Recycled Bottle Ceilings – Aesop’s High Glass Boutique (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is further proof that sustainability does not have to look boring, drab and pedestrian. Australia-based brand Aesop, which specializes in boutique botanical skincare products, built a retail store in Adelaide that has a ceiling crafted entirely out of recycled bottles arranged in a funky wave p…

Fake Makeup Massagers – Touch-Up (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) How would you like to enjoy good vibrations at the makeup counter? More women must be toting their ‘personal massagers’ around these days. That would probably explains these new discreet designs by Touch-Up, made to throw into your makeup bag. (They can probably bypass the security checkpoint at th…

Oral Pressure Washers – Philips Spraying Toothbrush

(TrendHunter.com) The next home dental hygiene tool to enter the consumer market could well be high pressure tooth spray. Sonic toothbrushes, while relatively effective, can’t reach tough spots. Water picks, well, just pick at things. The idea of adapting high pressure hoses used to clean houses and cars to cleanin…

Sushi Cologne – Smell Like Dinner Wherever You Go

(TrendHunter.com) If you love the smell of Japanese restaurants, then you’ll be excited to know you can experience the aromas of white rice, seaweed and fish wherever you go. Demeter created a sushi cologne that seeks to transport a person to a special place or time.

If the smell of sushi brings you back to an amaz…

Free Hair Cuts For The Poor – 4,000 Barbers Clean Up Indian Children

(TrendHunter.com) While it’s hard for most of us to image, not everyone can afford to have their hair washed and trimmed, and that includes children. In eastern India, a new initiative is seeing around 4,000 barbers volunteer their services to school-aged children who could otherwise not afford a hair cut.

They’ll b…

Anti-Aging Hand Treatments – So Your Hands Match Your Botoxed Face

(TrendHunter.com) Skin treatments commonly used for the face to improve the appearance of aging skin are now being used to reduce the tell tale signs of aging in hands. Fortunes are spent on beautifying and making the face look younger but hands are often neglected so they can betray one’s age. Age spots, prominent…

Unbranding Stickers – DeBranded Home Labels

(TrendHunter.com) DebrandedHome.com produces stickers or labels for people to put on their personal care product containers. They are out to reduce “visual pollution” and “lessening brand presence” in the home. Why clutter your bathroom with products in various colours and shapes? Use your own plain container…

Sexist Ads To Appeal to Men – Axe Cottage Ads (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Axe’s new commercial is the embodiment of any guy’s dreams. Which is understandably why it might be considered sexist, thanks to a portrayal of women as helpless and sad without a man.

The video shows a cottage with an assortment of hot and attractive girls in bikinis, all solemn and sad because..…

Temporary Skin Patterns – Cut Here Tattoos

(TrendHunter.com) I love Tord Boontje’s Cut Here tattoos, a low commitment design statement. If you aren’t sure about redecorating your flat this long weekend, you can at least dress up a black shirt. The pale pink acrylic polymer temporary tattoos are a fun way to show your creative side.

Colorful Blob Jewelry – Noir’s Chic and Artsy Rings (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These beautiful rings, part of the Noir Collection, are a unique take on modern accessories, mixing the look of fun kids jewelery with the elegance of fine jewelery.

Fashionspot notes that “they are a perfect mix of pop art and cocktail chic” and even though I don’t claim to be a connoisseur, I ab…

Painted Skin Shoes – Temptu Paints (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The shoe, the stilettos and the Adidas sneakers you see in the gallery are all trompel’oeil paintings applied directly to the feet by a company named Temptu Paints.

The New York City-based company specializes in airbrush make-up, temporary tattoos, body art and special effects makeup. The company,…

Geisha Glam – Kylie’s New Tour Look (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Kylie Minogue is known for reinventing herself to keep with the times, but her new Geisha look doesn’t exactly make her look like a modern style maven.

Then again, who are we to judge her? She’s heralded the world over for her fashion savvy, and she wouldn’t be kicking off her KylieX2008 world tou…

Supermodel Bookmarks – Vlada’s Style.com Lookbook (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Vlada Roslyakova, known best for her distinctive, backward-leaning runway strut, has created a public look-book of all of her favourite Style.com beauty and fashions looks.

Essentially, this gives fans a sneak peak into the mind of the 20-year-old Russian model and gives the public an idea of the s…

Tentacle Jewelry – Gualti Earrings Inspired by Plant Roots

(TrendHunter.com) Inspired by various forms of vegetation, Italian designer Gualti dreamed up these surrealist, organic-symbolic extensions of the human body in the form of jewels. The extravagant earrings are designed to resemble certain flowers and the roots of plants rising up from deep within.

“I have always be…

Superhero Makeup – Supermodels at the Met Ball (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Ordinarily, you probably wouldn’t think to apply superhero makeup when attending a glamorous ball at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, but if you knew the theme of one of the biggest exhibits on now is Superheroes: Fashion & Fantasy, you might considering taking a hint from Coco Rocha.

Vogue…

Tranvestites to Sell Razers – Philips Satinelle Ad (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Philips is using a transvestite dancer to sell a new line of women’s razors, an unexpected advertising stunt, but without a doubt the reason it’s getting as much press as it has.

“The ad for the Satinelle Ice Epilator features an LA-based transvestite dancer, Karis, using the epilator,” Brand Repu…

Hand-Painted Unisex Shoes – Neon Cow Skin Shoes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These shoes were designed with hand-painted leather and were recently showcased at Neon’s winter fashion show.

“The Brazilian label’s co-designer Dudu Bertholini has been collecting leftover painted cow skin—some of them rare—from his trips abroad to New York and throughout his home country, …

Video Projections on People – Verlopen (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) I had to look at these images for several minutes to make sense of them. In fact, it wasn’t until after watching the video and reading the description that I recognized it was not only extremely unique art, but that these bizarre group portraits had an important social message.

They bring awarenes…

Plastic Surgery Get Well Cards – Life Me Up (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) http://www.liftmeupcards.comAlleged celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Ashlee Simpson, Cher, Goldie Hawn and so many others have supposedly done it. And according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, so have some of the people you know (maybe even your friends or family members) as nearly 1…

Haute Celebrity Fashion – Herve Ledger Bandage Dress (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Herve Ledger, by Max Azaria, bandage dresses are the “it” fashion garment of the season, the rich and famous are going crazy for it. These bandage dresses hug the bodies of Lindsay Lohan, Victoria Beckham, Gisele Bundchen and Mariah Carey, just to name a very few.

Their ultra-sophisticated cut…