Still stuck on what to buy for everyone on your list? Our favorite insiders share their picks for the best beauty gifts of the season. Ready, set, online shop.
—Fiorella Valdesolo

Who: Nonie Creme, the nail art phenom who plays creative director for hip
lacquer brand Butter London.
What: “For my best girlfriends: Sephora makeup. Each girl gets a [...]

It was only a matter of time before Taylor Swift got her own signature scent. Wonderstruck, a freesia, green tea, apple blossom, honeysuckle, vanilla, and peach fragrance licensed by Elizabeth Arden, will be released this October. [WWD]
Swift will be playing catch-up as far as sales records are concerned. Justin Bieber’s Someday is on track to [...]

The burning question of what lip color works best with jeans never really struck me as a universal quandary, but if the myriad of recent denim-inspired pout perfectors to hit the beauty counter is any indication, all of womankind wants to know. Bobbi Brown and Victoria’s Secret have already weighed in, and the latest beauty [...]

Poppy King has always been a woman totally obsessed with lips. At 18, an age when most of us are busy getting ill-advised tattoos, King launched her first beauty brand in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia. Called Poppy, the collection comprised pigment-rich, matte lipsticks befitting of 1940’s screen sirens. It was a stroke of genius—and [...]

The full-service salon is pretty standard these days. Women want quality and convenience in their beautifying ventures, so adding a facial, an eyebrow waxing, or a cosmetic touch-up to a blow-out has become par for the course. The convenience factor at Williamsburg’s Woodley & Bunny has always been its well-edited apothecary, but owners Erin and [...]

Despite electing to shut down the clothing arm of their Williamsburg-based salon-boutique-apothecary triple play earlier this summer, Woodley & Bunny’s beauty business is booming. Sisters and co-owners Erin and Misha Anderson have just launched an e-commerce site for the well-edited selection of products from Sachajuan, Lipstick Queen, and Nuxe, among others, available at their North [...]

Finally, a summer lip gloss that’s completely devoid of sticky sparkles—and edible flavors. Each jumbo-sized crayon in Poppy King’s Lipstick Queen line of Chinatown Glossy Pencils is packed with moisturizing ingredients like shea, avocado, and mango butters, as well as its own sharpener for a precise application of sheer color every time you use it. [...]

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 [...]

To welcome Poppy King’s Lipstick Queen collection to its niche beauty offerings, Henri Bendel is hosting a coronation of sorts. With a red carpet rolled out for her royal majesty, the Lessons of a Lipstick Queen: Finding and Developing the Great Idea That Can Change Your Life author will be on hand today and [...]