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 [...]

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 [...]