Twilight: Breaking Dawn fans, get excited. Kristen Stewart’s on-set makeup artist, Stacey Panepinto, dishes on Bella Swan’s wedding day makeup look and how she manages to nail Stewart’s special brand of low-key glamour on-screen and off. [Bella Sugar]According to a new survey, one in three bosses think their female employees wear too much makeup to [...]

As per her very active Twitter feed, makeup maven Pat McGrath filmed a series of how-to videos for CoverGirl with model Jessica Stam this weekend. According to @Jess_Stam, they had “SOOO Much Fun!!” [Twitter]
Justin Bieber is set to break perfume sales records this year, and now his better half is getting in on the fragrant [...]

It looks like Heidi Klum will be the next reality star to lend her name to a fragrance. The blonde German model-cum-Project Runway hostess plans to release Shine with Coty Beauty in September. [WWD]
Guess how much Justin Bieber’s haircut costs? No, no—guess. $750 per trim, which his go-to stylist, Vanessa Price, does for him [...]

When YSL Beauté launched its Rouge Volupté lipstick range two years ago, it was kind of a big deal. If the exceptional lineup of vivid, opaque color options didn’t get you, the incredibly ornate, gilded bullets definitely did. At a time when statement lips were starting to come back into favor, Rouge Volupté set the [...]

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 [...]

There are certain items I absolutely never tire of receiving as holiday gifts—all manner of woolly socks, beautiful coffee-table books, and, unsurprisingly, pretty much anything beauty-related. Here are the five products topping my list this season.
Fresh Sake Experience Gift Set
Japanese geishas reportedly relied on sake as an important part of their extensive beauty rituals, and [...]

It’s official: The lavish party has replaced the casual luncheon for perfume launches. Last month, Dior fêted the tenth anniversary of its J’Adore fragrance at the Boom Boom Room, and last night, two of Fall’s biggest flacons made after-dark debuts. First up, the Monkey Bar, where Helena Rubinstein celebrated the arrival of its first scent [...]

Of course, in this age of the statement lip, we have our go-tos. When it comes to reds, we swear by Dior Rouge No. 999 in Fiery Red; it’s discontinued but can still be unearthed with a little online sleuthing. For fuchsia, it’s gotta be YSL’s Rouge Volupté in No. 10 Provocative Pink. [...]

When we first spied the finished hair and makeup look backstage at the Rachel Roy show yesterday we experienced a bit of déjà vu. Black cropped wigs? Black lipstick? Is this Paris, February ‘08? Are we at the Yves Saint Laurent show? Yes, the looks are similar, but upon further inspection, we noticed a few [...]