Made with tamanu oil, rose hip extract, cocoa butter and shea butter to help reduce the appearance of stretchmarks and improve skin elasticity, this product is a favorite with mommies-to-be. Our reviewers say "it's not overly greasy, absorbs quickly" and leaves skin "so smooth and soft."
Along with the brand's popular (if not offensively named) Tigi Bed Head Dumb Blonde Shampoo and Conditioners, the brand is also re-releasing the formerly named Brunette Goddess Shampoos and conditioners. The packaging may be revamped and the product renamed, but the formula remains a favorite. (Our readers rate the products highly for their "chocolate/honey/brown sugar scent" and for the "noticeable difference" it makes on their hair.)
After Prescriptives closed their makeup counters in 2009, fans were in an uproar. Twenty-five thousand e-mails and 180,000 customers signed up for e-mail updates later -- the brand is back exclusively online. The new website features a Custom Blend Video Service, a foundation Shade Finder and the cult classic products you know and love.
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Jane Cosmetics
Everyone's favorite socially conscious, retro brand is back and, if I do say so myself, prettier than ever. After filing for bankruptcy in 2009, the company has come back with new packaging and new formulas, but rest easy -- they kept the same brighter-than- bright shades you've always loved. My personal favorite: Jane Cream Eye Shadow, $8.
It turns out we aren't the only ones secretly stockpiling our favorite cosmetics in case they're ever discontinued. When Bobbi Brown discontinued the Sheer Lip Color in Plum Stain, fashion designer Carolina Herrera bought up every tube she could get her hands on. Bobbi Brown took the hint and re-released the shade, naming it Carolina in her honor.
You spend years and a good chunk of change searching for the perfect lipstick -- the one that complements your skin tone, stays on and doesn't run -- and you find it. Two tubes in, it vanishes, and you discover the brand discontinued that particular shade. It's my nightmare. I buy in bulk and hoard my favorite beauty products in fear of my violet eyeliner or date night perfume being discontinued. And apparently, I'm not alone. When brands discontinued these beauty products, fans and loyal customers lost it. They launched e-mail campaigns, begged and threatened boycotts. They did everything in their power to let the cosmetic company know just how much they loved these beauty products. And their efforts paid off. These discontinued beauty products saw so much love the brands brought 'em back.
The moral of the story? If you love a discontinued beauty product, don't set it free. Stalk it.
Which discontinued beauty products do you want to raise from the dead? Tell us -- those brands are listening.
