We’re taking a quick break from our backstage beauty duties to bring you some good tidings from the perfume world: Marni has just inked a deal with Estée Lauder, which will assume fragrance licenses for Consuelo Castiglioni’s quirky Italian house effective immediately. The first scent won’t bow until next year, but you better believe [...]

It looks like Heidi Klum will be the next reality star to lend her name to a fragrance. The blonde German model-cum-Project Runway hostess plans to release Shine with Coty Beauty in September. [WWD]
Guess how much Justin Bieber’s haircut costs? No, no—guess. $750 per trim, which his go-to stylist, Vanessa Price, does for him [...]

After denying rumors of a buyout, OPI has indeed been bought by Coty, to the tune of about $1 billion. Following L’Oréal’s estimated $50 million deal with Essie earlier this year (not to mention a couple of high-profile designer collaborations for CND and Sally Hansen), we’d say the nail business is booming. [WWD]
Emma Watson has [...]

Not to say we told you so…but we kind of did. When speculation started swirling this summer that Gaga had signed a fragrance deal with Coty, the rumors were quickly refuted by executives at the beauty giant and the mass hysteria died down. We got a tip that the pants-less wonder was indeed on the [...]

And so the day has come. After years of lobbying by nonprofit organizations like the Environmental Working Group and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a bill has been introduced to Congress proposing tougher safety standards for cosmetics, including requiring regular government testing of products for hazardous ingredients (shockingly, this is not already par for the [...]

Bottega Veneta is the latest fashion house to partner with Coty for a signature fragrance. We can see the leather intrecciato-covered flacons now. [WWD]
Beauty vending machines are about to become a widespread reality. Sephora has partnered with J.C. Penney to make 50 of its best-selling products available to consumers at the press of a [...]

Hip-hop and R&B stars are quickly usurping It girls and professional athletes as the sought-after faces for a new round of celebrity fragrances due out next year. As we reported this past spring, Parlux Fragrances scored major spokesperson points when it got Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Rihanna on its roster of perfume poster children. Not [...]

Urban legend has it that cell phones in South Korea and Japan can open your house door or buy you lunch from a vending machine, but we in North America have been a little bit slower to join the twenty-first century. Maybe not for much longer, however. According to an article on Basenotes.net, the future [...]

Halle Berry fans, take note: The Oscar winner’s first fragrance, a woody oriental she collaborated on with Coty, hits shelves next week. A nose in her own right (the starlet reportedly delights in mixing and layering scents to create her own signature eau de parfum), Berry’s Halle by Halle Berry features mimosa and fig essences [...]

Yesterday was a big day—for a few reasons. First, it was the last day before what has become the most anticipated Election Day in recent memory, resulting in a barrage of last-minute campaigning by both candidates (read: online stalking from Michelle, Barack, and the rest of team Obama who have been really utilizing their [...]