Tom Pecheux has always been one of our favorite makeup artists. There’s his soft-spoken French accent and his perfectly calm, collected, and kind demeanor during the craziness that is fashion week, but what really gets us is his expert ability to paint faces in a natural and beautiful way. There’s also something cool about the [...]

We promised you holiday baubles, and holiday baubles you shall have. Estée Lauder puts together one of the better lineups of limited-edition festive trinkets this time of year, producing a collection of solid perfume and powder compacts in a range of shapes, sizes, and bejeweled Swarovski crystals. At first, we were drawn to the Glimmering [...]

Not happy with your Facebook picture? Estée Lauder can help. Beginning tomorrow at Macy’s Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara, California, the beauty giant will introduce “Your Beauty. Your Style. Your Profile” events that will expand across the country, arriving at Bloomingdale’s in New York on October 16. At each location, a trained makeup artist [...]

Since co-creating the pink ribbon in 1992 as a symbol of breast health, Evelyn Lauder has been on a mission to help bring an end to breast cancer. Aside from championing the Global Landmarks Illumination Initiative, which we’ve already discussed in this blog, Lauder used her position as senior vice president of the Estée Lauder [...]

If you happened to be flying over JFK yesterday, you may have noticed something a little different about it from the friendly skies. To kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, the airport was lit pink, following in the footsteps of China’s Water Cube (pictured above), which went pink on September 15. JFK and [...]

First Max Factor, now this. In a statement made yesterday, the Estée Lauder Companies announced that it will be closing the global wholesale distribution of its Prescriptives brand by January 31 of next year. According to the official press release, the brand’s long-term business model is “no longer viable given the current market environment.” Its [...]

We’ve always been slightly on the fence about colored mascaras. In theory, they strike us as an interesting way to do something a little different with your typical beauty routine; in practice, they come across more juvenile than chic. They are here to stay, though, at least for the short term, making appearances in a [...]

MAC Cosmetics has signed on for backstage duty at 86 shows for the upcoming Spring 2010 season, which means its pro beauty team is busy at work trying hundreds of different product combinations to pitch at designer meetings before the catwalk processions begin. “We put so much on that by the end of the day [...]

By now you’ve likely heard about Estée Lauder’s new Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex, a huge launch for the brand that debuted earlier this month. (You may have even seen an ad or two for it on this site.) But if you haven’t, here’s a little refresher course: The nocturnal serum is an upgrade [...]

While our aversion to all things jasmine might normally have kept us away from Estée Lauder’s new fragrance that stars the pungent floral note, an indelible attraction to perfume solids encased by kitschy trinkets managed to lure us in. The latest addition to the brand’s Private Collection of scents, Jasmine White Moss represents the convergence [...]