A new exciting beauty science community, the best of beauty, a book about Glossier, new skin cancer treatments and TikTok’s snail mucin problem – also, those anti-anxiety patches, dressing like in ‘Only Murders in the Building’, and a menopause pee-on test. On to alllll the beauty news in September, and, as the kids say, they are banging.
Beauty News
Michelle Wong (Labmuffin) and Jen Novakovich (theecowell) founded a new science-based beauty community! That’s very exciting, and the best thing I’ve heard in ages. Beauty SciComm (is) (…) ‘Increasing the quality, volume and reach of accurate beauty science content.’ Go and follow them!
Allure crowned their Best of Beauty and it’s everywhere. If you’re living under a rock, here are all the products. (It’s very US-brand heavy – obviously – and nothing has piqued my interest, while I disagree with a lot of their recs. So there’s that.)
Will Kylie Jenner buy back her beauty company from Coty? Nobody knows. (Fortune)
Beautylish now sells Black Girl Sunscreen: great for us folks in the EU who now can order it easily!
Lisa Eldridge Beauty opened another counter in a luxe London department store: after Selfridges, it can be found in Liberty’s.
rhode now ships to select countries in Europe if you want to try their hyped lip glaze: the lucky ones are France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain.
The European Union has voted to ban microplastics in daily life products: “The text aims to progressively phase out microplastics of everyday products, like cosmetics, fragrances and home cleaners, as well as of fertilizers, paints and artificial sports turfs. It defines microplastics as solid polymers contained in microparticles or microparticles which have a solid polymer surface coating, and used as a substance on their own or in a mixture in a concentration equal to or greater than 0,01% by weight.” (Premiumbeautynews)
Beauty Stories
Somebody wrote a book about Glossier, and the brand is suddenly (again) mentioned everywhere. (Honestly, all the big media outlets have been talking about it, which I find funny because – I mean, Glossier has been dead for a long time, hasn’t it?!) (Coveteur)
The China trade relies heavily on Western beauty products. Let’s explore. Very interesting insight into animal testing, sunscreen and more. (NYT, gifted link)
New skin cancer treatments are developed as cases soar. (Guardian)
Guide Beauty for mobility impaired people made its debut on QVC (one of their advisors is Selma Blair for whom I wish the best things). (Glossy.Co)
TikTok has a snail mucin problem (it’s fake products). (TeenVogue)
Life, Love and Everything Else
There’s now a menopause test that works just like a pregnancy test. (Glamour.co.uk)
No, those anti-anxiety patches don’t work, and thank you to Alaina Demopoulos, whose exasperation jumps off the page, for your article for which you had to interview loads of idiots. (Guardian)
Ugh, I saw Tina Tanaka Harris shop in Tokyo’s biggest beauty store and got a case of fernweh. (YouTube)
Do you want to dress like Mabel in ‘Only Murders in the Building’? I definitely do, and here’s how the costume designer approached it.
On the Blog
What an exciting month, and the most exciting post was definitely my comparison of Lisa Eldridge’s and Victoria Beckham’s eye pencils. Also, if you’ve been ever wondering which off the super-expensive Allies of Skin products delivers the best bang for your buck, I’m here to help!
Another review of a hyped product: Ultra Violette’s Fave Fluid SPF50 (with its high UVA). A great find was surprisingly Beyer’s Hautgel, which saved my skin, while Good Molecule’s cleansing balm was the first product in a long time that went into my trashcan.
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