As those of you who clicked through our Statement Lips feature gleaned a few weeks back, lead has been a popular ingredient for creating the reddest red lipsticks since the dawn of the Greco-Roman empire. And while over time, it was determined that the pigment-enhancing particle was indeed toxic and possessed a high level of [...]

If you’ve ever left on your eye makeup overnight and woken up looking a little worse for the wear due to itchy, red irritation—not to mention those disconcerting dried black tears stuck to your cheeks—you might have an insect allergy. Yes, we said insect allergy. The colorants carmine and cochineal, which are extracted from the [...]