Topic: Cosmetics

Check Out This Optical Illusion Lip Art

Check Out This Optical Illusion Lip Art

Oh, God, this lip/eyeball is terrifying! And fantastic! And terrifying. But mostly fantastic. The make-up artist Sandra Holmbom creates lip art that, at first glance, can trick you into thinking that it’s just really weird contact lenses. Or an eyeball on an alien. The Host frankly would likely be a better movie if all the alien’s eyes looked like this, but then, lots of movies would be. More »

Amanda Seyfried And Her Skin Would Like You To Buy This $13,000 Moisturizer

Amanda Seyfried And Her Skin Would Like You To Buy This $13,000 Moisturizer

We can all probably agree that Amanda Seyfried has pretty great skin–but I don’t think any of us knew exactly how great. Her skin is, in fact, so great that a luxury cosmetics company has asker her to be the face of their 30th anniversary limited-edition skin creme line. And by “line,” they mean “three jars at $13,000 apiece.” Could your skin sell a $13,000 pot of moisturizer? Mine either. More »

I Love Makeup: Does That Make Me A Bad Feminist?

I Love Makeup: Does That Make Me A Bad Feminist?

Earlier this week, I wrote about how much I dislike the way that beauty products are exploitatively marketed toward women. This is especially true of advertising about cosmetics, which preys on manufactured insecurities and purposefully-manifested low self-esteem. And while the expectation or assumption that women must wear oodles of unhealthy, pore-clogging, lead-filled makeup to look and feel beautiful and confident is certainly absurd and needs to be shaken apart, I am torn…because there’s still a part of me that that just loves makeup. Like a frilly, dress-wearing, PMS-blaming, gender-norm-loving, Lilly-Ledbetter-denying traitor. More »