The giddy rush that your regular Beauty Counter correspondent and nail art pioneer, Celia Ellenberg, gets every time a new polish lands on her desk is precisely how I feel about lipstick. I may have makeup cases overflowing with tubes of every shade and brand, but still, each time I twist open a new bullet [...]

When Guerlain launched its Météorites collection way back in 1987, it revolutionized the practice of applying powder. Run-of-the-mill pressed powders in a range of nude colors were replaced by colorful cardboard boxes filled with luminescent balls in skin-correcting shades, allegedly inspired by Marie Antoinette’s own makeup arsenal. For spring, the brand has reformulated the popular [...]

As far as we’re concerned, the window of opportunity to douse yourself in all things sparkly—sans tween references—ends Thursday night, when Champagne glasses clank together and elaborate party outfits are assembled to properly ring in the new year. If you plan on partaking in one of the holiday season’s more widely practiced beauty traditions, Guerlain [...]

Fragrance can be a mystifying beast. With all the celebrity endorsements, eye-catching bottles, elaborate marketing campaigns, and expansive ingredients lists, it’s often hard to sort out the winners from the stinkers. Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez set out to do just that with their new book, Perfumes: The A-Z Guide (Penguin; 2009). A leading scholar [...]

After trading in her Calvins for Guerlain’s Shalimar last fall, Natalia Vodianova has become something of a muse for the French beauty brand. The company’s creative director, Olivier Échaudemaison, based his entire Fall color collection on what he calls Vodianova’s “fragile beauty,” offering up tools for getting her smooth complexion, bright cheeks, sparkling eyes, and [...]

While Guerlain creative director Olivier Échaudemaison may have intended his new Rouge G de Guerlain lipsticks to register as powder cases-cum-jewels, the first thing we thought of when we saw the shiny bullets was spy gear. (The white gold-covered magnetic case was apparently inspired by a bar of gold, however—not Goldfinger.) Place Vendôme jewelry designer [...]

Recognizing that the style savvy in southern Missouri might be just as anxious as New Yorkers to partake of its iconic and often hard-to-find creations, Guerlain is expanding beyond its seven U.S. boutiques with an online trunk show to give everyone with access to a computer the chance to own a piece of its olfactory [...]

In fashion terms, the “little black dress” is something every woman should own: an easy, flattering piece that is as simple as it is sexy and glamorous. So ingrained has this dressing staple become in our social psyches that it has taken on metaphoric meaning, coming to represent the idea of a go-to for those [...]

You can thank the ruling on a class-action lawsuit for what could legitimately be the best thing that’s happened to you all year: Beginning on January 20 and continuing for one week, $175 million worth of free cosmetics will be doled out at beauty counters across the country while supplies last. According to an article [...]

Brooke Shields has been the poster child for full eyebrows since she inspired fantasies of illegal proportions as the 15-year-old face of Calvin Klein Jeans. But as model and Estée Lauder spokeswoman Hilary Rhoda displays in the August issue of Numero (and pretty much every magazine you flip through these days), she’s the new brow [...]