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François Nars to Lead Beauty at Marc Jacobs Again; Pamela Anderson to Launch Fragrance

MAKEUP
• François Nars is confirmed to lead the backstage beauty team at the Marc Jacobs spring 2010 show. Last season Nars returned to backstage for Jacobs, creating 70 different looks, one per model. How will he upstage himself this time? [Beauty Counter/Style.com]

FRAGRANCE
• Kim Kardashian is launching a fragrance for spring 2010. Lighthouse Beauty will produce it, the same company that launched 50 Cent’s fragrance this year. [WWD]

• Pamela Anderson tweeted that she’s launching a fragrance named Malibu by Pamela in November. [PamelaDAnderson/Twitter]

• Marc Ecko is also launching his first men’s fragrance, in January. [WWD]

HAIR
• A West African immigrant pleaded guilty to charges that he led a human trafficking operation in New Jersey that forced women to braid hair for up to fourteen hours a day. He smuggled twenty women, aged 10 to 19, from Ghana and Togo. [StyleList]

Caroline Trentini altered her look by getting bangs. [Fashionologie]

NAILS
• O.P.I. teamed up with Sephora to launch three limited-edition matte colors — bright grape, purple smoke, and black. [Nitrolicious]

François Nars to Lead Beauty at Marc Jacobs Again; Pamela Anderson to Launch Fragrance