Neutrogena’s recall, Lady Gaga’s new brand, Nivea’s racism. Fenty tackles China, the most mistunderstood skincare ingredient, and the fetish of glass skin – phew! This and much more in hottest beauty news and posts in July!
Beauty News
Neutrogena calls back its Light Therapy mask. (New York Times)
Lady Gaga’s makeup brand Haus Laboratories release on Amazon is in September.
Sephora has a new policy regarding ‘chemicals’ which I find highly problematic. I’m all for clean, sustainable beauty products, but that fear mongering surrounding the term ‘chemicals’ is not the solution. (EDF)
Limecrime at Douglas.de
Aldi tests refillable shampoo bottles. (Business Insider)
ColourPop gets a baby sister (brand)! Sol Body is a line of body makeup. (Hypebae)
There’s now a physical Sephora store in New Zealand!
Fenty Beauty starts selling in Hong Kong, Macau, thus skirting the issue of animal testing in Mainland China. (Jing Daily)
A new EU law forbids companies to lable beauty products with ‘free from’ claims if the ingredients are deemed safe in the EU. I LOVE that and hope it’ll stop nonsense like labelling shampoos vegan or gluten-free. (Cosmetics Design)
Beauty Stories
‘Nivea doesn’t do gay’ – the story about a remark that Baiersdorf should apologise for. (Newsweek)
Ezra Miller, new face for Urban Decay, about silver lipsticks and what makeup means for him. He’s great! (Allure)
There’re oodles of beauty products for every stage of our lives, so why is the beauty industry so hesitant to tackle products for menopausal women? (Dazed Digital)
Glass skin – ‘just’ an unattainable ideal, or the ultimate objectification? (The Guardian)
Parabens – the misunderstood ingredients in your beauty products. Very likely you’ll have a stance on parabens, and no matter pro or con, I urge you to read this incredibly informative article. (Massivesci)
Sustainability
Unilever starts to tackle plastic pollution – and it’s high time. (CNBC)
P&G goes a different route – just imagine how your beauty products would look like if they wouldn’t include water. Any water. No water at all, so you wouldn’t need bottles for them, they would be dense and concentrated, and easy to transport. If you can’t picture it, look at the pics. (Synbiobeta)
Clean beauty products are for affluent people, and that should change. (Allure)
The magic of ‘making do’: “The challenge, of course, is that making do is at odds with human nature. As products of evolution, we are predisposed to seek novelty, variety and excess; now, we hunt for bargains, not mastodons.” (The Globe and Mail)
Life, love and everything else
The man who spends every day as a regency dandy. Just because the story incredibly charming! (Jezebel)
I often make fun of my need to have about seven different lip colours in my purse (and other necessities) – but why is that? And why do men apparently don’t feel the need to be equipped for all of life’s potential disasters, all the time? (The Cut)
On the blog
It’s summer, everybody is having a cocktail at the lake (or so it feels), so we decided to post only once a week. But what we miss in quantity, we make up with quality! Do you need some heat wave skincare recs? We have them! Travelling light? Astrid has some excellent beauty packing tips! Also great for travelling light? A good mini eyeshadow palette which I bought: Natasha Denona’s Mini Nude Palette is my new BFF.
Stay tuned for next week and the annual Fall round-up – alllllllllllll the new makeup collections for Fall and which ones you should check out.
