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...edokko, the natives of Tokyo, have a special gift: an ability to push the envelope, to innovate, to pioneer. That was certainly true of Shu Uemura, who went from being the only man in his Tokyo beauty school class to Hollywood makeup legend to international entrepreneur. In convention-worshiping Japan, he defied convention - and made his name and fortune by doing...
Once the province of showgirls, fake eyelashes are a key part of this season's vamped-up look. Fashionable women are flocking to Shu Uemura, the Japanese cosmetics company known for its precision-made makeup brushes and a selection of falsies that range from natural to rainbow colored. Its over-the-top Tokyo Lash Bar collection includes ornate feather lashes, above and below, and lashes studded with crystals. For $350, a Shu Uemura lash stylist will provide the ultimate service to amplify your eyes: extensions. It takes two hours to apply an extension to each individual lash, but the technique...
...anxious father sent him to boarding school in England when he was 12, but Noguchi was just as lost there. "I was a dropout," he says. "What I sought was my own world." When he discovered mountaineering, inspired by a book by the great Japanese adventurer Naomi Uemura, he knew he had found that world. The alpine prodigy began scaling every mountain he could find, and when he conquered Everest in 1999 after two failures, Noguchi became, at the time, the youngest person ever to climb the tallest peaks on all seven continents...
Summer is the spritzing season, and this year more water than ever is flowing onto the market--for drinking, for fighting acne and even for jet-lag relief. Chantecaille's aromatherapy Flower Waters, far right, come in scents like Wild Blackberry Bush and Roman Chamomile. Shu Uemura's Foaming Cleansing Water, right, uses the brand's signature mineral-rich Depsea Water. And for old-fashioned types who still prefer to drink the stuff, Borba offers six calorie-free waters in flavors like pomegranate and litchi that treat skin problems from the inside out. But at $30 for 12 bottles, this...
...Retro ladylike fashions are ruling the runways, and Twiggy's doe eyes of the '60s haven't been left behind: false eyelashes, currently offered by cosmetics companies like MAC, Shu Uemura and Sephora, are back. Once considered too gaudy for all but show girls and drag queens, fake lashes were a fashion faux pas in the '80s and '90s. But after Jennifer Lopez showed up at the 2001 Oscars wearing red-fox-fur lashes, the idea began to come back into vogue. "Makeup artists have been using false lashes for fashion shows and on celebrities for the past few years...