Screen Siren Skin Care: The Erno Laszlo Hollywood Collection

Fashion Week is looming, and it's my TWELFTH season, if you can believe it. As much as I adore fashion, I find the fashion CROWD is not as welcoming as the beauty crowd. One of the Amber Katz Rules For Life is that fashion is art and beauty is science--you stay in your lane, for the most part. It always takes a little indoctrination for me to feel like I'm truly SUPPOSED to be rocking a ball gown and 6-inch open-toe heels in the dead of February with Fashion Girl Attitude, which is not my normal demeanor. It's all very I'd Like To Thank The Academy for me to channel my more aloof, formal side on day 1 at the tents (after that, it's usually smooth sailing) and ready myself for the battle that is backstage. It's all tiny rooms with throngs of journalists thrusting their iPhone recorders in the faces of Orlando Pita, Sarah Lucero, Francois Nars, Odile Gilbert--competing for The Quote, which of course, the entire group of eight journalists and bloggers (and cloggers, alas) will use, even if it was you who siphoned it out of the artist.  I begin every walk to my first backstage of the season with Madonna's "Vogue," to get myself in a glamorous mindset and try to envision myself as a soignee sylph with incredible journalistic talent.

This year, I'll be doing one better--I'll not only be inspired by the glamour of Greta Garbo and Monroe (per Madonna) I'll be wearing skin care based on the original CUSTOM FORMULATIONS OF THOSE ICONS, thanks to Erno Laszlo's The Hollywood Collection.

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To fete 85 years of beauty, Erno Laszlo created a limited edition 5-piece set of custom blend skin care formulations inspired by the most iconic screen sirens of yore, all of whom were devotees of the brand. Housed in a luxurious lacquer box, each jar boasts new ebony packaging, the first departure from the brand's readily recognizable minimalist clear and white utilitarian packaging. The collection includes Ava Gardner’s Instant Eye Repair, Marilyn Monroe’s Morning Beauty Rescue, Katharine Hepburn’s Intensive Porcelain Veil, Grace Kelly’s Refresh Moisture Infusion and Greta Garbo’s Velvet Night Cream.

Known for showing up on the set about a month late and having barely slept, Marilyn Monroe has a coordinating cream: Morning Beauty Rescue brightens and rejuvenates the complexion, thanks to its elegant blend of semi-precious gems and liquid pearls suspended in a light, air-whipped pink gel. And if you think I'm wouldn't rock Grace Kelly's softly scented violet Refresh Moisture Infusion even if it gave me wrinkles AND pimples (luckily it doesn't), then you don't know me at all. Grace Kelly, Harlow, Jean--be the PICTURE of a beauty queen. 

Erno Laszlo The Hollywood Collection ($125) launched this month exclusive to Nordstrom through February 2012, then available in luxury retailers nationwide. Use it when all else fails and you long to be something better than you are today.

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