Let’s face facts – your social calendar is filling up fast. Between all the work parties, holiday celebrations and family gatherings, one thing is for certain – you need dresses. Lots of dresses. Now don’t get us wrong, there’s nothing bad about wearing your favorite LBD again, but with all these photos being posted to Facebook and Instagram, why not […]

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to take minute to reflect on the things we are thankful for, both big and small. That includes our favorite beauty products — those items that we feel we just can’t live with out. Following are five of our favorites, to all of which we say: “Thank goodness you exist!” […]

She’s the gadget queen in your circle of friends.  When a new device pops onto the market, she’s already owned it for weeks.  What’s more, she even lugs around all that tech equipment in the most covetable and chic accessories, thus making you forever pine after her digital style.  So what are the best presents for the girl who’s a […]

Short hair is often easier to deal with on a daily basis than longer locks, but it still takes a little work to make a cropped cut look its best. Here, we’ve put together four simple styling tricks to make those pretty pixies and beautiful bobs even easier to manage. 1. Embrace air drying. You can give a short style […]

The fashionable girl-on-the-go and the babe about town might require the same thing – a stylish handbag, but what we bring to the office often doesn’t translate into cocktails after dark or a brunch with the gals.  So, we need options to cover all the areas of our life where a handbag serves as a functional bestie, a swoonworthy accessory […]

The LustreLife team is always on Royal Watch.  We can’t get enough of the modern day fairy princess Kate Middleton and her stunning style. Never tripping up when stepping out, the Duchess is a style icon, and deservedly so.  Perfectly perfecting the British standard of sophistication whilst mixing in her own stylistic point of view (no easy task, not even […]

This month’s girl crush is a 2-fer: the Mara Sisters. Kate and Rooney Mara are fresh faces in an often-redundant pool of Hollywood. Heavy weights in the acting arena, the sisters are lean and mean with their wardrobe choices and have a take-no-prisoners approach to fashion as well as to the roles they take. Edgy, sleek, minimal, and always fashion […]

Thick and Colorful Cat Eyes From Versace to Dior, chunky strips of wing-tipped color were all over the 2014 Fall Runway. These hefty cat eyes are easy to create—apply a primer to your lids, establish the shape (and fill it in) with a colored liner pencil, then use a precision-tipped liquid liner to carefully color over it. Add two coats […]

BB, CC and DD creams can all step aside—blur creams are the newest in multitasking makeup. Made with light-diffusing particles, these skin savers “blur” fine lines, large pores and other problem spots to give your face a glowing, filtered look, similar to how you may appear in an Instagram image. They’re great for wearing under foundation because they increase coverage […]

It may seem a little boring to go on a shopping spree for workday essentials, especially when it’s so much fun to splurge on that patchwork shearling coat you’ve been lusting after.  But when you’re in pursuit of everyday office needs like, tech and office appropriate accessories, Cools makes your browsing experience that much more exciting. Can you really pass […]