Beauty

SPONSORED Incase you missed our interview with Care Skincare Founder Ricardo Quintero, he’s formerly an executive at Clinique, he co-founded Care with his wife Pilar and most importantly has created an incredibly high quality, well recognized, simplified skincare routine with 5 core products. All Care Products are: Cruelty Free, Fragrance Free, Paraben Free, Phthalates Free, have no Mineral Oil or Alcohol. Care’s friends and family sale is

SPONSORED Ricardo Quintero is the founder of CareSkincare.com a direct to consumer, clean beauty line that is gaining popularity with its safe formulas, clean design and incredible reviews. We interviewed Quintero to learn about his background and why he decided to leave a successful corporate career to start his own brand with his wife Pilar.

Let me tell you, I did not expect to get dark circles and bags around my eyes this young. I figured they might happen decades down the line, so getting them in my early 30s, I feel like I looked constantly tired and a full decade older than I actually am. And while there’s no

Approaching 50 has been tough on my face: I’m getting lines and wrinkles around my eyes, my cheekbones, and even my neck. I know this is natural as I age, but it’s a blow to my self esteem nonetheless.  Finding a way to help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles without injections was

Almost a year ago, the brilliant minds behind OUAI and Byredo–celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin, and perfumer Ben Gorham, respectively–unleashed what we never knew we needed: A dry shampoo combined with the classic Mojave Ghost perfume, the perfect melding of these two iconic brands. Now, they’ve done it again. Available to buy on August 3rd, OUAI

Do you really know what you’re putting on your face? In 2019, the documentary Toxic Beauty hit streaming services and beauty consumers instantly became nervous about the contents of their makeup bags. One significant component of the film is the examination of the link between cancer and talcum powder. Talc, a white mineral mainly of

Artem Varnitsin / EyeEmGetty Images I’ve made my fair share of uh-oh buys on Amazon (see: that fantastic deal on a nightstand that ended up being doll furniture), but when it comes to finding top-notch, no-mistakes-here beauty purchases, it has the best of the best. Whether you’re trying to find the latest and greatest in

The speed at which a conversation about plastic can divert to babies could break currently held land-speed records. This is a fact I learned while talking to actress Emma Roberts about her recent decision to give up plastics for a week. The reason? “I feel like, especially after having a baby, I just see how

I’m not too fond of face scrubs. As a beauty editor, I’m not proud of disowning an entire category and now you know my dark, non-exfoliated secret. All that changed recently when I met the new Kopari California Glow Enzyme Scrub. My eyes lingered on the semi-translucent container and its honeydew-colored cap. I reached out

The beauty industry has a bad habit of labeling actual change—eliminating harmful ingredients or including actual representation in imagery—as trends. Clean beauty has become a casualty of this phenomenon, which is only emphasized when brands use vague terms and greenwash their products, despite a lack of commitment to true sustainability. Hopefully, this “fad” is here

Thanks to the rise of skincare TikTok—a popular destination on the short-form content app where users can discover new product recommendations, skincare tips, and debunked myths from skin experts—it’s becoming increasingly difficult to determine who you should be investing your time and money into. Do I trust the skincare influencer with 6.7 million followers whose

Blush has taken over the beauty world, with new and innovative formulas popping up left and right. One of those formulas is the Youthforia BYO Blush, a color-changing blush oil that reacts to your skin’s pH. Producer Nico Reyes tests the blush on how well it actually changes color and adapts to her skin tone;

Makeup brushes need to be cleaned often to prevent bacteria and makeup buildup. But over time, washing makeup brushes can also weaken and fray the bristles, making the makeup brushes harder to use. The $49 Sigma Dry’n Shape Spa claims to fix that problem. The Sigma Dry’n Shape Spa is a three-in-one product you can

Temporary hair coloring is the way to go if you want color without commitment. We’ve seen the hair chalks, hair makeups, hair color sprays, and gels, but a new temporary hair dye has arrived. Producer Nico Reyes tests out the Good Dye Young I’m Bored Hair Makeup, a color serum that “combines salon-grade pigments with

Marc Jacobs has been dictating trends for three decades, but the designer’s most recent showstopper wasn’t on the runway. Instead, Jacobs dropped a post-face-lift photo (gauze and all!) onto his Instagram feed, and it’s all anyone wants to talk about. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content

If you’re easily smitten by scent or you’ve taken to creating a WFH set-up that looks like a small séance-for-one, allow me to interrupt your afternoon with some very good news. Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale finally opens up to the public next week on Wednesday, July 28, which means that one of the best (and only)

FaceX is an organic facial bar located in Beverly Hills, California, that offers all organic, customizable facials from raw ingredients, like avocado, aloe vera, and herbs like sandalwood and licorice. The customization at FaceX is all app-automated, including payment and facial selection. There are five signature facials to pick from and 172 customizable options for

If there’s one thing I miss about not working from home–besides, like, seeing human beings daily–it’s the comforting morning routine. A hint of blush, a sweep of eyeshadow, a lipstick that doesn’t get smudged on my face and cause pimples underneath my mask. These days, I don’t wear makeup at all unless I’m trying to

Welcome to the future…of livestreaming. ELLE.com and Verishop, the social shopping app that allows experts to stream shopping events (bringing the fun of QVC back to e-commerce!), are teaming up for four live beauty events where you can watch and shop ELLE editors’ favorite beauty picks. With the help of makeup artist Allan Avendaño, whose

A little bit about me: I’m not a trendsetter; I’m a serial trend follower. Did I find my favorite lipstick based on the one I saw Lily-Rose Depp wearing? Yep. Did I shave my head when Halsey did because I noticed how chic it looked? Sure did. So, after years of seeing celebrities as beautiful

Kylie Cosmetics is back! The record-breaking beauty brand by Kylie Jenner quietly disappeared a few months ago, leaving fans wondering what was coming next. After weeks of teasing, the wait is over: today, all-new products, with upgraded formulas and packaging, are available to shop on kyliecosmetics.com. That is, if you can get on the website.

If you’ve been on social media in the past five years, aesthetically, it’s clear—the lips have it. In the past, lip injections were often an undiscussed augmentation. (Then again, most aesthetic alterations were hush-hush until the online beauty renaissance.) Now, there’s over 1.6M hashtags on Instagram with tagged photos of lip injections and lip fillers,

With TikTok making beauty products go viral every other day, it seems that more and more products are being released in the hope of becoming the next big thing. From the Freck Beauty Cheekslime, a buildable “slime” blush infused with plant collagen, to the Huda Beauty GloWish Multidew Vegan Skin Tint Foundation, a light-coverage foundation

Karolina Wojtasik/HBO Max The highly anticipated Gossip Girl reboot has finally hit HBO Max, ushering in a new ruling class at Constance Billard and St. Jude’s. And while much of the focus has been on the fashion, our favorite Upper East Siders famously love a good beauty look. Who could forget Blair Waldorf’s iconic headbands

Relaxation wasn’t in Jess Tran’s vocabulary when psoriasis started to slowly snake around her entire body in 2016. The skin condition, which affects about 125 million people worldwide and causes red, itchy patches to form on the skin, seemed to appear out of nowhere. But, looking back, Tran now recognizes that the onset may have

Often referred to as a “Brazilian Blowout,” (it’s just the name of a brand that popularized the treatment), Keratin treatments have gained popularity for the miraculous smoothing and humidity-blocking effect they have on the hair. At East Village’s Jenna Perry Salon― declared the mecca for “Hot Girl Hair” by New York Magazine thanks to clients

Creating perfect winged eyeliner is no easy feat, and, nowadays, it seems like there are about a million “solutions” to help you create sharp, even wings. We tried the QuikKat gel liner strips that promise an instant cat eye. The kit comes with 72 eyeliner strips (36 for each eye), a pot of gel eyeliner,

Original Dry Shampoo Batiste ulta.com $8.99 Whether it was from a cry for attention over a new ‘do or from serious boredom during the pandemic, I decided to get trendy curtain bangs a few months ago. And while they look fabulous when I properly style them, they get incredibly greasy—fast. Instead of having to wash

When it comes to skincare, there always seems to be a hot new ingredient of the moment. Does anyone remember salmon milt? The latest It ingredient? Humble jojoba oil, harvested from the seeds of a North American bush, is a multi-purpose has withstood the trends and test of time. Rose Ingleton, a New York City-based

When a person tells me they use La Mer, I very rarely follow up with a “which product do you like?” That’s because Crème de la Mer is the stuff of beauty routine legends—smoothing on the thick and deeply moisturizing cream is like a rite of passage, passed down generation to generation from mother to