Know Your Brands - A brief story behind the name

More often than not, we buy well known branded perfumes and fragrances. These brands are household names and are well like and trusted by the young and old alike.
The brand name is usually written on the bottle of your favourite perfume, but do you know the story or the name behind the brand?

Tom Ford

Tom is an American fashion designer & film director born in Austin Texas. He slowly worked his way through the fashion industry before becoming Creative Director at Gucci rescuing the brand from bankruptcy. When he left Gucci in 2004, he started a line of menswear, eyewear and accessories in 2006, with the Black Orchid his first fragrance launched the same year. 

White Patchouli

Black Orchid

 

 Cartier

 

Société Cartier designs, manufactures, distributes and sells jewellery.  The company was founded in France in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier.
Though well known from their jewellery and wrist watches, the first fragrances were launched in 1981. Must de Cartier for women and Santos de Cartier for men. To this day there are around 70 fragrances from Cartier.

Baiser Volé

Must De Cartier

                     

 Paco Rabanne

 

Paco Rabanne was born Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo in Pasages de San Pedro in the Basque region of Spain. He studied architecture at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris, winning an award for a sculpture which exhibited in Paris.
In 1969 the first perfume Calandre was launched and is still available today.

Lady Million Absolutely Gold

 Black XS Femme

Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs is American fashion designer who resides in Paris. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line with over 200 retail stores in 80 countries. From 1997 to 2013, Marc was the creative director of Louis Vuitton before moving over to Diet Coke where he was creative director for one year as it celebrated its 30th anniversary. He first began offering fragrances in 2001 with the now popular Daisy for women launching in 2007.

Daisy

Dot 

 Lancôme

Lancôme is a French luxury perfumes and cosmetics house which has been a subsidiary of L'Oréal since 1964. The name Lancôme was inspired by the ruins of a castle Le Château de Lancosme and was founded by Armand Petitjean in 1935.  The very same year, he launched five new fragrances simultaneously all of which were a success.

Tresor

La Vie Est Belle

 Yves Saint Laurent

 

Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent known as Yves Saint Laurent was an Algerian-born French fashion designer and is still regarded as one of the greatest names in fashion history. In 1957 at the age of just 21 Saint Laurent found himself as the head designer of Dior with his spring collection in 1958 saving the company from financial ruin. The still popular Opium perfume was launched in 1977 to some controversy due to its name.

Manifesto

Baby Doll

 

Hope you are feeling a little more clued up about your favourite brand, we know we are!

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5 Reasons Why Women Makeup

Some women always get questions like “don’t you get tired of decking yourself up and spending hours in front of the mirror doing makeup?” for the onlooker, there could be two possible explanations why women put in time, effort and money into looking good. Either it is to look professional and be ready for their desk or they are trying to look beyond their natural self. Well, if you ask a woman who believes in thorough makeup, you will get other convincing reasons too, which by the way are quite true. Here are 5 of them.

1.    Feeling good

It is not always about attracting other men and women. Sometimes women love to makeup to feel good about themselves. Many would wake up early on weekends and spend hours grooming themselves to look and feel good throughout the day, even if they don’t have any plans outdoors or are expecting any visitors. A good looking and good smelling face lifts up the mood and     arouses the confidence of a woman.

2.    Transforming into elegance

Every woman would love to look good. For some, makeup seems to be the best way to transform themselves into someone they admire. As such, makeup is an art and this creativity will not only make you feel more confident but quite younger too. When doing makeup, there aren’t any limits and a woman can choose to imitate anyone (an actress/actor, other celebrities and even a zombie) or present herself in a whole new persona.

3.    Some makeup is necessary

A woman cannot go about meeting people with dark circles under her eyes. It is both a professional and personal requirement. If a concealer can put things they way they need to be, what is wrong with it? Makeup can erase out physical signs of tiredness and fatigue and people (both men and women) love bright personalities, rather than meeting someone who looks sick or beaten down by her workload.

4.    A way to be more expressive

A woman with fairly small eyes can use makeup to make them look brighter and bolder. Skin rashes during winters can be fairly managed and everyone loves a woman who has a fresh glow on her face. If you ever see a woman with nude glossy lips, high blushed cheekbones and a dramatic plum shadow, the first thing you notice is the way she goes around expressing herself. While some girls like to pose natural, some like to be more dramatic. Makeup is really and extension of a girl’s self and there is nothing wrong in trying to be more conversant.

5.    Showing off

When a man can show off his Tag Heuer watch, why can a woman show off her Nu Skin gloss or a Chanel lipstick? Everyone like to showoff and it’s not a bad thing until you aren’t intruding other people’s space. Further, it’s only woman to want to get noticed and be complimented for her beauty and presence. Sometimes, it also becomes a professional requirement too.

While it is absolutely true that every person is beautiful whether he/she wears makeup or not, looking good is a part of our life now. Just keep one thing in mind: never wear makeup because others want you to look good and presentable, wear makeup only if you want to. As life, life should be all about having fun, be confident and being able to do the things you want to.