From the latest news about Deciem (sigh), how diversity enters Pinterest, the colour we’ll all wear soon, gossip, shopping, bronzing and the world’s first look book – the best beauty reads and news in May!
Beauty Business News
Deciem pulls out of Sephora, goes to Ulta and Douglas instead. (Global Cosmetic News)
L’Oreal buys South-Korean company Nanda. (You’ll know their brands Stylenanda and 3CE.) (SCMP)
EU lobbies to ban animal testing for cosmetics worldwide. (The Parliament Magazine)
Sephora in Germany: Kassel
Douglas has bought online retailer Perfumdreams. (wuv)
Douglas has also premiered this cool campaign – when there’s a major event somewhere in Germany, there’ll be special trains with a ‘beauty salon’ inside where you can get facials, makeup and manis. How awesome is that?! I want that for every train journey I’ve to go on!!!
Hawaii bans the selling of two chemical sunscreen ingredients to save marine wildlife (oxybenzone and octinoxate, to be exact). (TeenVogue)
Estée Lauder has cheated at their own in-house studies, will test stuff again. Honestly, why come out with it at all when you’re unwilling to say which products are affected exactly, and which numbers were tweaked?! (Allure)
cosrx is now available in Indonesia!
Beauty and more
Newsflash: Alcohol is bad for your skin – even when you drink it. Woe is me. Wanna see what are the best options? (PopSugar)
Are vintage perfumes a thing? (Apparently not. Or maybe, but perfumers are reluctant to say that new formulations of classics suck.) (Town and Country)
Sephora will offer beauty classes for the trans community. Good for everybody! (TeenVogue)
Who are the moderators of the beauty sub-reddits, and how moderating changed their lifes. (Reddit is my secret vice to browse when I’m bored.) (Glamour)
You can now search for different skintones on Pinterest. That’s exciting! (New Beauty)
There’s apparently an approved way to apply bronzer in Spring and another one for Summer and they’re totally different! (In other news, I learned something new today.) (imabeautygeek)
Huda Kattan blogs about vagina-lightening and that wasn’t a particularly bright idea. (Honestly, sometimes I just can’t with this stupid trend of self-optimising every single part of the body.) (TeenVogue)
Love, life, and everything else
During the Renaissance, a young German noble decided to record every outfit he had, and created the world’s first look book. (Collector’s Weekly)
Did you love to go shopping with your bestie when you were younger? Here’s a love letter to all the besties who convinced us that we shouldn’t wear stirrup-pants in lime green, and no, it’s not a fashion statement. (Elle)
Gossip is a cultural phenomenon and nobody knows more about it than Lainey Gossip, founder of the eponymous site. (Washington Post)
Apparently, Colour of The Year 2018, Ultraviolet, has slowly wormed its way into our hearts – in its pastel incarnation. Here’s the colour you’ll see everywhere very soon. (The Paris Review)
And because I haven’t yet met a travel tip I didn’t like, the weekly afternoon chat over at the Fug Girls’ site has a gazillion ones from their chatters. There’re good ones! (Go Fug Yourself)
On the blog
Astrid shared her experiences with an exciting new sunscreen product, while I was deeply disappointed by high-end By Terry Ombre Blackstar, a raved about cream eyeshadow stick. Shopping was on my mind as I shared my best beauty shipping tips for a Japan traveller, and my current beauty wish list.
It was still on my mind when I realised that I, somehow involuntarily, have been on a no-buy for some time now, imposed by China’s unique cosmetics market. I also realised, suddenly, one morning, that my face has changed – which led to an emphatic ‘Can I have my face back, please?’ to the skincare gods…
