JUJUBE / (joo-joo-bee) / n. / 1. Also known as Ziziphus zizyphus, a deciduous fruit-bearing shrub native to Southern Asia; / n. / 2. Commonly called the Chinese date, or “red date,” an edible, oval-shaped, pitted fruit with a smooth green skin that tastes similar to an apple before it ripens and then turns purplish-black [...]

I’m a big believer in the brilliance of multitasking beauty products, especially in the summer, when the temperature is high and my energy for complicated beauty rituals is very low. Enter the wonder that is eye shadow with a built-in primer, which allows you to paint your lids sea-foam green, rose gold, and shimmering charcoal [...]

What do you do as a makeup company when you’ve cornered the cosmetics market? Branch out into skincare, of course—or so the prevailing theory goes these days in light of Benefit’s recent entrée into the category. Bare Escentuals is following suit this month, using its expertise in the noncomedogenic power of mineral makeup to properly [...]

Boldly adorned eyes are big for fall (see the purple peepers at Carolina Herrera and the iridescent smoky lids at DVF, for starters). The look demands richly saturated pigments that won’t fade, and if you’re looking for a shadow that provides that necessary “pow,” Bare Escentuals’ new Buxom Stay-There Eye Shadow delivers. The waterproof, mineral-based [...]

I recently took a two-week jaunt to Norway and noticed something only a few hours into my trip: The country’s natural beauty is everywhere you look—and I’m not just talking about its magnificent mountains and sapphire blue fjords. The sparkly-eyed, salty-haired masses who walk around its seaport villages and city streets are ridiculously attractive, which [...]

Suri Cruise loves heels—and red lip gloss, it now seems. Critics are chastising her famous parents for letting her grow up too fast, but we say, simmer down: Going into Sephora as an adult is a magical experience—we can only imagine how fun it must be for a 3-year-old. [Daily Mail]
Tory Burch: the fragrance and [...]

Who has the best bangs in music—an industry, we might mention, in which there is no shortage of forehead fringe? Our vote goes to Zooey Deschanel. [SPINearth.tv]
Body odor, not perfume, is the best way to get attention from men, a new study says. Yes, positive attention. [Daily Mail]
Shiseido has bought Bare Escentuals. The original mineral [...]

With news that prominent fashion brands with fragrances, like Burberry and Michael Kors, are turning to color cosmetics for some good old-fashioned revenue-boosting, it’s perhaps not surprising that well-known makeup visionaries are now launching their own signature scents. We’re all for spreading the wealth, aren’t you? Bare Escentuals founder Leslie Blodgett introduced Bare Skin last [...]

A class-action lawsuit was officially filed in a U.S. district court in California this week against directors and executives at Bare Escentuals, accusing them of making misleading statements about how well the company was doing in 2007 and artificially inflating the value of its common stock. Huh. And we thought mineral makeup was the new [...]

When Bare Escentuals RareMinerals Skin Revival Treatment Night launched almost two years ago, many in the beauty world were whiplashed by emotions: First there was shock. What? A powerful exfoliator that you wear like a tinted pressed powder but that simultaneously speeds up cell renewal, minimizes the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, increases firmness [...]