If you’d think that nothing happened in the first month of the new decade, you’d be wrong. New luxury lipsticks! Beauty gadgets! Glitter! A brand revamp! An Oxford heist. And soup. See, there’s truly everything in the hottest beauty news and posts in January.
Beauty News
Hermès launches a lipstick line with refillable bullets that look absolutely horrible (March). Btw, it’s not the first time they try to launch a beauty line: last time was in 2003/2004. (The Zoe Report)
Kat v D. steps back from her makeup brand, selling her shares to parent company Kendo. (Refinery)
Bite Beauty goes fully vegan. (Fashion Network)
At the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES) beauty gadgetry made a lasting impression: L’Oreal debuted a ‘pod’ that can literally do it all, from making personalised makeup to skincare, and then Opte brought out that vamped up printer that mixes a foundation/concealer catered to you and only you: more stories here. (Globalcosmeticsnews)
Beauty Bakerie is now being stocked at Douglas.de.
Beauty Stories
In the wake of the Australian bush fires, dermatologists wonder about skincare ‘anti-pollution’ claims. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Would you buy a used beauty product, The Cut asks. And yes, I would and I have – using a bit of sound reasoning first (no problem for me with powder products, for example).
Do you have bleached hair? Glamour rounded up some platinum blondes and asked them for their best hair recs (I’m grappling with the upkeep of my colour treated hair in winter a lot, so I’m really into this – should I look into Olaplex?!).
Sustainability
Where you can donate unused makeup and skincare, with options both for the US and UK. Don’t let stuff you won’t use go to waste! (Elle)
Pat McGrath’s glitter problem. (Medium)
At Fashionista, you can now send questions to a sustainability expert – for all your unanswered sustainability questions. I’d have a few…
What’s the carbon footprint of your closet? Really interesting, and some of the questions asked are applicable to beauty as well. (Fast Company)
Life, love, and everything else
If you want to read something straight out of Agatha Christie: The case of the missing bible fragment. “(…) the real detectives in this case have been a transatlantic band of papyrologists, theologians, classicists and biblical scholars, who have turned their deductive and evidence-sifting professional skills to the mystery.” I’M IN!!! (Guardian)
The most heart-breaking text: “Envy over her success led her husband, also a writer, to become violent. She fights every day for her safety — and to avoid being relegated to obscurity like so many writers who are mothers.” (Longreads)
The category of this text in TeenVogue is called ‘Screaming & Scrolling’, and isn’t that what we all do?! Recommended: “(…) you may be suffering from Matriarchal Dysmorphia, a condition in which major patriarchal events shatter your grasp on reality, and forcibly remind you that men are out there, right now, as we speak, continuing to be men.”
If you need something comforting to pick you up, here’s a soup called Roberto that’ll definitely cheer (and warm) you up. (The New Yorker)
On the Blog
Astrid looked back on her most memorable beauty products of the decade – and looked forward to testing Pat McGrath Labs MatteTrance lipsticks, but, well. (See for yourself.) A new sunscreen that promises to do it all, with great filters and a great formula? I was a bit iffy on Purito’s new unscented SPF.
I was also looking in vain for a new, sustainable brow product, but found a great sustainable replacement to body scrubs. And while Astrid shared her views on Tatcha’s most iconic skincare products, I used only cream makeup products for a month – and learned a thing or two.
