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Oh, Make Me Over

A reader just sent this pretty interesting conversation on female beauty from Wowowow. The best part’s when Lily Tomlin (remember her?) admits she used to pad her hips when she was 13 or 14 years old in her quest to emulate Marilyn Monroe, the beauty standard of her time. I’ve never done anything quite like [...]

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Givenchy Wants Your Words

It looks like nobody can get enough of contests lately. Givenchy’s teamed up with social advertising site Brickfish to bring us the latest think-of-it-yourself beauty campaign for their bestselling Prisme Foundation Compact. Those with a serious love for collectible beauty products, or those with a ton of time on their hands, are asked to come [...]

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Gucci Westman to Revlon

This just in from WWD: Gucci Westman, makup genius extraordinaire, has just been named the new Global Artistic Director of Revlon. She ended a nearly five year-long career at Lancome, as their International Artistic Director, this past December. She’s been widely credited with building Lancome’s bridge to Hollywood super stars and to hyping up the [...]

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B for Beauty: The Facts

By now we’re pretty sure most of you have read some of the fun facts in today’s New York Times article on what’s really in makeup. If you missed it, or if you don’t want to read a 1,200 word article on your monitor, here’s the big news: 1. Sometimes, lipstick contains crushed beetles. 2. [...]

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A Right to Bear Charms

Attention makeup collectors and unabashed logo whores: Neiman Marcus still has a stash of the YSL lip gloss charms in stock, and you can buy them online. The charms come filled with YSL Beaute color, but that’s obviously not the point – The real deal is they’re attached to a chain-link bracelet, and stamped with [...]

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Would You Wear No Makeup?

I was complaining about my skin a couple of weeks ago and Natalie screamed, “Stop wearing makeup!” I laughed as she rambled about how much make-up she wore circa 1998, when she finally stopped cold turkey (she resumed a year later after everything on her face calmed down.) Apparently, if I wanted my skin to [...]

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Explain: Sephora’s Catalogues

We always end up flipping through Sephora’s catalogues, not so much out of curiosity, but because they arrive in our mailbox so consistently. But, in truth, they bother us every time. And this time is no exception. Page 5 of the catalogue reads, “Wear the Trend – Red Lips,” and then the reader is shown [...]

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