Lucire
The global fashion magazine May 3, 2024 
Out now: Lucire issue 48, with free shipping for UK and US

Clarins gets ready for summer, with primer, mascara and self-tanning line-up

November 1, 2021/5.48

  Clarins has come out with a trio of products for the southern summer. First up is its SOS UV Primer, with SPF 30 protection, promising to illuminate the skin and improve make-up wear. Clarins’ Anti-Pollution Complex helps protect skin from urban pollution. With a light texture, it helps correct skin tones. Priced at NZ$64, […]

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Nudestix’s pop-up showcases an on-trend multi-generational skin care line

October 5, 2021/23.30

Above, from top: Nude Love: part of the set-up for Nudestix’s how-to masterclass at its LA pop-up. The new Nudeskin collection is an excellent primer for multi-step skin care. Founders Jenny and Taylor Frankel. We’ve seen the future of beauty shopping, and it came to Los Angeles from Canada. For five days in October, a […]

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Iggy Azalea, BH Cosmetics team up on Totally Plastic, a retro beauty collection

August 25, 2021/12.33

Totally Plastic mightn’t be the ideal name for a beauty line in the 2020s, but what Iggy Azalea and BH Cosmetics are getting at are the retro-2000s glossy shades in shadow palettes, lip glosses, and more in their new collaboration.    The capsule collection between the Australian pop star and BH Cosmetics—which creates cruelty-free, vegan […]

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Nosta Beauty taps into the ’80s with a VHS-inspired face palette

February 1, 2021/1.14

Nostalgia is a big pull, especially in uncertain times, and make-up artist Tiffany Tarazi’s Nosta Beauty has tapped into that with an ingenious face palette that taps in to the video cassette boom of the 1980s.    Called the Swatch Me Face Palette Vol. 1, it’s ‘the first ever VHS ’80s-inspired multi-use face palette,’ with […]

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Katherine Langford named brand ambassador for L’Oréal Paris

June 23, 2020/16.07

Katherine Langford, the 24-year-old Australian actress known for her role as Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why, is the new L’Oréal Paris international ambassador.    Langford, who hails from Perth, WA, was a nationally ranked swimmer before embarking on an acting career, with a Skype audition for 13 Reasons Why. On the silver screen, she […]

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More than 800 Kiwi beauty fans line up for Sephora’s opening in Auckland

July 21, 2019/13.40

On Saturday, Sephora opened its first store in New Zealand amidst more than 800 Kiwi beauty fans clustered at its doors in Auckland’s CBD. To commemorate the event, a pre-opening party was held with live entertainment from some of Auckland’s hottest DJs, Soraya and Andy Heart Throb. The first 500 guests were lucky enough to […]

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LA beauty events: the golden ageless

June 17, 2019/11.24

During the weekend of May 31, Shiseido took over a swanky Malibu beach house for a series of roll-out installations spotlighting some of their many micro-targeted product ranges for different age groups. The Japanese beauty giant kicked things off with the introduction of WASO, a minimalist super-food skin care concept designed for millennials and Gen […]

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In brief: MAC gets festive with Patrick Starrr; Coconu supports ovarian cancer research; ODE Skincare launches

November 16, 2018/10.40

MAC has very fierce and festive shades for the holidays, with the Patrick Starrr Slay Ride collection. It’s make-up artist Starrr’s fifth for the make-up brand, and MAC rightly calls these shades ‘ultra-glam’, with custom-designed colours for lipsticks, Dazzleglass lip colours, eye-shadows and palettes, pigments, pigments and Mineralize Skinfinish powders. Find out more at www.maccosmetics.com. […]

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