The slow summer months are starting… But here we have the most exciting beauty news in June: a new designer house branches out into makeup, a perfume wiki, gummy supplements and how to spot a wellness scam!
Beauty News
REN just discontinued 29 products (to slash costs, presumably?!) (Theindustry.beauty)
The next Augustinus Bader?! Supplement brand Lyma launches skincare, and has (presumably) a waiting list of thousands. (Harpers Bazaar)
Amazon is the biggest beauty retailer in the US. (Fashionista)
An exciting launch, although it’s unavailable for me, because right now it’s US only: Claudent is the stylish UV protection clothing you want to wear! (Fashionista)
Fashion and fragrance house Paco Rabanne plans to launch makeup line. (Cosmeticsbusiness)
Puig (home of brands like Dries van Noten, Jean Paul Gautier and Byredo, amongst others) launched wikiperfum, a database for fragrances and notes (apparently coming for fragrantica?). (Cosmeticsbusiness)
Beauty Stories
Useful: how to spot a wellness scam. (New York Times)
Is this the ultimate hack to protect clothing from makeup smears?! (I’ve been wanting to try if this works for sunscreen, too.) (Guardian)
High end Sushi restaurant in London asks customers not to wear perfume. Um… I can kinda understand?! Kinda?! (Falstaff)
Shein’s brand trip to China made waves for all the wrong reasons. (Refinery29)
Life, Love, and Everything Else
Gummy supplements are controversial. Here’s why. (Guardian)
The beauty and brutality of Vermeer. SUCH a good article (also dealing with colonialism), that also, amidst the Vermeer accolades of the last months about the Amsterdam exhibition gives room to a broader view of the masterworks that always make me sad. (New York Times)
Red, White and Royal Blue releases on Amazon Prime on August 11th, and I can’t wait! Go and read the book in the until then (one of my faves of the last years)! (Glamour)
On the Blog
The thing that shook the skincare industry and afficionados in Europe: the European Union will restrict retinol percentages in skincare products.
I have a new favourite drugstore SPF, and shared my thought process to weed out the numerous sunscreen offerings to find the ones I might enjoy.
My streak of not enjoying Paula’s Choice continues: the Skin Perfecting 25% AHA + 2% BHA Exfoliant Peel is not for me, nor is the new (launched outside the US due to the filters) Advanced Sun Protection Daily Moisturiser SPF50 PA++++. Very, very much for me: my fave Skin1004 products (and I tested A LOT). And, here, my June beauty picks.
