What's the best thing about the spring 2014 beauty trends I spotted backstage at New York Fashion Week? They're super simple. The overall theme I spotted: natural makeup (sometimes with a statement lip or major mascara), bare nails, and barely-done hair. So when you want to take a break from fall's deep, rich looks (think: punk eyeliner and berry lip stain), brush up on the hair, makeup, and nails you'll be wearing soon enough.
Lip gloss — it's a staple in everyone's makeup bag (right?!), so the TotalBeauty.com editorial team is obsessed with finding the very best. We've tried a ton — some even call us lip gloss whores — and narrowed down the best for you. If you disagree though, please chime in. We'd love to know about your go-to glosses.
The impetus behind Estée Lauder's latest collection? Creative Makeup Director, Tom Pecheux's, disdain for boundaries. "When it comes to color, there are no limits," he says. "I like to have freedom. Metallic makeup does that."
News that artist Takashi Murakami has teamed with Shu Uemura to produce a collection inspired by Japan's cult favorite anime, "Six Heart Princesses," is surely music to any makeup maven's ears.
I think most would agree that cults have a negative connotation, what with all the bizarre idolizing, brainwashing, matching sneakers and charismatic (read: creepy) leaders ... not to mention the emotional trauma inflicted upon yours truly after a viewing of "Martha Marcy May Marlene" all alone in my apartment, late at night. Mistake.
For the last 10 years, Tory Burch has been building a fashion empire -- one with month-long waitlists for ballet flats and racks of preppy-bohemian clothes in every high-end department store in the country. While some people love to hate the line (yes, it's true -- tunics and ribbon belts don't work on everyone), the ones who love it really love it.
Since last October, when she began tooling around with her makeup kit in a bid for a special effects movie gig, Sephora employee Carly Paige has been transforming her pretty, blonde self into some of the most celebrated faces in history.
The last time we wrote about Michelle Phan, it was to praise her brilliant boyfriend tag video. Today, it's because we're beyond tickled that her long awaited makeup line is poised to launch.
There's something masochistic about clicking through a fashion roundup after a major premiere or awards show. Other than a few vintage Bjork fails here and there, it's a back-to-back lineup of gorgeous, designer get-ups with price tags our brains can't even compute. So we daydream about those dazzling, six-digit ball gowns and shoes that cost more than we pay in rent, and we hate our underpaying job and our parents for not setting up that multi-million dollar trust fund.
I think I missed the day of middle school where everyone learned to apply makeup, because by the time I hit high school, it seemed like every girl had it down and I was totally lost. So, I pretty much stuck to liquid foundation and translucent powder my entire high school career and my first two years of college because I knew I'd end up looking like Mimi from "The Drew Carey Show" if I attempted to add color to any part of my face.
To say I could do a ton of things with a $10,000 budget is an understatement. Having survived my college years as an uber-stylish, almost 20-something with monthly living expenses that significantly outweighed any real income, I'd say I have the cheap-chic notion down pat.
When you think of the 1970s fashion era, visions of glitz, glam and gold lame no doubt pop to mind. It's this very essence, of the excess of the disco days gone by, that MAC seeks to capture with its new fall collection. To be sure the makeup giant does the decade justice, they've tapped into the creative genius that was the late, great style icon, Antonio Lopez.
Three hundred and thirty-six. That's the number of hours the average woman spends kissing in her lifetime. And sure, while Megan Fox blows the average for us norms, when we stumbled across this freaky fact, intrepid researchers here at the office thought: Hey, we like to kiss. Heck, we'd like to kiss a lot more. Who can help us with that?
Special occasions like weddings and parties usually call for some serious beauty prep. Think mountains of makeup and lots of time. But does it have to be this way?
Move over North West, there's a new star baby in town, and this one's royalty for real. Kate Middleton gave birth this morning to a baby boy and although we want to give the royal mum and dad plenty of private time, we have to give in just a little bit to our fascination with Buckingham's new bundle of joy.
Since 2006, we've obsessed over Butter London's nail lacquers and the line's impeccable array of bold, unique colors (and of course we love the names ... "Old Blighty," "Bossy Boots" and "All Hail The Queen"). If you love the line as much as we do, this news will make you giddy: Butter London is launching a new line of color cosmetics in the U.S. in August -- before it launches in the UK in 2014, according to
We're giving away a full set of Pacifica Color and Skincare's new Natural Mineral Color Collection! The kit (like so many of Pacifica's products) is 100 percent vegan and free of parabens, petroleum, SLS, sulfates, phthalates, talc, carmine, and FD&C colors. Hit the Pacifica collection picture on our Facebook page and ask US a question. That's right ... ask us anything about makeup, skincare, hair care, beauty, health, you name it. Tell us what you're curious about!
Do you keep a stash of makeup in your desk drawer for after-work happy hours, dinner dates, stuff like that? Most of us in the Total Beauty and Beauty Riot offices do too.
