How To Find An A-List BB Cream

By now, you’ve likely heard the term “BB Cream” more often than “Linsanity” or even “Obamacare.” But what exactly is a BB cream?
By now, you’ve likely heard the term “BB Cream” more often than “Linsanity” or even “Obamacare.” But what exactly is a BB cream?
When temperatures rise past the ninety degree mark, even the most flamboyant makeup junkies feel compelled to cut back on the foundations, sculpting powders, and loose powers, not to mention the intricate eye looks involving layered, blended, and smoked out shadows.
FACE Stockholm founder Gun Nowak looked to her native Sweden when musing about the colors she’d integrate into the Summer 2012 collection.
This season, powder blushes, bronzers, sculpting powders, and illuminating beauty powders are taking a backseat, allowing their creamy counterparts to take the wheel and spearhead the mission of providing women with a natural-looking, Jennifer Lopez-esque glow that seems to radiate from within, luring onlookers as efficiently as fireflies do when they woo their insect mates by flaunting their bioluminescent lower abdomens.
Celebrity coverage has always centered on fantasy, with movie stars and musicians being depicted as virtually flawless, trouble-free creatures cavorting from one Hollywood hot spot to the next, lounging on yachts in Saint- Tropez, and vacationing in Hawaii or Turks & Caicos.
Taste, as we all know, is subjective — and yet there do tend to be commonalities in the aesthetic values and norms of specific regions, notions of beauty or style dictated by everything from climate to historical minutiae and cultural phenomena.
Back in the late ’80s, my Miami-based tío’s wife decided she wanted to have her eyeliner permanently tattooed onto her lids.
I generally think of nude eye shadow palettes as being as bland and unexciting as white button-down blouses, V-neck cardigans, and ecru paint jobs.
After introducing us to the skin-nourishing properties of Amazonian Clay, eco-friendly makeup brand Tarte Cosmetics has moved on to another as-yet-untapped natural resource with astounding beauty benefits: the maracuja, a species of passion fruit native to Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina, commonly harvested in late August.