Come for a slew of new beauty products and releases, stay for diversity! Makeup for men! Psychopaths! Ramen! Castles! I mean, you do want to stay in the loop of the juiciest beauty tidbits, right?
Beauty News
Sephora (US) changes its rewards system. (TeenVogue)
Charlotte Tilbury now at Sephora US. (Allure)
Fenty Beauty at Sephora Germany, yaaaassss!
P2 leaves German dm, instead we get new brand 183 Days now. (Glamandshine)
Another new brand: Sign Tribe by Cosnova. (wuv)
Krave Beauty released a sunscreen (finally). (Allure)
Shiseido revamps its complete makeup line. (The Cut)
Chanel releases a makeup line for men. (Harpers Bazaar)
MAC releases 16 new shades of its Studio Fix Fluid and a new concealer that comes in 33 shades called Studio Fix 24 Hour Smooth Wear Concealer.
Urban Decay discontinues its original Naked palette, and Karima McKimmie on YouTube takes a walk down memory lane.
Beauty Stories
This is such a genuinely nice read: how your regular normcore guy discovers the power of makeup. (Washington Post)
Jeez, we’re manipulating swatches now?! (Refinery)
Why Beauty Bakerie’s foundation numbers its darkest shades first. (TeenVogue)
Please, Le Labo, you know I love you, but advertising ‘hey, we’ve come out with city themed fragrances’ is pretty misleading when said fragrances have been around forever under a different name. (Lonely Planet)
Sephora is basically a big playground, and Refinery tells you how to make the most of it. (I mean, if you can get over the germs on testers, which I personally can’t.)
Eyeliner trends based on your zodiac sign. Uh – no. (I’m a leo, for reference, and if you check, you see why I said no.) (Revelist)
Superdrug will offer Botox injections for £99, and Jane from BritishBeautyBlogger says – why not?!
The secret to making an expensive-smelling perfume isn’t expensive ingredients, but a more fleeting impression of luxury. Here’s how a small perfume house does it. (Bloomberg)
Life, love, and everything else
Germany has pretty castles. Which you can visit. (I haven’t been to Burg Elz which is basically just 30mins away from where I grew up. I have to get my sightseeing act together, it seems.) (Pandotrip)
This is super interesting: A young woman is diagnosed as a psychopath. Here’s how she sees life. (The Cut)
After the last seasons’ avalanche of novels about ‘girls’ – Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, and many, many, more, this editor is fed up with the trend and says enough! Let’s write about women with names of their own. (Publishers Weekly)
Tokyo is synonymous for great ramen. And you’ll recognise very quickly that you’ll have to queue in order to eat great ramen. Here’s a writers journey from impatience to zen – seen through the queues she encounters. (Afar)
Food for thought: Do women become invisible when menopause (aka you’re too old to recreate and therefore no longer attractive) hits? This writer says yes – and she likes it. (NY Times)
While it’s never been harder to run a successful print magazine, the line between editorial and advertisement has never been blurrier, as seen by the strange occurrance of Louis Vuitton ‘sponsored’ covers of a lot of September issue covers. (Fashionista)
On the Blog
We had some really special posts this month – all very comprehensive and research-heavy and well worth your time! Astrid researched coral-friendly sunscreens, and also used her inherent beauty-geekness to find out if there’re truly more light foundation shades than medium to dark ones – with science!!!
Then there’s your beloved round-up of the biggest Fall makeup collections and releases (hmpf). I found a GREAT beauty-related beach read (that you can still read with a PSL on your couch. Just sayin’.).
Also: skincare. A lot of skincare. I thought about the eco-friendliness of sheetmasks, revisited a skincare fave from circa 2013 and gave you my skincare products that really, really work well (and give immediate results).
