Oxygen facials peaked on spa menus a few years back, promising to make skin dewy and plump with mists of the refreshing, pure molecule. Despite hype and devotion from celebs (read: Madonna), dermatologists were skeptical of the lasting benefits. Now it seems oxygen is poised for a comeback—this time in the form of elixirs, creams, [...]

Benefit’s Box-O-Powders are the stuff of legend. Since launching Hoola, a matte pressed bronzer that was the first of the series, back in 2001, the San Francisco-based beauty giant has slowly rolled out a collection of seven similarly packaged complexion enhancers, including celebrity favorite Dandelion—a pink-tinged finishing powder—and CORALista—which is so popular, a stack [...]

It’s been a big year for Benefit Cosmetics. In addition to branching out into skincare with a full-scale line of cleansers, toners, moisturizers, and mists, the San Francisco-based brand recently opened its first New York flagship, replete with a museum-style installation that showcases the original bottle of its storied Benetint, the universal lip and cheek [...]

When news first broke last month that after 35 years in the business of creating cult-favorite products with a sense of humor Benefit Cosmetics would be opening its first New York flagship, we commenced celebratory fist-pumping. As anyone who has ever been to one of the San Francisco-based company’s free-standing concept stores knows, the [...]

Benefit’s classic Benetint would likely make it onto many a beauty devotee’s desert island product list. Created for an exotic dancer in the 1970’s (the better to redden her nipples with), the classic liquid berry-hued tint is just as useful at imparting a rosy wash to lips and cheeks. The creamy, bubblegum pink Posietint followed [...]

Benefit has cornered the market on cheeky cosmetics that not only work but also give you a good laugh in the process. Its best-selling mattifying complexion balm is cleverly named Dr. Feelgood, while its amazing skin illuminator is known to beauty fiends around the world as High Beam. Benetint, the multipurpose cheek and lip stain, [...]

Before you head up to the tents tomorrow—or make your way west to the Waterfront for Jason Wu—consider stopping in Soho first. Beginning at 9 a.m., Benefit Cosmetics will be pairing cupcakes with compacts to celebrate the launch of its Sugarbomb blush, which creates a natural flush with four unique shades of powder in rose, [...]

I’ve never been much of an eye shadow wearer, as I have a highly pigmented upper eye lid. This is both a good and bad thing; the medium color gives off the illusion of permanent makeup, which I don’t mind, but if I dabble in azure and emerald shadows, they never show up quite as [...]

August always presents a strange quandary in the land of beauty. Summer is at its hottest, yet jewel-toned shadows and deep wine lipsticks are beginning to hit shelves at our favorite makeup emporiums, as if to remind us that, yes, colder temperatures are on the way. The fact that the warm weather came late this [...]

With just the Paris shows to go, it’s safe to say that smoky eyes are going to be huge for fall. The black smolder, with occasional variation (a softer brown version has also made a good showing this season), has been one of the most consistent elements we’ve noticed backstage—aside from an influx of TV [...]