Real Hamptons Beauties: 9 Inspiring Women

Dylan Lauren

After seeing Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory at age 5, Lauren (daughter of fashion mogul Ralph Lauren), set her heart on following the same path. She's since founded Dylan's Candy Bar, which stocks 7,000 plus confections in three locations (including East Hampton).

Age: 37.
Base out East: Montauk.
Won’t be seen without: A smile, gummy candy, a water bottle, and my BlackBerry.
Hamptons is home because: My favorite memories have taken place here—learning to bike ride, playing with my pet rabbits in the backyard, and getting engaged on the beach.
Secret of my success: Listening to my gut.
No one would ever guess: I train people in aqua aerobics. And even though I eat a ton of candy, I'm a health nut.
Best beauty advice ever given to me: Wear sunscreen and always use a bronzing powder to give you a tan.
New discovery: Pinterest, Instagram, and TRX bands for a great workout anywhere.
Cause closest to my heart: Any charities that rescue and provide welfare to animals.
Would want my tombstone to read: Candy Queen.
Go-to beauty brands: Make Up For Ever and Bobbi Brown.
Hamptons guilty pleasure: Soft serve vanilla ice cream from John's Drive In in Montauk.

BEAUTÉ: DayWear Plus Multi Protection Tinted Moisturizer SPF 15, Estée Lauder ($45). White's Pharmacy, 81 Main St., East Hampton, 824-0082. Addict Lip Glow, Dior ($30). Sephora, Walt Whitman Shops, 160 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, 425-1488. Meta Sheer Dry Oil Finishing Spray, Serge Normant ($24). Sephora, SEE ABOVE. Cleansing Bar, Moroccanoil ($10). Bluemercury, 8285 Jericho Tpk., Woodbury, 516-367-1300

FASHION: Shirt and earrings, Ralph Lauren. 31–33 Main St., East Hampton, 324-1222

Ruth Zukerman

Ex-dancer and fitness trailblazer Zukerman cofounded Flywheel Sports, a fast-results indoor cycling empire with locations in Sag Harbor and East Hampton.

Age: 54.
Base out East: Sag Harbor.
Hamptons guilty pleasure: Anything from Round Swamp Farm and skinny-dipping in the pool.
Go-to beauty brand: Bliss.
Hamptons is home because: It’s a complete oasis. From the moment I get here, I feel no stress.
I’m most proud of: My twin daughters, who recently graduated from college.
Best beauty advice ever given to me: Keep your makeup minimal so no one can tell it’s there.
Signature scent: Aqua Motu from Comptoir Sud Pacifique.
Trademark look: Cropped twill pants, a tank, wedges, bangle bracelets, and a long necklace.
New discovery: The provocative paintings of Lisa Yuskavage and the sandwiches at Villa Italian Specialties in East Hampton.
Beauty black book: River Lloyd at Serge Normant at John Freida Salons has been doing my hair for 20 years.

BEAUTÉ: Regenerist Regenerating Lotion SPF 50, Olay ($32). CVS Pharmacy, 38 Pantigo Lane, East Hampton, 324-8587. Watt’s Up! in Luminous Champagne, Benefit Cosmetics ($30). Sephora, Walt Whitman Shops, 160 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, 425-1488. Hydrating Styling Cream, Moroccanoil ($32). Revolve Hair, 34 Hill St., Southampton, 377-3555. Capture Totale Intensive Night Restorative Rich Crème, Dior ($145). Sephora, SEE ABOVE

FASHION: Shirt, A.L.C. ($326). 25 Park, 2415 Main St., Bridgehampton, 537-7525. Earrings, Jemma Wynne ($3,360). London Jewelers, 2 Main St., East Hampton, 329-3939. Bangles, Jennifer Miller ($450 each). 55 Main St., East Hampton, 329-9061

Chloe Epstein

Health-minded mother of three, Epstein swapped her career in law to cofound The Soft Serve Fruit Co., the ultimate no-guilt dessert spot with locations in Manhattan and the East End.

Age: 37.
Base out East: Sag Harbor.
Hamptons is home because: It has a unique juxtaposition of quiet beauty with a healthy dose of energy and excitement. And it never hurts to be minutes away from a vineyard.
Cause closest to my heart: Making education more accessible.
Would want my eulogy to be: She showed up; she cared; she died fast.
Hamptons guilty pleasure: Sleeping in.
No one would ever guess: I was a Manhattan Assistant District Attorney.
Best beauty advice ever given to me: Sleep on your back to avoid wrinkles.
This decade I plan to: Raise my children so that they feel confident and happy, not get fat, and love my husband.
Hamptons inspiration: A run along Long Beach and a paddleboard ride around the bay with one of the kids in tow.
Go-to beauty brand: Natura Bissé.
Beauty black book: I love Kevin Maple Salon in Southampton.
Secret of my success: Fear of failure.
Trademark look: Ponytail—I even walked down the aisle in one.

BEAUTÉ: Sublimage Mask, Chanel ($190). Saks Fifth Avenue, Walt Whitman Shops, 160 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, 350-1100. Lipstick in So Chaud, MAC ($15). Macy’s, 1100 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, 869-8500. Elnett Satin Color-Treated Hair Hairspray Extra Strong Hold, L’Oréal ($12). CVS Pharmacy, 38 Pantigo Lane, East Hampton, 324-8587. Double Wear Stay-in-Place Gel Eyeliner in Stay Midnight, Estée Lauder ($22). White’s Pharmacy, 81 Main St., East Hampton, 824-0082

FASHION: Shirt, Rebecca Taylor ($175). Scoop Beach, 51 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, 329-6800. Earrings, Janis Provisor Jewelry ($5,700). Gail Rothwell, 66 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, 324-6666

Joey Wolffer

After spending her 20s working in fashion, Wolffer decided to embrace her entrepreneurial spirit and now travels the country aboard The StyleLiner, a lavish refurbished 20-foot potato chip truck from where she peddles high-end accessories.

Age: 30.
Base out East: Sagaponack.
This decade: I’d like to start a family with my husband, Max.
Won’t be seen without: The diamond ring my dad gave my mom when I was born. She gave it to me for my 30th birthday. It’s a little memory of him.
Hamptons is my home because: It’s where I grew up. My connection to my history keeps me coming back.
Best beauty advice ever given to me: Learn to love what you’ve been given, and don’t point out your own flaws.
Hamptons inspiration: Riding horses at my family’s stables and vineyards in Sagaponack.
New discovery: Fashion Gone Rogue, a great website covering all things fashion.
Go-to beauty brand: Kate Sommerville.
Favorite feature: My hair. I used to try to get rid of my curls, now I love them even when they get a little “Rasta” in the summer.
Hamptons guilty pleasure: Taking a weekday off to go to the beach by myself with a book and an iced vanilla chai with skim milk from The Golden Pear Cafe.

BEAUTÉ: Benefiance WrinkleResist24 Intensive Eye Contour Cream, Shiseido ($55). White’s Pharmacy, 81 Main St., East Hampton, 824-0082. Lash Blast Volume Blasting Waterproof Mascara Black 830, Covergirl ($7). CVS Pharmacy, 38 Pantigo Lane, East Hampton, 324-8587. Surf Spray, Bumble and Bumble ($24). The Salon and Day Spa at Amagansett Square, 6 Amagansett Sq., Amagansett, 267-6677. The Body Lotion, La Mer ($140). White’s Pharmacy, SEE ABOVE

FASHION: Shirt, Helmut Lang ($275). Scoop Beach, 51 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, 329-6800. Earrings, Janis Provisor Jewelry ($26,000). Gail Rothwell, 66 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, 324-6666

Alina Cho

As a CNN national correspondent and host of Fashion: Backstage Pass, Cho is as adept at filing hard news from North Korea as she is at interviewing Victoria Beckham at New York’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

Age: 41.
Base out East: Southampton.
Hamptons is home because: I breathe differently and sleep more soundly at the beach.
Secret of my success: Over-prepare, and then go with the flow.
No one would ever guess: I can eat more than most grown men.
Cause closest to my heart: New Yorkers for Children and Literacy Partners.
Trademark look: Sleek hair, dramatic eye, and pale lips.
Hamptons guilty pleasure: Dreesen’s Famous Donuts.
Rule to live by: Only spend time with people you really want to see and do things you really want to do.
Go-to beauty brand: Tom Ford in the city, and Sue Devitt at the beach.
Beauty black book: My friend, Sally Hershberger, has been cutting my hair for 10 years; J. Sisters for manicures, pedicures, waxing, and facials.
Won’t be seen without: My “Jackie Cho” sunglasses.

BEAUTÉ: Eye Color Quad in Cognac Sable, Tom Ford ($75). Saks Fifth Avenue, 160 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, 350-1100. Glimmer Shine, Moroccanoil ($26). Revolve Hair, 34 Hill St., Southampton, 377-3555. The Body Serum, La Mer ($155). White’s Pharmacy, 81 Main St., East Hampton, 824-0082

FASHION: Dress, Malene Birger ($995). 25 Park, 2415 Main St., Bridgehampton, 537-7525. Fedora, Hat Attack ($74). Naturpathica, 74 Montauk Hwy., East Hampton, 329-2525. Necklace ($4,600) and ring ($23,000), Janis Provisor Jewelry. Gail Rothwell, 66 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, 324-6666. Bangle, Jemma Wynne ($3,255). London Jewelers, 2 Main St., East Hampton, 329-3939

Christa Miller

First hitting the small screen at six months old (in a Wonder Bread commercial), Manhattan-born Miller has found success in roles on The Drew Carey Show, Scrubs, and now a starring spot alongside Courteney Cox in Cougar Town.

Age: 48.
Base out East: Sagaponack.
Secret of my success: Massive amounts of luck: I worked hard, but anyone successful in Hollywood who doesn’t mention luck is a fibber.
Hamptons is home because: Both my brother and I have our best memories here. Our family had a house in Quogue.
No one would ever guess: I used to be a door girl at Nell’s.
Cause closest to my heart: The Michael J. Fox Foundation and Joyful Heart Foundation.
Hamptons guilty pleasure: Milk Pail Farmstand apple crumble and Scoop Du Jour warm donuts in the morning.
Best beauty advice ever given to me: Don’t over-pluck your eyebrows; they might not grow back.
Won’t be seen without: My Sirius XM Radio app so I can hear Howard Stern wherever I go.
Trademark look: Jeans, T-shirt, and Belgian loafers. I seem to wear the same clothes I did in high school.
I stay in shape by: Spinning at SoulCycle, Pilates at Erika Bloom Pilates Plus, and trying to keep my boys from killing each other at various places around town.

BEAUTÉ: Facial Treatment Essence, SK-II ($155). Saks Fifth Avenue, Walt Whitman Shops, 160 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, 350-1100. Rouge d’Armani Lipstick in #111, Giorgio Armani ($30). Nordstrom, Roosevelt Field, 630 Old County Road, Garden City, 516-746-0011. EverStyle Volume Root Lifting Spray, L’Oréal ($6). CVS Pharmacy, 38 Pantigo Lane, East Hampton, 324-8587. Body Souffle, Moroccanoil ($52). Bluemercury, 8285 Jericho Tpk., Woodbury, 516-367- 1300

FASHION: Necklace, Jemma Wynne ($5,460). London Jewelers, 2 Main St., East Hampton, 329-3939. Bracelets, Jennifer Miller ($54 each). 55 Main St., East Hampton, 329-9061. Ring, Tamara Comolli Fine Jewelry Collection ($7,350). 27 Main St., Southampton, 285-7600.

Heather Mnuchin

Taking time out from her frenetic media career to have three children, budding yoga pro Mnuchin now splits her time between the Hamptons and LA (where she collaborated with Alanna Zabel on her line of yoga wear, AZIAM).

Age: 44.
Base out East: Southampton.
I’m most proud of: Getting my yoga teacher training certificate.
Hamptons inspiration: The memories I have growing up here with my paternal grandmother—fishing and clamming in the bay, making bonfires with the drift wood we collected, and looking for shooting stars.
Beauty game changer: Since I found CeraVe products, I don’t use any fancy skin products.
Cause closest to my heart: City Harvest, which strives to end hunger in New York.
Hamptons guilty pleasure: Hiring the Clamman to do a family clambake on the beach with a bonfire.
Best beauty advice ever given to me: Embrace your curly hair.
I stay in shape by: Yoga with Erika Halweil and paddleboarding with Juris Kupris.
My best feature: The company I keep.
This decade: I hope to return to India and Tibet and show my children the most beautiful places I have ever been.

BEAUTÉ: Regenerations Serum, Dr. Hauschka ($85). Second Nature Markets, 70 Main St., Southampton, 283-8117. Blush Terrybly Ultimate Radiance 100: Torrid Peach, By Terry ($75). barneys.com. Meta Lush Volumizer, Serge Normant ($23). Sephora, Walt Whitman Shops, 160 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, 425-1488. Firming and Rejuvenating Cream, Chanel ($85). Saks Fifth Avenue, Walt Whitman Shops, 160 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, 350-1100

FASHION: Swimsuit, Herve Leger ($580). BCBG Max Azria, 20 Main St., East Hampton, 324-7645. Necklace, Siman Tu ($300). Adornments Fine Jewelry, 83 Main St., Sag Harbor, 725-0051. Earrings, Mnuchin’s own

B. Smith

With a string of noteworthy firsts to her name (including first African-American woman on the cover of Mademoiselle and first to open a white tablecloth restaurant in the Times Square Theater District), the notable chef, TV personality, and author has made Sag Harbor her home for 30 years.

Age: 62.
Base out East: Sag Harbor.
Best beauty advice ever given to me: Drink plenty of water and have plenty of romance in your life.
Secret of my success: I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.
Cause closest to my heart: Organizations that help others live a healthier lives, such as the National Kidney Foundation, as well as the USO and my work creating food products for the armed forces.
Won’t be seen without: Estée Lauder’s Beautiful perfume.
Favorite feature: My husband, Dan Gasby, would say my derrière.
Hamptons inspiration: When I walk the beach in front of my house, I know the steps I walk over were once taken by slaves who had escaped the South.
Go-to beauty brand: Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps.
Hamptons guilty pleasure: Shopping at the EECO in East Hampton, a local community organic farm.

BEAUTÉ: Un-Wrinkle Turbo Face Serum, Peter Thomas Roth ($150). Sephora, Walt Whitman Shops, 160 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, 350-1100. HD Invisible Cover Foundation in Ebony, Make Up For Ever ($42). Sephora, SEE ABOVE. Weather Or Not Climate Neutralizer, Blow ($20). White’s Pharmacy, 81 Main St., East Hampton, 824- 0082. Body Buff, Moroccanoil ($42). Bluemercury, 8285 Jericho Tpk., Woodbury, 516-367-1300

FASHION: Shirt, Urban Zen ($695). 4 Bay St., Sag Harbor, 725-6176. Earrings ($200) and necklace ($1,425), Siman Tu. Adornments Fine Jewelry, 83 Main St., Sag Harbor, 725-0051

Dianne Vavra

The glamorous face of Dior’s public relations, Vavra has been the brand’s vice president for years. She lives in Long Island with her husband and two children Eve, 12, and Tom, 10.

Age: 45.
Base out East: East Hampton.
Secret of my success: Be kind, gracious, present, and eager to learn something new every day.
Hamptons guilty pleasure: Vintage shopping. I love Out of the Closet in Water Mill and Lynn Stoller Collection in Westhampton Beach. I have never left that shop empty-handed.
Best beauty advice ever given to me: A teaspoon of organic apple cider vinegar every morning to keep the outside glowing and the inside going.
Hamptons is home because: Some of the best beaches, wineries, galleries, and chefs in the world are all here.
My beauty philosophy: Never leave the house without lashes.
No one would ever guess: I was the only kid in the city who got a shellfish license before a driver’s license.
Cause closest to my heart: Operation Smile, which raises money to change the lives of children born with cleft palates.

BEAUTÉ: Capture Totale One Essential, Dior ($95). Sephora, Walt Whitman Shops, 160 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station, 425-1488. Addict Ultra Gloss in Negligee Pink, Dior ($28). Sephora, SEE ABOVE. Restorative Hair Mask, Moroccanoil ($41). La Carezza, 43–45 Windmill Lane, Southampton, 283-7683. Replenishing Body Cream, Shiseido ($72). Macy’s, 1100 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, 869-8500.

FASHION: Sweater, Schumacher ($430). 25 Park, 2415 Main St., Bridgehampton, 537-7525. Hat, Eric Javits ($350). Eileen Fisher, 26 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, 324-4111. Bracelets, Tamara Comolli Fine Jewelry Collection ($6,120–$8,580). 27 Main St., Southampton, 285-7600. Rings, Jemma Wynne ($4,830–$5,670). London Jewelers, 2 Main St., East Hampton, 329-3939