Former Miss California Carrie Prejean and the Miss USA organization have finally settled their vicious lawsuit. Now back to more important matters of swimsuits and evening gowns. [E! Online]
More news on the growing demographic of “men who care.” Below-the-neck moisturizers are joining body spray, shower gel, and facial scrubs as acceptable modes of daily maintenance. [...]

Since co-creating the pink ribbon in 1992 as a symbol of breast health, Evelyn Lauder has been on a mission to help bring an end to breast cancer. Aside from championing the Global Landmarks Illumination Initiative, which we’ve already discussed in this blog, Lauder used her position as senior vice president of the Estée Lauder [...]

Sephora has signed an agreement with a French transportation company to ensure that 80 percent of its 250 French stores receive product deliveries via electric vehicle by the end of the year. Hopefully, the same initiative will come to the U.S. so we too can rationalize buying more beauty products with a decreased carbon footprint. [...]

To promote its new Film Noir Fall Collection, Sephora just premiered a Hitchcock-style black-and-white short on YouTube. Cherchez La Femme (click above to watch) follows a detective on his quest to solve “a beauty crime of a particularly heinous nature,” i.e. the theft of Sephora’s entire fall makeup collection. Kitschy, yes but definitely enough to [...]

The year of the vampire’s most profitable enterprise is undoubtedly teen book series turned big-screen phenomenon Twilight. Speculation about a possible romance between leads Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson has dominated the tabloid headlines all summer, and the ladies of Twilight are starring in a nighttime beauty story in the September issue of Glamour. Meanwhile, [...]

To celebrate the opening of its new Times Square location on Broadway between 46th and 47th streets—not to be confused with the other one three blocks south—Sephora is rolling out the red carpet tomorrow for Taylor Momsen and Theodora and Alexandra Richards, among other pretty young things. In addition, the Sephora Pro Beauty Team will [...]

After yesterday’s Times pitted Ulta against Sephora, suggesting that the former offered a more accessible venue for a meeting of both prestige and mass product lines—plus a welcoming “Persian melon”-colored interior to contrast with Sephora’s exclusive black and white motif—we got to thinking. Which beauty megastore do we actually prefer? There are, of course, pros [...]

Seeing as how we were one of the first stateside news outlets to cover Illamasqua’s exclusive launch at Selfridges last fall, we’ve been waiting for this day to come for quite some time—nine months, to be exact. Beginning July 21, the cosmetics line created by makeup artist Alex Box (she of Gareth Pugh backstage beauty [...]

As devoted fans of Sephora’s Lash Stash mascara sampler, we were quite pleased to learn that the beauty purveyor has created more limited-edition kits of coveted minis from all the brands we love. The “favorites” initiative will include ten sets of deluxe sample-sized essentials within specific categories. Themes are chosen around popular trends and include [...]

Attention, fake-baking fans: The moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived. The exclusive launch of Lindsay Lohan’s Sevin Nyne self-tanning mist is finally upon us this week, and to mark the occasion, the newly single actress will be mingling among her fans at Sephora in Santa Monica tomorrow from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sevin Nyne [...]