Jolie In NYC
The random musings of a pop culture-obsessed
My last post on this site!
Friends! This will be my last post on blog.nadinehaobsh.com as Jolie in NYC. Please update your bookmarks and visit my all-new website at jolienadine.com and my new blog Jolie Nadine at jolienadine.com/blog. Stay beautiful! xo, Nadine
- 2008-03-25 03:52:34
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Web woes…almost over
I am so excited, because I’m in the process of constructing an entirely new website—one that will finally free me from this current error-and-misery-plagued blog. The past few months, as you probably know, I’ve not posted much and the blog has often been down even when I have tried to write. This has resulted in [...] - 2008-03-18 01:32:09
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Tan me baby, one more time
Now that the weather is getting warmer and spring break is around the corner for college students, I’m getting lots of questions about tanning. Most of them go along the lines of this:
“So! Umm…I know what you’re going to say, but…if I go to a tanning bed, it’s not the worst thing in the world, is [...] - 2008-03-11 21:19:52
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At LSU
I’m at Louisiana State University for a charity beauty event tonight called Delta Glamour (for those of you who don’t know, I was a Delta Gamma at Columbia University) that should be really fun. I’m reading from Beauty Confidential, answering beauty questions and talking about how blogging has impacted my career, then it’s on to an [...] - 2008-03-11 20:44:36
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My shame
God help me, but today at the gym I watched two episodes in a row of Keeping Up With the Kardashians (a show I’d previously sworn I would never watch), and actually found it cute. I don’t know what this says about my obviously dwindling brain cells. Sigh.
- 2008-03-10 01:34:05
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Love for The Body Shop!
Recently, one of the publicists for The Body Shop offered to send me some of their bestselling products to get reacquainted with. I haven’t used anything from the line in years—we’re talking since about 1994, when all the girls in my class were doused in White Musk—so I said yes, not realizing that my life was about to [...] - 2008-03-10 00:57:16
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Beauty Question: Bare Minerals, Bronzer and Self-Tanner
F. writes: Please tell me if your beloved Bare Escentuals is also flattering to mature skin? (I’m a grandmother, and I use Lancome’s Imanence). Also, what bronzers, or self-tanners, do you prefer? By the way, I’m really enjoying “Beauty Confidential!”
Hi F! Thank you so much for your email! Bare Minerals is flattering to mature [...] - 2008-03-05 02:22:03
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Nadine/Jolie on Facebook
I know at least half of you are as obsessed with Facebook as I am (even though every single time I log on, I’m inundated by about fifty-three requests inviting me to take quizzes on bizarre topics like, “How sexy is your belly-button?” and “What does your choice in sandwiches reveal about your soul?”), so [...] - 2008-02-29 06:33:10
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The mystery of Maybelline Great Lash
The Bermuda Triangle. What the hell is happening on Lost. Why men seem to adore needy women. These are life’s true mysteries. To that list, I add the cult of Maybelline Great Lash, which is praised to high heaven by most makeup artists, but is the single worst, most uninspired mascara on the market, in [...] - 2008-02-29 06:18:19
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My Bono moment (well, kinda)
I’ve just landed back in LA after my reading at Boston University, and the trip was exhausting but exhilarating. Scores of young women attended, all who were genuinely interested in what I had to say, peppered me with endless beauty questions and even, in the case of a few, asked nervously if they could hug [...] - 2008-02-28 06:05:51
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Academy Awards (mini!) beauty recap
D. and I had a small girls’ night last night to celebrate the Oscars, critiquing the looks, drinking wine and munching on M&Ms and pizza (I obviously did not partake in the pizza, as those of you who know me are aware of my dairy antipathy. Moldy cow juice?? Blech!). I still don’t know how [...] - 2008-02-25 20:18:25
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Jolie’s latest obsession: Tom Ford Black Orchid
As a child, there was nobody more glamorous than my Aunt S. She was all khol eyeliner and red lips, her long black locks always curled and glossy, nails groomed to perfection. Her purses were an endless parade of Vuitton and exotic finds from her Middle Eastern travels, and inside she carried a bottle of Givenchy [...] - 2008-02-23 00:39:38
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It’s alive!
I know the blog has been down the past couple of days, and I’m working behind the scenes to make sure it doesn’t happen again. It’s going to require a creative fix I’m exploring, but it should be solved soon. Thank you all for your concern!In other news, I flew back from New York on [...] - 2008-02-22 21:05:27
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New York recap soon!
I’m leaving New York City tomorrow morning and, unbelievably, this is the first time I’ve had access to a computer. The reading went fabulously, I have a billion beauty product reviews to post, and tons of pictures as well. More tomorrow!
- 2008-02-19 05:38:52
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Jolie, back in NYC!
I come to New York this Saturday for three days and nights, hoping to cram in as much as humanly possible; I’ll be holding book readings at Barnard and Columbia (email me at nadine@nadinehaobsh.com if you want more info!), doing a wee bit of publicity, meeting friends old and new for drinks and pow-wows, and, [...] - 2008-02-13 23:06:43
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Why does her hair look great, and mine just looks messy?
Good genes? Better styling products? Assistance from a thousand-dollar-an-hour hairstylist? (Hmm…) My favorite hairspiration, Kate Hudson, was named Style Icon at the H&M Elle Style Awards in London yesterday. If only I could make my bangs and waves look like this!
- 2008-02-13 22:41:05
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Another reason I love Scarlett Johansson
I simply can’t wait for The Other Boleyn Girl to come out, especially after drowning myself these past few days in episodes of The Tudors. Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman are on the cover of W, looking a little fetishist and quite striking. I’m not 100% digging the dried-blood-red shape of lipstick Scarlett has on—although, let’s be [...] - 2008-02-12 20:02:41
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Confessions of a Beauty Addict
Okay, my lovelies, I have some exciting news and some not-so-exciting news. The exciting news is twofold: not only is Beauty Confidential now available at Target (whoo!), but you can preorder my first novel, Confessions of a Beauty Addict, on both target.com and amazon.com now. Mark November 18 on your calendars, because that’s when the book [...] - 2008-02-11 22:52:42
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Maybe I need an internet exorcism
I have ridiculously bad luck when it comes to technology (ironic, much?) and so I’ve been having to use my roommate’s computer these last few days, since mine thought it would be fun to completely die. Of course, her computer is a Mac, and so I’m unable to upload photos because…well…er…I actually don’t really know [...] - 2008-02-11 05:53:51
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Lancome Color Fever Shine Lipstick in Pixel Pink
I haven’t tried it yet, but Lancome releases a new limited-editon lipstick tomorrow: Lancome Color Fever Shine Lipstick in Pixel Pink, co-created by designer Thakoon Panichgul and makeup artist Gucci Westman. I have to admit, I find it somewhat amusing that Thakoon is oh-my-God-SO-hot nowadays, because he and I simultaneously worked at Harper’s Bazaar a million years ago. [...] - 2008-02-08 00:44:29
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The Return of La Gwyneth! (Oh, yeah, and a few other celebs, too)
Weeks after her mysterious hospitalization, Gwyneth Paltrow emerges—a vision all in pink—triumphant, glowing, blushing, fabulous at a Gucci/Unicef charity event. Am I alone in my Gwyn-dulation?
Gwynnie, I didn’t even realize how much I missed you.
The Other Gwen: Miss Stefani looking pretty damn gorgeous with her signature platinum hair, black liner and red lips. I’m not digging Demi [...] - 2008-02-07 23:23:42
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Bendel’s Beauty Breakfast
Every year, chichi New York City fashion-and-beauty retailer Henri Bendel hosts a breakfast for beauty editors; I was unable to go this year, as I’m still out West panning for gold, so I sent my intern Bess. She’s not beholden! She spends her own money on products! She’s never even heard of the New York [...] - 2008-02-06 17:49:02
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Shopping for a makeup neophyte
My friend R. has a Ph.D and a sky-high IQ, but is something of a beauty dummy. (I say this with love!) Like many girls who haven’t been practicing their smokey eyes since the womb, R. is simply at a loss when it comes to beauty products, and will meander from one makeup [...] - 2008-02-04 22:06:09
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2008’s Style Resolution
Now that’s it’s one month out, it’s time for a little retrospective evaluation of January. (April, the cruelest month? Hardly!) Have you kept your New Year’s resolution? I stopped making them years ago, after realizing that they rarely lasted more than two or three nanoseconds. (”I will go to the [...] - 2008-02-04 21:16:51
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Beauty List: My Top Five Products
Shopping site SheFinds.com recently interviewed me on my top five, can’t-live-without-’em beauty products. They’re also giving away five copies of BC, so if you haven’t gotten yours yet, be sure to check out the post and comment to enter. All the products below are ones I actually use, would (and have) spent my own hard-earned [...] - 2008-02-04 19:41:35
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The first stop on my book tour: UC Berkeley
Many of my beauty blogging brethren went to New York City this weekend for Fashion Week. Rather than schlep my ass all the way out there to spend five minutes interviewing various harried, sweating makeup artists as they paint foundation on girls named Natalia and Agyness, I flew to San Francisco for the first stop on my college book [...] - 2008-02-04 18:31:14
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