David Stesner for Allure By Meli Pennington Photography by David Stesner Share this FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedin Tags AllurebeautyBeauty 101David StesnerMakeupMeli Pennington My Writing Beauty and Culture The French Beauty Secret Magazines Won’t Write About We're all familiar with the articles and books about French women's beauty secrets. The secret moisturizers, the insouciance, the je ne sais quas -... Beauty and Culture Creating Characters for Epic The Movie: Why Perfection is Overrated (Even in Hollywood!) One of the more fun and surprising things about blogging is getting invited to swag-erific events. Not very many - Wild Beauty isn't up... Beauty and Culture Stealing Beauty: On Cultural Appropriation in Fashion If there's any constant in fashion, it is that it always changes. And part of that change is fashion's taking of inspiration from every... My Makeup Daniel Gabbay for Teen Vogue dBox for Surface Frederique Helwig for Teen Vogue – Venice Beach Jeff Tse for L’Oreal Doug Inglish for Elle Jeff Tse for L’Oreal more to enjoy Makeovers in the Movies: Vertigo Blue Eyeliner, Tattoos, and Face Packs: Beauty Secrets from a Prehistoric Siberian Princess Jeff Tse for Vogue Taiwan Beauty Inventions: The Eyelash Curler