“We don’t see that particular shade every time we look at the night sky, but when we do see a fabulous electric blue across the heavens, you absolutely can’t ignore it,” Eiseman says. “Some respondents might call those brighter blues scary, even…but that’s part and parcel of what the color means, too. If it’s scary, … Read more
“I am looking for skin-care product advice,” I wrote to ChatGPT at the end of November. “I have dry, rosacea-prone skin and a good amount of hyperpigmentation. I’m looking for a full skin-care overhaul. Please provide me with recommendations.” After a few entries where I altered my prompts, adding that I liked “clean” products and … Read more
In the end, Hewitt, Ireland, and the brand’s vice president of product development Jessica Abrams created a formula that is, in fact, dreamy in every sense of the word. It’s a lip oil, yes, but unlike others we’ve tried, it’s not too slick or too sticky. That’s not to say it doesn’t have great slip … Read more
While there’s a familiarity to this story, it spans several decades from 1906 to 1947, so we see young Celie (Phylicia Pearl Mpas), her sister Nettie (Halle Bailey), and blues superstar Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson) visibly age throughout the movie. “With this film taking place in a time period, one of the things that … Read more
The Sephora employee attributes some of Drunk Elephant’s popularity to the brand’s unique, colorful packaging: “Their moisturizers dispense differently than typical products, so the packaging itself has that surface area to mix products. Those testers are usually a disaster!” Though the employee hasn’t personally dealt with the less-than-pretty behavior getting shared online, they have noted … Read more
As an actor, you are already feeling vulnerable.You’re going to have to go out there in front of a camera, trying to do as few takes as possible. You want to do well. This is high stakes. You’re getting paid a good amount of money in most, or some, regards. However [the audience] sees you … Read more
One of those people is Calice Becker, vice president perfumer at Givaudan, director of Givaudan Perfumery School in Paris, and the nose behind Dior J’Adore and other iconic fragrances. In 2018, she saw an opportunity to streamline the complicated development process and spearheaded the birth of Carto, an AI-powered tool that is the “brain” of … Read more
Michelle Ranavat, founder of Ranavat, the first South Asian-founded Ayurvedic skin-care brand to launch at Sephora, has found that even when brands do get it right, they aren’t giving credit where credit is due. “It isn’t uncommon to find skin-care products using Ayurvedic ingredients without mentioning the science behind it,” Ranavat says. “Ayurveda is not … Read more
There are family businesses in every industry, and in beauty, they tend to be matriarchies. This makes sense because most of the advice we get on how to apply makeup to our features is passed down by our mothers and their mothers and so on, to say nothing of the features themselves. It’s part of … Read more
On getting out of drag: What I do first is I go in either with a makeup wipe or a microfiber towel and some micellar water, then I very daintily and softly take off the eye makeup and the lip. Then I go in with Pond’s Cold Cream and I just lather, lather, lather, lather, … Read more
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