A new Colour of The Year, Chantecaille sold to a mega corporation, Dior gets a new in-house perfumer, and how it is to lose your sense of smell as a fragrance lover. Also: please, brands, let this particular trend die and the problem the beauty industry has with sustainability: the beauty news in December.
Beauty News
Hey UK, you’ll get to buy Juvia’s Place products at Superdrug, you lucky ducks!
Beiersdorf (you know – Nivea, and much, MUCH more) recently acquiered Chantecaille to up their ante in the luxury skincare department. (glossy.co)
Sure, the Holidays are over, but I’m still laughing about the Chanel advent calender brouhaha. (Slate)
Very Peri (a periwinkle shade) is Colour of The Year 2022, says Pantone. (Allure)
Francis Kurkdjian is Dior’s new in-house perfumer and will hopefully revive the whole line. (Colognoisseur)
Beauty Stories
Why we’re over celebrity beauty brands (NYT), and Fashionista tries to answer why so many male celebrities start nail polish lines (and kinda fails).
What consumers think about overly sexual product names: come on, brands, let the trend die. It’s neither cute nor funny nor provocative. (Stylist)
How is it like to lose your sense of smell due to Covid as a fragrance lover. (Vox)
Sustainability
Vogue asks how to be a more sustainable beauty consumer in 2022, and the answer is, unsurprisingly, to consume less. The fact that they bolster the article with product recs TO BUY LESS is typical of the beauty community contorting itself to find new ways to sell stuff.
If you’ve ever wondered about Shein – this article has convinced me to stay away. (Guardian)
Life, Love and Everything Else
“How to care less about work” is an excerpt from Anne Helen Petersen’s new book “Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home” and deals not only with work and productivity, but also with selfcare, the pandemic, and generally how we want to live. It spoke to me a lot. (Atlantic)
Some of the books that’ve stayed with me since I read them have been murder mysteries, romance, or fantasy/science fiction. So why does the world generally sneer upon “women’s commercial fiction” no matter the impact?! (Guardian)
The blurb caught my eye, and it’s really, really good: “Do I hate my husband? Oh for sure, yes, definitely. I don’t know anyone who’s been married more than seven years who flinches at this concept. A spouse is a blessing and a curse wrapped into one. How could it be otherwise? How is hatred not the natural outcome of sleeping so close to another human for years?” (NYT)
On the Blog
I’ve been sick for nearly the whole December (the BBC asks if this cold is the worst one ever, and yes, it totally is), so our Instagram and Blog schedule has been a tiny bit off. Still, there’re some reviews: of Fenty’s Eaze Drop tinted moisturizer, and the new Zara and Jo Malone fragrance collab. Astrid reviewed Indonesian brand Wardah’s UV Shield’s sunscreen, and I was very intrigued, because it sounds right up my alley. I wrote about the results you can expect from skincare, and my favourite products from cheap skincare brands.
Happy New Year and until 2022!
