Instead of a slow news month as suspected, we have new brands! New launches! New scandals! And… contactless massages?! It’s time for alllllllllll the beauty news and posts in August!
Beauty News
Estée Lauder is going to lay off up to 2.000 employees. (Fashion Network)
Workers at a Lush Australia factory complain about working conditions. (Guardian)
Byredo will launch a colour cosmetics line October 1st which looks a lot more interesting than all those celebrity launches (Temptalia). (J.Lo, Alicia Keys… yawn. – The Cut)
Nivea has partnered with German drugstore chain dm to introduce refill stations for their products. (Utopia – in German)
Beauty Stories
Natural Beauty is coming back thanks to covid – there’s so much in this article that’s problematic: what does ‘natural’ even mean!? If a ‘healthy’ look is going to be the next new thing, don’t we switch from one unattainable standard to another? What about eternally tired new moms or menial workers, people with chronic illnesses, or you with allergies and me with my perennial dark circles?! Ugh. (Refinery)
Does it surprise anyone that Glossier’s work atmosphere (founded by eponymous white cool girl Emily Weiss from early MTV fame) is incredibly toxic for BIPOC employees?! (Fortune)
Beauty businesses cope with Covid by working on contactless massages, antiviral brush bristles and hospital grade disinfection techniques. (Glamour)
Rethinking the science of skin: a much talked about article – but are we now all going back to soap and water? (The New Yorker)
The ‘Lipstick Index’ is dead. Apparently. (They now try to make the ‘moisturizer index’ happen.) (Quartz)
Sustainability
Refillable luxury beauty products?! I don’t know guys. Do they even make a difference (Glossy.co)?!
How hair salons are helping to clean up an oil spill from a beached ship off Mauritius. (Vogue)
Live, love, and everything else
Why your surge capacity is depleted (aka why you feel like shit lately). (Medium)
Gwyneth, Ivanka, and the End of the Effortless White Woman: A lot of discussion ensued when I posted this on Twindly’s fb site: I still stand by my opinion that this is not about lazy people wanting their cake and have it, but women like you and me who work pretty much all the time, but without any hope to get to the top, because women like Gwyneth and Ivanka had so much of a head start (privilege, money) that it’s impossible to catch up. (See also under ‘American dream, the impossibility of’.) (Medium)
Something that made me laugh: fashion bloggers really scramble for content right now that there’re no events to cover, and the ladies from Go Fug Yourself are rising admirably to the occasion – by covering medieval fashion.
On the Blog
If Iceland is on your bucket list, you should definitely save my post on the Blue Lagoon somewhere. Speaking of somewhere: have you been beauty shopping during the pandemic? In an actual store!? I have, and here’s what happened. And speaking of shopping: how to stop shopping fast beauty.
Some beauty products I reviewed this month: Canmake’s famous sunscreen, and The Inkey List’s Kaolin Mask. Do you need a few recommendations for doing your brows? (I mean, they’re super prominent right now when you’re wearing your mask…) And: Fall Beauty! Releases! Trends! It’s time for the quarterly round-up.
