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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015 TORONTO STAR DRESSING UP MONTH’S BEST GLOSSY COSMIC EYES Test driving COSMETICS the high-shine Space-age-inspired colour shadow trend for eyes, lips and cheeks page 6 page 3 WEEKEND UPDATE FRESH COAT Billowy fabrics and new cuts give the trench a modern, feminine look page 6 BOOKS ROYAL WATCHERS The gals behind hilarious celebrity blog Go Fug Yourself explore Kate Middleton’s inner life (and eyebrow evolution) in a new novel BY RANI SHEEN We’ve all watched it happen: A sporty, down-to- earth girl falls in love with a prince and becomes an impeccably dressed, perfectly coiffed member of British royalty. If you’ve ever wondered what Kate, William and Harry are joking about at royal appear- ances, wished for an invite to a birthday party at Buckingham Palace or fantasized about joining them at the royal skiing compound in Klosters, Switzer- land, The Royal We is for you. Characters based on the young royals are the focus of the third novel by Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks, writers of the blog Go Fug Yourself and two YA novels, Spoiled and Messy. While there are familiar elements of reality, the SPRING NAIL REPORT characters are pure fiction (Bex, a young American, meets future king Nick while studying at Oxford), and Morgan and Cocks let their imaginations run wild to concoct the hijinks that go on (unless Kate and Harry really have been locked in a closet, drunk, together…). We had a three-way phone chat with FRENCH them from their homes in L.A. Why did you focus on Kate for this book? Heather: Imagine falling in love with a guy in college when you’re that young and all of a sudden you’re the TWIST Duchess of Cambridge. To imagine the emotional Inspired by the rise of the neutral nail, beauty editor journey that came with that and how amazingly she appears to handle it, we were like, there has to be Rani Sheen travelled to Paris for a French manicure en France. more going on under the surface. Here, experts update the classic look and How does Kate’s life compare those of share how to pick the perfect nude for your skin tone other celebrities? Heather: Kate always has to have her game face on, page 4 more so than celebrities who can have a bad day on the red carpet or can look sad or mad or whatever. I think if she were ever to have a bad day and let it show, she would really take it. 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THE KIT WILL RETURN IN TWO WEEKS PHOTOGRAPHY: MOHAMED KHAL (BUI); ANNA CZOSNYKA FOR PHYTO (EDUN). 4 / THEKIT.CA THEKIT.CA / 5 SPRING NAIL REPORT COLOUR THEORY www.bourjois.ca Vive la French Finding a polish to suit your skin tone isn’t When beauty editor Rani Sheen had a French manicure in Paris, she rediscovered a much maligned classic easy—and the wrong shade can leave your Your best neutral: Sheer pink with a hands looking corpse-like or jaundiced. warm beige under- Catherine Deneuve on the set a large reclining chair as she painstak- With expert advice from Gina Edwards, tone. “I would stay of Belle de Jour. Below right: ingly shapes, buffs and cleans my nails lead manicurist for Morgan Taylor, and away from a white- the Plaza Athénée hotel. and cuticles (taking plenty of time to Your best neutral: based or marsh- “Go with mushroom- Leeanne Colley, owner of Tips Nail Bar mallow tint,” says scrape the grimy undersides with an toned nudes,” Edwards, explaining orange stick, a process that’s usually says Colley. Stay in Toronto, our mani colour wheel will it will amp up the rushed). She checks her work after away from pale pinpoint your perfect polish matches yellow in your skin. each ministration and makes minute pinks, which will MORGAN TAYLOR enhance redness. PERFECT MATCH, adjustments. “This is the best manicure $11, SALONS TWIST UP EVE SNOW SKINNY Pick your skin-tone match below in Paris,” she declares in her halting DIP, $19, NET-A- English, adding that the French is PORTER.COM Your best bright: the most popular choice for her well- Pops of dark pink or Your best bright: magenta. “You could heeled local regulars, with red a close A deep red with a do a pink, but it would second. (Teal and neon orange, not so cool blue tone will have to be more of a much.) When she’s satisfied with her counteract the pink fuchsia,” says Colley. canvas, she takes Dior’s white felt-tip in the skin. “Choose “You would want Stylo pen and carefully draws over the deep burgundy, not to stay away from natural tip, which is now slender and a candy apple red,” anything that has a THE VOLUME rounded. “This part is very delicate,” says Colley.