Hair Today, Gone 2morrow

Hair removal can be a painful process but homemade remedies may just be the easy way out. PHOTO: FILE

Hair removal can be-quite a dilemma, especially for women who are always on the go. If you think the only way to get rid of annoying body hair is to go through the physical pain of waxing or the mental agony of shelling out a bomb on laser therapy, then you probably haven’t yet discovered the virtues of spearmint-tea and lemon-honey paste.

For women, the problem-of excessive hair growth, which is scientifically known as hirsutism, starts around puberty and marks its territory across the face, neck, chest, back, toes and arms. It mostly afflicts women-between the age of 18 to 45.

Makeup kit packed into a gun is for stylish Females

Dangerous-women would never carry around something as girlie looking as a purse, but they still want to look their best. To solve this dilemma, Dutch jewelry designer Ted Noten has created this scary looking pistol, but instead-of bullets, this gun packs seven essentials no femme-fatale would want to be without.


Each Seven Necessities Gun is built around the products of a different cosmetics house, so you can have a Dior gun or a Chanel one depending-on your loyalties.

Munib Nawaz: On the attributes of women

Nawaz’s new line will celebrate attributes women that women cherish most such as strength, sensuality and elegance. PHOTO: PUBLICITY

He’s as crazy as they get in this line of business, with a wacky sense of humour and an even crazier sense of fashion presentation. But that doesn’t mean that Munib Nawaz makes outlandish clothes. Far from it. His signature look is a well tailored blazer and trousers and a well structured mutedsherwani: Clothing that defines the quintessential man.

Yet when he takes to the ramp, he will always spruce up the whole game with eccentric machinations like making models behave like Punjabi pehalwans ready for a kushti. And while he’s firmly entrenched himself with men’s wear, he’s now venturing with full force into the territory of women’s wear as well, a glimpse of which he offered at the vintage cars and fashion show held by the Pearl Continental a few days ago.

As I walk in, he’s bent over a piece of A4 paper, trying to sketch out a design locked in his head. “I’m trying to add Munib Nawazness to the designs submitted to me by my team,” he offers by way of explanation, as we chuckle over how his workers have no definition for plain embellishment-free clothing and call anything with work on it ‘pret’. “I want women to do away with gold eventually, that’s what my formal line will be about.”

She’s still got it: The new age of fashion

Vivian Billick (R) is helped by stylist Katia Lepage during a shoot in the studios of The Gazette in Montreal Monday May 2, 2011.

Photograph by: Tim Snow, The Gazette

The hips may get hippier, the belly may get rounder and the derrière may drop. But as women age, they often gain in wisdom and confidence what they might have lost in tone.

So for every woman past 50, say, who laments that fashion has left her behind, there are many who, with good grace, have found the means to stay stylish.

Their daughters borrow from their closets, and no, they don’t want to dress like the younger generation, even if the body still holds.

To mark Mother’s Day, we invited two women of great personal style to The Gazette’s studio for a styling and photo session. Katia Lepage, 45, a former model who started a styling business three years ago, consulted with the women, then shopped to dress them in a way that would suit their bodies and personalities.