With the style set firmly relocated to Milan, the Fall show season has reached its halfway point. That said, we’ve seen enough presentations to convince us that there are three lip colors that are going to be essential to your makeup bag. First, there’s the gray scale, variations on sheered-out black and opaque grays that [...]

Forget about painful plumpers that sting your lips into pouty submission. According to Lipstick Queen creator Poppy King, the road to fuller lips should involve no pain, and all gain. “It is my theory that the right ratio of shimmer to shine can create the illusion of plumper lips,” King believes, which led her to [...]

In a first for Beauty Counter, we’ve solicited three different Style.com’ers to test-run one of fall’s biggest trends: black lip gloss—the more subtle and sheer (read: wearable) alternative to the goth-y, opaque lipsticks spotted on the runway this season. To give you a good idea of what you can expect if you can get a [...]