Posts with tag lancome

There are a lot of weird things you can do to your eyelashes.

We've heard of people using hairdryers on spoons to curl lashes, tattooing black between lashes, crazy-colored mascara, and I personally tested out a heated eyelash curler from Artemis Woman.

But this? This is crazy talk. That little wriggle you do at the base of your lashes to make the mascara stick? The new Lancome Oscillation brush does that for you, 7,000 times per minute.

The Lancome Oscillation will be available October 22nd. If you want to be reminded, and be the first to know where to purchase, sign up here.

Fall is a great time to try out darker shades of nail polish, eyeshadow, and lip color. But how dark is too dark? Yves Saint Laurent sent black-as-night lips down the runway during its fall fashion show, and the company will offer the signature shade for sale next month. (You can pre-order a tube of "Pur Black" here for $28.)

But though it may come as a surprise, you don't have to be an avant-garde fashionista to work this look. Even mainstream cosmetic companies, like Lancome, are in on the trend. Lancome's ink-black "Piha" gloss will go on sale, as part of a set, in November. Unlike the YSL version, Lancome's is glittery, and meant to be layered over the red lipstick that it is sold with.

So while matte, black lipstick is still a fashion miss, these high-shine black glosses don't have to be. Aaron May, Lancôme's new artistic director, even suggests using "Piha" as a vampy liquid eyeshadow, which seems like a winning way to make this trend more glam than goth.

Just when she got rid of a crazed stalker, Uma Thurman once again finds herself back in court.

The actress sued cosmetic giant Lancôme on Friday for $15 million dollars for continuing to use her image in advertising on Canadian billboards and Asian websites even though her contract had expired. Apparently, her contract expired in 2004.

But wait! There's more.

The Stylelist Spring Beauty: Blue Eyeliner post made us pull out the makeup kit, ready to go to town. But to our disappointment, we only found old black, grey and brown liners in there.

Clearly we need to upgrade from the neutrals. We're craving some color!

Eyeliner is one of the easiest, fastest and most versatile ways to brighten up your face and be daring. Go bright, dark, sparkling or smoky. Blue can do it all!

Five great blue liners in the gallery give you a flavor of this sizzling seasonal trend. Let us know if you get the fever for some blue!

Last year, supermodel Daria Werbowy signed a major contract with Lancome cosmetics. If that wasn't enough, the beauty company asked Daria to create a limited-edition three-piece makeup collection.

The Daria collection will be sold exclusively at Sephora stores starting sometime this month and will consist of a Color Fever lipstick in Beige Caracai ($26); Lipgloss in Nude Prainha ($24), and Color Design Eyeshadow Quad in Carnet de Velours ($42).

Check out the picture at right, this is the new Lancome Magnetique nail polish. Over at Blogdorf Goodman, where I nabbed the picture from, the have the breakdown on how the polish works. Apparently the nail polish contains iron oxides, you apply the polish and then hold the nail up to a magnet that slips over the bottle. The magnet activates the iron and creates the sunburst pattern. The polish is new for fall (doesn't seem to be widely available yet) and sells for $17, which is a lot for an effect that is probably really fun the first time and then less so. More pics can also be found at All Lacquered Up. I think it's a cool idea but I can barely paint a couple of basic coats of red without messing things up so I think this is probably beyond my nail skill set. I wonder if nail salons will offer it and if they will dream up new ways to create different patterns.

It's been abso-damn-lutely everywhere this season, the bright pink lip. It's part of the Barbie Loves MAC line but reaches apotheosis in the Proenza Pink lipstick for Lancome. The ultimate pink, highly fetishized by beauty blogs and quickly sold out (you can find it on eBay) is the color of the season even if it does look a little like something your overtanned Florida grandmother might wear. So how do you work with the pink lip? Elke over at the Beauty Newsletter has some ways to get a similar look without having lips that scream 'notice my lipstick.' The key seems to be a slow build up of color on the lips and keeping the eyes and cheeks simple. I believe though, that like the skinny jean this is not a trend that works on everyone. And, while Elke recommends limiting the eyeshadow, I'd be sorely tempted to pair this with a silver or pearl shimmering shadow. Which of course explains why I'm not a makeup artist and she is.

Over on Luxist, I have been recently posting about carbon neutral flying (taking part in a carbon offset program to reduce your impact on the environment) but I never expected that a cosmetics company would be making such an effort. Fashion Week Daily has reported that Lancôme recently announced a variety of 2007 Eco-Chic initiatives at a recent event to launch their Primordiale Cell Defense, which is another product that promises to neutralize the effect of damaging free radicals on the skin. Lancôme's environmental initiatives include a partnership with Carbonfund.org, a nonprofit organization which helps people and companies reduce their climate impact. The company's spokesmodels will be flying carbon free and Lancôme will plant one tree for each of the first 10,000 bottles of Cell Defense sold. The press launch of Cell Defense will also be paperless. No press kits will be sent. Instead there will be a password-protected web site for editors and producers to download press releases and images. It's nice to see companies taking the eco issue from a variety of angles whether it is in their products such as H&M's organic cotton clothes or in their business practices.

Ah, Clive Owen, the sexy Brit who has been on my most beddable list since his tuxedoed turn in Croupier. Clive is the last person I would expect to turn into a skin care spokesperson. Selling liquor perhaps, but not skin care. But the rugged Clive is the new face of Hypnose Homme, the men's version of the popular fragrance as well as an anti-aging skin care line from Lancome. Anti-aging? Oh, Clive. But perhaps I am being female chauvanist, after all, posing for Lancome ads certainly didn't hurt Uma Thurman or Isabella Rossellini. Still, I prefer to think of Clive as the kind of guy who splashes a little soap and water on his face and goes on with his day, not the guy carefully applying his moisturizer and eye gel.

There was a period in my life when I wore Lancome's Juicy Tube lipgloss like underwear. Basically, all the time, except when...well you know what I mean. The thing is, for something like lipgloss, which goes very fast, spending $17 on it every time started to put a huge drain on my beauty budget.

Enter: the drugstore knock-off. I am now addicted to these things the way I'm addicted to the Mimi Maternity Vitamin E stick, and thankfully, they all run about $5 a pop. Almost every drugstore cosmetics brand has a version of the super slick and shiny ligloss that squeezes out of a tube. Maybelline makes Shinylicious, L'oreal has Colour Juice, and Cover Girl makes a new sheer Smoothwear Liptint in a tube. Of course, I'm not really saving much when my logic is now I can buy three different colors with the same amount of money!

It goes without saying -- experts just know better than the rest of us. And when it comes to make-up, no one is more of an expert than a professional make-up artist. As you might guess, as someone who occasionally has access to make-up artists, I'm constantly pumping them for their expert information.

Of course, sometimes that expert information is catty and gossipy. For instance, a make-up artist once told me that Paris Hilton has HUGE feet -- like size 11! And sometimes that expert information is actually somewhat useful. For example, they can tell you which concealer best covers your dark circles or which mascara gives you the best bang for your buck.

I recently posed the latter question to a make-up artist, and she told me that the best bang your buck is definitely Loreal's Lash Out mascara, which is sold at any old drugstore for $6.99. Why is it so great? Well, according to my Deep Throat Make-up Artist, this mascara is actually the exact same formula that used in the much more expensive Lancome line. The only difference, of course, is packaging and marketing.

So save yourself some bucks, pretty ladies, because you can define, lengthen and fatten your fringe with the best of them, and you can do it for less. You have my *official* why-the-hell-are-my-eyelashes-blonde-when-my-hair-is-brown seal of approval on this one.

Women expect a lot from their eyelashes: thick, long, separated and curled. Like everything else in beauty, the gold standard is exactly the opposite of the way we all wake up in the morning.

Gone are the days of the simple wand in a standard tube, filled with black goop. According to the New York Times, starting this fall, we will be seeing some major mascara innovation. From the high-end contenders like Chanel and Lancôme, to the drugstore brands like Maybelline and Revlon, be prepared for an array of new wands that resemble everything from a miniature hairbrush (promising) to a tiny cactus (no way I'm putting that next to my eye!).

Because I'm a sucker for cosmetic novelty, I'm eager to see what these wands are going to do for my lashes. With any luck, they'll do the opposite of what they will do to my wallet...