At the risk of being exiled from the beauty blogging community, allow me to confess: I detest false lashes.
Summertime and bright eyeshadows go together like pineapple juice and Coco Lopez so, before the leaves start to turn and the inevitable autumn chill sets in, give your lids a technicolor makeover with the LORAC Cosmetics Alter Ego Eyeshadow Palette in Dream Girl ($20 at LORACcosmetics.com).
The temporary tattoo trend has taken off with such momentum that Beyoncé has even launched her own line of body art pieces.
Guided by their shared philanthropic ethos, footwear company Jack Rogers and eco-conscious beauty Josie Maran Cosmetics have partnered up this month, unveiling an exciting campaign designed to raise funds for Imagine Program, a non-profit global initiative that Through August 14th, when customers log onto JackRogersUSA.com and buy one of the four sandals in the “Josie Maran’s Picks” section, 10% of the proceeds will be donated to Imagine Program, which seeks to empower women in developing countries, helping to instill in them a greater sense of self-worth, thereby giving them the agency to seek out the resources and opportunities necessary to lift themselves out of poverty.
This summer, following the success of its The Nudes palette, Maybelline New York released The Blushed Nudes palette ($11.99 at Walmart, Target, and select mass market retailers nationwide), an assortment of twelve shades ranging from a pearlescent ash gray to an earthy deep bronze, a golden seashell pink, a taupe-tinged mauve, and a deep shimmering plum —most infused with rose gold pigments to give them the desired pink undertones.
If you love the moisturizing effects of Clinique’s award-winning Chubby Sticks but long for greater pigment pay-off and a more conventional lipstick bullet format, then you’ll rejoice over the new Clinique Pop Lip Colour + Primer collection ($18 each at Clinique counters and Clinique.com).
Once upon a time, if you asked most makeup devotees to name the brand that simply nailed the art of the powder blush, you’d hear a resounding chorus of voices exclaiming, “NARS!” It was that simple, that irrefutable.
Though I’m more of a matte lipstick lover, I do occasionally enjoy the playfulness and the pop of shine delivered by a funky lip gloss.
Summer beauty routines tend to revolve around convenience, speed, and practicality, with tinted moisturizers and CC creams replacing loose mineral foundations and powders that are likely to melt right off our faces, easy-to-apply lip pencils with crayon-like tips occupying the space in our makeup bags typically reserved for richer and creamier lipsticks, and waterproof cream shadows adding a touch of luster to our lids in lieu of powder shadows blended, layered, and diffused to perfection.
In the realm of fantasy fiction and film, magic rarely transpires without the deft waving of a powerful wand.
