Hacked companies, new projects, and a goodbye to a beloved creator. Also, Barbie, gaslighting, misogyny, strikes and cat poo. Here’re the most outrageous beauty news in July and so much more!
Beauty News
Estée Lauder was hacked (Computerweekly). Not fun.
Prada Beauty is coming on Aug. 1, with subsequent rollouts at Harrods and Selfridges in London on Aug. 18; then Douglas in Munich, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf, Germany and Rinascente in Rome in October. The U.S. retail launch is slated for Jan. 2024, according to WWD. (Wallpaper)
Lush is under fire for paying its management £5m bonuses after getting £5m state support. (Guardian)
Kendall Jenner is the new ‘face’ of L’Oreal. (Fashionista)
New incubator project of Jerrod Blandino (ex Too Faced) (Cosmeticsbusiness). Ugh, I so don’t care.
Rare Beauty is doing VERY well. (Fashionista)
Skingineered Cosmetics launched their UVA booster! (You can preorder it until August 5th!)
Douglas now has a ‘clean beauty guide’ (that’s astonishingly balanced).
Christine from Temptalia announced to seriously downsize her blog.
Beauty Stories
Barbie, Barbie everywhere. Here’s a nice little article from the makeup artists for the movie. (Glamour)
Mindy Kaling talks about melasma on darker skin and the skincare brand she’s an investor for – and THAT’S how you do it, rich people of the world! Don’t launch another brand as an ego project! (Allure)
Cat poo and bread crumbs feature in the beauty routine of Renaissance women – excerpts from a new book that includes a surprising recipe for a hair conditioner! (If you make it, please report back!) (Guardian)
Life, Love and Everything Else
Walgreens in the US won’t sell abortion pills in red states where Republicans threatened legal action – even if abortion is still legal there. (Btw, Boots belongs to the Walgreens Group. Maybe shop at Superdrug instead?) (NPR)
Related: is misogyny 2023’s hot trend? (Glamour)
If you want to understand while the actors’ and screenwriters’ guilds are striking in the US, read Lainey. And if you’re in the US or Canada and want to support the guilds (because a lot of people are losing their livelihood over this), there’s cool merch you can buy here!
Related: do we want to eat the rich, or dress like them? (Elle)
Is your doctor gaslighting you?! (Omg, yes. So. Much. Yes.) (NYT, gifted link)
On the Blog
Hey, look, a sunscreen review! (Vichy Capital Soleil UV-Clear SPF50+ review.) My Allies of Skin Prebiotics & Niacinamide Pore Refining Booster review was a bit whelmed, as was my impression of the Lisa Eldridge Elevated Glow Highlighter in Crystal Nebula.
The category is ‘affordable, but blew me away’: The Ordinary’s new Beta-Glucan Moisturizer. So good, actually, that it also features in my overview of the best products of 2023 so far. Finally, I nearly got a heart attack when I heard that one of my fave perfumes is going to be discontinued (it isn’t), but then thought it’s a great opportunity to finally wrote a long review (and kinda history) about it: it’s Hermès Un Jardin en Méditerranée. Go read it!
Housekeeping note: no blog post this Thursday. It’s my biiiiiiiirthday!
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