On Tuesday a Redditor and alleged former Sunday Riley employee leaked what appeared to be an email from inside the beauty brand, asking employees to write fake reviews for the company’s products.

It’s been a hot minute since we checked in on Brandon Truaxe, the CEO of cult beauty brand Deciem who you might remember as having an extremely bizarre approach to the company’s social media. After sparring with customers on Instagram, abruptly firing staff, and posting a photo of a homeless woman to the Deciem…

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California took a historic step toward eliminating animal testing of cosmetics on Tuesday, passing a bill through the state legislature that will outlaw the sale of such products within the state after January 1, 2020, Glamour reports. The California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act passed unanimously and is the first…

I recently started worrying about my skin—the sort of small worry wrapped up a larger worry about aging and death—but not enough to do anything extreme about it. Do I do enough to keep it healthy and clear? Is my routine too lazy and in need of a wider variety of products? Will I look old and weathered by the time I’m…

Somewhere, in the windowless filming rooms of their respective Calabasas mansions, beauty YouTubers Jeffree Starr and James Charles breathe simultaneous sighs of relief that some other messy bitch is distracting attention away from their “problematic” brands. Bella Thorne, actress/raver/tipi-owner, fumbled her way…

Hi, I’m Albert, I write for Deadspin. Here’s me, in more ways than one:

This morning, I thought I lost my eyelash curler and ran around my room in panic for a good 15 minutes: That’s how personally invested I am in eye makeup. But it seems the industry may not agree.

My life is usually in shambles but by the time I leave the house, I usually look presentable, somehow some way. I’m a naturally sleepy person but I love going out, so I’m sure you see my problem. I let products like concealer make it look like I’m awake in less than a minute and also add a gloss because that’s really…

Everything is stupid, and so are we. Welcome to Jezebel’s Stupidest Summer Ever, a season-long celebration of our worst, most idiotic thoughts and opinions.

Pat McGrath—legendary makeup artist to the supes of the ’90s and beyond— launched her own makeup line in 2016, after decades of work as one of fashion’s most successful and in-demand, and by far the most inventive. Pat McGrath Labs, her eponymous makeup line, has now been valued at an estimated $1 billion, neatly…

I have few regrets from my period of employment at Gizmodo Media Group, but never writing a product diary has always been high up on the list. I read them obsessively—one of my favorite creepy interests is watching other people’s beauty routines, and product diaries are basically that, but in blog form.

When it comes to making risky, life-altering decisions, I am very decisive. I have quit jobs because of shitty environments with nothing lined up—hell, I left a lucrative (albeit soulless) career to chase an impractical dream of being a writer—and, though I wish it didn’t come to this, I took a gamble on my future…

I am agnostic down to my soul, which is to say that I have a very strong belief in possibility. I am as set in my ways as one can be while acknowledging that those ways mainly consist of stumbling through life while trying to do what’s right but never coming close to having it all figured out. This is my approach to…

It’s finally spring on the East Coast, and Jesus Christ, have we earned it. After a horrifying winter in which everyone’s toenails fell off and all our facial skin was wind-battered into ruin, it’s finally time to be outdoors. I hope to spend every free second either at the beach with a book about medical oddities or…

I’ll be honest, I think I wear more makeup than my genetically blessed and baby-skinned coworkers. I have rampant adult acne, y’all! It’s OK, I’m not that bitter. Not everyone can radiate sunshine out of their pores. And while I’m not over here wearing a dramatically contoured face everyday (because really who has the…

In skincare, as in life, I prefer the dramatic. Instead of taking the time and energy to actually learn what works for my skin, I always dismissed skincare as frivolous or complex, without realizing that I had been callously over-exfoliating. For the past 17-ish years of my life—starting around the time Blu Cantrell…

About ten months into dating my boyfriend, I stumbled into his apartment at 1 a.m. after an impromptu night of drinking with coworkers. Because his apartment is a 20-minute walk from my office, and because we had kept in touch throughout the night and he knew the state I was in, this wasn’t an issue.