To promote its new Film Noir Fall Collection, Sephora just premiered a Hitchcock-style black-and-white short on YouTube. Cherchez La Femme (click above to watch) follows a detective on his quest to solve “a beauty crime of a particularly heinous nature,” i.e. the theft of Sephora’s entire fall makeup collection. Kitschy, yes but definitely enough to [...]

As much as we hate to be the bearer of bad news, fall temperatures are closing in on what seems like the shortest summer of all time. (For those of you who may be unaware, September starts next week.) Seeing as how our skin gets dry even in the heat and humidity, we’re bracing for [...]

Disco queens, rejoice: As a natural follow-up to the relaunch of the iconic fashion brand, Halston the fragrance hits shelves this month. A contemporary adaptation of the original scent released in the 1970’s, the new Halston Woman was created by IFF’s Carlos Benaim, who just so happens to have spent his formative years training with [...]

Cleopatra mixed it with milk and bathed in it; Queen Anne of England used it to silken her hair; and this month, MAC is making the most of honey’s amber color, prized skin-softening abilities, and sweet scent for the launch of its new Naked Honey collection. In addition to dabbling in the scent category with [...]

Mark another one down in the chronicles of the nineties supermodels’ triumphant return. Elizabeth Arden announced today that Claudia Schiffer will front the print campaign for Alberta Ferretti’s first signature fragrance, the license of which the American-based company holds. According to the press release, the scent is designed for a modern woman who has “style, [...]

Elizabeth Arden has just released the second installment of its Eight Hour Cream Celebration of the Decades collection, and this sixties edition of its classic moisturizing salve screams “flower power.” With packaging inspired by the colors and typography of the era, each application of the all-in-one lip hydrator, face gloss, cheek tint, and cuticle cream [...]

Contrary to popular belief, beauty editors rarely wear a lot of makeup. Sure, there are exceptions to this rule, but for the most part, we are a minimalistic breed that can pull out all the flawless foundation and perfectly pinched-cheek stops if and when we need to, but prefer to keep it low-key on a [...]

In what is perhaps a move to revisit simpler times, Elizabeth Arden has created limited-edition 1950s-inspired packaging to recall the original release date of its cult-favorite Eight Hour multitasking wonder cream. It’s the same chapped-skin soothing, lip-glossing, brow-shaping, cheek-highlighting formula that’s been gathering accolades for the past 70 years, but in a retro-designed pot that [...]