I’ve been really focused on finding products that feel good for my skin, while still giving me the glow and coverage I want. Transparently, I’m also just not the kind of person who wants to switch to a completely new routine every week. I’ve spent a lot of time researching clean brands, trying products, and really curating what works for me so I can fin…

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MAC released its Basquiat collaboration on August 7th, made with the artist's estate, and the marketing leans on the idea of treating a face like a canvas. The part I keep coming back to is the brush set. Four brushes, $120, and MAC numbered them 601S, 602S, 603S and 604S. Numbers like those are the language of a working kit rather than a gift box, so I…

The Shards Brings Back the Dark Glam of Early ‘80s L.A.

Locarno handed Rick Baker its honorary Vision Award on August 12, in front of the Piazza Grande crowd at the 79th edition of the festival, which ran August 5 through 15. He showed two of his own pictures there, An American Werewolf in London and The Nutty Professor. Festival director Giona A. Nazzaro called him visionary and revolutionary and said he op…

The 32nd Fangoria Chainsaw Awards posted their nominee slate on July 2, fan voting closed July 15, and the winners get revealed October 25 on a Shudder livestream. Dust Bunny and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple tied for the lead with nine nominations apiece, and most of the trade coverage stopped right there. I went to the two makeup categories instead.…

On-set visual effects workers across several Star Wars productions just voted to join IATSE, and my first reaction wasn't celebration, it was a question about why it took this long. The makeup trailer on a union show has had a contract, a rate floor, and turnaround rules for generations. The people running the LED volume next door often didn't. The gap …

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Call is 5 p.m. First shot is somewhere around 8. Wrap is after sunrise. Between those, the makeup department is going to fight three things at once, and none of them are in the script.

Rue Morgue ran the headline "Real alligators, not AI-gators" on August 12, and the joke isn't really about the movie. It's about the market. Epic Pictures and Dread put Gator Face in select theaters September 11 and on digital September 15. Padraig Reynolds wrote and directed it. A group of friends on a Florida vacation runs into a cult feeding people t…

Hey Glams!

After years of researching the beauty rituals of history’s most beautiful ancient princesses, I thought it would be fun to make you a cheatsheet of not only the best ones, but also the ones that kept recurring across different princesses’ routines around the world & are now backed by modern science.

Hayley Lewis is a sports broadcaster, host, and content creator originally from Kansas City, but now lives in New York City. “Sports have pretty much always been the center of my life. I grew up as a football coach’s daughter, so some of my earliest memories are on a sideline,” she says.

Gianna D’Angelo is from Wallingford, Connecticut, and has always had a passion for staying active and performing. She’s been dancing for 21 years, cheered competitively for 7 years, and also spent many years participating in musical theatre.

There is a particular kind of liberal feminist rhetoric that insists women’s choices must always be treated as completely autonomous. “I do it for myself, not men” has become the ultimate trump card. The woman who gets fillers, wears uncomfortable shoes, spends hours doing her hair, gets cosmetic surgery, or meticulously performs femininity is expected …

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You mix it in a five-gallon bucket, and the powder hits the water and sinks, a chalky white cloud settling into a slurry the color of skim milk. You wait, you rap the bucket twice on the bench to break the trapped air, and then you pour, slow and even, into the negative sitting on the vibration table. Twenty minutes later the surface goes matte and you …

Something interesting is happening behind the scenes of Tate McRae’s brand. On July 2, 2026, three separate trademark applications were filed by the same applicant, TRMrks, LLC:

There’s one question I get asked more than literally anything else: “what’s in your kit?”

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There’s something about the end of summer that makes me want to simplify everything—including my makeup bag. And after all of our college talk around here lately, I think we’ve earned a little break. How about we spend today talking about something fun and completely uncomplicated…like makeup? 😉

“I’m excited about doing red lips - I’ve never done them before.”