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Nov 23 2011 09:00 AM ET

Do You Have New Year’s Beauty Resolutions?

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley perfume
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With holiday parties piling up and the New Year just around the corner, we’ve got beauty on the brain in a big way. Whether it’s picking our own special fragrance, like Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s Burberry, scent, scoring the perfect pair of heels or finding the best pair of jeans, we’re all about what makes us feel sexiest. And for next year, we’ve got a whole list of beauty must-dos to try. But we want to hear from you, so check out the polls below and let us know: What makes you feel sexiest? What beauty trends will you try next year?

Nov 21 2011 03:00 PM ET

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Emily Blunt Gets Addicted in Behind-the-Scenes Clips for YSL Opium

She’s addicted — to her new perfume! Emily Blunt plays a woman on the hunt for Yves Saint Lauernt’s intoxicating Opium fragrance in new ads for the scent, which debut in December. In the behind-the-scenes clip above, eager fans can catch a glimpse of the starlet in action as she leaves a mysterious party — and even encounters a snow leopard — as she searches for the scent.

“It was thrilling,” Blunt says of filming the campaign. “I was given a story to play, and for me as an actress that’s very exciting. I’m not just posing or just trying to sell something.”

Oct 31 2011 06:00 PM ET

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Tim McGraw on Baking — Yes, Baking — a Fragrance with Faith

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill fragrance
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Country music’s first couple, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, are making beautiful music together again — with a new fragrance duet.

Soul2Soul, which is comprised of a woodsy His and a floral Hers scent, was inspired by their joint 2000 tour of the same name. “When our fans think of us together, besides thinking of family, they probably do think about their experience with [the tour],” McGraw tells WWD. “It was important to us to give them something that was familiar.”

Though both husband and wife have had their experience concocting scents — McGraw’s first scent with Coty Beauty launched in August 2008; Hill’s first followed in October 2009 — this is the first time they’ve put their noses together. “I like the collaborative process with her, for sure,” McGraw says, ultimately giving Hill the credit for the finished product: “I get to a certain point and finally just say, ‘What do you think, Faith?’”

Oct 31 2011 12:00 PM ET

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Brad Goreski: I’ve Always Been Preppy

Brad Goreski
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“I consider myself extremely preppy,” stylist Brad Goreski tells PEOPLE. “I always have been. I’ve been looking at a lot of my baby pics, and I’m always in a three-piece suit and bowtie.”

Thanks to that association with all things preppy — which he defines as “plaid, seersucker, stripes, polka dots and oxford” — Goreski was recently tapped to promote Tommy Hilfiger’s new Eau de Prep, scents for men and women in Macy’s stores now.

Goreski says he counts fragrances as accessories; they “put the finishing touch” on an outfit. “It’s the last thing you put on before you go out the door,” he explains. “People see you, but you also want people to smell you. It’s two reactions: you get the visual and then you get the sensory.”

Thankfully, those who’ve been missing their weekly visual dose of Goreski on The Rachel Zoe Project won’t have to wait too much longer to see him in his new series. “You can look forward to a lot of fun, a lot of laughs, a lot of fashion and a different look into the world of fashion through my eyes,” he explains. But fans get another dimension, too, with a glimpse at “my home life, and how I live,” he says — including the relationships with his boyfriend and family.

Oct 24 2011 12:00 PM ET

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Bar Refaeli ‘Really Excited’ to Be the New Face of Especially Escada

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If model Bar Refaeli could create a perfume, it would smell just like Especially Escada. The new fragrance, a light blend of roses, is a scent she “really likes.” And good thing — the Israeli starlet is the perfume’s first face.

“For a model, the biggest thing is to get a perfume deal,” Refaeli told PEOPLE in New York last week during a luncheon for the scent. “And when I heard they wanted me to do it for a few years, I was like, ‘Wow, finally!’ I’m really excited about it.”

Refaeli shot the campaign images in Los Angeles recently, in a French-inspired garden in Los Angeles where flowers had been trimmed to create Escada’s iconic double E. “It was a funny day,” Refaeli recalled. “In Los Angeles the weather should be perfect, but it was pouring rain. But somehow the photographer was able to nail it, and light it in a way that looks like a spring or summer day. We were lucky.”

Oct 21 2011 06:00 PM ET

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month Beauty Buys We Love

Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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October may be winding down, but finding a cure for breast cancer is always at the forefront of our minds. With this being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite pink products to share — and proceeds from all of them help support the cause.

Pomega5
Pick up the Pomega5 Pom-Berry Medley Kit — which includes a delicate almond oil moisturizer, Bulgarian rose moisturizing beauty bar and daily revitalizing concentrate ampoules — and know that 20 percent of the proceeds will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. $75 at pomega5.com

OPI
Give yourself a manicure — and give Susan G. Komen for the Cure a boost! OPI’s 2011 Pink of Hearts nail lacquer (left) is a slick Shatter that covers another coat of your favorite color. $8.50 at Ulta, JCPenney and Dillard’s stores

Sep 21 2011 06:00 PM ET

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Dakota Fanning Is Picking Clothes for College

Dakota Fanning Oh Lola
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Dakota Fanning just celebrated her move from Los Angeles to New York at her first Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, but the star is busy tackling an even bigger milestone now: starting her freshman year at NYU.

“Going to college is a bit different than going back to high school,” the new student told PEOPLE recently at a Marc Jacobs bash. “You can kind of wear whatever you want, and I had a uniform in high school.”

But don’t think you’ll catch Dakota, who’s living in a Manhattan apartment instead of the dorms, taking on sloppy student style. “If you ever catch me in sweatpants in class, that’s not good,” joked the star. “I’ve tried not to dress like that.”

However, the former Angeleno did come prepared for the East Coast temperature changes — sans sweatpants. “I knew to bring a lot of coats, and my Hunter rain boots,” she shared. Still, Fanning admitted that shopping for school is intimidating. For instance, “What pencil case do you buy for college?” she asked.