August 10, 2019 at 02:02AM by CWC I don’t know about you, but I vividly remember when facial cleansing brushes became a thing. Back during the Clarisonic boom, it seemed like everyone had added the Oprah-approved device to their skincare routine. Well, everyone except me. Even though they were in every magazines I flipped through, I couldn’t justify spending the money. Plus, as someone with incredibly sensitive skin, it wasn’t just the price of those OG facial cleansing brushes that scared me—it was also the rough-looking bristles. Imagining them doing high-speed twirls across my skin had about the same effect as fingernails on a chalkboard. But years later I stumbled across a new wave of products made from silicone that changed my view of the cult product entirely. At a first glance, the Foreo Luna 2 ($169) definitely doesn’t look like a skincare product. But trust me—it is. Made from silicone, it looked super gentle. Something I could potentially use on my skin without making things worse. Also, unlike other options on the market, there’s no brush heads you need to replace, it only takes a couple seconds to clean, and a single charge is said to last for up to 7 months. (Currently even longer for me.) There’s no harsh bristles to worry about, either. The silicone tough-points remove dirt, makeup, dead skin, and blackheads without irritation through 8,000 T-Sonic (transdermal sonic) pulsations per minute. ad_intervals[‘414241_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘414241_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); I’ll
Category: Beauty
These 9 ultra-hydrating lipsticks are basically skin care in a tube
August 08, 2019 at 05:00AM by CWC In today’s skin-care obsessed world, I’m no longer surprised that the foundations I wear double as skin-boosting formulas and that I can swipe on mascara that also makes my lashes grow. The latest hybrid craze I’m swooning over? Lipsticks that are basically skin care in a tube. Sure, I’ve applied some seriously hydrating hyaluronic acid lip balms—which are fab. But now we’ve also got the option of getting some more pigment on that pout while beefing things up with moisture that lasts. Meet the lipstick-skin-care-combos of my bold lip dreams. “There are a few ingredients that when included in lipsticks actually make the lip product moisturizing,” says Shirley Chi, MD, a board-certified dermatologist in California. “They are petrolatum, shea butter, lanolin, beeswax, and sesame oil.” These essentially lock in the moisture produced on your lips. (That said, she says not to rely on them like you would a lip balm or it’ll mess with your lips’ natural moisturizing oil production.) ad_intervals[‘413566_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘413566_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); Seriously though—lipsticks that go on and cake-up or make your lips shrivel from drying out are so extinct. Just look at these nine magical skin-care-lipsticks below and let that moisturized shine do the talking. Photo: Lancome Lancome L’Absolu Mademoiselle Shine, $30 This is the product that got me on a quest for more skin-care-lipsticks. It was love at first swipe—my entire beauty team is absolutely in love with these Lancome tubes, because they
If an eyelash curler and mascara had a baby, this would be it
August 04, 2019 at 10:02AM by CWC If there’s a beauty look that’ll never go out of style, it’s long and curly lashes. Lashes that look effortlessly lush and lifted. For the days when using an eyelash curler just isn’t an option, we’ve rounded up the top mascaras to give you that fluttery look in the blink of any eye. Merrady Wickes, makeup artist and head of content and education at clean beauty boutique The Detox Market, says the key to curly lashes is finding a mascara with a lightweight formula. “A mistake people make is even when they do curl their lashes, they use a really volumizing mascara or thickening mascara that actually weighs their lashes down,” Wikes explains. “Think of mascara like your hairspray: if you curl your hair, but then put gel on it [the curl is] going to all fall out.” ad_intervals[‘411842_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘411842_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); She also says seeking out a mascara with a curved brush “because the curve, kind of as you’re applying, pushes the lashes up.” And if you’re in a rush, Merrady recommends applying mascara, and then using your index finger to press your lashes up as they dry. How to curl lashes without a curler using the best lash-curling mascaras Photo: Ilia Ilia Limitless Lash Mascara ($28) If you look closely, you’ll see that one side of the brush has tiny bristles, and the other side is more like a comb. “Do your
This $15 drugstore buy is the closest thing you’ll find to Sephora’s most expensive serum
July 31, 2019 at 08:05AM by CWC There are few things in this world that I am willing to shell out $495 on. A flight to California, maybe. A portion of my rent, for sure. But a skin-care product? I’d have to take major pause (and calculate whether or not I’d be okay to go an entire month eating canned chickpeas) before swiping my credit card. That said, Sephora sells a $495 serum—Perricone MD Neuropeptide Smoothing Facial Conformer—that’s renowned for using proprietary neuropeptide technology to activate the renewal of the surface of your skin, making it a game changer for things like dullness, discoloration, under-eye circles, fine lines, sagging skin and wrinkles. And if the reviews on the product are to be believed, it’s the real deal. “Within one day I began to see positive changes in my skin—not just in toning, but it really does peel off the years,” wrote one fan. “I’ve used this for 10 days every night and morning and my skin is tighter, velvety smooth, and so bright,” echoed another. ad_intervals[‘412064_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘412064_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); While the reviews are overwhelmingly positive, if you’re not able to shell out that much cash, you don’t have to feel left out. We scoured the Internet to find the closest thing possible to a drugstore dupe. Our pick? Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Serum, which retails for only $15. Photo: Olay Like the Perricone MD serum, the Olay version utilizes peptides. “Peptides are made of
These bright, liquid lipsticks will stay put all. day. long.
July 31, 2019 at 03:00AM by CWC The beauty team at Well+Good was recently confronted with a near-impossible conundrum: If you had to choose between lipstick and lipgloss for the rest of your life, which would you choose? Personally, I was stumped. Because how could I commit to only one? I’ve always loved the easy delivery system of a lip gloss, but as I’ve aged up my beauty look, I’ve come to depend on the creamy finish of a lipstick. Then, I remembered that there was a product category out there that would give me the best of both worlds: liquid lipstick. Liquid lipstick goes on the same way a lipgloss does, but that’s where the similarities stop. In fact, as celebrity makeup artist Natalia López de Quintana puts it, it’s actually the “polar opposite” of the glossy stuff. “Liquid lips tend to finish with a matte or satin texture whereas gloss is glassy and wet-looking,” she explains. “If applied to properly primed lips, liquid lipstick will give you a full day of satin to matte opaque lip color with minimal to no touch-ups.” ad_intervals[‘411723_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘411723_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); For a more glassy finish, you can apply a gloss on top of your liquid lipstick which will make it shine and stay put without sacrificing the integrity of the shade. As makeup artist Daniel Martin revealed at a recent event celebrating the launch of Honest Beauty’s first foray into the category, if
Toss the brow pencil, these growth serums will give you the arches of your dreams
July 29, 2019 at 06:38AM by CWC I’ve been diligently applying eyelash serums for some time now, taking my average-length fringe to va-va-voom to lengths. And while I’ve been spreading the good word about the fluttery effects to anyone who’ll listen, I’ve been sleeping on the fact that growth serums are also purported to help stimulate growth on brows. When it comes to my arches, my personal opinion is: the bushier the better. Every morning, I swipe on some brow gel, but would love if I even had more strands to brush up (and I’m not quite ready for microblading… yet). This is where brow serums come in—they work to bestow you with even fuller, bushier brows, thanks to nourishing ingredients that boost the hair above your eyeballs. “Brow serums are great for helping to achieve fuller-looking brows,” says Ywe Kvist, senior brand manager for Skin Research Laboratories. “Whether you over-plucked or have naturally sparse-looking brows, brow serums offer the thicker-looking appearance we’re all after.” ad_intervals[‘410852_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘410852_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); Besides that, Joey Healy, celebrity stylist and eyebrow specialist, says serums are great for adding volume density. “Brow serums are for people who have overworked their brows, people who are not satisfied with their brows as they age, or people who feel their brows aren’t living up to their full potential,” he says. You just have to look for serums with the right hair-boosting ingredients. “Peptides are the active ingredient you should look
National Lipstick Day means free cosmetics for everyone. Here’s what you need to know
Published 28th July 2019 Credit: Horst P. Horst/Conde Nast/Getty Images Beauty buffs across the United States on Monday will try new shades of lipstick or don old favorites for National Lipstick Day.The annual celebration honors one of the beauty industry’s oldest and most beloved cosmetic products.Here’s everything you need to know about lipstick and the special day — including where to score free products. Where does lipstick come from? The practice of painting lips dates back thousands of years.Some of the first known people to do so lived in Mesopotamia near the Sumerian city of Ur, according to the book “Read My Lips: A Cultural History of Lipstick.” That’s roughly around present-day southern Iraq. There, Queen Schub-ad made a paste from white lead and crushed red rocks to color her lips.From there, the lip-painting trend spread through the region and across the world. It made its way to the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. It survived the Middle Ages and Italian Renaissance and more.Ultimately, it was Western European settlers that brought lipstick to American shores. To this day, lipstick is still one of the most recognizable makeup products in the world.Honestly, homegirl Schub-ad was way ahead of her time. How has lipstick changed over the years? Lipstick may have started as crushed red rocks, but it’s changed a lot since then.A modern tube of lipstick contains lots of ingredients intended to improve shade, taste, scent and performance. Some also feature sun protection, moisturizing and waterproof properties.And “lipstick” doesn’t just refer
Cancel your facial, these serums are like a laser treatment in a bottle
July 24, 2019 at 04:00AM by CWC My feelings about laser treatments are bittersweet. I love them because they’re a speedy way to brighten, tighten, and lift my face. But this time of year, with UV indexes soaring through the roof, some derms have told me that it’s smart to pass on lasers because of sun sensitivity, meaning that derm-office radiance flashes before my eyes and inevitably fades. With all of the innovations in skin care these days, though, we’re actually able to tap the potency of professional-grade treatments via beauty products that you can find on the shelves of your local drugstore or find a click away on Amazon. Within certain serum droppers or oil pumps or dabs of a cream, active ingredients join together to emulate what a laser can do to your skin, all without a dermatologist appointment or downtime. It’s particularly a perk, because not all laser treatments are the best option for every skin tone or skin type. “People with darker skin tones can run the risk of some lasers, such as Fraxel, CO-2, and Erbium, causing increased or decreased patches of pigment, leaving them with uneven skin tones,” says Dennis Gross, MD, board-certified dermatologist and founder of Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare. In addition, he adds that people with super sensitive skin are also not good candidates for lasers because they’re prone to irritation, which can show up in the form of redness, dryness, or pigmentation from the treatments. “I recommend active serums instead—firmer skin
Everything you need to know about facial meridians—and why they’re important
July 21, 2019 at 02:00PM by CWC While we all know the damaging effects of skipping sunscreen and not moisturizing regularly, have you ever taken the time to think beyond what meets the eye? What’s going on inside your body can actually play a pretty big role on the surface of your skin. That’s the concept behind facial meridians. “According to traditional Chinese medicine [TCM], there are 12 major pathways of energy in the body called meridians, which reflect the twelve organ systems,” says Lily Talakoub, MD, a dermatologist in McLean, Virginia. It’s through these meridians that qi (aka life energy) flows. As a result, if something is amiss below the surface, those who study TCM believe that there’s a good chance it will show up on your face. The 12 major meridians are lung, large intestine, stomach, spleen/pancreas, heart, small intestine, bladder, kidney, heart governor, triple heater (AKA hormones), gallbladder, and liver. “These meridians are running up and down throughout the whole body, including the face,” says Calabasas, CA-based board-certified dermatologist Anna Guanche, MD. “That is why an interrupted flow of energy in a certain meridian can consequently cause a slowing down or malfunction of a certain organ, which frequently shows on the part of the face corresponding to that particular meridian.” Depending on who you ask, the facial meridians can change a bit in terms of what they correspond with. However, most commonly, the areas of your face connect with the below organs. Forehead: bladder and intestines Temples
10 pro-approved ways to make short eyelashes look twice their length
July 21, 2019 at 04:01AM by CWC As a lover of all things makeup, I feel like my lashes sometimes hold me back. Whether I’m rocking a bold colorful eye, or a no-makeup makeup look, I tend to crave long, striking lashes that can carry a look, whether they’re meant to be the main event or not. The truth is: My lashes are super short, and don’t stand out as much as I’d like, but short of getting lash extensions I’ve never been sure what to do. So, for a little help, I tapped makeup artists Camara Aunique and Molly R. Stern for their best tips and tricks to make short lashes double in size. How to make your eyelashes look longer, according to celebrity makeup artists 1. Apply your mascara tip to root: Aunique, makeup artist to Ava DuVernay and Angela Bassett, does this trick in two steps. First, she applies her mascara to each eye, from root to tip. Then, she adds a second coat, beginning to add the mascara at the tip of the lashes, and then working her way down to the root, which she explains lengthens and draws out the lashes. ad_intervals[‘408244_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘408244_div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7520022-3’);}); } }, 100); 2. Line your upper water line with black: Both Stern and Aunique recommend applying a black liner to your upper water line (AKA, the pink part under your lashes) and then smudging it into you lash line. For this, Aunique turns to