Lilly’s lips: Canadian eco-babe and her lost boyfriend try to save the world one cosmetic at a time

The couple that plays together saves the planet together. Eco-Canadian damsel Evangeline Lilly, the girlfriend of fellow Lost cast member and arch- Aussie environmentalist Dominic Monaghan, is now putting the babe into biodegradable.

She, we hear, is just one of the celebrities supporting and even helping design a new collection of inconvenient-truth-tackling lipsticks. And, lo, it’s a Canadian firm that’s behind the initiative!

Toronto-based Cargo Cosmetics, a fave of Hollywood lovelies and a thriving indie force on the current beauty scene, approached Lilly to support the project. Its latest collection, dubbed Plantlove, is being touted as the first-ever array of of-the-moment lipsticks that “fight global warming.”

Packaged in a biodegradable tube made from corn and available exclusively at Sephora, the innovation uses something called PLA (or polylatic acid) “instead of the traditional petroleum-based plastic for the lipstick tube”, according to the release. According to Cargo commander- in-chief Hana Zalzal, PLA is entirely corn-bred and is a resource that renews itself in only 100 days.

This makes the mouth-markers “greenhouse-gas-neutral” and thus an ideal accessory in the fight against global climate change.

In other words: truly less smudge!

“Plantlove is more than a product; it is a philosophy,” says Zalzal. She’s proud to also note that even the secondary packaging is eco-chic, coming as it does with a biodegradable box and actual, added-value wildflower seeds that one can plant.

Plantlove includes twelve distinct lipstick shades. Joining It Girl Evangeline with their celebrity vote of confidence are the likes of Courteney Cox, Mariska Hargitay, Sarah Chalke, Maria Menounos, and even that wild child Lindsay Lohan. These ladies have put their arts and crafts skills to work, and managed to come with their own designs for six of the hues.

But it is Lilly who stands out, perhaps, as the esteemed ecofreak who’s really managed to put her envirocred where her mouth is.

Not only was the TV star the comely cover girl on Elle magazine’s first-ever Green Issue last year. Not only did she drag a blue bin to the Hawaiian set of Lost on a recent birthday and make “onset recycling her biggest “birthday wish.” Not only this and that, but her real-life beau, Dominic, is a famously carbon-emission-fighting, better air-quality kind of guy who owns a large parcel of forest land in India, which is he devoted to protecting and preserving for its own sake.

If we didn’t like ‘em so much, they’re just the kind of perfect couple that could make us green with envy, no?

MEANWHILE, I SEE, I HEAR

That in town today for a launch at the Royal Alex is Eleanor Bergstein, the woman who wrote the gyrating classic, Dirty Dancing (based on her own life) and is now helping to bring it to the stage in Toronto soon for its North American premiere!

Not bad for a now 20-year-old movie that nobody in Hollywood initially wanted to make, and which found Bergstein hawking around a script for close to 10 years before anyone finally did.

“They loved the soundtrack, but they hated the script,” she recently told one paper. “Everyone told me how bad it was.”

The movie with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey was eventually made for US$5 million. Having the time of its life at the box office, it went on to make a not-bad US$170-million!

AND ALSO?

That the new Chatelaine reminds us what Laureen Teskey Harper, the wife of the guy in charge of the country, says about how she met her husband.

“If you want to meet a man,” she advises, “join a political party.”

Included in the magazine’s “How They Met” two-pager of Canadian couples is ballet star Karen Kain and her husbandof- the-theatre, Ross Petty.

“You know why I fell for him?” she confesses. “Because he’d never heard of me. It was a relief.”

Other couples whose romances are tracked include author units such as Margaret Atwood- Graeme Gibson, skater units like David Pelletier- Jamie Sale, showbiz-units like Alanis Morissette-Ryan Reynolds, and society ones like Suzanne and Mark Cohon, too! Oh, and others.

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