Who wants to stay indoors all summer long when you can be sipping a frozen daiquiri by the pool, playing tennis and soccer with friends, and feeling the sand in between your toes at the beach?
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.
In Greek mythology, the goddess known as Iris was regarded as the personification of the rainbow and hence served as a mediator between the heavens and the earth — in fact, when loved ones died, colorful iris blossoms would be planted atop their burial sites in an attempt to summon the deity and have her escort their souls to the hereafter.
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.
From Warm Cotton to Fresh Laundry, Mountain Air, and Rain, the unassuming but captivating scents in the CLEAN Perfume library have always managed to evoke the simple pleasures of life, to capture the comforting feel of often-ignored aromas.
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).
It’s been four years since Algenist revolutionized the anti-aging game by introducing a range of products formulated with a groundbreaking ingredient: alguronic acid, a polysaccharide compound that protects the microalgae cell ands which, in lab results, was found to increase elastin synthesis by up to 32% and boost cellular regeneration by up to 55%.
Forget slathering your face with a thick green or purple mask, waiting 25 to 30 minutes for it to dry, then rinsing your face for another 10 minutes to remove all traces of the substance.
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.
It’s been years since the term “ombré” forayed from the fashion and home design worlds into the beauty realm, becoming the go-to descriptor for dip-dyed, pastel-toned ends; hair color jobs that revealed deliberately darker roots and lighter more sun-kissed mid-lengths and ends (think Rachel McAdams in True Detective); lipstick looks that emphasized a deep and saturated perimeter and a paler center; and manicures that explored the varying intensities of a single hue.
