New brands and ones that are shutting down. Brands acting sustainably! Other brands demolishing child labor! Brands and law-suits! Also, how not to date and how the wellness industry sucks. The hottest beauty news and posts in May (long enough to divert you for a while).
Beauty News
I’m very sad to see that niche fragrance brand Commodity Inc. has apparently shut down. (Beauty Independent)
Melt launches at Sephora US!
Charlotte Tilbury pledge’s 1 Million pounds from the launch of her new shades of the Hot Lips lipsticks to charity Women for Women International. Has that something to do with Brooke Shields actually suing her for using her name for a brow pencil and some needed good press?! (Vogue/ Global Beauty News)
Rihanna can do no wrong – she has partnered with LVMH to create a luxury clothing line. She’s the first WOC to head a new fashion house.
Also, Fenty Beauty is now sold at Boots in the UK!
Jeffree Star launches at Douglas, in a move I didn’t see coming.
Beauty Stories
It looks as China’s alleged lifting of their mandatory animal testing isn’t as clear cut as it sounds. (Newsgroove)
War Paint – the toxic masculine makeup line that no-one needs and that shows how great the stigma is surrounding makeup wearing men. Ugh. (Vox)
Vitamin C serums – a staple for brighter skin. Did you know it’s one of the easiest skincare products to hack? Labmuffin to the rescue.
Shall we delve into the Tati Westbrook/James Charles drama? No? Pier Dominguez seems as weary and hesitant to do so as I am to read about it. (Buzzfeednews)
Mica (the glittery and shimmery stuff from which nearly all eyeshadows, highlighters and innumerable other makeup products are made) is generally sourced in India. Child labour and even slavery is common. SOME beauty brands actually try to act responsibly, because (of course), it’s complicated. (Refinery)
Sustainability
L’Occitane has a recycling programme! Did you know?! (As far as I know, they’re doing this in the US and UK, but do ask your local boutiques!)
The Body Shop has partnered with TerraCycle and implemented a recycling programme – bring back empty products and earn a reward!
The UK will ban plastic cotton buds in 2020 (together with coffee stirrers and straws). (Vogue)
Love, Life, and everything else
How the Wellness industry left me poor and – not well. I think deep down we all know that facemasks, vitamins and meditation can only get you that far, right? Also, never feel bad because something doesn’t work for you that supposedly works for another person – we’re all different! And it’s never a bad idea to ask professionals for help if you’re feeling continuously not-well. (Allure)
Anne Helen Petersen just writes so incredibly well – this time about LARPing your job (LARP – live action role play). You see where this is going, right, if you ever sat at a desk and feeling like you’re performing to an audience instead of working productively. (Anne Helen Petersen)
If you lived through the 90s as a young adult/ teenager/adult you have heard of ‘The Rules’ – a book that told you how to snatch a man and made dating hellishly difficult. (It also seeped into many, many Rom-Coms of that era.) Taffy Brodesser-Akner revisits the Rules, twenty years after they’ve been published. (Do you ever wonder about how woke we thought we were, when we actually weren’t?) (NY Times)
On the Blog
Something for everyone! Ever wanted to know if lash serums work? Curious about the new Chanel Rouge Coco Flash lipsticks? Is Pat McGrath Labs REALLY worth the money? Did you hear the term G-Beauty lately and wondered what that’s all about? Despaired of your project pan? We have answers! I also wrote about highlighters that are truly special and about the beauty industry’s ugly secret concerning samples.
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