I have been a completely absentee blogger of late. My life is a whirlwind with a rush of emotions over the Purple Lab debut on HSN, which is on Thur...
Dr. Arnold Klein | Posted 01.27.2010 | Living
Down the way from my office in Beverly Hills sits a stately Neiman Marcus store. As the double doors to the first floor open before me; I am inundated...
Posted 03.18.2010 | Style
Women will spend less on cosmetics in 2010, according to a report published in WWD. AlixPartners polled 600 Americans over age 25 and found that women...
Napoleon Perdis | Posted 03.18.2010 | Style
Lady Gaga's beauty choices are causing eyebrows to raise, with makeup mavens riveted by her every look. At 23, Gaga is the poster girl for letting your freak flag fly -- at full mast.
Susan Campos | Posted 03.18.2010 | Los Angeles
In Hollywood they are known as pillow injections, those dermal fillers designed to plump up the skin. But the procedure of the moment doesn't involve the pout or smoothing around the peepers.
Susan Campos | Posted 03.18.2010 | Los Angeles
For the aging beauty, finding the coveted 10 digits to Los Angeles Concierge Aesthetic Medicine is proving harder than getting into Studio 54 back in the day. You have to move in certain circles to get it.
The Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact
The Body Shop is a cosmetics company with a conscience, known for naturally-derived products and an emphasis on ethical business practices. Its founde...
Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living
The term 'cosmeceutical' was developed as a way to avoid subjecting the industry's claims to the authority of the Food and Drug Administration.
Felicia C. Sullivan | Posted 11.26.2009 | Style
"Following a trend can lead you down a path that is not true to who you are," Collier said, "so we are always focused on staying true to our heritage."
treehugger.com | April Streeter | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
I had been planning to review my personal care products after a search for a 'safe' hair dye for a pregnant friend led me eventually to the EWG site. ...
Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
There are no warnings whatsoever on cosmetics and personal care products. Yet their ingredients pose unrecognized lifelong dangers to the entire U.S. population.
Felicia C. Sullivan | Posted 11.15.2009 | Style
"What I am hoping to show is that women are allowed to look like adults in control of their own destinies," King said, "instead of sex toys for men or super made up bulletproof mannequins."
Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
The NCI should insist that Avon reformulate its products to phase out all toxic ingredients and replace them by safe alternatives before proceeding with their important initiative.
Posted 08.24.2009 | Living
Beauty is pain, some say, but it doesn't have to be harmful. These natural makeups are made without potentially carcinogenic ingredients like parabens...
Karen Robinovitz | Posted 08.02.2009 | Style
We are living in a world where consumers have become the media -- they're just as important as the well-coiffed ones in the corner offices as the glimmering publishing houses.
Felicia C. Sullivan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business
Every single mistake I've made has made me a better business woman. And, ironically with product development some of the mistakes I've made have turned out to be top sellers.
Karen Robinovitz | Posted 07.02.2009 | Style
Think of it like a guide to getting a product made. I'll tell you all the dirty secrets I learn from labs and manufacturers and what we go through to line up distribution, financing, PR, etc.
Eve Pearl | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living
Faced with news of increasing layoffs, straining economic pressure and the fact that competition out there is much greater than ever before...in all facets of life...we need to step it up.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green
It's a $36.5 billion premium industry, but cosmetics, reports The New York Times,"are not subject to the [F.D.A.'s] scrutiny before they go on sale. T...
Deirdre Imus | Posted 02.17.2009 | Green
Here's a reality check... the average consumer can use more than two dozen personal care products containing hundreds of chemical ingredients each day.
Summer Rayne Oakes | Posted 12.01.2008 | Style
I don't know how many times it took dinner with Shawn to light a fire under my ass--maybe three? Maybe four? I don't even remember the restaurant, bu...
AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.06.2008 | Style
CHICAGO — The economy isn't the only thing that's sagging _ so are faces, breasts and bellies as would-be cosmetic surgery patients increasingly...
Michelle Madhok | Posted 10.19.2008 | Style
Mineral makeup line Alchemy of Colour has just released Power Pink Lipstick, a shade that's supposed to look like the one Sarah Palin wears.
Variety | MARK SCHILLI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Shu Uemura, former Hollywood makeup artist and founder of the cosmetics brand that bears his name, died Dec. 29 of acute pneumonia. He was 79. Uemura...
Karen Robinovitz | Posted 02.15.2010 | Style