YOU ARE A BABE
REBECCA BRAGE, DJ
AUGUST 08.2012
by AIMEE BLAUT
Last week I spent a morning at home with Stockholm-based DJ Rebecca Brage. Here are a few pictures from our shoot for L’Oreal’s site Makeup.com. Catch the full story to see more photos and hear about Rebecca’s beauty routine here.
YOU ARE A BABE
FRANCO V, DJ
APRIL 12.2012
by AIMEE BLAUT
"I was born and raised in New York. It’s funny because growing up, everyone around you is from Manhattan, and then I went to NYU and right away realized there was no one there from the city. It was a bizarre change... you are in the same place you have been your entire life, but now everyone is new."
“I had a band coming out of high school and we would play around the city a lot. We started throwing our own party called Shin Dig, which were these loft parties we would move around to different places. We would have a few bands play and artists would show their work. It was ten dollars to get in with an open bar… It was a total shitshow at the time. People started to notice us and gave us nights to play at bars around town. That’s how I started DJing. I got into bartending at Beatrice and DJed there too. When Beatrice closed I stopped bartending and kept up with DJing, navigating through it all, finding the right places. Now it’s a lot easier to manage, I guess cause’ I’ve been around for a while.I DJ at the Soho Grand, those guys are all really nice; it’s like family. I am there on Fridays, PH-D on Mondays and some other places throughout the week.
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“My grooming habits are pretty minimal. I have one product that I swear by. I can’t live without Nivea Baby. It’s a super thick moisturizer and I use it on my hands, my hair, everywhere. Instead of using products in my hair, I use it almost as a putty to give it a little shine and make it more manageable. That’s definitely something that nobody knows [laughs]. I bought it one time in Croatia and can’t live without it. My father is Croatian and I have a lot of family there, so we go there every summer, and it’s the only place I have ever been able to find it. I’m very protective of it, too [laughs]. My girlfriend isn’t even allowed to use it. Seriously, one of my worst fears in life is running out of this stuff. I have tried to find it online but you can’t buy it anywhere, so in my closet I have a stack of them. I keep one on me at all times, there’s even one in my DJ bag.”
“I am pretty sure I have hyperhidrosis, where you have excessive sweating. So I get Botox in my armpits and it works really well. It’s pretty amazing actually. I have to do it every five or six months, it’s like sixteen shots per armpit, but they are little ones. It’s great and insurance covers it.”
“I get my hair cut at Dop Dop on Mercer. I don’t really shave; I just have a trimmer and buzz. I shave maybe once or twice a year, clean-shaven. I can’t really grow a full mustache. A few years ago I wanted one pretty badly and I grew it as long as I could, but it still looked like a little Puerto Rican kid [laughs].”
Photos by: Aimee Blaut
Tags: Beatrice, Croatia, DJ, Dop Dop, Franco V, Nivea Baby, Ph-D, Shin Dig, Soho Grand Hotel
YOU ARE A BABE
CHELSEA LEYLAND, DJ
JANUARY 02.2012
by AIMEE BLAUT
"I grew up in London and came to New York to go to the Lee Strasberg drama school to study method acting. I sort of quickly got into DJing and was really lucky. I started for fun and to bring in some money. Now I guess ninety-nine percent of everything I do is fashion based. I DJ for Burberry and Valentino, Fendi, Missoni, Vogue all that kind of malarkey. I DJ a little bit in the art world too. People in the art world are more fun than people in fashion, they actually dance and get wasted. Aside from DJing I want to start focusing on my acting a bit more. I just got finished this summer with this documentary for MTV."
“My routine starts when I wake up in the morning and wash my face with Nude cleanser, which is Bono’s wife’s line, it’s all probiotic, paraben-free, it’s very natural. I love the smell of it. After I use some Nude hydrating water, I spray that on as toner with a cotton pad. I can feel the probioticness of it—mentally at least. Next I use a bit of hyaluronic acid by Timeless. And then I just put coconut oil on and a bit of Tata Harper eye cream. It’s really not that simple my morning. I always notice when I pack that I use a lot of products. At night I pretty much do what I do in the morning but I cake my lips with Lucas’ Pawpaw. I love the feeling of going to sleep with super moisturized lips.”
“I’m massively into beauty products. I’m very very pro organic, paraben-free products. It’s just that I’m really aware of what terrible things some people are using and what chemicals go into them. I like Dr. Alkaitis’ philosophy that what you can’t put in your mouth you shouldn’t put on your skin. I use coconut oil for everything and I eat it every day as well. I love Tata Harper and all the natural oils that go into their products. In my handbag I always have her irritability treatment, I actually think it kind of works. My boyfriend always puts it on my wrists when I’m getting anxious.”
“If I’m going out I like Giorgio Armani luminous silk foundation in 5.5. If I’m not wearing foundation I use a bit of Laura Mercier concealer, I think everyone’s obsessed with that stuff. It stays on well and you can mix the colors together. Eyeliner is the thing I always need. MAC makes the best kohl liner; I can’t really live without that. It stays on and it goes on really easily, it’s super thick and you can smudge it a lot. For eyelashes and eyebrows I like clear mascara and yeah in the evenings I put a bit of blush on. I use Benefit, they have many many blushes now but I use their pinky one.”
“If I use lipstick I’ll use MAC, I like a black or dark purple. I guess those are just my colors really, I like the way they look on me. Today I’m wearing the NARS lip pencil, which stays on nice. In the winter I don’t really wear lipstick because my lips are always dry. ”
“For my hair I use Moroccan Oil shampoo and then Matrix conditioner or Kerastase, which is good for dry hair. I have really dry hair so I have to cake the oil in. I like argan oil by John Masters or Neil George’s gooseberry oil. It kind of smells of sun cream but is a bit sweet. Everyone thinks I dyed my hair pink, but it’s a result of me trying to get the purple out, I’ve been to the hairdresser three times in the last month and now I’m just giving up. I’ve already had to cut an inch and a half off of my hair and it was painful, I’m a Leo too, I need it.”
Photos by: Aimee Blaut
Tags: Armani, Benefit, Chelsea Leyland, DJ, Dr. Alkaitis, John Masters, Kerastase, Laura Mercier, Lee Strasberg, London, Lucas Pawpaw, MAC, Moroccan Oil, MTV, nars, Neil George, Nude, Tata Harper, Timeless, you are a babe
