Like all career journeys, my path to becoming a beauty founder is a twisting, non-linear route. Believe it or not, I wasn’t even that interested in makeup in high school and college, a time when many begin heavily experimenting with it. How, then, did I get to the place I’m at today, launching

The most radiant makeup always begins with skin care. That’s just a fact.

For makeup artist Nouha Semmar, great makeup starts with great skin. Every glam look begins long before foundation or blush enters the picture. It starts with hydration, preparation, and understanding how to make skin look healthy, radiant, and alive on camera.

After almost two decades of working with brides, mothers, grandmothers, and women in some of the most meaningful moments of their lives, I’ve learned something that rarely gets talked about openly.

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It’s finally here the day you’ve dreamed about, planned for, and counted down to. The last thing you should be worrying about is whether your makeup will still look flawless after happy tears, hugs, dancing, and hours of photos.

The Cannes Marché has its closing-week deal. Warner Bros.' new specialty label Clockwork has closed on Park Chan-wook's The Brigands of Rattlecreek for North America, beating out the field for a passion project that's been stuck in development for a decade. Reported price: mid-teen millions. Sales were run through Patrick Wachsberger's Legendary label 1…

We live in an age that worships at the altar of choice. You find a lot of people saying, “It is my choice, it is her choice.” Yet, we rarely stop to ask: who built this altar, and who is directing our hands toward the sacrifice?

The 79th Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday with a 4K restoration of Pan's Labyrinth. By Saturday the Marché du Film had made its real point. Genre — horror, sci-fi, body horror, monster pictures — isn't a sidebar at Cannes anymore. It's the market.

Universal Studios Florida quietly shuttered The Horror Make-Up Show this month after a 35-year run. Park communications used the word "reimagining." Translation: it is coming back. We do not know when. We do not know in what form. And the form is what every working practical effects shop in the country should be paying attention to.

Cannes 2026 wrapped its first week and the red carpet headline is what isn't there. No heavy contour. No graphic eye. No glitter pile. The trend going by the name “quiet luxury” — minimalism, monochrome palette, sculpted tailoring — is now setting the beauty brief too. Skin first. Lip second. Everything else dialed back to a whisper.

The Disconnect People Have About Beauty Specializations

For our next guest editor, I got to talk with Fara Homidi, makeup artist and founder of Fara Homidi Beauty (you definitely don’t need me to introduce you to the brand, I’m sure you’ve seen the beautiful powder blue packaging everywhere, but if you haven’t, Fara also shares some of her favourite products in her curated edit below). Born in Afghanistan, F…

Curry Barker's Obsession opened wide yesterday — Friday, May 15, 2026, theatrical release from Focus Features. Focus paid roughly $15 million out of TIFF Midnight Madness in September 2025, beating Neon and A24 in a bidding war. Universal is handling overseas. Blumhouse came in as producer. The film cost about $1 million to make. It pulled $2.6 million …

Cover FX and Mally Beauty are both gone. Their parent company AS Beauty Group announced both closures earlier this year, with the last order date set for January 22, 2026. The remaining inventory is still moving through Amazon and the brand sites while supplies last. That window is closing fast.

I’d like to introduce my Beauty Breakdown 101 series.

Zeynab Mohamed, beauty and culture writer and founder of the Substack newsletter - Face Value and Ata-Owaji Victor, freelance journalist and writer of newsletter - The ReSet discuss their thoughts on the widespread use of the descriptors ‘chic’ and ‘lookmaxxing’.

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There is something deeply comforting about a woman who knows her face. Not in an overly examined, magnifying-mirror-at-11pm way — although we have all been there, usually making a situation far worse than it needed to be — but in the sense that she understands what works. She knows where her blush belongs, whether black liner makes her look French or fu…

My world is pretty narrow when it comes to creating beauty content. That is to say, it’s narrow and deep. Imagine a well, not a lake. That’s because my ADHD chose a hyperfixation on makeup as an artistic material, human faces as the art surfaces. I don’t mean to overstate my purpose. I don’t think what I’m doing is saving lives. But I am …

i always encourage nurturing your individual relationship to beauty, not just consuming it. i mean logging off and figuring out what your taste actually is, how to do makeup for your face and your complexion. not just buying things because you saw a girl with loads of followers wear something.