Tuesday 6 July 2010

An homage to Elizabeth Arden


Beauty Bible just celebrated the 100th birthday of Elizabeth Arden (along with catwalk babes Amber Le Bon and Erin O'Connor, among others). And we wanted to pay tribute to this pioneering beauty goddess, who notched up so many firsts. First to introduce a full line of skincare and colour cosmetics. First to launch travel sizes. The first - and probably the only - beauty dynamo to give lipstick to suffragettes. And then, of course, there's Eight Hour Cream: the ultimate beauty multi-tasker, originally created for massaging her beloved racehorses' legs, but later adopted as the perfect treatment for dry lips, rough heels, ragged cuticles and so much more, and still a global bestseller today. We look forward to the next 100 pioneering years, but meanwhile: Elizabeth Arden, we are not worthy...