An exclusive EcoSalon playlist to be played while wearing your hippest set of shades.

As the weather gets warmer, there was never a better time for a Ray-Ban Exclusive playlist. Volume 5 is made with the sun in mind, and as usual the mixture of upbeat songs, beats and remixes start chill and end strong, all to celebrate hot afternoons and balmy evenings.

Ray-Ban Exclusive Volume 5 from EcoSalon on 8tracks.

1. Your Body (Rene Tribouillier) – Gigamesh
2. Reunion (Mylo Remix) – M83
3. Lost Found (Black Light Smoke remix) – Francis Harris
4. I know this (can’t be love) – xxxy
5. 10 / 6 (That Should Do It)  – PierceFulton
6. Ice Cream Truck – Sundrenched
7. Tonight (feat. Maja Ivarsson from The Sounds) – Felix Cartal
8. World Renowned discobelle – Tomb Crew ft Rubi Dan
9. Hollywood (featuring Penguin Prison) – RAC
10. Birds of Paradise (Amtrac Remix) – Chromatics
11. Summertime Sadness (Reich & Bleich Remix) – Lana Del Rey
12. The Drummer (Hestens refix) – Niki & The Dove
13. I Wish I Never Met You (Devil’s Gun Remix) – Sam Sparro
14. Love is Real (Fred Falke Remix) – Theophilus London
15. You Get High – Pretty Lights
16. One More Time – YONAS
17. Only Takes (Original Mix) – Viceroy & WhiteNoize
18. Helix (Lazerdisk Party Sex Remix) – Justice
19. Silhouettes (Original Vocal Mix) – Avicii feat. Salem Al Fakir
20. Redline (Preview) – Wolfgang Gartner
21. Bad Girls (Monolith Remix) – M.I.A.
22. Domino In My Mind (Kap Slap Bootleg) – Kap Slap

Image: Anna Brones

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According to T Magazine’s Sally Singer, her nail art design inspired by taxi cab beaded seat covers “would look good with Burberry’s spring collection.”

When one of fashion’s most cerebral and analytical figures, the New York Times’ T Magazine editor Sally Singer, admits to a passion for elaborate and decidedly unconservative nail art – its clearly time to rethink the basic clear polish. In her NOWNESS collaboration with nail artist Maki Sakamoto, Singer recently unveiled five avant-garde manicure designs featuring decorative 3D patterns with themes that include Powdered Violet Nails, Céline Orange Nails, Mexican Sugar Skulls Nails, Taxi Driver Seat Nails and Kate Middleton Nails.

Nail Art from Tokyo’s world renowned  Nail Expo

Theories abound at the switch, fashion forecasters contend the growing popularity of elaborate nail art is due to our nails being more on show now because of widespread use of smartphones, the influence of Japanese nail art pop culture – the Nail Expo in Tokyo attracted nearly 190,000 visitors last year – and advances in both nail techniques and new products.

The 30’s inspired V French manicure sported by Lana Del Rey in the March 2012 issue of Vogue UK

The first modern manicure in the 1930s was known as the “moon manicure.” Sported now by retro style stars, Dita Von Teese and Lana Del Rey, red polish is applied to the nail but not to the moon and tip, in some cases, edges were filed into points. Red nails continued to be desired by women until the 1960s when the focus moved away from reds and turned to paler, pastel shades to match modish nude lips. The 1970s saw the introduction of the French manicure, the 1980s welcomed bright fuchsia and neon nails and in the 1990s, the hottest accessory was Chanel’s “Vamp.” Created to be the same color as dried blood, the polish went on to gross $1 million in sales in its first year alone and became the most in-demand product in the whole of Chanel’s history.

Chanel’s black-red color, “Vamp” was released in 1994 and sold out world wide

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