A beauty start-up manned by MIT grads, supposedly cruelty-free makeup manufactured in a gulag in North Korea, a plethora of new eyeshadow palettes, women working in Hollywood and a horrible breakup – by two tortoises. Aren’t you intrigued?!
Beauty News
A ‘younger’ line for Tarte?! Isn’t Tarte already quite young-ish?! Sorry, I don’t get it. Enlighten me? (TeenVogue)
Karl Lagerfeld died. My fave story about him (and I fully acknowledge that he had some hugely problematic opinions, but nevertheless did a lot for fashion how it is today) is that he always used Shu Uemura eye makeup products to draw his sketches of dresses and whatnot. (Independent/The New Yorker)
MAC will do a cooperation with Disney (again) – this time, tied in to Aladdin.
New Urban Decay and Anastasia Beverly Hills eyeshadow palettes
Urban Decay releases ‘Game of Thrones’ collab. (Elle)
And ColourPop reaches out to GB with a Zoella collab. (Bustle)
The new Hermès perfume is inspired by a secret garden in Venice. (Town and Country)
Beauty Stories
Maelove is the skincare company founded by brain/cancer researchers and chemical engineers using AI to come up with products that work. (Businessinsider) (Pleeeeaaaaaase Maelove, start shipping to Europe! PLEASE!)
In South Korea, kids at Kindergarden age are now targeted as beauty consumers. Eh. I don’t have kids, but wouldn’t it be great not to push kids into super gendered roles from a young age?! (Washington Post)
A crafty New Zealander now sells deer milk to some companies in South Korea that use it in skincare. Will it be the new big skincare ingredient? We’ll see! (NZ Herald)
ELF was hit by quite a scandal this month: Supposedly cruelty-free, they sold lashes made from animal hair, sourced in North Korea and made by prisoners. Maybe it’s worth thinking about the cost of things and that the cheapest option might not be the best?!?!?! (Vox)
Sustainability: what does the cosmetics industry do to reduce plastic pollution? (Independent) And: might the initiative called LOOP be a step in the right direction? (Glamour)
Inside the ‘Melatonin Movement’ in Nigeria that fights against harmful skincare products and harmful perceptions. (Voa News)
Life, Love and other things
Say it with me: Detox products are a utter waste of money, completely garbage (TeenVogue) and especially promoted to vulnarable young people. Also, a petition started by Jameela Jamil at Change.org to ban detox tea ads etc. on Instagram. Hell to the yes.
Did you watch the Oscars? There were no women nominated in the Cinematography category (and other tech-related categories), but why don’t you meet some of the women who weren’t nominated – and worked at the biggest movies and series last year? (TeenVogue)
Related: the first woman who directed a short film for Pixar, and won. Applause all around! (TeenVogue)
When two tortoises break up… (I mean, we all know the feeling, right?!) (The Cut)
On the Blog
We put out some VERY informative posts, if I may say so: from how to prevent your skincare from pilling, to the best beauty podcasts, to how long it’ll take you to finish your makeup products. Also, if a skin analyser ever intrigued you, I’m here for all your questions in this post.
Astrid took a closer view into organic brand Kora, and I reviewed the best cushion foundation of all time (also the priciest). And after buying less and using my old products more since the new year started, I wrote about the makeup products that always work for me, no matter what.
