Beauty Products and Fragrances

Pamela Anderson at the Sears in Woodfield Mall on Saturday. (Andrew Nelles/Photo for the Tribune) How does Pamela Anderson feel about Olympian and former “Dancing with the Stars” champ Apolo Ohno telling Jay Leno the busty blond may be too “top-...

Back in February, we told you about Stylophane, the San Francisco-based online marketing firm whose own marketing strategy included launching a Facebook Fashion Fan Index that monitored the sizes of and changes in approximately 700 fashion brands'...

Over the last few days, I have been corresponding with an avid fragrant gardener whose response to Emily Green's fabulous story on jasmine caught my eye. Here's a snippet: "My Stephanotis floribunda is 30 feet wide on a 10 foot main stem," Dave wrote in...

Nominees for the 2010 CFDA awards are announced: Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan and Alexander Wang top the list. [StyleList] Temporary tattoos shaped especially to go across a woman's chest. My personal fave: "Guess what? I'm pregnant!" [Glamour] More gray...

by Michael Muskal In the Senate, where the debate on healthcare "reconciliation'' is underway, the divided parties are making no secret of their sentiments today. Under the Senate rules, 20 hours have been set aside for debate and more than......

It used to be that the inexpensive lip glosses and purse-size hand creams at the register of your average mall store were over-perfumed in annoyingly girly packaging and chock full of every synthetic ingredient. Now with more natural ingredient options......

Mattel Inc., the world's largest toymaker, reported its second major product recall in less than two weeks Tuesday when it warned parents that more than 18.6 million toys sold globally might contain tiny, dangerous magnets or toxic lead paint. The recall...

Wondering what to wear at the holiday party to lure a new love for '09? That expensive, sequiny dress? A handsome new holly-green vest and some knock-'em-dead after-shave? Too bad fashion writers don't read science journals. Instead of just lecturing on...

Good doctors used to be identified by fairly standard measures: where they trained, whether they were board-certified and if they were in good standing with the state medical board. But the explosion of reality TV shows in the last four years has upset...

London Tiny-roomed "pod hotels" have sprouted like button mushrooms around the world in recent years, encouraging travelers to sacrifice floor space for lower rates and micro-facilities. But Britain's new Yotel -- part of London's Yo! Sushi restaurant...

Come on, fess up. You feel guilty using 99-cent shampoo because it's really bad for your hair. And everybody knows the $24 salon variety is so much better, especially for chemically treated hair, right? Wrong! Price has nothing to do with it, and I...

Finally, we've had a stretch of warm, sunny days. We really ccould use the rain (we're under a drought warning), but its hard to beat an afternoon spent outdoors potting up new plants. It's still early for planting out most things (remember the sleet...