to lengthen or volumize your lashes, allowing you to customize your desired look with ease. Its smudge-proof and long-lasting formula ensures that your lashes stay beautifully defined all day long, making it a must-have for any makeup enthusiast.


    11. L'Oréal Infallible 3-Second Setting Mist
    Lock in your makeup look with the L'Oréal Infallible 3-Second Setting Mist. This lightweight, micro-fine mist sets makeup in place for up to 24 hours, ensuring a fresh and flawless finish. Its quick-drying formula provides a smooth, dewy result, making it an essential step in any makeup routine.


    These carefully curated beauty products are a testament to the transformative power of high-quality cosmetics and skincare. Whether you're looking to perfect your everyday makeup routine or achieve a radiant, flawless complexion, these products offer exceptional performance and versatility, making them indispensable additions to your beauty collection.

  • Introducing the Launch of Nude Ateljé

    Written by Astrid Birnbaum by Emelie Bodén

    Nude Ateljé, conceived by architect Eva-Lotta Axelsson, graces Norr Mälarstrand in Stockholm within a historic bath palace. Beyond a mere showroom, it stands as a tranquil hub for dialogue on interior design, furniture production, and architecture. Axelsson's unwavering dedication to design and creativity gives this space its distinct character, housing three key components: Architecture by Nude, Materials by Nude, and Production by Nude. Mark your calendars for the grand opening on February 22, 2024.

    Axelsson, a seasoned architect drawing inspiration from the world of fashion, seamlessly blends creativity with timeless design. Nude Ateljé is driven by curiosity, presenting tailored consultations, furniture collections, and carpentry services.

    Nude Ateljé is a testament to Axelsson's commitment to creating a space that not only sparks emotions but also becomes a reference point in people's lives. The showroom showcases both existing products available for purchase and the option to commission custom solutions.

    Rooted in personal stories from around the globe, Nude Ateljé contributes to a seamless lifestyle, whether in interior design or architecture. Axelsson's notable portfolio includes Lydmar Hotels' signature suite unveiled during Stockholm Design Week 2017 and the light installation “Chimes of Light” for the Denniz Pop Awards auction in 2019.

    The doors to Nude Ateljé swing open on February 22, with a vision to host regular creative gatherings in the realms of fashion, art, music, literature, design, and architecture.

    Image courtesy of Nude Ateljé

  • photography Émilie Mathé Nicolas

    Xavier Veilhan’s new exhibition “Crop Top” in Stockholm

    Written by Fashion Tales

    We are pleased to present Crop Top, a new exhibition by Xavier Veilhan. The opening takes place on February 22nd in Stockholm, Sweden from 17:00 to 20:00 at Linnégatan 31.


    Xavier Veilhan’s multifaceted work encompasses sculpture, installation, painting, photography, as well as hybrids of the aforementioned and he is also engaged in performance work and filmmaking. Veilhan addresses issues of perception as well as the physical and temporal relationships created within the context of the exhibition format, often creating dedicated scenography. His work has been internationally exhibited at acclaimed institutions and he frequently works in the public space. At the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, he transformed the French Pavilion into the critically recognized Studio Venezia.

    In Crop Top, the organic and the digital converge, as do images and volumes. Starting from his series of “blurred” 3D scanned portraits, Veilhan wanted to abstract these works further as well as use materials that correspond with his newfound environmental focus. The material used in this exhibition is essentially raw wood: a renewable material that has been transformed. Most of the wood comes from the region of Sologne, where it is milled directly. Crop Top is also Veilhan’s first opportunity to experiment with a way of conceiving exhibitions that can travel by sea and the majority of the presented works have been brought to Stockholm by sailboat. This environmental and artistic project will develop through exhibitions and collaborations over several years and journeys, including transatlantic ones. The sea freight and the exhibition itself are two parts of a project which fuse as the reality of renting a sailboat, living on it and transporting artworks, meets the reality of the finished exhibition.

    An initial inspiration for Crop Top was the lines and stripes of Tuscan churches composed in marble marquetry. The stripes and contrasting materials appear in the exhibition, most notably in the sculpture Stephen (Crop Top), 2023, from which the exhibition lends its title. Crop Top was chosen for its sound, its evocation of clothing and an arbitrary or artificial cut-off, as is the case of the previously mentioned sculpture whose top has been cut off and replaced by another piece of wood. Lines, stripes and mechanical traces are also left in the materials by the tools used in the production process.

    The exhibition explores different degrees of representation between the physical presence of the object and the virtual existence of the image with an idea of deconstruction - whether sculptural or statuary. This tension in the transition between image and object is present in Veilhan’s marqueteries and in the new abstracted landscape works. A gradual shift from individual objects to a greater whole is taking place as individually coloured wooden pieces are assembled together, and when completed, gives shape to a new motif.

    Xavier Veilhan was born in 1963 in France, and lives and works in Paris, France.

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