The world has changed considerably since the last time I documented my daily product use, which was all the way back in February 2015. That’s three-plus years. Life was simpler then. Climate was changing slightly less, racism barely existed :), and a bag of Cheetos was exactly the same price as it is now. Back then, I…
Something is in the air—spring, allergies, tiny baby birds—and it is driving me to open my wallet and scream “Yas, I want to look like I’m in the chorus of a high school production of Meet Me in St. Louis!” as I throw a very specific shade of blue eye shadow into online shopping carts across the web.
Serena Williams, slayer of tennis balls and bad-ass style icon, is gearing up to launch her own makeup line.
Here’s a strange little glimpse at Glam Masters, the Kim Kardashian-produced reality competition show about beauty YouTubers hosted by Laverne Cox, which is out February 28. It’s 30 minutes long—a bit lengthy for a “teaser,” but you know... why not?
The cool girl is able to look runway-ready exactly one instant out of rolling out of bed. She maintains a dewy glow, even in the dead of winter, and all she needs (or all she’ll tell you she needs) is a “dab of chapstick.” The cool girl is somehow free of blemish, scar, hyperpigmentation, dryness, or oil slick—in…
Two Illinois women have filed a lawsuit against Ulta for the company’s alleged habit of repackaging and reselling returned, used makeup, which is definitely how pink eye spreads. But the suit also maintains that the reason for this gross tendency is that the company limits the number of returned items that can be…
Over at Racked, Marien Komar has written a fascinating piece on both the history of contraband cosmetics in prisons (did you know that you can make lipstick from the dye of a book cover?), as well as the importance of makeup to incarcerated women today.
Claire’s, a one-stop shop for tween cosmetics, free-with-purchase ear-piercings, and scrunchies covered in what looks to be human hair but is in fact “faux,” recalled some of its makeup products after reports found samples contained asbestos, exposure to which can cause cancer.
Since Fenty Beauty was such a massive success with woman of color who typically can’t find darker makeup shades in a sea of beige, several brands have started stressing or expanding the color range of their products. And now Kylie Jenner seems to be following Fenty’s lead, launching a 30-shade line of concealers.
I have been a freelancer for almost two years, and in that time I have transitioned from “normal, if under-groomed, office gal” to “semi-feral blog waif.” I work extremely erratic hours, which means my days are unrecognizable from one to the next; I’ll often go multiple in a row without having a conversation longer…
I used to be very excited about makeup, and grooming in general. I experimented a lot with sparkles and brightly-colored eyeliner, and once went to an 8th grade dance with blue mascara on—a bold and sensual choice because, having blonde eyelashes, I appeared to have bright blue pipe cleaners jutting out of my eye…
When I was working nights at this very website, I spent a lot of time after my shift was over watching YouTube makeup tutorials until my brain felt clear enough to finally fall asleep. That habit, which has continued even though I no longer work nights and can reset my brain in a variety of other ways, has likely led…
As much as I like makeup, I don’t feel like I put a lot of effort into my daily beauty routine. Over the past few years I’ve been adding products to my regimen as I see fit, or after coming to stupidly obvious realizations. For example: learning that I should use facial moisturizer for my face and not just my body…
A woman is suing Sephora for emotional distress, claiming she contracted herpes from a lipstick sample at one of their stores in California.
Ready your bodies and prepare to empty your wallets once more: Fenty Beauty is releasing a holiday collection.
When Rihanna launched her Fenty Beauty collection on September 8, swarms of obsessive navy members fell in line and purchased one or several dozen of her makeup offerings, which includes a range of foundation shades, a contouring and concealing stick and a universal lip gloss known as a luminizer. Since we at Jezebel…
Before YouTube tutorials and social media, there was Kevyn Aucoin—the first true celebrity makeup artist, whose life is celebrated in Kevyn Aucoin: Beauty & The Beast In Me, a documentary that aired Thursday night on Logo.
Late last week, Rihanna debuted her highly anticipated makeup line Fenty Beauty at Sephora and thus far, her products have received mostly glowing reviews. But what—in an age of intense celebrity branding—does it mean to not only be the face of a beauty line, but also get credit as the creator behind it?
The virtue of Rihanna is her ability to make you feel concurrently inferior and powerful at the same time. To celebrate her Fenty Beauty launch (which was available at midnight Pacific Time on the site, insensitive to East Coast bedtime), the star and her divine beauty debuted the line at Sephora Times Square at the…