L’Oréal Paris can now add “friend of the Walk of Fame” to its long list of accolades. The beauty giant, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, was honored yesterday for its commitment to preserving the iconic Hollywood street, which it has apparently deemed “worth it.” [Reuters]
Oprah’s longtime makeup artist, Reggie Wells, has just [...]

A class-action lawsuit was officially filed in a U.S. district court in California this week against directors and executives at Bare Escentuals, accusing them of making misleading statements about how well the company was doing in 2007 and artificially inflating the value of its common stock. Huh. And we thought mineral makeup was the new [...]

As anyone who has recently drowned their recession sorrows in a brand-new tube of red or fuchsia lipstick knows, keeping up physical appearances does wonders for the spirit during times of economic duress. The correlation between an increase in cosmetics sales and hard times is actually a known statistical fact, coined the Lipstick Index by [...]

Urban legend has it that cell phones in South Korea and Japan can open your house door or buy you lunch from a vending machine, but we in North America have been a little bit slower to join the twenty-first century. Maybe not for much longer, however. According to an article on Basenotes.net, the future [...]

For any European beauty junkie who has ever been disappointed by a name-brand product purchased on eBay for a fraction of its counter price, there may be a good reason—aside from the realization that mauve lipstick doesn’t look good on everyone. Apparently, a host of counterfeit products have wound up on the online auction site [...]

In what’s perhaps one of L’Oréal’s lesser-known traditions, the French company likes to honor Hollywood’s most talented women during awards season with mirrored compacts embedded with gemstones. This year being no exception, a citrine and green quartz case set in 18K yellow gold with diamond details will grace the goody bags of the ten actresses [...]

Don’t get too excited the next time you see Kérastase or Shu Uemura Art of Hair at the supermarket. The appearance of these professional lines at your corner store is the result of “diversion,” a dirty word coined by L’Oréal’s professional division to describe the counterfeit salon products that are making their way to unapproved [...]

On a MacGyver-style mission to CVS this weekend for gum, tweezers, and a taupe-y eyeliner (I already had paper clips and twine in my bag, so I was pretty much set in the escape plan-hatching department), I stumbled upon a piece of multifunctional genius that deserves proper acknowledgment. L’Oréal recently released a line of Brow [...]

Whenever editors take to the skies to cover the European shows, they reliably come back with some enviable purchase they’ve picked up along the way. The Marni outlet in Milan has become something of a mandatory destination for this very reason, but local, unavailable-to-U.S.-consumers beauty products pull equal weight when it comes to stirring jealousy [...]

Sure, there’s the free products and the insider tips that come along with working in the industry (that’s navy blue liner this beauty editor is wearing, not your standard old black—”it makes your eyes look whiter,” she informed us). But when cosmetics companies discontinue products, even the privileged suffer. “I have to cherish every application,” [...]