Cate Blanchett on Shine

Today in Retro Beauty: Cate Blanchett's gorgeous Australian Vogue covers

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There's something about these old-timey, illustrated Cate Blanchett covers that makes me feel completely delighted. They're for Australian Vogue's 50th anniversary issue and they remind me of magazines from a million years ago, when it was all about style, clothes, and fashion fantasy…

Can you buy Cate Blanchett's skin?

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Okay, you all know how I feel about celebrity endorsements and all, and normally this wouldn't impress me much but SK-II recently released Cate's Essentials Collection, a trio of Cate Blanchett's supposed must-have products, and I like it. Frankly, I could take or leave the fact that Cate uses them, but I do like it when anti-aging skincare regimens like this one are handily mapped out for me, and heck, let's face it: Cate Blanchett does have awfully beautiful skin and swears in public that she actually does use SK-II (and acknowledges that she gets sent all kinds of crap but this is it for her), so...

Yet another reason to adore Cate Blanchett

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Lots of stars insist that they don't engage in recreational surgery, despite immobile foreheads and a total absence of naso-labial folds (the lines connecting the edge of your nose to the sides of your mouth, caused by the inevitable gravitational pull on the fat pads inside your cheeks...er, TMI?). Naturally, it's easy to make the "No Plastic Surgery" stance when you're naturally breathtaking, but that never stopped Janice Dickenson, Meg Ryan or Victoria Principal.