It’s been… a MONTH. But as always, the beauty world churns on and has its scandals, releases and stories: more in the beauty news in February.
Beauty News
Exciting new products come from Glow Recipe (SPF!), The Ordinary (haircare!) and Hermes (complexion products!).
Wow, designer Dries van Noten launches a beauty line (fragrance and lipsticks) and it looks BEAUTIFUL. It’ll be available at his site on March 2nd. (Vogue)
Looking for Byredo Beauty? You can now buy their makeup products at Cult Beauty.
Estee Lauder Group President John Demsey posted a meme on IG that showed the N-Word, mocked Covid measures, and was finally fired. He is just a horrible, horrible man and really shows what’s going on at EL at this point. I worked there eons ago, and even then, the company culture was incredibly toxic. (NYT)
This is wild: Makeup Revolution acquires bh cosmetics. I’m concerned. (Vox Markets)
In Australia, influencers can’t promote sunscreens any more, because the country just introduced new rules prohibiting advertising for certain health products. (News.com)
Ilia was acquired by Clarins. (Globalcosmeticsnews)
Fenty re-releases its skincare line in an additional, fragrance-free lineup!
Beauty Stories
This made me cry: fragrance blogger’s Bois de Jasmin memories of growing up in Ukraine, and her grandparents’ garden full of jasmine.
WTF is going on with Glossier?!! (Refinery29)
And while we’re on it: WTF is going on with Juvia’s Place who thought it was totally ok to post an IG tutorial including a racial slur and was incredibly slow to apologise?! (Stylist)
Say it with me: products without parabens aren’t “safer”. The Washington Post investigates the whole thing VERY thoroughly.
Is Covid Skin a thing?! (The Kit)
Sustainability
How Malaysia found a treasure trove in second-hand clothing. (NYT)
Live, Love and Everything Else
Let’s start with some reliable resources to help people in Ukraine: here’re organisations if you’re in the USA (NPR), here’re some in the UK (Guardian), and here’re some for Germany (Tagesspiegel). (Of course you can also donate to organisations in the US if you’re in Germany, but some are country-specific. In the one for Germany there’re also organisations in Berlin that will help refugees arriving in Germany, for example, but again, of course you can donate if you’re in GB.)
Remember Millennial Pink? The journalist who coined the term has since written a book, and I can only urge you to read this excerpt, because it’s EXCELLENT. Trust me. (Elle)
I love a smutty romance novel, and the people at Glamour seem so, too, and give a lot of recs for a spicy reading session.
On the Blog
I felt like everybody and their table lamp started some kind of decluttering project in the new year. Here’s mine and what I learned from it – the first thing is that I’m effing awful at it. I rounded up a few affordable fragrance faves from Lush, a few beauty releases I’m really excited about (and might have acquired since then, ahem), and my pro tip to get the most out of your makeup stash (aka a really good shop your stash tip!).
Winter doesn’t mean that that you don’t have to wear sunscreen (but you know that already): I found some sunscreens that are really great to wear during the colder months. I was rather exasperated when I wrote about my search for a wearable sunscreen with a high UVA protection: Brands, DO BETTER!!! When it comes to foundation friendly SPFs (if foundation is your jam) – rejoice, there’re a lot out there that work really well under foundations.
