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

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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Violette Serrat takes over as creative director of make-up for Guerlain

July 23, 2021/15.51

After some speculation, Violette Serrat is officially the new creative director of make-up for Guerlain.    Serrat, who goes by her first name only professionally, is a self-taught make-up artist who studied fashion design and art. Hailing from France, she moved to the US on a whim in 2015, and has collaborated with Dior as […]

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Festival de Cannes 2021 day 3: Soo Joo Park and Luma Grothe at Stillwater première

July 9, 2021/3.26

Stephane Cardinale/Corbis; Daniele Venturelli; courtesy labels Day 3’s celebs at Cannes included Soo Joo Park, looking resplendent in Chanel Métiers d’art 2019–20 with accessories and jewellery from the brand; make-up by L’Oréal Paris. It’s one way to keep both brands that you are an ambassador for happy. Along with Brazilian model Luma Grothe in a […]

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Adut Akech named Estée Lauder’s newest face, campaigns appear July

June 3, 2021/21.44

Adut Akech is Estée Lauder’s newest brand ambassador, joining the beauty company’s current roster of models, including Ana de Armas, Anok Yai, Bianca Brandolini d’Adda, Carolyn Murphy, Diana Penty, Grace Elizabeth, Karlie Kloss, Kōki, and Yang Mi.    Her campaigns for make-up and skin care will begin in July.    Akech was named model of […]

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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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Napoleon Perdis introduces Camera Finish vegan powder, adds to the One concealer line

January 28, 2021/10.52

Napoleon Perdis’s latest releases this month are its all-new Camera Finish loose powder, and new shades for the One concealer.    Camera Finish, retailing at A$49 each, is an ultra-soft, slightly tinted vegan powder with a high percentage of silicone polymers, resulting in even skin texture or, over foundation, a lumi-matte finish, according to the […]

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Halsey launches new make-up range, About-Face

January 4, 2021/22.15

Halsey has launched a make-up range, About-Face (styled all in lowercase), launching direct to consumers on January 25 at www.aboutface.com, and through Ipsy in a year-long partnership.    About-Face’s messaging is all about individuality and self-expression, ‘recognizing that there is no one version of us,’ says the company. ‘Inspired by music, fashion and art, About-Face […]

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Second Makeup Revolution × Friends beauty collection released

November 4, 2020/11.30

There’s often a two-decade rule when it comes to revivals, and Revolution Beauty’s collaboration with Friends still manages to come within that for the US series that ran from 1994 to 2004.    The sitcom about six white singles in New York had already been transformed once into a range of make-up palettes, lipsticks and […]

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